Nathan Mai

for all hues

product inspo

Research: 

Local-First Software

Graphs are not the thing, they’re the thing that gets us to the thing

How can we develop transformative tools for thought?

On the Biology of a Large Language Model

Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress

Generative agent-based modeling with actions grounded in physical, social, or digital space using Concordia

Reclaiming “Open AI” – AI Model Serving Can Be Open Access, Yet Monetizable and Loyal

MLX

LLM Maybe LongLM: Self-Extend LLM Context Window Without Tuning

LLM 4 Tagging

Dialogue System for Emotional Support via Value Reinforcement

Improving Language Plasticity via Pre Training with Active Forgetting

The influence of color on memory performance

Guided Profile Generation Improves Personalization with LLMs

Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time

Products: 

are.na

Notion

Obsidian

Wikipedia

Reddit

AFFiNE

Cleo

Mem0

Datamover

Solid

CAPTCHA

Raindrop.io

Matter

iaNET

Ulysses

A-counting

Memex

Commonplace Books

Pinakes

Logbook

Scriptorium

Pathosformel

Zettelkasten

Essays: 

Technology is the campfire around which we tell stories

On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects

Literature as a World

Idea tools for participatory intelligence

A Year with Swollen Appendices

A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages

Personal Dynamic Media

Augmenting Human Intellect

As We May Think

Context is all you need

On Self-Respect

Rebooting the Attention Machine

Lifelogging in the age of AI

The Unseen

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

The Question Concerning Technology

The Book of Tea

Letters to a Young Poet

Articles: 

Stay Curious, Stay Naive

The Friendship that Made Google Huge

The Jessica Simulation: Love and Loss in the age of AI

The First Romantics

How to Become WIse

The Sea was Never Blue

The year (and friendship) that changed Kevin Durant forever

Why Culture Has Come to a Standstill

Byung-Chul Han: “I Practise Philosophy as Art”

Our tools shape our selves

Welcome to the YOLO Economy

Ingredients for brilliance

How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity

Books:
The Practice of Everyday Life

How to Live, or a Life of Montaigne

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

Siku Quanshu Zongmu Tiyao

The Tempest

The Pillow Book

Phaedrus

Pensees

A Thousand Plateaus

The Ethics of Ambiguity

De Brevitate Vitae

In Search of Lost Time

How We Became Posthuman

The Poetics of Space

Invisible Cities

The Baron in the Trees

The Tsar of Love and Techno

The Vegetarian

Human Acts

Autobiography of Red

Vagabond

The Little Prince

Never Let Me Go

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Beloved

Moby Dick

James

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Invisible Man

The Life of Milarepa

If I Had Your Face

How Music Works

The Idiot

Sense and Sensibility

Emma

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

The Prophet

If Beale Street Could Talk

No Longer Human

Nervous Conditions

Sundown

Dictee

The God of Small Things

Shogun

On Writing

Down and Out in Paris and London

The Stranger

Jane Eyre

Pale Fire

TV/Movies

One Piece

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Neon Genesis Evangelion

Atlanta

Her

Lost in Translation

In the Mood for Love

Synecdoche, New York

Wings of Desire

Anomalisa

Persona

Memento

Man with a Movie Camera

Ratatouille

The Mirror

Mulholland Drive

Rashomon

Tokyo Story

Past Lives

Perfect Blue

Paprika

Your Name

Ghost in the Shell

Spirited Away

Ikiru

Amelie 

La Jetee

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Sans Soleil

Cinema Paradiso

Sansho the Bailiff

La Pointe Courte

City of God

Amores Perros

Serial Experiments Lain

Your Lie in April

Tatami Galaxy

Porco Rosso