Knowledge Base
Essays, tutorials and e-books built from my research notes with AI assistance.
Everything here grows out of a personal research wiki that an AI helps me build and maintain: sources go in, the AI compiles linked notes, and the best answers become essays, tutorials and books. I review everything before it is published.
Bookmarks
Links I want to keep and come back to. See all bookmarks →
M Max Woolf turns each movie's metadata into JSON, embeds it, and tests which models predict IMDb ratings best. A small LLM trained from scratch wins, but only by a small margin over an MLP and an SVM.
A Clara Collier asks what life looks like if AI does all the work. History suggests a life built around relationships can turn clannish and conformist, so we may lose the dignity of impersonal work.
D Dwarkesh Patel tours an Intel fab and talks to its engineers about the next 20 years of chipmaking, and why factories may not keep up with AI's demand for compute.
D Paul Iusztin's 90-minute webinar on the system around a model that turns it into a coding agent, built from first principles. Paid.
C An unofficial 18-chapter book, written by AI agents, on how Claude Code is built and which design patterns carry over to other agents.
C An unofficial visual map of Claude Code's internals: the agent loop, built-in tools, slash commands and features not yet shipped.
Blog Posts
- The Receipt for a Computation: how Succinct makes zero-knowledge proofs practical, and why a “receipt” for a computation matters. October 2026
- Reading the Whole Letter: what Orchid’s whole-genome embryo screening can and can’t tell parents. October 2026
Missing Semester
Practical tools that school rarely teaches, named after MIT’s Missing Semester course.
- Top 10 Git Commands: save, share and undo your work with Git and GitHub, from first setup to testing a pull request. October 2026
- Top 10 Terminal Commands: move around, install tools, run projects, free stuck ports and keep secrets out of your history. October 2026
- Zed Editor Tips (Sublime Keys): the shortcuts and habits that make Zed fast, using Sublime Text key bindings: multiple cursors, search, navigation, panels and Git. October 2026
Keeping up with AI Progress
- AI Capability Comparison: the leaderboards, people and newsletters I use to track new models, and how to read a leaderboard without being fooled. October 2026
E-books
Mini-Books
These are based on my old learning notes that I am slowly converting into mini-books with help of Codex.