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May 14, 20244 min read

Knowledge

Blog posts, articles, videos, and essays that provide a dense chunk of information.

  1. History of Philosophy
  2. List of Deeptech Companies
  3. List of Things Startups Did That Didn’t Scale
  4. Starter Guide to SF for Founders
  5. The Transformer Model, Explained
  6. Will We Ever Get Fusion Power?
  7. A history of Nvidia’s Multiprocessors
  8. The 1517 Anti-Pitch Playbook
  9. Fifty Years Progress Map
  10. What You Should Know about Venture Capital - Google Slides
  11. How does Computer Memory Work? - YouTube
  12. The Investors’ Guide to the DOE
  13. The Founder’s Guide to the DOE
  14. Founder’s Handbook Notion Page
  15. This Is the Calculus They Won’t Teach You - YouTube
  16. GPU Glossary
  17. Living Carbon: Photosynthesis-Enhanced Trees
  18. Understanding Categorical Cross-Entropy Loss, Binary Cross-Entropy Loss, Softmax Loss, Logistic Loss, Focal Loss and all those confusing names
  19. Deep-dive on the transition to clean energy
  20. The Math Academy Way
  21. Levers for Biological Progress - Progress Forum
  22. Kludgeocracy in America | National Affairs
  23. Augmenting Long-term Memory
  24. How to Build the Future of AI in the United States | IFP
  25. Moon – Bartosz Ciechanowski
  26. Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
  27. Quantum computing for the determined – Michael Nielsen
  28. Effective action: Systems-engineering to systems-politics
  29. Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos | Part 1 - YouTube
  30. The Illustrated AlphaFold | matmols
  31. ML for protein structure prediction: AlphaFold2 architecture - YouTube
  32. The things you’ll find in higher dimensions - YouTube
  33. Neuralink Show and Tell, Fall 2022 - YouTube
  34. The Fancy Algorithms That Make Your Computer Feel Smoother - YouTube
  35. CSIS Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan - YouTube

Evergreen

Blog posts, articles, videos, and essays that I refer/think about often.

  1. Advice for the ambitious: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
  2. College advice for people who are exactly like me | benkuhn.net
  3. Searching for outliers | benkuhn.net
  4. Dr. R. W. Hamming’s Advice on Great Work and Paul Graham’s commentary
  5. Rebuild the Arsenal and Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan
  6. From Silicon to Slime | Are.na Editorial
  7. A new breed of biotech | Alex’s blog
  8. MOCs for learning AI/ML: 4-stage roadmap, ML Resources MOC, LLMs Visually Explained, Intro to Transformers
  9. MOCS for learning other engineering: Pure Math Roadmap, EE Roadmap
  10. Supplements | near.blog
  11. Algorithms for Modern Hardware - Algorithmica
  12. Double your productivity without more work or stress
  13. My colleague Julius
  14. School Is Not Enough
  15. The 2025 AI Engineering Reading List - Latent Space
  16. The Gentle Romance - by Richard Ngo - Asimov Press
  17. The Hidden Math of Churn
  18. Nonfiction Writing Advice
  19. Relationships @visakanv’s blog
  20. visakanv’s howto - Google Docs
  21. I Put a Toaster in the Dishwasher
  22. How to succeed in science: a concise guide for young biomedical scientists

Newsletters

Consistent, high-quality, information-dense news. Quality denoted with *

  1. Construction Physics | Brian Potter | Substack ***
  2. The Chip Letter | Babbage | Substack **
  3. Wes Kao’s Newsletter | Substack **
  4. Not Boring | Packy McCormick | Substack **
  5. Materially Better | Tsung Xu | Substack *
  6. Asimov Press ***
  7. Freethink *
  8. LessWrong ***
  9. Coldtakes **
  10. Wait But Why **
  11. Our World in Data *
  12. Newsletter | Sequoia Capital *
  13. Works in Progress ***
  14. Abundance Institute *
  15. Range Widely | David Epstein ***
  16. Palladium Magazine **
  17. Asterisk Magazine **
  18. CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies **
  19. The Garden of Forking Paths | Brian Klaas | Substack ***

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