--- aliases: - inspo cssclasses: - nolist date: '2024-10-24' description: My run-down version of are[dot]na id: are.na metadata: ebnf: |- channel = "##" , ws , heading , newline , channel_body ; channel_body = [ meta_section , newline ] , block , { block } ; block = list_entry , newline , meta_section , { note_line } ; list_entry = "-" , ws , link , [ ws "--" ws title ] , [ ws "[**]" ] ; meta_section = ws , "-" , ws , "[meta]:" , newline , meta_pair , { meta_pair } ; meta_pair = ws , ws , "-" , ws , key , ":" , ws , value ; key = "date" | "tags" | "pinned" | "later" | "unlocked" | "socials" | "view" | identifier ; value = date | tag_list | boolean | text ; tag_list = "[" , tag , { "," , ws , tag } , "]" ; tag = identifier ; date = digit , digit , "/" , digit , digit , "/" , digit , digit , digit , digit ; boolean = "true" | "false" ; note_line = ws , "-" , ws , text ; link = uri ; title = text ; heading = text ; identifier = letter , { letter | digit | "-" } ; text = { character - newline } ; uri = ? valid http uri ? ; letter = "a".."z" ; digit = "0".."9" ; character = ? any printable ascii except newline ? ; modified: 2026-09-24 00:14:31 GMT-04:00 permalinks: - /website - /tweets - /resources socials: are.na: https://www.are.na/aaron-pham/channels curius: /curius home: / print: https://print.are.na/ tags: - evergreen - llm - design - love - friend - r/pedagogy - alignment - philosophy - P-Complete - interpretability - math/linalg title: '#video' created: '2024-10-24' published: '2024-10-24' pageLayout: default slug: arena/video permalink: https://aarnphm.xyz/arena/video.md generator: quartz: v4.6.0 hostedProvider: Cloudflare baseUrl: aarnphm.xyz full: https://aarnphm.xyz/llms-full.txt --- # #video - [youtube/v=euOpy884bgQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euOpy884bgQ) — KING OF MOAB - \[meta]: - date: 09/21/2026 - tags: \["film"] - later: true - [youtube/v=OmfP9WcGjBE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmfP9WcGjBE) — UCLA Film Professor Shows You How to Become an Excellent Storyteller - \[meta]: - date: 09/21/2026 - tags: \["storytelling","film"] - later: true - [youtube/v=6rXotBDLLyE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rXotBDLLyE) — Emily Blunt Is Up to the Challenge While Eating Spicy Wings - \[meta]: - date: 09/21/2026 - tags: \["interviews","film"] - later: true - [youtube/v=MccJdr61xnc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MccJdr61xnc) — Geoffrey Litt: Dynamic Documents as Personal Software - \[meta]: - date: 09/12/2026 - tags: \["personal software","interfaces"] - later: true - [youtube/v=k86eUj4hgdc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k86eUj4hgdc) — Positional Encodings and Group Theory - \[meta]: - date: 09/07/2026 - tags: \["transformers","mathematics"] - later: true - [youtube/v=1J2iN6I0gCQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J2iN6I0gCQ) — Lessons in 3D - \[meta]: - date: 09/07/2026 - tags: \["machine learning","3d"] - later: true - [youtube/v=nLH7tn57es0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLH7tn57es0) — I went on 10 dates, here’s what happened… - \[meta]: - date: 08/27/2026 - tags: \["dating","video"] - later: true - [youtube/v=NwSV8RYaSwc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwSV8RYaSwc) — The two types of modern blockbuster - \[meta]: - date: 08/27/2026 - tags: \["film","blockbusters"] - later: true - [youtube/v=hRDSX1RLtnw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRDSX1RLtnw) — This Is What Trench Warfare Really Feels Like.. | Devlog \[3/4] - \[meta]: - date: 08/27/2026 - tags: \["game development","devlog"] - later: true - [youtube/v=StCrwj72wXo](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=StCrwj72wXo) — Chef Thomas Keller’s Halibut and Petit Pois a la Francaise | Halibut with Braised English Peas - \[meta]: - date: 08/25/2026 - tags: \["video"] - later: true - [youtube/v=d0HJvGSWw8A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0HJvGSWw8A) — Linear Attention and Beyond (Interactive Tutorial with Songlin Yang) - \[meta]: - date: 08/06/2026 - tags: \["linear attention","tutorial"] - later: true - [youtube/v=sK-4930SVrQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK-4930SVrQ) — 75 Hacks Chefs Actually Use \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 07/09/2026 - tags: \["cook","hacks"] - pinned: true - highlighted: true - importance: 8 - [youtube/v=6Hptrc1lYwI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hptrc1lYwI) — A Very French Reunion - \[meta]: - date: 07/05/2026 - tags: \["vlogbrothers","france"] - later: true - [youtube/v=OMw8u\_nLSAM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMw8u_nLSAM) — No Video Today!! - \[meta]: - date: 07/05/2026 - tags: \["vlogbrothers","anniversary"] - later: true - [youtube/v=l-4635Wb\_60](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-4635Wb_60) — How gaslighting the audience for two hours made this a masterpiece - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["film","cinema"] - later: true - [youtube/v=D\_7D7KS-4YE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_7D7KS-4YE) — Men take notes! Trudon Medie - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["fragrance","style"] - later: true - [youtube/v=\_OTs-NDpLTQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OTs-NDpLTQ) — Mathieu van der Poel: THIS IS HOME - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["cycling","shimano"] - later: true - [youtube/v=1J9rORtZ5XI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J9rORtZ5XI) — The Steepest, Hardest & Longest Climbs We’ve Ridden - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["cycling","climbs"] - later: true - [youtube/v=ofI5RV7fpT4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofI5RV7fpT4) — Only 1% make it: Arctic Elite Military Force - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["military","endurance"] - later: true - [youtube/v=SWkMYO9V\_-k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWkMYO9V_-k) — mmaaAAAaah - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["animation","short"] - later: true - [youtube/v=F3rfkfMlGH0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3rfkfMlGH0) — Full Training Day as a Pro Triathlete - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["triathlon","training"] - later: true - [youtube/v=\_UbCXNdFdmk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UbCXNdFdmk) — Beginners guide to pro bike setup - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2026 - tags: \["triathlon","bike setup"] - later: true - [youtube/v=HiFT9bKmZJA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiFT9bKmZJA) — The Ultimate Guide To Racing In 2026 - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["formula 1","racing"] - later: true - [youtube/v=choxcHXhZhE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=choxcHXhZhE) — 1177 BC: The vanishing of the first globalized world - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["history","bronze age"] - later: true - [youtube/v=PCvsY9QgJRo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCvsY9QgJRo) — They picked Riven and forgot to ban Renekton - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["league of legends","gaming"] - later: true - [youtube/v=tTC10Kqb0XU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTC10Kqb0XU) — Ford GT Mk IV Nürburgring Lap - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["ford gt","racing"] - later: true - [youtube/v=VABOvcZ\_c9Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABOvcZ_c9Y) — Private YouTube video - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["private video"] - later: true - [youtube/v=U1eFd9FeFUA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1eFd9FeFUA) — How to Swim Without Getting Out of Breath - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["swimming","breathing"] - later: true - [youtube/v=6hS83KIkKu8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hS83KIkKu8) — Franco Bifo Berardi & Claire Bishop on Attention - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["attention","art criticism"] - later: true - [youtube/v=LEzOkpfu3zM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEzOkpfu3zM) — Zendaya & Robert Pattinson on finding their partners - \[meta]: - date: 07/03/2026 - tags: \["actors","relationships"] - later: true - [youtube/v=BucSbzYXqKM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BucSbzYXqKM) — Hollywood’s Obsession with Ambition - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["film","ambition"] - later: true - [youtube/v=eQUOTm50tUk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQUOTm50tUk) — The moment you realize it’s 2006 and your camera guy’s a magician - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["cinema","filmmaking"] - later: true - [youtube/v=kOCwxP0iDN0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOCwxP0iDN0) — My Top 25 Films of 2025 - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["film","list"] - later: true - [youtube/v=Y2T4caGlK80](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2T4caGlK80) — Cat politely asking to get petted - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["cats","cute"] - later: true - [youtube/v=jDZX7T-zq\_k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDZX7T-zq_k) — The kitten that can’t be helped by stroking is cute - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["cats","cute"] - later: true - [youtube/v=\_W0o4jr49xk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W0o4jr49xk) — When a whole generation misunderstands the movie - \[meta]: - date: 07/02/2026 - tags: \["film","criticism"] - later: true - [youtube/v=7KWFhW0klf4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KWFhW0klf4) — The Hard Problem of Consciousness - \[meta]: - date: 07/01/2026 - tags: \["consciousness","philosophy"] - later: true - [youtube/v=pau4r\_R6rpg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pau4r_R6rpg) — A. J. 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Mearsheimer, The Case for Restraint - \[meta]: - date: 07/01/2026 - tags: \["foreign policy","realism"] - later: true - [youtube/v=oGpBjoHbqHI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGpBjoHbqHI) — Ranking Classic Philosophy Books - \[meta]: - date: 07/01/2026 - tags: \["philosophy","books"] - later: true - [youtube/v=77Z\_kngHs00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Z_kngHs00) — Modular Tech Talk: Mojo GPU Compilation - \[meta]: - date: 07/01/2026 - tags: \["mojo","gpu"] - later: true - [youtube/v=DovtGocRyAQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DovtGocRyAQ) — Thomas Nagel on The Last Word - \[meta]: - date: 07/01/2026 - tags: \["nagel","reason"] - later: true - [youtube/v=6Qb6QtC6QMs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qb6QtC6QMs) — Smooth-Maximum, the most useful function - \[meta]: - date: 06/30/2026 - tags: \["math","graphics"] - later: true - — Hiroshi Yoshida United States woodblock prints - \[meta]: - date: 02/16/2026 - tags: \["woodblock","prints"] - later: true - [youtube/v=tfp34-ruvGE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfp34-ruvGE) — How to spot a rationalization - 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\[meta]: - date: 06/03/2026 - tags: \["efficiency"] - importance: 7 - Differentiate policies from Amazon and the rest: - Technical excellence: attract the most amazing talents - Outstanding Founders/Management: Founder-led company and commitment for better execution (speed is everything) - Strategy focus: target a large/unserve market - Execution: ability to execute at speed, as innovation without _execution is a halluncination_ - Reasoning Financing: maintaining a cushion of capital whilst being ruthlessly intellectually honest about risks - Evaluate new fields - Hang out with people that are smarter than you 😃 - [youtube/v=d264viC7ROE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d264viC7ROE) — The Instagramification of Human Experience - \[meta]: - date: 06/03/2026 - tags: \["poets","books","vlogbrother"] - Andy Warhol - [youtube/v=325HdQe4WM4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=325HdQe4WM4) — There’s an Actual Reason You Can’t Recycle Plastic - \[meta]: - date: 06/01/2026 - tags: \["environment"] - pinned: true - importance: 8 - [youtube/v=xdTTfZ0EZcc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdTTfZ0EZcc) — A Skill We stopped Teaching - \[meta]: - date: 06/01/2026 - tags: \["epistemology"] - [youtube/v=pXVmkurTOgM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXVmkurTOgM) — A Rocket Exploded, We need to do Math - \[meta]: - date: 06/01/2026 - tags: \["environment","analytics"] - [youtube/v=l3SCK6V-BFw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3SCK6V-BFw) — Golfing and stylistically aligning a proof using Claude Code - \[meta]: - date: 05/25/2026 - tags: \["proof","machine assisted"] - [youtube/v=bwDrHqNZ9lo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwDrHqNZ9lo) — Geographical limit between Balkan and Central Europe - \[meta]: - date: 05/25/2026 - tags: \["interesting"] - [youtube/v=ocYv0BaicMw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocYv0BaicMw) — Bike brands - \[meta]: - date: 05/20/2026 - tags: \["brand","technology"] - [youtube/v=td-uqHvlfYo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td-uqHvlfYo\&t=9s) — Gordon Ramsay’s Fish Technique - 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tags: \["clothes","trends"] - wide-leg pants, circa mom-jeans - [youtube/v=fJcVa4vYMHs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJcVa4vYMHs) — Christopher Waltz Closet Pick - \[meta]: - date: 03/09/2026 - tags: \["movies"] - [youtube/v=jFJku8sxLWY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFJku8sxLWY) — AI math capabilities could be jagged for a long time — Daniel Litt - \[meta]: - date: 01/30/2026 - tags: \["capabilities","long horizon","scaling"] - [youtube/v=EXD3b6OLtsg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXD3b6OLtsg) — How The Martian was written, with Andy Weir - \[meta]: - date: 01/26/2026 - socials: {"talks at google":"youtube/v=ZQrfxgW2EXQ"} - tags: \["film","writing","process"] - [youtube/v=belyWyeN32c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=belyWyeN32c) — The line you only ski once - \[meta]: - date: 01/20/2026 - tags: \["adventure"] - [youtube/v=BzKXF0T75ps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzKXF0T75ps) — Why aren’t actors ugly anymore? - \[meta]: - date: 01/20/2026 - tags: \["culture","being"] - [youtube/v=wclQwVNkED8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wclQwVNkED8) — Медведица в декретном отпуске. - \[meta]: - date: 01/09/2026 - tags: \["nature","bear"] - [youtube/v=OdsAElI7UOc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdsAElI7UOc) — Kristen Stewart & Jesse Eisenberg | Directors on Directors - \[meta]: - date: 01/08/2026 - tags: \["angst","directors"] - [youtube/v=I0OeDhBRFCM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0OeDhBRFCM) — PTA doesn’t care anymore - \[meta]: - date: 01/08/2026 - tags: \["director","writing"] - [youtube/v=M1IcCbOpPDw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1IcCbOpPDw) — When the director breaks all the rules of horror - \[meta]: - date: 01/08/2026 - tags: \["acting"] - [youtube/v=mWAF-BKlj0M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWAF-BKlj0M) — when the villain breaks all the rules.. of being a villain - \[meta]: - date: 01/06/2026 - tags: \["acting","absurdism"] - later: true - [youtube/v=SHK-xtGWYc8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHK-xtGWYc8) — Tis as easy as lying - \[meta]: - date: 01/05/2026 - tags: \["acting"] - [youtube/v=PUv66718DII](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII) — Bret Victor, Inventing on Principle \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 12/21/2025 - tags: \["tacit","strategy","interface"] - pinned: true - highlighted: true - [youtube/v=x\_y691nZztE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_y691nZztE) — I did love you… - \[meta]: - date: 12/19/2025 - tags: \["relationship","love","play"] - [youtube/v=80EEpYieMgE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80EEpYieMgE\&list=RD80EEpYieMgE) — I Still Exist. \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 12/18/2025 - tags: \["absurdism","grief"] - highlighted: true - [youtube/v=\_lgqofIJIws](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lgqofIJIws) — Life is art - \[meta]: - date: 12/18/2025 - tags: \["indie"] - [youtube/v=Pk8Sn2JRup8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8Sn2JRup8) — The Price of Becoming Exceptional (And Why It’s Worth It) - \[meta]: - date: 12/17/2025 - tags: \["discipline","routine","dedication"] - later: true - [youtube/v=LJuKALOACAg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJuKALOACAg) — a peaceful life in a new city \~ sf - \[meta]: - date: 12/17/2025 - tags: \["girlhood"] - [youtube/v=toucZU7RQAk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toucZU7RQAk) — a quiet morning in november - \[meta]: - date: 12/17/2025 - tags: \["aesthetics"] - [youtube/v=tf6N2NjT5vM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf6N2NjT5vM\&t=108s) — my way into difficult philo text : spinoza, hegel, marx & co. - \[meta]: - date: 12/16/2025 - tags: \["reading","process","education"] - [youtube/v=PzZTIH0WKaU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzZTIH0WKaU\&t=80s) — The Best Cinematography I’ve Ever Seen \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 12/16/2025 - tags: \["film","cinematography"] - highlighted: true - [youtube/v=xIN7FHkQr04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIN7FHkQr04) — between leveling up. seoul diaries - \[meta]: - date: 12/16/2025 - tags: \["life","twenties"] - [youtube/v=XmsKvzivDjA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmsKvzivDjA) — Why Smart People Struggle with Feelings - \[meta]: - date: 12/16/2025 - tags: \["love","rationalist","angst"] - Pretending to be scoundrel such that she won’t love him (Søren Kierkegaard) - How do we know what to do? - Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. - [youtube/v=3XnJCEDW7pg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XnJCEDW7pg\&t=273s) — men are not chic - \[meta]: - date: 12/16/2025 - tags: \["fashion","metaculture"] - [youtube/v=ZtpWTJ7Jsh8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtpWTJ7Jsh8) — George Hotz, I’ll still crush you. - \[meta]: - date: 12/12/2025 - tags: \["conviction"] - [youtube/v=YrHGbCyAqOU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHGbCyAqOU) — Theories of Schrödinger’s heterosexuality - \[meta]: - date: 11/28/2025 - tags: \["sex","absurdism"] - [youtube/v=f21YJ5pjPog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f21YJ5pjPog) — Why Mojang struggles to design Ecologies - \[meta]: - date: 11/26/2025 - tags: \["phenomenology","game design"] - [youtube/v=pHqcHzxx6I8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHqcHzxx6I8) — Making GPUs Actually Fast: A Deep Dive into Training Performance, at Jane Street - \[meta]: - date: 11/16/2025 - tags: \["training","gpu"] - [youtube/v=OQUV6kEKwlk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQUV6kEKwlk) - \[meta]: - date: 10/12/2025 - tags: \["life"] - Felix, also known as PewDiePie. - [youtube/v=98LdFA-\_zfA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98LdFA-_zfA) — Christopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture - \[meta]: - date: 11/09/2025 - tags: \["architecture"] - [youtube/v=cjZvFY6\_\_qw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjZvFY6__qw) — I Skied Down Mount Everest (world first, no oxygen) - \[meta]: - date: 11/09/2025 - tags: \["extreme sports"] - [youtube/v=XCBqoisl\_1M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCBqoisl_1M) — The Evil Design of Auschwitz - \[meta]: - date: 10/29/2025 - tags: \["history"] - [youtube/v=x7vNEgUvMkI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7vNEgUvMkI) — Maybe This is My Problem - \[meta]: - date: 10/26/2025 - tags: \["vlogbrothers"] - [youtube/v=dKmuCBFPY3g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKmuCBFPY3g) — “the could have been” man - \[meta]: - date: 10/26/2025 - tags: \["life","regrets"] - [youtube/v=sSo2b4y5nnA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSo2b4y5nnA) — How To Keep Living When You’d Rather Not \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/26/2025 - tags: \["absurd","suicide"] - highlighted: true - [youtube/v=FdDsnwp1e1o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdDsnwp1e1o) — Why Marco Pierre White GAVE UP on Michelin - \[meta]: - date: 10/26/2025 - tags: \["cook"] - [youtube/v=UvPYVWGcMNQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvPYVWGcMNQ) — Joan Didion reads “On Keeping a Notebook” with her own voice. \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/24/2025 - tags: \["essay"] - highlighted: true - [youtube/v=7dpyULOEbTU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dpyULOEbTU) — fear and fantasy - \[meta]: - date: 10/23/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=-6HOdHEeosc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6HOdHEeosc\&list=PLA3ZfaJiaf5xCQwC1c5sguPR1vmzT6Yiw) — Brandon Sanderson on Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy - \[meta]: - date: 10/21/2025 - tags: \["writing"] - [youtube/v=ayPMfopCe1g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayPMfopCe1g) — Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture - Remastered \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/16/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - highlighted: true - [youtube/v=zUO-aRHxF7U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUO-aRHxF7U) — no wonder he became the most terrifying villain in film history \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/16/2025 - tags: \["acting"] - highlighted: true - Christoph Waltz. - [youtube/v=KonFO7CpVfo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KonFO7CpVfo) — AK-47: The Peoples’ Weapon - \[meta]: - date: 10/12/2025 - tags: \["horses"] - Another Horse bangers - [youtube/v=9euKCrTyMEc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9euKCrTyMEc) — You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/12/2025 - tags: \["vlogbrothers"] - highlighted: true - [youtube/v=tWYxrowovts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWYxrowovts) — How Did The World Get So Ugly? - \[meta]: - date: 10/12/2025 - tags: \["life","city","urban planning"] - [youtube/v=kN6dtpMUoC0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN6dtpMUoC0) — So you are in love with [ChatGPT](/thoughts/LLMs) - \[meta]: - date: 10/12/2025 - tags: \["llm","ai","augmented love"] - [youtube/v=voaQSiLJxeE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voaQSiLJxeE) — Sugar spoon. - \[meta]: - date: 10/12/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=x\_y691nZztE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_y691nZztE) — I did love you… \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/08/2025 - tags: \["love"] - highlighted: true - Hamlet by Andrew Scott - Ophelia by Jessica Brown Findlay - Claudius by Angus Wright - Gertrude by Juliet Stevenson - [youtube/v=d\_FzzLeA6pk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_FzzLeA6pk) — Jane Goodall’s Impact - \[meta]: - date: 10/08/2025 - tags: \["evolution"] - [youtube/v=oOyQpwPrf2Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOyQpwPrf2Q) — The Web is Going to Die \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/07/2025 - tags: \["eternal"] - highlighted: true - Ghost town - [youtube/v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ) — Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories - \[meta]: - date: 10/07/2025 - tags: \["books","computer"] - [youtube/v=v4Ze7Yo9jgY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Ze7Yo9jgY) — Cillian Murphy visits Criterion closet - \[meta]: - date: 10/06/2025 - tags: \["film"] - [youtube/v=ufa4pmBOBT8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufa4pmBOBT8) — CuTe, CUDA Tensors \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/05/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - highlighted: true - see also [GPU programming](/thoughts/GPU-programming) - [youtube/v=WJ76FfBZuhI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ76FfBZuhI\&ab_channel=SoderCinema) — Narcissistic Facades - Amy Dunne - \[meta]: - date: 04/09/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=54M3zZKHFRw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54M3zZKHFRw\&ab_channel=ShannonKim) — Situationist Movement, the myth of creative director - \[meta]: - date: 05/30/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=GNB2oMISvsI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNB2oMISvsI\&ab_channel=ArcherGreen) — When you shot the movie in 480p - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=JFj8kWm\_N-Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFj8kWm_N-Y\&ab_channel=OverthinkPodcast) — Merleau-Ponty, the Phenomenology of Perception - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=Aa-A17TldZQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa-A17TldZQ\&ab_channel=Queen) — Why the Universe Sends You Someone You Can’t Be With, Carl Jung - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=rQ-An5bhkrs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ-An5bhkrs\&t=11303s\&ab_channel=Amii) — Upper Bound 2025, John Carmack’s talk - \[meta]: - date: 07/04/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=AivF\_Lj8cVM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AivF_Lj8cVM\&ab_channel=Josephine) — Put love at the centre of your life, NOT discipline - \[meta]: - date: 07/13/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=dCP9uYLa8HA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCP9uYLa8HA\&ab_channel=DuCinema) — Emma Stone - \[meta]: - date: 07/29/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=X-D5FERQzU4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-D5FERQzU4\&ab_channel=DeficitOwls) — Money Did Not Come From Barter - It Came From Blood Feuds - \[meta]: - date: 08/02/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=HyPY6vm8Vbo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyPY6vm8Vbo\&ab_channel=LucyMoon) — essentials that have immeasurably improved my life this year - \[meta]: - date: 08/03/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=ny3sCjFiLYc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny3sCjFiLYc\&ab_channel=KunmiK) — How to ask a girl out - Louie C.K. asks a girl out - \[meta]: - date: 08/07/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=9xYasBUv530](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xYasBUv530\&ab_channel=SefoNad) — Emotional Maturity in Past Lives - \[meta]: - date: 08/07/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=Q-yqCgMWGNo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-yqCgMWGNo\&ab_channel=TakeTwo) — How Dennis Villeneuve creates visual meaning, Enemy - \[meta]: - date: 08/07/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=t6RZp2AhKyw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6RZp2AhKyw\&ab_channel=MedleyInterlispProject) — Lexical Functional Grammar Demonstration — Ron Kaplan (December 1982) - \[meta]: - date: 08/16/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=XfpMkf4rD6E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfpMkf4rD6E\&t=1407s\&ab_channel=StanfordOnline) — Stanford CS25: V2 I Introduction to Transformers w/ Andrej Karpathy - \[meta]: - date: 08/16/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8—5LwHRhjk\&ab\_channel=InigoQuilez](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--5LwHRhjk\&ab_channel=InigoQuilez) — Painting Characters with Math - \[meta]: - date: 08/16/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=sFux7pl6lf4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFux7pl6lf4\&ab_channel=vlogbrothers) — Are Languages Alive? - \[meta]: - date: 08/28/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=FH5wiwOyPX4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH5wiwOyPX4\&ab_channel=GPUMODE) — GPUMODE 2024 Keynotes - \[meta]: - date: 08/28/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - - [youtube/v=wSauUgRIQDg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSauUgRIQDg\&t=120s\&ab_channel=SamBurer) — Two Decades of Low-Rank Optimization - \[meta]: - date: 08/28/2025 - tags: \["\[watch]","Given a"] - rank measures the amount of information in M - most big data matrices are low-rank - [SVD](/thoughts/Singular-Value-Decomposition) - [youtube/v=sdFQS2Bctj0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdFQS2Bctj0\&ab_channel=LilaRose) — How men commit differently than woman? - \[meta]: - date: 09/06/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=hNIbd4mUVeU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNIbd4mUVeU\&ab_channel=Sisyphus55) — Watch this when you’re depressed \[\*\*] - \[meta]: - date: 10/02/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - highlighted: true - [youtube/v=x6TsR3y5Qfg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6TsR3y5Qfg) — Think Faster, Talk Smarter, by Matt Abrahams - \[meta]: - date: 09/21/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - Framework to talk more eloquently: - What if you could - So that - For example - And that’s not all - [youtube/v=5qSN-R\_E3w0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qSN-R_E3w0) — Lecture 77: Domain Specific Languages for GPU Kernels - \[meta]: - date: 09/30/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - dollarintelligence​=FLOPsintelligence​×dollarFLOPs​ - [youtube/v=\_NLHFoVNlbg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NLHFoVNlbg) — Stanford CS230 | Autumn 2025 | Lecture 1: Introduction to Deep Learning - \[meta]: - date: 10/04/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - [youtube/v=yUmDRxV0krg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmDRxV0krg\&list=PL0NRmB0fnLJSpC1zCRoqAjStdQpANzTFK) — Geometry of Machine Learning - \[meta]: - date: 10/04/2025 - tags: \["watch"] - Yann LeCun | Self-Supervised Learning, JEPA, World Models, and the future of AI - [youtube/v=10Qh55EQ90s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Qh55EQ90s\&list=PL0NRmB0fnLJSpC1zCRoqAjStdQpANzTFK\&index=2) — James Halverson | Sparsity and Symbols with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks - \[meta]: - date: 10/05/2025 - tags: \["watch"]