(500) Days of Summer
I felt somewhat personally attacked by this film.
Moth
I look up at the moth orbiting the light in my room,
Buzzing obnoxiously as it flits around.
Spiralling, smashing into the bulb with a thud,
Darting back from the pain of the heat,
Only to return back
Over and over and over again.
What a stupid creature.
Can it not see that this is not the moon
Confined within these walls?
What draws it to that sharp sting
That whispers its demise?
I switch off the light
And the moth is gone.
R&D Meta-Strategy
A framework for thinking about automated R&D in 2026:
- Try everything. The cost of development is going down very quickly. You can delegate so much more to agents. Try more things out, have lots of ideas and execute on them quickly.
- Evaluate everything. Fail fast. Put your ideas in contact with reality. If this is hard or expensive, find ways to approximate the ground truth as early and often as possible.
- Iterate. Use the information you attain. Tighten the feedback loops. Improve the system.