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Links are posted monthly in chronological order and include any articles, papers, or essays that I find pertinent to my current research and writing.


  • Silk Road Timeline
  • Satiety Graphed & The Horsemen of Obesity
    • This is a criticism of the common appeal to satiety without a clear definition, arguing that relying on an undefined concept is problematic, even if, by chance, a diet works. Satiety, not to be confused with physical fullness, can indicate metabolic and dietary health, and knowing it when you see it can work as a pragmatic definition.
  • Gpt-oss release
    • Ollama: OpenAI gpt-oss
    • Welcome gpt oss, the new open-source model family from OpenAI!
      • Gpt oss is a hugely anticipated open-weights release by OpenAI, designed for powerful reasoning, agentic tasks, and versatile developer use cases. It comprises two models: a big one with 117b parameters (gpt-oss-120b), and a smaller one with 21b parameters (gpt-oss-20b). Both are mixture-of-experts (MoEs) and use a 4-bit quantization scheme (mxfp4), enabling fast inference (thanks to fewer active parameters, see details below) while keeping resource usage low. The large model fits on a single H100 gpu, while the small one runs within 16gb of memory and is perfect for consumer hardware and on-device applications.
    • Open models by OpenAI
      • Advanced open-weight reasoning models to customize for any use case and run anywhere.
  • Lagerstroemia
    • commonly known as crape myrtle (also spelled crepe myrtle or crêpe myrtle), is a genus of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs native to the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, northern Australia, and other parts of Oceania, cultivated in warmer climates around the world.
    • I’ve been taking care of a crepe myrtle on my property for several years and quite enjoy seeing it mature from a sapling. A year after moving into my current house, the tree didn’t recover after a harsh winter, so I was forced to cut the tree down, but I left the root system. In a few months, a few saplings began to grow, and after a lot of care and attention, it now has 5 main trunks measuring 6–7 inches in circumference and is over 15ft tall.
  • Oral treatment of erectile dysfunction with apomorphine SL
    • Apomorphine SL (Ixense, Uprima) is a new oral medication shown to be effective in the treatment of erectile dysfunction. This compound is a dopaminergic agonist with affinity for dopamine receptor sites—mostly D(2)—within the brain known to be involved in sexual function. Apomorphine induces selective activation in the nucleus paraventricularis leading to erectogenic signals.
  • Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan and improves survival of aged mice
    • Psilocybin, the naturally occurring psychedelic compound produced by hallucinogenic mushrooms, has received attention due to considerable clinical evidence for its therapeutic potential to treat various psychiatric and neurodegenerative indications. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain enigmatic, and few studies have explored its systemic impacts. We provide the first experimental evidence that psilocin (the active metabolite of psilocybin) treatment extends cellular lifespan and psilocybin treatment promotes increased longevity in aged mice, suggesting that psilocybin may be a potent geroprotective agent.

  • Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

    • The study investigates the neural underpinnings of creative writing across different participant groups: “Brain-only” (unassisted), “llm” (Large Language Model-assisted), and “Search Engine” (search engine-assisted). A primary focus is on Delta band connectivity, which consistently shows the most significant disparities between groups. The Brain-only group demonstrates significantly higher and more widespread Delta band activity, indicating greater engagement of deep, slow integrative brain processes, multisensory integration, and internally-driven thought during unassisted writing. Conversely, llm and Search Engine groups exhibit more externally anchored or intermittently guided cognitive engagement, with notably weaker delta interactions.
    • N-gram analysis complements these neurological findings, revealing distinct linguistic patterns across groups for different topics. The “Brain-only” group tends to use n-grams reflecting internal thought processes and prosocial framing, while llm and Search Engine groups show patterns indicative of external sourcing or more direct task-oriented language. The study also tracks changes in brain connectivity patterns across sessions, noting a general trend of increasing connectivity in later sessions for both Brain-only and llm groups, suggesting adaptation to the task

  • Ultrafast coherent dynamics of microring modulators

    • Next-generation computing clusters require ultra-high-bandwidth optical interconnects to support large-scale artificial-intelligence applications. These electronic–photonic co-integrated systems necessitate densely integrated high-speed electro-optical converters. In this context, microring modulators (mrms) emerge as a promising solution, prized for their exceptional compactness and energy efficiency.

  • Hitchhiker’s Guide to rag: From Tiny Files to Tolstoy with OpenAI’s api and LangChain

    • Scaling a simple rag pipeline from simple notes to full books

  • goose

    • an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions—install, execute, edit, and test with any llm

  • If--

    • Kipling’s poem “If—” is essentially a father’s advice to his son (and, by extension, to any young person) on how to live a balanced, honorable life. Written in 1895 and later included in his 1910 collection Rewards and Fairies, it lays out a series of “if” scenarios—tests of character—and promises the ultimate reward (“you’ll be a Man, my son!”) if you can meet them all.

  • bitchat-android

    • bluetooth mesh chat, irc vibes

  • Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models

    • Success on benchmarks only demonstrates potemkin understanding: the illusion of understanding driven by answers irreconcilable with how any human would interpret a concept.

  • The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject

Much of my time this month has been spent on researching tools that support the development of this site and implementing visual and basic quality-of-life features to establish a solid foundation for the future.

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