Merge pull request #696 from jermspeaks/content/2025-week-07

Added week 7 for week notes

Author: jermspeaks

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+description: "Interesting internet takes, fall of Black History Month, and other AI news."
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+heroImageAlt: Unsplash image from Jazmin Quaynor showing a weekly calendar
+pubDate: "2025-02-27T06:00:00.000Z"
+tags: ["weeknote", "politics", "ai"]
+title: "2025 Week 07 - Weekly Notes"
+---
+
+### Summary
+
+It feels like it's been a long week as Susan asked me to help her with Money, and over the weekend we are having a dinner w/ Adriel. Morgan has been on campus 4 days this week, and it feels like far too much for her.
+
+### Notes
+
+Interesting to look at
+
+- [GenerTeam/GENERator: GENERator: A Long-Context Generative Genomic Foundation Model](https://github.com/GenerTeam/GENERator)
+
+Interesting Internet Takes
+
+- [The Unsung Inventors of 'Meg Ryan Fall' - by Erin Carlson](https://erincarlson.substack.com/p/the-unsung-inventors-of-meg-ryan)
+- [My Toddler Son Likes to Wear Dresses. Can He Wear One to My Sister’s Wedding? - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/style/toddler-gender-specific-clothing.html)
+
+Started my own note that's similar to this.
+
+- [People I (Mostly) Admire Archives - Freakonomics](https://freakonomics.com/series/people-i-mostly-admire/?utm_source=werehere.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=cat-meows-and-feeling-stuck&_bhlid=97f2fab35061b2d82a8da5d8066b15cae1783e61)
+
+The Erza Klein and Kara Swisher interview
+
+- [Opinion | What Elon Musk Wants - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-kara-swisher.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE4.OlIB.X3EEm2IDihmH&smid=url-share)
+- And also: [Americans Are Trapped in an Algorithmic Cage - The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/trump-administration-voter-perception/681598/?gift=201cWZnM2XBz2eP81zy0pEqhdCQCYzXK6KEb_mCsC58&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share)
+
+A case for prepping
+
+- [How I survived a year of SHTF in 90s Bosnia - PrepHole](https://prephole.com/surviving-a-year-of-shtf-in-90s-bosnia-war-selco-forum-thread-6265/)
+
+> It's me. Hi. I'm the problem it's me
+
+- [How I Learned That the Problem in My Marriage Was Me - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/magazine/therapy-marriage-couples-counseling.html/)
+
+Henrik Karlsson - [Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog](https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/start-a-blog)
+
+Pradyumna Prasad - [How to have a career even when OpenAI's o3 drops](https://pradyuprasad.com/writings/how-to-have-a-career-even-when-o3-drops/)
+
+- Yes, yes you do
+
+![Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT - YouTube](https://youtu.be/7xTGNNLPyMI)
+
+[How To Read A Novel - by Steven Johnson - Adjacent Possible](https://adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/how-to-read-a-novel?__readwiseLocation=)
+
+[The Art of Calling Out Room Dynamics](https://leadership.garden/calling-out-room-dynamics/) (I wrote about this one a while ago)
+
+[The Attention Crisis Is Just a Distraction | The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/27/the-sirens-call-chris-hayes-book-review)
+
+- Seems to be attention grabbing, if you know what I mean
+
+![The Best Book I’ve Ever Read About Financial Freedom - YouTube](https://youtu.be/RlzV8EnEwc0)
+
+- I've read half of this book. There are some goodies, but I also hate Eric Jorgenson highlighted Balaji. Be careful
+
+[DOGE vs. the NIH: Say goodbye to the greatest engine of biomedical research ever created | Science-Based Medicine](https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/doge-vs-the-nih-say-goodbye-to-the-greatest-engine-of-biomedical-research-ever-created/)
+
+Sounds like they want to do the right thing and find out if they are doing an economic good.
+
+- [The Anthropic Economic Index \ Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index)
+
+Fuck them
+
+- [Google Calendar no longer includes start of Black History Month, Pride Month – NBC Chicago](https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/google-calendar-no-longer-includes-start-of-black-history-month-pride-month/3670512/)
+- I made my own calendar, just because of this
+
+Yeah, I think I missed this last time - [Introducing ChatGPT Gov | OpenAI](https://openai.com/global-affairs/introducing-chatgpt-gov/)
+
+![How Oil Propaganda Sneaks Into TV Shows | Climate Town - YouTube](https://youtu.be/wBC_bug5DIQ)
+
+![](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfBkw0j-QIs)
+
+[Chat With Your Readwise Highlights - Readwise Docs](https://docs.readwise.io/readwise/guides/chat-with-highlights)
+
+Idiot in Chief
+
+- [Trump Dismisses Members of Kennedy Center Board and Reveals Plan to Make Himself Chairman](https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Trump-Dismisses-Kennedy-Center-Board-and-Reveals-Plan-to-Make-Himself-Chairman-20250207)
+
+[AI Countdown](https://aicountdown.com/)
+
+It's interesting HuggingFace is using the 671B model to create a distilled model that's more accessible. I'm curious when I can run one of these small models on my laptop
+
+- [Open R1: Update #2](https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1/update-2?utm_source=tldrai)
+
+I'm interested in testing out a UI that I can build with Go and WASM. This is peaking my curiosity
+
+- [We Replaced Our React Frontend with Go and WebAssembly - Dagger](https://dagger.io/blog/replaced-react-with-go?utm_source=tldrwebdev)
+
+I'm compiling a list of why AI isn't replacing the workforce and those other lies. It doesn't happen as easy as this, and it's not a 1-to-1 replacement (like the issues that we have without DBAs)
+
+- [Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything](https://defragzone.substack.com/p/techs-dumbest-mistake-why-firing?utm_source=tldrwebdev)
+
+Film: [Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb | Sony Pictures Classics](https://www.sonyclassics.com/film/turneverypage/)
+
+8 years to arrive, 10 years to build a deflector. Dear god.
+
+- [It might be too late to stop 'city killer' asteroid headed toward Earth: scientist](https://nypost.com/2025/02/12/science/it-might-be-too-late-to-stop-city-killer-asteroid-headed-toward-earth-scientist/)
+- [Yes, the odds of an asteroid striking Earth have doubled. No, you don't need to worry](https://phys.org/news/2025-02-odds-asteroid-earth-dont.html)
+
+[The Plot Against America - by Mike Brock](https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america?r=4lc94&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
+
+[How I use LLMs as a staff engineer | sean goedecke](https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-i-use-llms/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
+
+[The all new le Chat: Your AI assistant for life and work | Mistral AI](https://mistral.ai/en/news/all-new-le-chat?utm_source=tldrai)
+
+### Recommendations
+
+- Talk to go to: [Kiera Wright-Ruiz Author Talk • My (Half) Latinx Kitchen: My (Half) La | Omnivore Books on Food](https://omnivorebooks.myshopify.com/collections/upcoming-events/products/kiera-wright-ruiz-author-talk-my-half-latinx-kitchen-an-unforgettable-multicultural-culinary-journey-perfect-for-winter-2025-spice-up-your-cooking-game) - March 1st
+- Book: [Banchan: 60 Korean American Recipes for Delicious, Shareable Sides](https://www.amazon.com/Banchan-American-Recipes-Delicious-Shareable/dp/1797227114) by Caroline Choe, Ghazalle Badiozamani
+- Book: Sahil Bloom: [The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059372318X)
+  - I started reading and got through the first section. Timeless advice
+- A wonderful podcast from Ed Zitron: [betteroffline - Listen on Spotify - Linktree](https://linktr.ee/betteroffline)
+  - Also, see: [The Rot Economy - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At](https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-rot-economy/)
+- Book: [Superagency - What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future](https://www.superagency.ai/) by Reid Hoffman
+- Steven Levy has a newsletter. - [Plaintext Newsletter by Steven Levy | WIRED](https://www.wired.com/newsletter/plaintext?sourceCode=BottomStories)
+- Book: [Let's Talk About It Links](https://www.erikamoen.com/LetsTalk/)
+
+### Obits
+
+%% Anyone who has died %%