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Maxim Raginsky
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magret de canard, pommes de terre sarladaises, good burgundy
December 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
books I read in 2025 (no ratings, no notes)
1. Brian Evenson, “Good Night, Sleep Tight”
2. John Crowley, “Flint and Mirror”
3. Jean-Pierre Changeux and Paul Ricoeur, “What Makes Us Think?”
4. Deborah Modrak, “Aristotle: The Power of Perception”
5. Keiji Nishitani, “The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism”
December 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Swedish cardamom bun time
December 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Reposted by Maxim Raginsky
Here's the delicious Chinese food Wells ordered at Golden Harbor and Dim Sum House.
What I ate with The New York Times' Pete Wells at Golden Harbor and Dim Sum House - Food & Drink
Last month, The New York Times writer Pete Wells came to town to explore Champaign-Urbana’s Chinese food scene. Wells might be best known as NYT’s longtime, well-respected (and sometimes feared) food ...
www.smilepolitely.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My grandma would take leftover latkes and braise them with beef the next day.
December 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
here we go
December 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Reposted by Maxim Raginsky
The inevitable has happened. I've started a substack. The first post is now live, and its a longform review of Leif Weatherby's Language Machines that uses the opportunity to say some things about inferentialism, computation, and LLMs: deontologistics.substack.com/p/computatio...
Computation and its Connotations
A Review of Language Machines by Leif Weatherby
deontologistics.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Paper accepted to ALT 2026! (algorithmiclearningtheory.org/alt2026/)
December 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Welcome to the Intellectual Dark Roast Web, Seva!
why the fuck does every coffee shop feel like an airport lounge. metal on white on blonde wood. I want the maximalist old couches vibe of the '90s. I am becoming a coffee shop reactionary
December 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
back at my favorite coffee place in Paris: Araku Coffee
December 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
One of the dishes on this list is from a Chinese restaurant right here in Champaign! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/d...
The 23 Best Restaurant Dishes We Ate Across the U.S. in 2025
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
From J. Carlson and J. Doyle, "Highly optimized tolerance: A mechanism for power laws in designed systems" (1999). Today's salient example would be AI systems, but all the same points stand. journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
December 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
look at these tall bois
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Winter Old Fashioned

2oz rye
.5oz Ancho Reyes liqueur
.5oz cinnamon simple syrup
angostura and chocolate bitters
garnish with orange twist and rosemary
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
so I tied an onion to my belt etc etc
December 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
PSA: "Geometry, Topology, and Control System Design," published by American Institute of Mathematical Sciences. It is edited by my colleague Ali Belabbas and is dedicated to the memory of Roger W. Brockett, a pioneer of modern geometric and nonlinear control. www.aimsciences.org/book/AM/volu...
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences
www.aimsciences.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Smoked turkey carcass and leftovers about to turn into delicious stock, per the recipe from @hels.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
strong floor, no ceiling
December 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Right before I left Twitter, technical discussions about AI were already beginning to collapse into Ilya/Sutton/Karpathy/… exegesis and obligatory mentions of information theory, thermodynamics, cybernetics, and Kolmogorov complexity with all the sophistication of a LW post. It’s happening here now.
November 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
post-Thanksgiving cocktail and mocktail mise en place
November 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen

The Magnetic Fields
The Legendary Pink Dots
Leonard Cohen
Thom Yorke
Stereolab
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen

Pixies
Breeders & Nirvana
Bikini Kill
Sonic Youth
Shonen Knife
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen

Ozzy & Metallica

SRV & Joe Cocker

Iron Maiden & Yngwie

Jazzfest

U2
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Love this tune. It’s like Edith Piaf meets Amy Winehouse, with Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli accompanying. youtu.be/5-RY4AxfrRU?...
ZAZ - Ni oui ni non
YouTube video by rrijecanka
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
it’s go time
November 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM