I'm doing the DeepLearning.ai + RedHat vLLM course. Here's a dump of some of my handwritten notes (from the ReMarkable 2).

In 1651, in the aftermath of a century of religious war, Thomas Hobbes set out to end the age of faith. Leviathan proposed to replace the quarrelsome authority of priests and prophets with a single secular sovereign, and it did so by recasting the human being as a piece of machinery: man as matter in motion, the...

My bubble and I have been reading Tanya Klowden and Terry Tao's new state-of-the-union style philosophy paper on AI, Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI. I should probably write a post about it sometime. In that paper, Tanya and Terry mention this other paper, Roy Wagner's "Mathematical...

This paper argues that several of the most persistent internal difficulties in Leibniz's mature metaphysics, the tension between the complete individual concept and contingency, the underspecified relationship between monadic autonomy and divine sustenance, the explanatory structure of pre-established harmony, and...

This paper proposes a novel hermeneutic framework, based on Dvaita, for interpreting the metaphysical commitments of the historical Buddha as preserved in the earliest strata of the Pali Canon. Dvaita, or dualism, treated allegoricaly, posits a real ontological distinction between two orders of existence: the...

Disclaimer: All ideas and research are mine, but this paper has been written with the help of Claude Opus 4.6 This paper proposes a novel hermeneutic framework, based on Dvaita, for interpreting the metaphysical commitments of the historical Buddha as preserved in the earliest strata of the Pali Canon. Dvaita, or...

Disclaimer: All ideas and research are mine, but this paper has been written with the help of Claude Opus 4.6 This paper proposes a novel hermeneutic framework, based on Dvaita, for interpreting the metaphysical commitments of the historical Buddha as preserved in the earliest strata of the Pali Canon. Dvaita, or...

Dependent Selfhood, Independent Totality, and the Recovery of the Historical Buddha's Metaphysics This paper proposes a novel hermeneutic framework, Neo-dvaita, for interpreting the metaphysical commitments of the historical Buddha as preserved in the earliest strata of the Pali Canon. Neo-dvaita, or allegorical...

Day 1 part 1 p = 50 puts $<.count { |i| p = (p + (i[0] == ?R ? 1 : -1) * i[1..].to_i) % 100 p.zero? } Day 1 part 2 p = 50 puts $<.sum { |i| r = i[1..].to_i d = i[0] == ?R ? 1 : -1 c = (r + p * d % 100) / 100 p = (p + d * r) % 100 c } Day 2 part 1 puts $<.read.split(',').sum { |r| a, b = r.split('-').map(&:to_i)...

They kept trying to mess up the style. They're bloating complexity. It's a total mess. It's not net useful. It's annoying to have to type out what I want in English. Andrej Karpathy in his interview with Dwarkesh Patel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXUZvyajciY This is a curated bunch of recent internets...

Let F={f1,f2,f3,…} be a countable or perhaps larger set of atomic features; yes/no statements such as: f1: "private property is protected" f2: "banks may lend at interest" f3: "the state plans heavy industry" Such that each ideology can flip those switches on or off. We can then define an ism as a subset I⊆F purely...

If not neocapitalism, then what? Let F={f1,f2,f3,…}be a countable or perhaps larger set of atomic features; yes/no statements such as: f1: "private property is protected" f2: "banks may lend at interest" f3: "the state plans heavy industry" So that each ideology can flip those switches on or off. We can then define...