analects noun, pl

/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/

a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings.

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analects under the categories btrmt. believes in, as set out in the manifesto

analects organised according to the fundamental questions of philosophy

sequences of articles gathered around a more focused idea

  • life’s ancient bottleneck 6 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Life’s Ancient Bottleneck. I wouldn’t have suspected that phosphorus could be so exciting.
  • greening australia 16 May 2025 [marginalium] Greening Australia. And other fairly speculative ideas about how to make Australia wealthier. I’m not very interested in the wealth creation...
  • the universe as black hole reproduction 8 May 2025 [marginalium] I’m not going to pretend to understand this properly, but the main thing I took away is that old mate reckons: direct-collapse supermassive...
  • tales of the yucca man 8 May 2025 [marginalium] Tales Of The Yucca Man. This is a cryptid I’d never heard of. I love these.
  • endometriosis is scary! 1 May 2025 [marginalium] Endometriosis is scary! It’s a nice article too.
  • in the new beijing 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] In The New Beijing: Designed to accommodate five million people and to act as Beijing’s twin, Xiong’an is a city created from nothing. Thi...
  • faith, hope and chemistry 4 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Faith, Hope And Chemistry. It’s very easy to have your rather positive notions of doctors annihilated, you just need to have contact with th...
  • thoughts on ai image model 28 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Stolen from a tweet. Not groundbreaking, but interesting thoughts on use-cases for the new OpenAI image model: (1) This changes filters. In...
  • reprogrammed stem cells in paralytics 28 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Main story is about a man who walks again, but others experience smaller improvements. The ‘reprogrammed’ cells: are created by reverting a...
  • humans evolved from two populations 21 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Speculative claims that humans might have evolved from two ancient ancestral populations that: first diverged from each other around 1.5 mi...
  • a possibly good ai app? 13 Mar 2025 [marginalium] A possibly good AI app? A Pocket/Reader/RSS-type app for saving and reading articles of interest has a new feature, co-reader. Co-Reader an...
  • quantum entangled time 7 Feb 2025 [marginalium] You’ve heard of quantum entanglement, probably. Two particles linked in some strange way, regardless of the distance between them. But I’d n...
  • thermodynamics drives complexity? 28 Jan 2025 [marginalium] Does thermodynamics drive complexity? I wrote about Pinker using thermodynamics as a metaphor: ‘the ultimate purpose of life, mind, and huma...
  • is elon musk lying about how good he is at games? 17 Jan 2025 [marginalium] Is Elon Musk lying about how good he is at games? Amusingly comprehensive. Would be fairly standard for Musk?.
  • people living underwater 8 Jan 2025 [marginalium] People living underwater: The Vanguard project is a pilot program for the full-scale Sentinel underwater habitat … which Deep hopes to comp...
  • london underground mosquito 26 Dec 2024 [marginalium] There is a genetically distinct mosquito that lives in the London Underground, since at least 70 years ago. Genetic differentiation happens...
  • how to give a good speech 27 Nov 2024 [marginalium] How To Give A Good Speech: The art of good public speaking is often to say less, giving each idea time to breathe, and time to be absorbed...
  • what makes sentences work 15 Nov 2024 [marginalium] What makes sentences work: Say the following two sentences aloud. Which of them is more natural and easier to understand? It was nice of Jo...
  • a paean to the brothers grimm 15 Nov 2024 [marginalium] Very pretty article walking through the history and value of the stories of the Brothers Grimm.
  • podcast interview with gwern (ai development) 15 Nov 2024 [marginalium] Gwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer who has one of the most interesting websites I’ve ever come across. Fun to hear that they talk...

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