9. Making Crash Bandicoot (2011) (all-things-andy-gavin.com)

In the summer of 1994 Naughty Dog, Inc. was still a two-man company, myself and my longtime partner Jason Rubin. Over theΒ preceding eight years,Β we had published sixΒ games as a lean and mean duo, b…

13. The Energetic Costs of Cellular Computation (2012) (arxiv.org)

Cells often perform computations in response to environmental cues. A simple example is the classic problem, first considered by Berg and Purcell, of determining the concentration of a chemical ligand in the surrounding media. On general theoretical grounds (Landuer's Principle), it is expected that such computations require cells to consume energy. Here, we explicitly calculate the energetic costs of computing ligand concentration for a simple two-component cellular network that implements a noisy version of the Berg-Purcell strategy. We show that learning about external concentrations necessitates the breaking of detailed balance and consumption of energy, with greater learning requiring more energy. Our calculations suggest that the energetic costs of cellular computation may be an important constraint on networks designed to function in resource poor environments such as the spore germination networks of bacteria.

14. Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization (www.elliotcsmith.com)

Introduction

You don't need to look far to find claims that folks have been using AI to do the work of dozens of people. I tend to be skeptical of any claim that discusses improvements without evidence. I decided to take that skepticism and put it to work. This

29. The Seed Beneath the Snow (eli.li)

Jimmy Miller wrote a lovely response to Sean Goedecke’s β€œSeeing like a Software Company,” which you know is itself riffing on James C. Scott’s

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