đŸȘŽ Dmitrii's personal blog

Links for July 2025

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Previous month: Links For June 2025

Projects

  • Last time I created Categories of AI Research Ideas. In the beginning of July I tried to automate it and wrote a guide on NeoBERT Fine-Tuning
  • I discovered an open-sourced game openfront.io and played it for 2 days in a row. I kept losing, so I wanted to build a reinforcement learning agent to play instead. It was too slow to watch a game, with a main bottleneck being JS Canvas rendering, so I started rewriting it in WebGL. However, the maintainers said it needs to be done after planning and resource allocation 😭
  • I also signed up for an open sourced AI research summer project, reach out if you want to learn more or contribute!
  1. A review about Alpha School, a new approach of education with bribes
  2. A website that shows when a satellite passes above your area
  3. German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws. Looks like anyone can submit a claim to court and get 5k euros. Reach out to me if you want to brainstorm how!
  4. An article that’s investigating important topics with laziness, impatience, hubris and self-preservation.
  5. Richard Feynman’s Letter on What Problems to Solve, and another longer post about his work on the connection machine
  6. Another very good review on Trance. I really liked the part about spirit possessions and hypnosis
  7. Comment: In Los Angeles, crime on the Metro public transportation system has fallen by almost 70% in the three months since the LAPD was booted off the job and replaced by
security guards. đŸ€”
  8. When a couple has a child, everyone knows the woman’s career suffers more than the man’s. But did you know that this effect comes almost entirely from daughters? (maternal earnings penalty 3% for a son, 26% for a daughter) Commenters suggest that fathers spend more time with sons and vice versa, partly counterbalancing the overall tendency for mothers to spend more time with children. Source
  9. Cate Hall on her experience taking testosterone: “When I played poker professionally, I was a staunch advocate for the position that there are few women at the top of the game for reasons that are primarily sociological: women aren’t encouraged to learn (96% of serious players are male); the environment is unwelcoming to them (see ‘The Royal Flush Girls’); and they aren’t invited to join the study groups that are critical for cracking into the elite tier 
 And yet. In the earliest weeks of testosterone therapy, when I really started to feel it kicking in, one of my first thoughts was: ‘I would have been so much better at poker if I’d had this.’”
  10. Somehow I haven’t heard any great podcast episodes this month, and I cleared my backlog already. Please recommend something to listen during commute!

And food for thoughts

Don’t Ask Questions
 Ask For Help

and

Make a list. Check it twice. Make a list of all the tasks that could possibly be done as part of the project. Then prioritize them. Put the tasks with the highest value and lowest risk at the top of the list.

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