Maxx Yung

List of High-Signal Learning Materials

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Specialist

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. Vertical Integrators - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
  25. How to Build the Future of AI in the United States | IFP
  26. Moon – Bartosz Ciechanowski
  27. Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
  28. Quantum computing for the determined – Michael Nielsen
  29. Effective action: Systems-engineering to systems-politics
  30. Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos | Part 1 - YouTube
  31. The Illustrated AlphaFold | matmols
  32. ML for protein structure prediction: AlphaFold2 architecture - YouTube
  33. The things you’ll find in higher dimensions - YouTube
  34. Neuralink Show and Tell, Fall 2022 - YouTube
  35. The Fancy Algorithms That Make Your Computer Feel Smoother - YouTube
  36. CSIS Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan - YouTube
  37. The case for AGI by 2030 - 80,000 Hours
  38. I Tried Putting my Fluid Simulation on a Planet - YouTube
  39. Energy & Humanity
  40. Exploring How Computers Work - YouTube
  41. 50 Things I’ve Learned Writing Construction Physics
  42. As Much As You Ever Wanted To Know About 155mm Artillery Shell Production and More
  43. Why Momentum Really Works
  44. SBIR/STTR Workshop: Application Process & Funding Options for Startups 4/22/2025 - YouTube
  45. Thermodynamics of Synthetic Fuels - by Andrew Cote
  46. Will protein design tools solve the snake antivenom shortage?
  47. The Techno-Industrial Policy Playbook
  48. The Heart of Innovation
  49. The Best Reference Works for Every Subject — LessWrong
  50. The Best Textbooks on Every Subject — LessWrong
  51. The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject — LessWrong
  52. The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology - Asimov Press
  53. Tacit Knowledge Video: Studying Quantum Mechanics with Andy Matuschak - YouTube
  54. Quantum Country
  55. A Visual, Intuitive Understanding of Bayes Theorem
  56. The Story of Information Theory: from Morse to Shannon to ENTROPY - YouTube
  57. The Secret of Our Success | Joseph Henrich | Talks at Google - YouTube
  58. Entropy measures how little we know about the universe – Quanta Magazine
  59. A Visual Guide to Genome Editors - by Evan DeTurk
  60. Nail Your Raise: Luring VCs | Vinod Khosla - YouTube
  61. Voice AI & Voice Agents | An Illustrated Primer
  62. Defeating a Virus That Killed Half a Billion People – The Plea - YouTube
  63. Hummingbird List of Biolabs
  64. Founder Playlist | Playlist of Founder Advice from Pillar VC
  65. Capital Intensity Isn’t Bad - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
  66. Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel - YouTube

Generalist

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
  23. AI-Enabled Coups: How a Small Group Could Use AI to Seize Power
  24. YOUTH - by Jared Young - Tolstoyan
  25. No, it’s not The Incentives—it’s you – [citation needed]
  26. Graham Duncan: Talent Whisperer - Colossus
  27. Career Advice and Salary Negotiations – The HFT Guy
  28. Brian Chesky - Founder Mode & The Art of Hiring - YouTube
  29. How to live an intellectually rich life - by Utsav Mamoria
  30. 13 Signs You Used ChatGPT To Write That
  31. In Search of Narrative Violations — Bedrock

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