Specialist
Blog posts, articles, videos, and essays that provide a dense chunk of information.
- History of Philosophy
- List of Deeptech Companies
- List of Things Startups Did That Didn’t Scale
- Starter Guide to SF for Founders
- The Transformer Model, Explained
- Will We Ever Get Fusion Power?
- A history of Nvidia’s Multiprocessors
- The 1517 Anti-Pitch Playbook
- Fifty Years Progress Map
- What You Should Know about Venture Capital - Google Slides
- How does Computer Memory Work? - YouTube
- The Investors’ Guide to the DOE
- The Founder’s Guide to the DOE
- Founder’s Handbook Notion Page o15. This Is the Calculus They Won’t Teach You - YouTube
- GPU Glossary
- Living Carbon: Photosynthesis-Enhanced Trees
- Understanding Categorical Cross-Entropy Loss, Binary Cross-Entropy Loss, Softmax Loss, Logistic Loss, Focal Loss and all those confusing names
- Deep-dive on the transition to clean energy
- The Math Academy Way
- Levers for Biological Progress - Progress Forum
- Kludgeocracy in America | National Affairs
- Augmenting Long-term Memory
- Vertical Integrators - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
- How to Build the Future of AI in the United States | IFP
- Moon – Bartosz Ciechanowski
- Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
- Quantum computing for the determined – Michael Nielsen
- Effective action: Systems-engineering to systems-politics
- Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos | Part 1 - YouTube
- The Illustrated AlphaFold | matmols
- ML for protein structure prediction: AlphaFold2 architecture - YouTube
- The things you’ll find in higher dimensions - YouTube
- Neuralink Show and Tell, Fall 2022 - YouTube
- The Fancy Algorithms That Make Your Computer Feel Smoother - YouTube
- CSIS Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan - YouTube
- The case for AGI by 2030 - 80,000 Hours
- I Tried Putting my Fluid Simulation on a Planet - YouTube
- Energy & Humanity
- Exploring How Computers Work - YouTube
- 50 Things I’ve Learned Writing Construction Physics
- As Much As You Ever Wanted To Know About 155mm Artillery Shell Production and More
- Why Momentum Really Works
- SBIR/STTR Workshop: Application Process & Funding Options for Startups 4/22/2025 - YouTube
- Thermodynamics of Synthetic Fuels - by Andrew Cote
- Will protein design tools solve the snake antivenom shortage?
- The Techno-Industrial Policy Playbook
- The Heart of Innovation
- The Best Reference Works for Every Subject — LessWrong
- The Best Textbooks on Every Subject — LessWrong
- The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject — LessWrong
- The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology - Asimov Press
- Tacit Knowledge Video: Studying Quantum Mechanics with Andy Matuschak - YouTube
- A Visual, Intuitive Understanding of Bayes Theorem
- The Story of Information Theory: from Morse to Shannon to ENTROPY - YouTube
- The Secret of Our Success | Joseph Henrich | Talks at Google - YouTube
Generalist
Blog posts, articles, videos, and essays that I refer/think about often.
- Advice for the ambitious: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- College advice for people who are exactly like me | benkuhn.net
- Searching for outliers | benkuhn.net
- Dr. R. W. Hamming’s Advice on Great Work and Paul Graham’s commentary
- Rebuild the Arsenal and Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan
- From Silicon to Slime | Are.na Editorial
- A new breed of biotech | Alex’s blog
- MOCs for learning AI/ML: 4-stage roadmap, ML Resources MOC, LLMs Visually Explained, Intro to Transformers
- MOCS for learning other engineering: Pure Math Roadmap, EE Roadmap
- Supplements | near.blog
- Algorithms for Modern Hardware - Algorithmica
- Double your productivity without more work or stress
- My colleague Julius
- School Is Not Enough
- The 2025 AI Engineering Reading List - Latent Space
- The Gentle Romance - by Richard Ngo - Asimov Press
- The Hidden Math of Churn
- Nonfiction Writing Advice
- Relationships @visakanv’s blog
- visakanv’s howto - Google Docs
- I Put a Toaster in the Dishwasher
- How to succeed in science: a concise guide for young biomedical scientists
- AI-Enabled Coups: How a Small Group Could Use AI to Seize Power
- YOUTH - by Jared Young - Tolstoyan
- No, it’s not The Incentives—it’s you – [citation needed]
- Graham Duncan: Talent Whisperer - Colossus
- Career Advice and Salary Negotiations – The HFT Guy
- Brian Chesky - Founder Mode & The Art of Hiring - YouTube
- How to live an intellectually rich life - by Utsav Mamoria
- 13 Signs You Used ChatGPT To Write That
- In Search of Narrative Violations — Bedrock
To Learn
Leadership
- “Are You Destined to Deal?” With Goldman Sachs MD Jim Donovan - YouTube
- Leadership Lab: Writing Training - YouTube
- Personality 101 - YouTube
Biology
- MITx: Principles of Synthetic Biology | edX
- Syllabus - APh161
- Cell Biology by the Numbers and the videos Cell Biology By The Numbers - YouTube
- How to Design Plasmids: Benchling Tutorial - YouTube
Mathematics and Physics
- Matter and Energy - YouTube
- Oxford Student Lectures - Information Theory - YouTube
- Stanford’s Introduction to Probability - YouTube
- MIT OCW Probability + MIT OCW Problem Sets
- Matrix Methods + MIT 18.065 Videos
- Napkin Mathematics
- StatQuest with Josh Starmer - YouTube
- Gilbert Strang lectures on Linear Algebra (MIT) - YouTube
- Information Theory, Pattern Recognition, and Neural Networks - YouTube
- 6.041 Probabilistic Systems Analysis and Applied Probability - YouTube
- Resources | Poker Theory and Analytics | Sloan School of Management | MIT OpenCourseWare
- The Complete Mathematics of Neural Networks and Deep Learning - YouTube
- CIS5150
Programming
- Intuitive Mathematics of Machine Learning (Paid textbook for $70)
- Stanford CS229: Machine Learning
- Alpha for Learning GPUs
- Introduction to Probability for Computing
- Understanding Deep Learning
- CS 189/289A: Introduction to Machine Learning
AI-Guided Design of Proteins and other Biological Materials
- Rosetta Workshop 2024 – Meiler Lab
- Design of small molecule binding proteins using deep learning - YouTube
- Boltz-1 and the Future of Biomolecular Foundation Models - YouTube
- Intro to PyRosetta - Pose Basics - YouTube
- Dr. Lurong Pan | Protein LLM and Generative AI in Protein Engineering - YouTube
Electrical Engineering
- MIT OCW Signals and Systems
- MIT OCW Statistical Mechanics I
- MIT OCW Communication, Control, and Signal Processing
- Getting To Blinky KiCad Tutorial Series - YouTube
Misc