analects noun, pl

/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/

a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings.

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  • is culture socially costly 30 Jun 2025 [marginalium] The Risks and Social Costs of High Culture: High culture now functions like a counterculture, entailing a conscious act of dissent from the...
  • the personal and private nature of smartphones 25 Jun 2025 [marginalium] The Personal and Private Nature of Smartphones: because smartphones are considerably more personal and private than PCs, using them activat...
  • ai personality extraction from faces (pdf) 9 Jun 2025 [marginalium] AI personality extraction from faces: we extract the Big 5 personality traits from facial images of 96,000 MBA graduates, and demonstrate t...
  • the way of code 30 May 2025 [marginalium] THE WAY OF CODE: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding. It’s a Rick Rubin project, so you know it’ll be interesting. Ripping off Lao Tzu in a play...
  • i'd rather read the prompt 16 May 2025 [marginalium] I’d Rather Read The Prompt. Another perspective on AI in assignments: You only have to read one or two of these answers to know exactly wha...
  • eurasian demonology 16 May 2025 [marginalium] On Eurasian Demonology. I wrote an article this week about a very expensive faux-neuroscience-based program that talks about your inner demo...
  • 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.
  • social media and moore's law 1 May 2025 [marginalium] Social Media and Moore’s Law. From Tyler Cowan, who is confusing me recently, but I still like his predictions. I have a draft article that...
  • why have sentence lengths decreased? 1 May 2025 [marginalium] Why Have Sentence Lengths Decreased? Once, sentences were very long, now sentences are super short. The article explores a bunch of ideas, b...
  • pretty accurate ai generated dmt trips 24 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Pretty accurate AI generated DMT trips.
  • distraction is mind obesity 24 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Distraction is mind obesity. It’s another ‘the attention economy is bad’ article. But I liked it because it’s not just about taking our atte...
  • the religious don't trust scientists' moral character 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] The religious don’t trust scientists’ moral character (in the US) How do perceptions of scientists’ moral values relate to support for scie...
  • 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...
  • is god a mushroom? 6 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Is God A Mushroom? A nice overview of the crazier and less crazy attempts to integrate the fact that psilocybin reliably induces spiritual e...
  • are women more left 1 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Are women more left? No: Women are not more Leftist, per se. Rather, the specific variety of Leftism that is currently riding high is extre...
  • we enjoy ‘waiting’ 18 Feb 2025 [marginalium] We enjoy ‘waiting’. People underestimate how enjoyable and engaging just waiting is. Research article.
  • a different way of reading 14 Feb 2025 [marginalium] It’s very skimmable, but I liked the idea: For me, the reading culture that our practice would be counter to, as I thought about my session...
  • 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...
  • thoughts on ai use-cases. 23 Jan 2025 [marginalium] Thoughts on AI use-cases. Whole AI update is interesting, if fragmentary. See also the bit about use-case limitations, lower down. Also the...

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