September 2026

Read & liked

• https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/12b-of-us-ratepayers-money-wasted - SA articles are increasingly variable in their quality but this one is great. Unforced, incredibly important errors in power generation.
• https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rk6FbkDFFm8ciqefv/quadrillion-param-costs-kv-cache-context-length-frontier - Nesov 1/2 - a duo of incredible effortposts, probably calculating through and thinking about implications.
• https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yLHiQGCPdvzL9fBn3/model-size-scaling-in-2023-2031 - Nesov 2/2
• https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ht9kHqJZFatQPrkNb/unblocking-ai-s-continual-learning-hints-from-how-humans - speculation on what is increasingly feeling like a bottleneck.
• https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-carrion-eaters? - Sam Kriss writes so well
• https://ordinaryabundance.com/ - this is a thing I have always done internally, and seeing this page I thought ‘damn, I lack agency, I should have made this’. It’s beautiful.
• https://www.alisoneroman.com/newsletters/cooking-for-one/ - toddler cooking.
• https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-aztecs-by-inga-clendinnen - turning fuzzy notions of Aztec society into a concrete list of their actions makes things so much worse.
• https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-writing-3 - writing advice.

Parked

All my parked tabs were deleted, sad and refreshing in equal measure.zw