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https://gwern.net/about About This Website · Gwern.net Meta page describing Gwern.net site ideals of stable long-term essays which improve over time; idea sources and writing methodology; metadata deﬁnitions; site... gwern https://gwern.net/fiction/missing-cities Missing Cities · Gwern.net 3 short stories in the style of Italo Calvino’s 𝑀𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠. missing cities gwern https://gwern.net/spfn Symbolic PFNs (SPFNs): Training LLMs for Symbolic Bayesian Inference by Reversing Stan · Gwern.net Proposal: train LLMs to predict Stan code from synthetic data sampled from Stan’s prior predictives. 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Not much. weather productivity gwern https://gwern.net/doc/anime/index ‘anime’ directory · Gwern.net directory gwern https://gwern.net/doc/sociology/survey/lizardman/index ‘Lizardman survey constant’ directory · Gwern.net survey directory gwern https://gwern.net/sort The sort –key Trick · Gwern.net Commandline folklore: sorting ﬁles by ﬁlename or content before compression can save large amounts of space by exposing redundancy to the compressor. Examples... sort trick gwern https://gwern.net/blog/index Blog Posts · Gwern.net Index of my shorter or oﬀ-site writings, presented as annotations. (Sorted in reverse chronological order.) blog posts gwern https://gwern.net/abortion An Abortion Dialogue · Gwern.net Dialogue pointing out some diﬃculties of materialist objections to abortion. abortion dialogue gwern https://gwern.net/wifi Internet WiFi improvement · Gwern.net After putting up with slow glitchy WiFi Internet for years, I investigate improvements. 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Behind them: the moon.’, written using LLMs. claude 4 opus gemini 2 5 crow moon 11 https://gwern.net/variable Rare Greek Variables · Gwern.net rare greek variables gwern https://gwern.net/catitecture Cat itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes · Gwern.net Cats are not humans, but we design things like they are, for our convenience. What are the design patterns for cat-architecture? 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Claude summary: ‘A startup engineer developing commercial ‘stasis fridges’ discovers, through a miswiring... gpt 5 2 claude 4 6 kimi k2 thinking gemini 3 https://gwern.net/everything Everything Is Correlated · Gwern.net Anthology of sociology, statistical, or psychological papers discussing the observation that all real-world variables have non-zero correlations and the... everything correlated gwern https://gwern.net/changelog Changelog · Gwern.net Monthly chronological list of recent major writings/changes/additions to Gwern.net (see also the monthly newsletter). changelog gwern https://gwern.net/hafu Hafu Gender Ratios in Anime · Gwern.net Race as reﬂected in gender ratios within ﬁctional bi-racial marriages in anime/manga show equal sex ratios and Western European overrepresentation with... hafu gender ratios anime gwern https://gwern.net/doc/anime/2010-sarrazin Ero-Anime: Manga Comes Alive, by Stephen Sarrazin · Gwern.net Short history of trends in Japanese erotic anime and manga, especially lolicon ero anime comes alive manga stephen sarrazin https://gwern.net/style-guide “Manual of Style”, by Gwern, GPT-5 Pro, Claude-4.7-opus · Gwern.net Style guide documentation of Gwern.net writing conventions for essays and code. gpt 5 pro claude 4 gwern 7 opus