Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter(gowers.wordpress.com)

267 points by simianwords 1 month ago | 376 comments

What sort of maths are LLMs good at?(gowers.wordpress.com)

250 points by ColinWright 2 months ago | 138 comments

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro(gowers.wordpress.com)

683 points by _alternator_ 5 months ago | 510 comments

Timothy Gowers's blog post describing how ChatGPT 5.5 Pro produced PhD-level mathematical research in about an hour with little input from him.

The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view(ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)

191 points by donohoe 2 months ago | 58 comments

Notes on Guyana(mattlakeman.org)

177 points by impish9208 1 year ago | 123 comments

A vintage 1903 espresso machine at a Village cafe (2012)(ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)

44 points by Drunk_Engineer 2 years ago | 21 comments

Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet(blakewatson.com)

706 points by blakewatson 2 years ago | 310 comments

A personal blog post by Blake Watson describing omg.lol, a community web service, as a refuge after leaving Twitter.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

Engineering Sleep(minjunes.ai)

407 points by amin 1 year ago | 170 comments

Personal essay arguing sleep can be engineered to be more efficient, drawing on Familial Natural Short Sleep mutations that let people sleep less without harm.

Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)(super-memory.com)

366 points by downbad_ 6 months ago | 184 comments

Piotr Wozniak's long SuperMemo article synthesizing sleep research with practical advice for learning, creativity, free-running sleep and sleep disorders.

I'm Tired of Being on the Network(matduggan.com)

97 points by sagacity 1 month ago | 93 comments

A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.