Linked List: February 2025
Friday, 28 February 2025
- Memory makes computation universal ✶
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I’m not sure I understand, but Erik Garrison’s paper seems to show that some of the mechanisms of Large Language Models mirror what happens in nature.
Universal intelligence—the ability to solve any problem—depends on the ability to be true to yourself while remembering what you’ve thought, and nothing else.
Maybe it’s time to read I Am A Strange Loop again, once I finish Jane English’s Fingers Pointing to the Moon.
Via Harper Reed, via Simon Willison.
Thursday, 27 February 2025
- Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space ✶
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Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing that meets certain criteria.
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
- Somnium ✶
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Novel by Johannes Kepler, possibly the first science fiction story.
Via Terence Tao.