A scrapbook of links.

Papers, essays, blogs, and tools I've enjoyed on the internet.

Papers

• 2017 — Attention Is All You Need. Vaswani et al.
• 2020 — Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models. Kaplan et al.
• 2022 — Toy Models of Superposition. Elhage et al., Anthropic.
• 2023 — Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned LLMs. Zou et al.
• 2024 — Scaling Monosemanticity. Templeton et al., Anthropic.
• 2024 — Sleeper Agents. Hubinger et al., Anthropic.
• 2024 — Stealing Part of a Production Language Model. Carlini et al.
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Caltech free online edition.

Essays & people

• You and Your Research. Richard Hamming. Canonical UVA transcript.
• Otherness and Control in the Age of AGI. Joe Carlsmith.
• Nicholas Carlini on research & craft. "How to win a best paper award" (2026) is the obvious entry point.

Blogs I read

• Commoncog. Cedric Chin. Suggest reading the Tacit Knowledge and Becoming Data Driven series.
• Gwern.net. Gwern Branwen. Suggest reading On Really Trying.
• Joel on Software. Joel Spolsky.
• Neel Nanda's mech interp hub
• Nintil. José Luis Ricón.
• Transformer Circuits Thread. Chris Olah and collaborators.
• What's new. Terence Tao.

Tools I rely on

Claude Code · Clay · Cursor · Figma · Gemini · GitHub · Gong · Granola · Linear · Loom · Notion · Obsidian · Substack · Vercel · ChatGPT · Wispr Flow