Interesting Links: Ancient civilizations, kernel modules, baby jumping, and more

Apr 20, 2024

Math olympiad beginner’s page
Neetcode
Trip report for a 14 day canoe trip in Wabakimi Provincial Park
- Apparently you can also get to Wabakimi by having a train drop you (and your canoes) at a mile marker of your choosing
Allagash Wilderness Waterway in Maine
Thule people
- They built their homes with whale bones
- Stumbled upon this while reading about people who tried to reach Alert, Canada
Useless math that became useful
What is ioctl?
Writing device drivers and kernel modules
Digital forgeries are hard
Wikipedia page on training wheels
Nine years of blogging about math
- Interesting retrospective from someone who has been writing math articles for a long time
A few social media influencers are shaping AI
- The state of the field in ML (particularly LLMs) has been very frustrating to me lately, and this article captures one of the things that irks me.
Stealing catalytic converters: how and why?
Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations
Doubts grow about the biosignature approach to alien hunting
Moirai time series foundation model for universal forecasting
Therac-25 and radiation over-exposure incidents
Baby jumping
Mozambique
LLaMa now goes faster on CPUs
- Interesting technical write-up about speeding up matrix multiplication on the CPU
Maximum subarray problem
How and why to be ladylike (for women with autism)
- This one is weird. Not endorsing the views presented. I just thought it was an interesting perspective.
Cool explanation of rotary positional embeddings (RoPE) in LLMs
Using Boost to print stack traces in C++
The Alan Smithee pseudonym
List of film and television accidents
Taylor Mitchell and the only known fatal coyote attack on an adult
Dead reckoning on the Lewis and Clark expedition
Electronic voice phenomenon
Examples of eventual counterexamples
A Minecraft exploit using LLL lattice reduction to compute the locations of players on servers
Meta’s new LLaMa 3 models

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