Scratchpad

2025-11-29

Axioms, deduction, and mathematical structure

2025-11-02

Bag of thoughts on morphogenesis, alternative intelligences, proof theory, computation complexity theory, thermodynamics and the fabric of our universe

recent: Scott Aaronson, Michael Levin, Joscha Bach, Deutsche math, platonic space <> physical world <> modeled world / experiencal computational complexity theory, theoretical limits of computation physical limits, laundaeur’s etc the three big laws: godel’s, turing’s, tarski’s consciousness = properties of a brain’s world-model and self-model. (“I don’t think that there is anything mystical about qualia.”) outside world = the model our brain constructs and maintains for control -> FEP, active inference anti-penrosoids: decoherence in warm, wet brains is astronomically faster than neural timescales quantum mechanics -> “a certain generalization of probability theory to allow minus signs.” Levin’s thoughts on emergence -> tie in with cellular automata

2025-09-24

Questions to answer to figure out the balance in my life

2025-09-11

Random tenstorrent kinks

https://docs.tenstorrent.com/systems/quietbox/quietbox-bh/setup.html#optional-accessing-the-base-management-controller-bmc -> no mention of how to find IP of BMC. Imagine an idiot buying this box, they are cooked

https://github.com/tenstorrent/tt-flash?tab=readme-ov-file -> “seperate” typo -> ordering of readme is ass, too many install methods that all take space (improve md)

https://github.com/tenstorrent/tt-installer -> no arch support, whats the lift? (onboarding is 1000000% TOP premium, this is not a backlog thing imo)

sudo dpkg -i tenstorrent-tools_1.3.1_all.deb -> no dpkg on arch… had to use yay -> debtap

2025-06-26

Stuff I forgot to read

https://x.com/LearningLukeD/status/1938450425461805183 https://pub.sakana.ai/ctm/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05522

https://hanlab.mit.edu/projects/radial-attention https://x.com/Synced_Global/status/1938075496484638744 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.19852v1 https://github.com/mit-han-lab/radial-attention

https://github.com/Emericen/tiny-qwen https://github.com/xl0/lovely-tensors https://x.com/tokenbender/status/1938299689067299298 https://github.com/KellerJordan/modded-nanogpt https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/1938354155057242167 https://x.com/dnbt777/status/1938272164219871474 https://github.com/miftahmoha/tinyllama https://github.com/tanishqkumar/beyond-nanogpt

https://gist.github.com/Artefact2/b5f810600771265fc1e39442288e8ec9

2025-06-21

The ugly: - monetization warps incentives, memetics and abrasive slop, ragebait to get max impressions -> verified replies shifts the nature of the game - actual grifting normies eg AI influences, programming “influencers” (unhinged devs) - parasocial, delusion, gossipy in nature, bootlicking - unfortunately exposed to the literal bottom of the barrel in thinking capacity and their thoughts with no control

The good: - Lots of talented kids, ML researchers, indie game guys and a small % of very interesting CS, hardware and math folks - Crazy reach potential with companies, industry folks - For me, for example: - Got to talk to frontier lab folks, countless amazing people working at great companies like Tenstorrent, TigerBeetle, Exa etc… - Got to help tons of people land jobs by just connecting talent to companies for fun - Got to positively impact a bunch of people’s lives by answering DMs or just posting and having some people for whom it clicked

Maybe the only way to use X is to simply post and ignore TL? TL mutes, blocks do not actually work, nature of feed changes too often, so it’s too dangerous and frustrating to actually read it

Lists work, notifications work, but then you get FOMO and/or less exposure to potentially great content from cool folks

2025-06-13

MORE SQLITES, SQLITES EVERYWHERE save every single new tab save parent tab build tree structures LLM innards (self-hosted models? CF? deepseek API?)

-> visualizations -> research trails -> publish hem?

2025-06-13

One thing I notice about tpot and a lot of the friendships between the more “normie” folks is how they believe being equally kind and like some kind of mop to everyone is a virtue. Asking questions about each other’s personal lives when they revive their account a break, like “how was your sister’s wedding” etc… when there is almost no chance they actually meaningfully care about this, so they just RP in this very large and sad charade. Because it’s preached as a virtue, but it can’t be virtuous if it is applied to all with no standard. But really, not everyone deserves it.

breadth first empathy is an incredible sign of a human battery

2025-05-13

there is some research (that is moderately contested) that brain sizes have became smaller over the last 15kyrs, and it relates to the collective brain hypothesis (which im not 100% or even 60% convinced by but has some really tangible hypothesis that explain many phenomenas well and are back by a mixture of ok to great scientific studies and processes) part of that is due to the increasing interconnection between populations and the capacity to specialize more and more, offloading some skill needs to the institutions and structures you live in type shit I think that’s moderately interesting in that one day the downstream impacts of hyperconnected populations by the internet might be able to be observed or studied and will be able to explain a lot of cultural evolutions it caused

2025-05-10

aight here’s another plane thought, I think that was from Henrich who’s some cultural evolution / collective brain hypothesis guy (and many other things in the past including an aerospace engineer) my notes/takes: Iq reflects institutional goals IQ is a set of cognitive abilities that leads to auccess in 20th century contemporary institutions (Flynn effect) -> wouldn’t correlate to success -> more iq more science more abstract thoughts -> no indicator that IQ is good for future -> most creative ppl rarely biggest iq

minds that might lead us into a new world (read fundamental changes to our institutions) might not have the highest IQ because said new world might not require what current IQ values

I think the main point of the thought came from all the x “iq arcs” that i saw with ppl sharing iqs and making memes about it

and the thing that i claim is that IQ reflects the institutions of our times and has less “intangible quantifiers of intelligence” than we think

and the capacity to like, remember long chains of numbers in reverse is not going to be immensely relevant in the future for example, so ways that we quantify intelligence in huamsn will change

2025-05-08

Benchmarks ideas #2

2025-04-17

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2025-04-19

deutsch/friston/wheeler/random stuff

Structure == patterns  - structure is basically regularity or patterns that can be discovered, described, leveraged, compressed

Compression == prediction  - kolmogorov complexity - compression information inherently discards redundant details, keeps essetnail features that predict unsee or future data - better compression == better predictive capabilities

Building predictive models building ~= learning  - active inference, free energy principle, Friston - biological/cognitive systems operate by minimizing “free energy,” effectively reducing surprise (prediction error) about incoming sensory data

Intelligence is the ability to approximate patterns (structure) within reality through efficient compression (predictive representation) - intelligence measures how efficiently a system uses observations to build generalizable models, adding a quantitative dimension to our qualitative discussions

Learning and cognition are emergent from this, as processes continuously refining these approximations (building predictive models) by effectively integrating and leveraging noise