Autumn Equinox 2025 links

the best of the summer gone,
and the new fall not yet born.
the odd uneven time.

—Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (August 8, 1952)

• My Stay in Cambridge / UK by Fabian Suchanek
• Two very insightful blogs about the FIDE rating system and recent changes to it: FIDE rating changes: Are they working so far? and FIDE Ratings Revisited
• Erik Demaine’s super inspiring talk about his research process
• In this latest Twitter trend of sharing a piece of lore about yourself, I learnt about Vishal Mishra, who was India’s first Linux user
• It’s rude to show AI output to people
• Pointer Pointer
• What Dan Read
• The meaning of the title song in Athadu
• What happens if the explanatory and response variables are sorted independently before regression?
• Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally
• One of the best GoodReads reviews ever
• Becoming a Magician
• Shame is the opposite of art
• Simple C++ argmin/argmax for std::vector
• I Don’t Think It’s Going to Be Better
• Killing Pytorch Multi-GPU Training the Safe Way
• Path Tracing a 3D Chessboard