Here’s what’s positively occupied my attention recently:
🔁 Reinforcement learning for large language models (LLMs)
🌬️ Diffusion models for language modeling:
📚 Readables
👷 Hamming, Richard (2020). The art of doing science and engineering: learning to learn. Stripe Press.
🌏 Lindgren, Simon (2023). Critical Theory of AI. Polity.
🗺️ Agüera y Arcas, Blaise (2025). Who Are We Now?. Hat & Beard Press.
🎬 Viewables
🎞️ Conte d’été (A Summer’s Tale), Éric Rohmer, 1996
🎞️ 风流一代 (Caught by the Tides), 贾樟柯 (Jia Zhangke), 2024
🎞️ The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015
🎞️ Jour de fête ((The Big Day)), Jacques Tati, 1949
🖼️ Heman Chong: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness, Heman Chong, 2025
📸 … and here are some snaps (not all recent)
