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The Feynman Mode: A Third Path to Excellence for the Rest of Us

2026-04-16

Secret

Rejecting the two dominant "genius narratives" — head-start and leverage — and unpacking three anti-utilitarian cognitive algorithms Feynman left behind: playfulness, fighting knowledge vanity, and the twelve-problems trick that grows real taste.

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Predictive Coding, Music, and the Vector Space of Conversation

2026-04-05

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Starting from predictive coding theory, explaining the neural mechanisms of musical pleasure, and modeling conversation as directional choices in vector space — revealing the shared information-theoretic foundation of both.

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Common Video-Gen Distillation Recipes + Pseudocode (I): ReFlow, Progressive, Consistency, rCM

2026-02-22

A quick cheat-sheet of four widely used distillation recipes for diffusion/flow-style video generation models, with minimal PyTorch-like pseudocode.

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