Articles by surprisetalk
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Playing with Blocks (hitogata.neocities.org)

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How to Select an Experiment (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later (taylor.town)

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A-to-Z across Toronto: First Half (jacobfilipp.com)

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Repurposing a 15-Year-Old MacBook Air (tylersticka.com)

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TIL: YouTube Supports RSS (mgmarlow.com)

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Parsing compressed JSON at 40 gigabytes per second (lemire.me)

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Understanding the AI That Drives Robots (construction-physics.com)

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"Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill (justismills.substack.com)

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Hug this cuddly toy, and hear the piercing scream of real AI data centers (designboom.com)

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Freckle phone aims to send kids outside to play and engage with the world (dezeen.com)

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Too Dumb for AI (leancrew.com)

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The left hand should know what the right hand is doing (aresluna.org)

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The Anthropic Cyber Mission (anthropic.com)

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2026 Usage Policy Update (anthropic.com)

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Building on our commitment to American scientific discovery (anthropic.com)

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Southern Olive Oil (ambrook.com)

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What's Earth's dominant species by mass? (signoregalilei.com)

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A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU (carette.xyz)

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Benchmark in Milliseconds (matklad.github.io)

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Holes (1996-2025) (stanford.edu)

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Know Your Paradoxes (coredump.cx)

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Rust Glancer (matklad.github.io)

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Experiments for the Independent Science Society (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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The Quest for Caffeine You Can Have at Night (astralcodexten.com)

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A two-month calendar on my Desktop (leancrew.com)

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Possibly Resolving a Conjecture on Matrix Theory with GPT Sol (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Getting silly with C, part and((int*)-8)[3] (coredump.cx)

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Nothing Doing (futilitycloset.com)

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Building Without Predicting (sive.rs)

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Potential Resolution of Hopf Product Conjecture (arxiv.org)

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Better Batteries (matklad.github.io)

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Approximation Game (coredump.cx)

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A Planet Position Widget (leancrew.com)

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Math Academy Success Stories (justinmath.com)

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Polchinski's Paradox (futilitycloset.com)

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The Secret Life of Circuits (coredump.cx)

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Where Did the Productivity Gains Go? (idiallo.com)

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Cowboy Clothes and Sunday Best (schmud.de)

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I Refrain from Infosec Punditry (coredump.cx)

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Conway's Game of Life in real life (coredump.cx)

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138M children are in child labor. What does this mean? (ourworldindata.org)

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Proposal to prohibit vibe coded projects from being hosted on Sourcehut (sr.ht)

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Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures (wixsite.com)

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Using an old Android phone as a music player (monocyte.blog)

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Galois / Twisp: Avoiding Foolishness in Distributed Systems (galois.com)

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Autonomous Buying of Experiment Equipment (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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How to put 170 atoms in an atom (signoregalilei.com)

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Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo (paculdo.com)

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A Noob Learns FFT (entropicthoughts.com)

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Embeds Did Serious Harm to One of My Websites (unattributed.cc)

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Website Archival and Preservation (unattributed.cc)

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The Median Voter Is a Maoist (nicholasdecker.substack.com)

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LLMs are (still) mostly powered by imitative learning, not RL (lesswrong.com)

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New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant (arxiv.org)

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How Claude's text watermarking works (anthropic.com)

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Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things (homosabiens.substack.com)

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How fast is C++26's std:hive? (lemire.me)

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Seven books I keep close because I love them (plover.com)

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Printing Lists (matklad.github.io)

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The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture (terrytao.wordpress.com)

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The End of the Endangered Species Act? (maximum-progress.com)

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I Outsmarted Pro Car Thieves [video] (youtube.com)

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Video Editing with P5.js (davepagurek.com)

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My Rules for Using Spreadsheets (leancrew.com)

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Off-Grid Aesthetics (rightclicksave.com)

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The First Chatbot's Multiple Personalities (ieee.org)

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Everything Has Unintended Consequences (zacharykai.net)

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Let's Play "Htmx 4: the game" (sethmlarson.dev)

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Thoughts I had while reading your comment (dynomight.net)

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CallEDD: A website that calls California EDD Paid Family Leave for you (infinitedigits.co)

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All Grocery Stores in Canada (jacobfilipp.com)

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Pizza Box Project Stack (cblgh.org)

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DALT: Depreciation-Assisted Land Value Tax (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

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Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (2012) (wolfram.com)

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Hi, Jinks (gingerbeardman.com)

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I got through my inbox in only two months (ratfactor.com)

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Vladimir Arnold's Rainbow Is a Masterclass in Simplification [video] (youtube.com)

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Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem (gingerbeardman.com)

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[flagged] Itadakimasu: A word you say to the food, not the cook (thetokyohermit.substack.com)

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Experience Matters: High-Skilled Immigration (ifp.org)

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Felix and I (jacobfilipp.com)

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Why can't Chinese AI companies raise more money? (the-substrate.net)

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Using AI to analyze life patterns (vkrakovna.wordpress.com)

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Flatworms, Ion Channels, and Burning Mouths (science.org)

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Protect Your Relays (iroh.computer)

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I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park (taylor.town)

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Spec-Driven Skill Generation (gricha.dev)

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Improving Fable 5 Safeguards (anthropic.com)

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Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat (matklad.github.io)

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USB-C is a complete mess [video] (youtube.com)

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The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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I built a jellyfish laboratory in my backyard [video] (youtube.com)

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Blog Revival Project (manifund.substack.com)

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The inliner is yielding benefits for ZJIT (railsatscale.com)

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The Selfless Driving Car (angadh.com)

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Judge a Book by Its Cover (mediumrare.site)

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The Fish Who Could Not Imagine Air (novaspivack.com)

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Meta: 7k (lcamtuf.substack.com)