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Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format

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Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]

Adding Bits Beats AI Slop (2025)

First, make me care

Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)

Video Games as Art

Scientific production in the era of large language models [pdf]

Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019)

Formula One Handovers and Handovers From Surgery to Intensive Care (2008) [pdf]

Breaking Paragraphs into Lines [pdf] (1981)

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought (2024) [pdf]

Gwern's "Stem Humor" Directory

Plumbing vs. Internet, Revisited

Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a science paper (2019) [pdf]

Everything is correlated (2014–23)

Perfume reviews

LLM Daydreaming

Cats as Horror Movie Villains

Hacking Pinball High Scores

You could have invented Transformers

October the First Is Too Late

Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022)

Magnesium Self-Experiments

Time-Lock Encryption

Self-Funding Harberger Taxes

Towards Nyquist Learners

Why so few Matt Levines?

The Origins of PostScript

Why to Not Write a Book

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