Reading List 6 This week’s reading list is a mix of high-level theory and low-level pragmatism. I found myself bouncing between the philosophical implications of how we build AI and the immediate satisfaction of writing a good Go component.[article] The Century-Long Pause in Fundamental Physics. The author argues that physics has stagnated by swapping “ontology-first” theory for mathematical models that merely fit data. This debate perfectly mirrors current machine learning disputes about whether LLMs build internal world models or just pattern-match at scale, which is the open empirical front currently being adjudicated in mechanistic interpretability.[release] Onyx Has Released a New Remote Page Turner Called Tappy. I wish Amazon would support page turners for their Kindle line. It would be great if they supported a device as delightful as this one.[blog] The agent principal-agent problem. This is a great look at one of the biggest problems with agentic development: code review. In m...
Reading List 6 This week’s reading list is a mix of high-level theory and low-level pragmatism. I found myself bouncing ...
