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Someone mentioned this plannotator inbox in response to Ryan Dahl's (node, and deno creator) idea that Emails are a better way to talk to coding agents than IRC like interface.

talking to a coding agent is more like email than irc - because the interactions are few and far between, I often finding myself quoting their most recent text, answering multiple questions. addressing different topics. it's like replying to an email.

It makes me wonder if you could have a coding agent UI that was more like an email client or mailing list kind rather than chat

I agree with this because email is a better medium for this:

1. asynchronous mode of communication
2. can include rich media in repose
3. can copy other workers (both bot, and humans) on the thread as needed
4. Access control, traceability, and other "audit" concerns are already handled well on email.
5. You can think of coding agent as another "remote" employee that you have seen outside of emails.

This is an idea worth pulling on.

Amazon researchers recently published a paper which I think is notable considering that Amazon has put a lot of effort into spec-driven development.

The paper argues that specifying how a model should implement a specific solution is significantly superior to writing prose. https://x.com/rockatanescu/status/2119346657511014591/photo/1

I kept ignoring this classic because I figured it was some dreary eastern philosophy thing, but I was so wrong! It's funny, playful, and reminds me of Vanity Fair -- A sprawling rich book that's a joy to read. https://t.co/WTnqlPgFRE

A lot of people don't realize that Windows has a built-in feature called Windows "Sandbox" that boots up a brand new virtual Windows machine in seconds. So I made an MCP server so you can test your apps inside a throwaway machine in seconds. https://t.co/huB9hAoxSv

Today we're releasing Underdog Woof, the #1 frontier TTS model

It's only 31.7 MB and beats Text-to-Speech models 1000x larger on Word Error Rate

It's small enough to run fast in your browser, phone, watch... no data centers

It’s free and open weight with Underdog CC BY-NC 4.0. https://t.co/mjK2FvtjsQ

Hi friends! Meet octet.

I rebuilt @pidotdev coding agent in Rust, extensible in any programming language.

Built for speed, with Pi extension compatibility and optional extensions for codemode, subagents, MCP, and more.

free+open source
made with ❤️ in Toronto, ON, 🇨🇦 https://t.co/46vENZ5a3x

Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.

Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of https://t.co/WT7YTVdm8H

The story of how Le Chonk was built, told by the team behind it.

Now on @askalphaxiv : https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2611.mistral-large-4 https://x.com/PierreStock/status/2117293394238013698

An hour of @prathoshap and I having a freewheeling discussion on AI in Sanskrit, because it was a fun way to spend a couple of hours on a Sunday!

https://youtu.be/R6tcmpQzblQ?si=S_Zs6f_8zmnxJA2e

A Rust framework for building massively concurrent agentic systems, light enough to fit 75k agents in the memory of a Raspberry Pi.

Infinity does for agents what async did for threads. Instead of blocking on slow tools, Infinity agents run them concurrently, yield while they wait, and cost nothing until the next event arrives.

and i'm a mess again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKcH-ZR7Fao

The Simpsons downfall https://x.com/seriesgraph/status/2114803953816711263/photo/1

cool work by @ivarvong and @zebassembly 👀

https://github.com/ivarvong/lantern

"Praneeth" is Praneeth Netrapalli of Google Deep Mind, based in BLR.

The preprint is here:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.16733

There is a lot of unpack here. Enjoy! https://x.com/karch_andreas/status/2110592983120916660

That didn’t take long: the model swallows the harness.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35738

Learn more about the product, infrastructure, and harness details used to build Grok Bot, a new type of always-on and proactive agent.

You may have been told to watch this video about the OpenAI AI hack. You really should, even if you don't usually care about tech stuff.

If nothing else, click this link to the 18 minutes in & see how the agents spoke with each other. Its eye opening. https://youtu.be/87DyyMV0kCY?si=DMfqLlaJI9wmW_Rh&t=1088

The Essence of Value Investing:

Routines and Orgies

Peter Cundill turned $7M into $20B.

The best biography you'll never read in public. https://x.com/TheIcahnist/status/2017793929526009879/photo/1

The most underrated technical report of the year
https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2511.23404

What is the BEST episode of TV from this century?

In July of 2018, we published The 100 Best TV Episodes of the Century, and now, since we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st century, it only felt right to update our ranking. https://x.com/ringer/status/1995905091782770759/photo/1

Good book on Game Theory. Under the radar. Highly Recommend. https://x.com/PEoperator/status/1987147104901357809/photo/1

Text-to-SQL is dead 💀

The next generation of querying is agentic - and it’s already here.

This paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00032) introduces a type of agentic querying called 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 that uses an LLM to structure queries using predefined function calls in https://twitter.com/victorialslocum/status/1897612417237983580/video/1

These days are a neverending succession of amazing things.

How is that one even possible.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03387

The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence: In this introductory and highly subjective survey, aimed at a general mathematical audience, I showcase some key theoretical concepts underlying recent advancements in machine learning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10465 https://twitter.com/gabrielpeyre/status/1881993062441980230/photo/1

paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15042

🚀 How can we make sense of visual document at a large scale for retrieval? With our new paper “ColPali”, we propose to leverage VLMs to construct efficient multi-vector embeddings in the visual space for document retrieval: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01449 📝🔍 (1/10)

@Askeladam You should read Journal of a Cruise. It's real historical memoir of Master and Commander David Porter.
And as a side note the fictional Master and Commander is based on the British side of this story.

https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Cruise-CLASSICS-NAVAL-LITERATURE/dp/0870213318

Trotsky's bodyguard until a year before the murder was Jean van Heijenoort, who had a subsequent career as a mathematical logician. He was also one of Frida's lovers. Anita Burdman Feferman's biography, which covers all this (including the math), is fascinating. #BookReview https://t.co/PsqQJUqo01

@Partisan_O You would like James Belich's "Replenishing the Earth."

https://t.co/ll7GPO9uGd

Nothing has increased my programming productivity more than being able to restate hard problems as simple ones. Nobody taught me more about how to do that than the late, great Gerald M. Weinberg. https://t.co/PWXm0MItUv

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75665931-the-maniac

Goodreads Review

John von Neumann was a titan of science. A Hungarian wunderkind who revolutionised every field he touched, his mathematical powers were so exceptional that Hans Bethe - a Nobel Prize-winning physicist - thought he might represent the next step in human evolution.

After seeking the foundations of mathematics during his youth in Germany, von Neumann emigrated to the United States, where he became entangled in the power games of the Cold War; he designed the world's first programmable computer, invented game theory, pioneered AI and digital life, and helped create the atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was the darling of the military industrial complex, but when illness unmoored his mind, his work pushed further into areas beyond human comprehension and control.

The Maniac places von Neumann at the centre of a literary triptych about the dark foundations of our modern world and the nascent era of AI. It begins with Paul Ehrenfest, an Austrian physicist and close friend of Einstein, who fell into despair when he saw science and technology become tyrannical forces; it ends a hundred years later, in the showdown between the South Korean Go Master, Lee Sedol, and the AI program AlphaGo.

Braiding fact with fiction, Benjamín Labatut takes us on a journey to the frontiers of rational thought, where invention outpaces human understanding and offers godlike power, but takes us to the brink of Armageddon.

If you ever feel like dabbling in real math stuff but not getting waterboarded by Wikipedia, you might want to check out the Princeton Companion to Mathematics. It’s really fun to just flip through randomly. Very hard to describe this strange book though.

https://t.co/bkmNPhGtE7

@zenpundit btw, this is an absolutely phenomenal book and provided a better answer to the common hagiographies of why the USSR fell apart and was based upon 30 years of interviews: https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Soviet-Vladislav-M-Zubok/dp/0300257309

Its happening! @MosaicML 's own open source, commercially usable, LLM model!

https://t.co/OQbSiSGEVy https://t.co/zxBwTwUMyt

#books

Completion of DVG collection, Lokmanya Tilak speeches, SLB collection continues

Thank you @subbubooks @sahityaprkshna for super fast shipping https://t.co/0nCJgq9F2y

and finally, in the last chapter:

"I regret selling Trader Joe's"

https://t.co/oBmOM99tOA

Drop whatever you are doing, and watch this superb discussion between @sanjeevsanyal and Arnab Goswami!

The Real Story of the Freedom Struggle https://t.co/jbD89vMmzM

Pre-order the book Revolutionaries : The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom: https://t.co/zTuRu18vSH

I end this year with Victor Serge Diaries 1936-47. They were not written for publication, were found by accident in the 1960s, published in French and then recently translated into English. Will write more when I finish the book.
https://t.co/tS1CXqQgSk

@varunram Yes, he created something out of nothing, but that is the exception, not the rule. You should read The Big Score on the origins of California as the tech capital and SV is what is is
https://t.co/L7z3438CdK

@ajliveRIP DDD has a some good ideas but I keep the book around as reference. Given your exp you could get by on https://t.co/We4NZrEuVb

If you could only read one book on medieval history, R. H. C. Davis's History of Medieval Europe might be the best choice. Used copies are much cheaper, and probably better printed too, so I recommend buying it used.

https://t.co/AALYUvIEyh

by Russell Kirk · Paperback · released 2008-08-20

• ISBN-10 9659124112 · ISBN-13 9789659124114
• Best offer: $19.63, New (english), 192 copies available
• In stock · 180 others watching · 0 sold a month · 8 other editions
• On ThriftBooks: work 337499, added 2022-07-18 to “pradeep's Wish List” (list 2387386); prices as of 2026-11-07

@Austen Damodaran is the gold standard text on Wall Street. Took a course from him when I was at GS.

https://t.co/m0nWzeaVdn

New #book on Sanskrit theology: Goddess Traditions in India
https://t.co/6AVDXrmkoG

This is a scholarly book that can be understood by everyone & I recommend everyone interested in Indian Kavyas,history & specifically the #Mahabharata to read this"Evolution of the Mahabharata" by Sri S R Ramaswamy.The English translation is impeccable. https://t.co/EVCJRNMHKR👇 https://t.co/zpmu58UH7s https://t.co/iBZjK1daOI

Yesterday, during my daily meditation 🧘‍♂️ I had an epiphany 🤗!

I realized Data-Oriented Programming was a 400 page book that tries to explain why @richhickey's 3 word idiom "just use maps!" indeed makes sense.

https://t.co/R6lJxN3meo

#DataOrientedProgramming https://t.co/gpgMwKhW08

Reading The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
https://t.co/lrWQ0slYAN

Just finished Piranesi and it is one the best damn things I’ve read in a while. https://t.co/A3fBpu82uv https://t.co/iDgzXK1k8R

by Robert S. Strichartz · Paperback · released 2006-08-20

• ISBN-10 069112731X · ISBN-13 9780691127316
• Best offer: $39.69, Good (english), 1 copy available
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• On ThriftBooks: work 14008087, added 2019-01-11 to “pradeep's Wish List” (list 2387386); prices as of 2026-11-07

by William Easterly · Paperback · released 2015-03-24

• ISBN-10 0465089739 · ISBN-13 9780465089734
• Best offer: $4.79, Good (english), 1 copy available
• In stock · 24 others watching · 1 sold a month · 2 other editions
• On ThriftBooks: work 3145872, added 2019-01-08 to “pradeep's Wish List” (list 2387386); prices as of 2026-11-07