alex williams
@atwilliams.bsky.social
macroeconomist and computer user at http://www.common-wealth.org, editor at www.continuousvariation.com, fellow at stanford, partisan of the republic of letters
Mamdani Isn't the Future of the Democrats. This Guy Is.
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Mamdani Isn't the Future of the Democrats. This Guy Is.
unrelatedly, i had a really funny flight yesterday, LHR -> NVM
November 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
unrelatedly, i had a really funny flight yesterday, LHR -> NVM
reuters putting this under the sustainability heading is so funny. theyre doing degrowth, theyre cutting emissions,
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
reuters putting this under the sustainability heading is so funny. theyre doing degrowth, theyre cutting emissions,
"how do the price changes transmit "information""
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"how do the price changes transmit "information""
truer words never spoken
October 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
truer words never spoken
you have to admit this phrasing goes incredibly hard
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
you have to admit this phrasing goes incredibly hard
October 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"now....what if we approached this as an ascent to generality rather than a decline to slop"
October 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"now....what if we approached this as an ascent to generality rather than a decline to slop"
this is hemingway to me
October 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
this is hemingway to me
really the 2020s of a 90s movie these days
October 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
really the 2020s of a 90s movie these days
it was just titled "Poem" on jan 15 2025
October 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
it was just titled "Poem" on jan 15 2025
"thats right claude, happens all the time"
October 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"thats right claude, happens all the time"
if attention mechanisms in transformers create graphlike transformations across text then it is actually an incredible pun that groups of sentences are called "para-graphs"
October 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
if attention mechanisms in transformers create graphlike transformations across text then it is actually an incredible pun that groups of sentences are called "para-graphs"
[explaining how social media works]
September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
[explaining how social media works]