Autumn Equinox 2025 links
the best of the internet over the last season
- 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