Links

Some articles and other media that I find interesting.

Misc

• The Future of Mathematics? Kevin Buzzard talks about formalizing all of mathematics.
• As We May Think: the internet has gotten us closer to Vannevar Bush’s vision, but there’s still more to go.
• The Use of Knowledge in Society: macro planning in worlds of fractured knowledge.
• Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable: principles, maxims, and anecdotes about investing while ignorant (by Richard Zeckhauser).
• Computing Machinery and Intelligence: Turing lays out a framework for conceiving of thinking machines that I still find relevant in most philosophical disucssions of AGI today.
• Charlie Munger’s commencement address at USC.
• Grug brain developer advice
• Sayings of Poor Richard
• On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B: thoughts and case studies on the ill-effects of dissonance among rewards and organizational intentions.
• Claude Shannon demonstrates Theseus (the maze solving mouse).
• A speech about creative thinking by Claude Shannon
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack
• When is correlation transitive?: Terry Tao describes some of the peculiarities of correlation.

Practical Machine Learning Research

• The Bitter Lesson: Richard Sutton describes a difficult pill every aspiring deep-learning-programmer should swallow before trying to do something great.
• Goodfellow’s guidelines to practical ML research, paired with a fun story about how he built the model that identifies addresses in Street View.
• Applying machine learning: lecture slides demonstrating Andrew Ng’s advice.
• Reading Research Papers: more advice from Andrew Ng.