Hackernews posts about Gwern

  1. Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a science paper (2019) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    229 points by surprisetalk 18 days ago | 84 comments
  2. Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011) (gwern.net)
    4 points by teej 7 days ago | discuss
  3. Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better (2011) (gwern.net)
    4 points by greyface- 21 days ago | discuss
  4. Project Xanadu: More Hindsight (gwern.net)
    3 points by Sniffnoy 18 days ago | discuss
  5. A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy [pdf] (gwern.net)
    2 points by mooreds 14 days ago | discuss
  6. The Guernica of AI (zigguratmag.substack.com)
    3 points by mgh2 19 days ago | discuss
  7. Trustworthy Systems R&D Update – Gernot Heiser, UNSW Sydney [video] (www.youtube.com)
    3 points by snvzz 25 days ago | discuss
  8. Gernot's List of Systems Benchmarking Crimes (gernot-heiser.org)
    2 points by Bogdanp 7 days ago | discuss
  9. SeL4 Summit – Trustworthy Systems R&D Update – Gernot Heiser, UNSW Sydney [video] (www.youtube.com)
    2 points by snvzz 23 days ago | discuss
  10. Readme Driven Development (2010) (tom.preston-werner.com)
    3 points by mihau 22 days ago | 1 comments
  11. Interview with gwern (www.dwarkeshpatel.com)
    308 points by synthmeat 11 months ago | 247 comments
  12. Gwern comments on Ilya Sutskever depature from OpenAI, among other topics (old.reddit.com)
    34 points by jseliger over 1 year ago | 5 comments
  13. Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory [video] (www.youtube.com)
    32 points by csours 11 months ago | 4 comments
  14. Conferences As D&D Tabletops, by Gwern · Gwern.net (gwern.net)
    5 points by lifeisstillgood about 1 month ago | 1 comments
  15. gwern helps cool Earth (twitter.com)
    4 points by andyjsong 4 months ago | 2 comments
  16. Gwern on o3/o1 and distillation to small one-shot models (www.lesswrong.com)
    3 points by highfrequency 9 months ago | discuss
  17. Gwern on the quality of new epidemiology/nutrition findings in academia (old.reddit.com)
    3 points by MrBuddyCasino about 1 year ago | discuss
  18. Nicotine · Gwern.net (gwern.net)
    2 points by bilsbie about 1 month ago | 1 comments
  19. Gwern.net – Design of This Website (gwern.net)
    1 points by Ivoah almost 2 years ago | discuss
  20. Show HN: Wordle-style game for Fermi questions (www.fermiquestions.org)
    35 points by danielfetz 2 months ago | 42 comments
  21. Ask HN: What blogs, researchers, 'thinkers' do you follow?
    12 points by cl42 10 months ago | 13 comments
  22. Show HN: Toy LLM Daydreaming (github.com)
    7 points by shahahmed 3 months ago | discuss
  23. Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf] (gwern.net)
    425 points by hardmaru over 1 year ago | 391 comments
  24. Perfume reviews (gwern.net)
    325 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 183 comments
  25. Everything is correlated (2014–23) (gwern.net)
    264 points by gmays about 2 months ago | 127 comments
  26. Why so few Matt Levines? (gwern.net)
    263 points by iNic 11 months ago | 141 comments
  27. Why to Not Write a Book (gwern.net)
    252 points by telotortium about 1 year ago | 209 comments
  28. Writing a GPT-4 script to check Wikipedia for the first unused acronym (gwern.net)
    248 points by telotortium almost 2 years ago | 112 comments
  29. LLM Daydreaming (gwern.net)
    218 points by nanfinitum 3 months ago | 145 comments
  30. Magnesium Self-Experiments (gwern.net)
    193 points by rzk 7 months ago | 131 comments
  31. Nicotine (2016) (gwern.net)
    142 points by blitz_skull almost 2 years ago | 260 comments
  32. Self-Funding Harberger Taxes (gwern.net)
    99 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 92 comments
  33. Epigrams in Programming (1982) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    92 points by ustad almost 2 years ago | 41 comments
  34. Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022) (gwern.net)
    86 points by james_impliu 6 months ago | 100 comments
  35. My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s (2019) (gwern.net)
    82 points by csdvrx almost 2 years ago | 61 comments
  36. Technology holy wars are coordination problems (2020) (gwern.net)
    81 points by rzk almost 2 years ago | 71 comments
  37. Towards Nyquist Learners (gwern.net)
    66 points by sleepingreset 11 months ago | 53 comments
  38. How Should We Critique Research? (2019) (gwern.net)
    51 points by lazyjeff over 1 year ago | 10 comments
  39. Time-Lock Encryption (gwern.net)
    37 points by rzk 7 months ago | 4 comments
  40. You could have invented Transformers (gwern.net)
    34 points by jxmorris12 5 months ago | discuss