- ~7h selection of people for our Maths summer camp (participants and mentors)!
I tend to be too leniant (saying yes/maybe to too many people), so my collegues get their judgment and reject more people.
- From picking camp kids I got a real feel for uplift: give a shot to kids who never had competitive math tutorship instead of just improving the players already in the game. Environment determines your direction too much, an ideal agent would converge to a stable coherent form independent of place.
- Told J. how I progressed in German rapidly in 25 days at ~1h/day via Anki, inspired us both. 1h/day isn’t much. Need to do these things more.
- Data science vs ML talk w M: data science won’t be replaced (at least not soon), because it’s different from ML. Need to study way more maths, couldn’t confidently tutor my sister on F-tests & ANOVA.
- Intervention ranking (current best guess): Sleep > weekly rule-ban > morning routine > morning walk > morning pages > water.
- Real life as AI agent harness mismanagement. No routine is one of the biggest predictors of nonadulthood.
- Theories I’d love to actually work on: the effect of mentorship and institutions on development, behaviour basins, the dark-matter knowledge missing from modern education (the agentic loop, routines as the real predictor of adulthood).
- You gain a lot by just taking a cause seriously and fighting for it, coming from your internal drives and smart research, not picking up on the internet or outside sources issues.
- Bought noise plugs.
Not a live entry. Backfilled from personal notes via Claude.