Boris Smus

For notes that are no more than a few paragraphs long. Also see my longer articles and book reviews.

1. Local e-ink handwriting recognition with on-device VLMs
   Dec 2025
2. The pursuit of frictionless capture
   Sep 2025
3. Invention & Discovery Cards work complete
   Jan 2025
4. Unintended Consequences of False Equity
   Oct 2024
5. Seattle Public Schools accountability problem
   Oct 2024
6. Nine Links for Fall 2023
   Jan 2024
7. Five Links for Summer 2023
   Sep 2023
8. Five Links for Spring 2023
   Jun 2023
9. Seven Links for Winter 2023
   Mar 2023
10. Links for November 2022
    Nov 2022
11. Links for October 2022
    Oct 2022
12. Links for September 2022
    Sep 2022
13. Links for August 2022
    Aug 2022
14. Links for July 2022
    Jul 2022
15. Links for June 2022
    Jun 2022
16. Links for May 2022
    May 2022
17. Links for April 2022
    Apr 2022
18. Links for March 2022
    Mar 2022
19. Links for February 2022
    Feb 2022
20. Links for January 2022
    Jan 2022
21. Article highlights of 2021
    Dec 2021
22. Article highlights of 2020
    Dec 2020
23. Books highlights of 2019
    Dec 2019
24. Article highlights of 2019
    Dec 2019
25. Avoiding local maximums
    May 2019
26. Reading in 2018
    Jan 2019
27. Against retweets
    Sep 2018
28. Make twitter great again?
    Sep 2018
29. Lynched on Twitter
    Aug 2018
30. The difficult middle
    Jul 2018
31. Required reading for VR enthusiasts
    Jun 2018
32. Balancing technological pessimism
    May 2018
33. How rationalists can win
    Apr 2018
34. A respectful truce?
    Aug 2017
35. The end of endings
    Jul 2017
36. Intelligence, aliens, and self-improvement
    Jul 2017
37. Convincing the inconvincible
    Jun 2017
38. Remembering my personal wiki
    Jun 2017
39. Short posts using split Markdown
    May 2017
40. Analogies from the industrial revolution
    May 2017