2025 Week 07 - Weekly Notes

Summary

It feels like it’s been a long week as Susan asked me to help her with Money, and over the weekend we are having a dinner w/ Adriel. Morgan has been on campus 4 days this week, and it feels like far too much for her.

Notes

Interesting to look at

• GenerTeam/GENERator: GENERator: A Long-Context Generative Genomic Foundation Model

Interesting Internet Takes

• The Unsung Inventors of ‘Meg Ryan Fall’ - by Erin Carlson
• My Toddler Son Likes to Wear Dresses. Can He Wear One to My Sister’s Wedding? - The New York Times

Started my own note that’s similar to this.

• People I (Mostly) Admire Archives - Freakonomics

The Erza Klein and Kara Swisher interview

• Opinion | What Elon Musk Wants - The New York Times
• And also: Americans Are Trapped in an Algorithmic Cage - The Atlantic

A case for prepping

• How I survived a year of SHTF in 90s Bosnia - PrepHole

It’s me. Hi. I’m the problem it’s me

• How I Learned That the Problem in My Marriage Was Me - The New York Times

Henrik Karlsson - Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog

Pradyumna Prasad - How to have a career even when OpenAI’s o3 drops

• Yes, yes you do

How To Read A Novel - by Steven Johnson - Adjacent Possible

The Art of Calling Out Room Dynamics (I wrote about this one a while ago)

The Attention Crisis Is Just a Distraction | The New Yorker

• Seems to be attention grabbing, if you know what I mean

• I’ve read half of this book. There are some goodies, but I also hate Eric Jorgenson highlighted Balaji. Be careful

DOGE vs. the NIH: Say goodbye to the greatest engine of biomedical research ever created | Science-Based Medicine

Sounds like they want to do the right thing and find out if they are doing an economic good.

• The Anthropic Economic Index \ Anthropic

Fuck them

• Google Calendar no longer includes start of Black History Month, Pride Month – NBC Chicago
• I made my own calendar, just because of this

Yeah, I think I missed this last time - Introducing ChatGPT Gov | OpenAI

Chat With Your Readwise Highlights - Readwise Docs

Idiot in Chief

• Trump Dismisses Members of Kennedy Center Board and Reveals Plan to Make Himself Chairman

AI Countdown

It’s interesting HuggingFace is using the 671B model to create a distilled model that’s more accessible. I’m curious when I can run one of these small models on my laptop

• Open R1: Update #2

I’m interested in testing out a UI that I can build with Go and WASM. This is peaking my curiosity

• We Replaced Our React Frontend with Go and WebAssembly - Dagger

I’m compiling a list of why AI isn’t replacing the workforce and those other lies. It doesn’t happen as easy as this, and it’s not a 1-to-1 replacement (like the issues that we have without DBAs)

• Tech’s Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything

Film: Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb | Sony Pictures Classics

8 years to arrive, 10 years to build a deflector. Dear god.

• It might be too late to stop ‘city killer’ asteroid headed toward Earth: scientist
• Yes, the odds of an asteroid striking Earth have doubled. No, you don’t need to worry

The Plot Against America - by Mike Brock

How I use LLMs as a staff engineer | sean goedecke

The all new le Chat: Your AI assistant for life and work | Mistral AI

Recommendations

• Talk to go to: Kiera Wright-Ruiz Author Talk • My (Half) Latinx Kitchen: My (Half) La | Omnivore Books on Food - March 1st
• Book: Banchan: 60 Korean American Recipes for Delicious, Shareable Sides by Caroline Choe, Ghazalle Badiozamani
• Book: Sahil Bloom: The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
  • I started reading and got through the first section. Timeless advice
• A wonderful podcast from Ed Zitron: betteroffline - Listen on Spotify - Linktree
  • Also, see: The Rot Economy - Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At
• Book: Superagency - What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future by Reid Hoffman
• Steven Levy has a newsletter. - Plaintext Newsletter by Steven Levy | WIRED
• Book: Let’s Talk About It Links

Obits

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