Autumn Equinox 2024 links
the best of the internet over the last season
- Vettel’s eyes, they never lie :)
- Haemoglobin-based Oxygen Carriers: a substitute for blood?
- The Talk, smbc comics, if you don’t talk to your kids about quantum computing, someone else will.
- The Times’ Profile on Hannah Neeleman: yikes!
- Jean-Pierre Serre is still doing math research, he’s 98 now!
- Mixed-input matrix multiplication performance optimizations, this is such a nice blog post from Google Research that discusses ways to perform efficient mixed-input (S8 and F16) matrix multiplication. Very reminiscent of the old Google.
- Marina Abramovic anecdotes are all wonderful, what an artist: The bittersweet story of Marina Abramović’s epic walk on the Great Wall of China
- Not only is this paper completely unhinged, but they have a wonderful line in it, “Because this paper was written in 2024, we include an obligatory section involving generative AI and LLMs”. An Abundance of Katherines: The Game Theory of Baby Naming
- Sabalenka’s topspin stats at the US Open 2024: super interesting reddit thread about the technical differences between men’s and women’s tennis.
- Grammar-checking Taylor Swift
- The FBI files on Paul Erdos