Really appreciate this walkthrough of language modeling history. Does a great job motivating the research direction that led to where we are today. Very approachable, especially for someone like me who has no real ML experience. Good companion piece to Karpathy's Zero to Hero lectures.
Perspective on various ML paradigms as information retrieval problems. That said, a little over my head. Will probably come back to this one.
Interesting set of notes from Jon Sterling on formalizing Big-O notation carefully. Not something I had thought about at all. Kinda one of those things I assumed was already done? Fun read.
Adam Tooze walks through the place of the dollar in the modern global economy, and how we've moved into a regime he terms the "profit dollar." Foreign accounts increasingly want exposure to US equities, not US debt. Tooze expounds on the potential systemic risks to the global economy this new function of the dollar brings.
Dan Davies on how we unfortunately tend to view any use of "crisis tools" as a failure, rather than appropriate risk management.
Bret Devereaux's review and historical analysis of Hearts of Iron IV. Probably the most well-written and historically interesting game review I've read. It takes Hearts of Iron seriously as a piece of historical writing. Worth reading even if (like me!) you've never played HOI4. Great discussion of how we think about and tell stories about history, and the unique ways that plays out in interactive media.