Maxim Raginsky
@mraginsky.bsky.social
magret de canard, pommes de terre sarladaises, good burgundy
December 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
magret de canard, pommes de terre sarladaises, good burgundy
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”
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
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”
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”
Swedish cardamom bun time
December 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Swedish cardamom bun time
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 ...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Here's the delicious Chinese food Wells ordered at Golden Harbor and Dim Sum House.
My grandma would take leftover latkes and braise them with beef the next day.
December 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
My grandma would take leftover latkes and braise them with beef the next day.
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
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...
Paper accepted to ALT 2026! (algorithmiclearningtheory.org/alt2026/)
December 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Paper accepted to ALT 2026! (algorithmiclearningtheory.org/alt2026/)
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
Welcome to the Intellectual Dark Roast Web, Seva!
Woohoo, crossed 1000 subscribers on this thing! realizable.substack.com
The Art of the Realizable | Maxim Raginsky | Substack
Intermittent musings on the philosophy, theory, and practice of engineering, primarily in the context of machine learning, automatic control, and cybernetics. Click to read The Art of the Realizable, ...
realizable.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Woohoo, crossed 1000 subscribers on this thing! realizable.substack.com
Where I’ll be next week: conferences.cirm-math.fr/3346.html
3346 - conferences.cirm-math.fr
MULTIYEAR PROGRAM CONFERENCE Meeting in Mathematical Statistics Rencontres de Statistique Mathématique Statistical thinking in the age of AI: decision-making and reliability 15 – 19 December 2025 Sci...
conferences.cirm-math.fr
December 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Where I’ll be next week: conferences.cirm-math.fr/3346.html
back at my favorite coffee place in Paris: Araku Coffee
December 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
back at my favorite coffee place in Paris: Araku Coffee
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
One of the dishes on this list is from a Chinese restaurant right here in Champaign! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/d...
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
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...
look at these tall bois
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
look at these tall bois
Winter Old Fashioned
2oz rye
.5oz Ancho Reyes liqueur
.5oz cinnamon simple syrup
angostura and chocolate bitters
garnish with orange twist and rosemary
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
Winter Old Fashioned
2oz rye
.5oz Ancho Reyes liqueur
.5oz cinnamon simple syrup
angostura and chocolate bitters
garnish with orange twist and rosemary
2oz rye
.5oz Ancho Reyes liqueur
.5oz cinnamon simple syrup
angostura and chocolate bitters
garnish with orange twist and rosemary
so I tied an onion to my belt etc etc
December 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
so I tied an onion to my belt etc etc
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
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...
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
Smoked turkey carcass and leftovers about to turn into delicious stock, per the recipe from @hels.bsky.social
strong floor, no ceiling
December 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
strong floor, no ceiling
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
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.
post-Thanksgiving cocktail and mocktail mise en place
November 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
post-Thanksgiving cocktail and mocktail mise en place
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
The Magnetic Fields
The Legendary Pink Dots
Leonard Cohen
Thom Yorke
Stereolab
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
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
Ozzy & Metallica
SRV & Joe Cocker
Iron Maiden & Yngwie
Jazzfest
U2
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
The Magnetic Fields
The Legendary Pink Dots
Leonard Cohen
Thom Yorke
Stereolab
The Magnetic Fields
The Legendary Pink Dots
Leonard Cohen
Thom Yorke
Stereolab
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
Love this tune. It’s like Edith Piaf meets Amy Winehouse, with Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli accompanying. youtu.be/5-RY4AxfrRU?...
