gavin leech @gl@schelling.pt

I belatedly learn that the bag needs some Kwells (hyoscine, powerful antinausea) though

Best twenty quid I spent all year was a bag of travel meds. also helped 3 unprepared friends from migraine etc. Conceivably, the loperamide could save a life if you're with poorly infants.

Added the marvellous cough suppressant ACC and antacids to this:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LJw98jjiZDBKiZxKB/jetlag-nausea-and-diarrhea-are-largely-optional

odd that global medicine shortages aren't a bigger story (right now, bupropion and semaglutide)

got myself a christmas present by ordering books to my mam's house in april and completely utterly forgetting about them. like finding twenty quid in your pocket. pure grace.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03551

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07287

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010316

papers of the year

not a lie; a fitfully aspiring truth.

"math is not a castle built on a bedrock of unshakeable foundations. Math is rather a collective codification of intuitions squeezed into formal frames in the best way possible... the ‘crisis in foundations’ didn’t really matter: what broke was the frame"

https://matteocapucci.wordpress.com/2022/12/21/mathematicians-dont-care-about-foundations/

Epigram for mechanistic interpretability:

"We are now writing algorithms we cannot read. That makes this a unique moment in history, in that we are subject to the ideas and actions of [something with a] human origin, but without [even potential] human oversight."

- Kevin Slavin

Playlists of 2022

https://twitter.com/g_leech_/status/1604141785596436480

Books of 2022

https://twitter.com/g_leech_/status/1604879686160506881

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