The Weekly Praegustator (4 - 10 May '26)

This week I consumed 10 manga, 19 anime, 6 TV shows, 1 game, and 21 articles.

4 May

Anime/ Liar Game Ep. 5 (5/10)

Anime/ Witch Hat Atelier Ep. 6 (7/10)

TV/ Euphoria: S03E04 (4/10)

TV/ From: S04E03 (6/10)

TV/ When Life Gives You Tangerines: Ep. 3 (9/10)

Article/ you have the talent, what you need is the audacity (7/10)

5 May

Anime/ Eren the Southpaw Ep. 5 (7/10)

Anime/ Marriagetoxin Ep. 5 (7/10)

6 May

Manga/ WIND BREAKER chapter 215 (7/10)

Anime/ Dorohedoro: S2E20 (8/10)

Anime/ Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 Ep. 71 (6/10)

TV/ The Bear: S05E00 (7/10)

The wacky adventures of Mikey and Rich

Article/ How to think in writing - by Henrik Karlsson (9/10)

Henrik is intelligent but that word doesn't really explain his brilliance. He's caring in multiple facets. He cares about how he thinks, how he writes and how he feels. All of the previous statements are interlinked. This link is plainly seen when something is written down. A thought, a startup idea an emotion, all of these can be explored transparently once they are written down. Henrik explains the how and why's elegantly in this writing.

Article/ How to think like a creative director (not a feed addict) (7/10)

Article/ You suck at dating apps because you’re straight - by viv (7/10)

7 May

Anime/ The Ramparts of Ice Ep. 6 (7/10)

Anime/ The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King Ep. 5 (6/10)

TV/ The Boys: S05E06 (5/10)

Article/ It's nice of you to worry about me, but I really do have a life (7/10)

Article/ On asking questions and sitting with uncertainty (4/10)

Article/ Your Attempt To Solve Debate Will Not Work (6/10)

8 May

Anime/ That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 Ep. 77 (6/10)

9 May

Manga/ One Piece Chapter 1182 (8/10)

Anime/ Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring Ep. 7 (7/10)

Anime/ Akane-banashi Ep. 6 (7/10)

Anime/ Ascendance of a Bookworm: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke Ep. 4 (6/10)

Anime/ Ascendance of a Bookworm: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke Ep. 5 (6/10)

Anime/ Daemons of the Shadow Realm Ep. 6 (8/10)

Anime/ Mao Ep. 6 (7/10)

It keeps sidestepping the actual meat of the story. How the grandpa probably sacrificed them to prolong his life or attain immortality. I hope it's more than that because why is she even drinking the smoothie if she knows it causes her harm?

Anime/ Snowball Earth Ep. 6 (7/10)

Anime/ The Drops of God Ep. 5 (7/10)

TV/ When Life Gives You Tangerines Ep. 4 - 8 (8/10)

Game/ Mixtape | A video game by Beethoven & Dinosaur (7/10)

This was a 3 hour journey into the 90's high school life. I strongly empathize with it. There's barely any gameplay and the movement of the characters' FPS and the background FPS not matching is slightly jarring. The music is spectacular, I instantly added it on spotify. I wish they had ordered it like they ordered it in the game. Don't expect a grand story either it's a vehicle to transport you to the 90's vibe. I really liked how it didn't ground the gameplay in reality. There's an airwalk scene where you jump into the air and glide through the forest. I had no expectations, the art pulled me in but the music did the heavy lifting. Here are some quotes from the game I enjoyed. "I'm a series of after-school programs.": This one especially was quite profound in the sense that tiger parents force their children to do a bunch of extracurricular activities but the child doesn't get to explore what he/she actually wants. Their agency is stolen from them at such a young age. Parents aren't evil of course, they send their children to do these extracurricular activities in hopes that the child finds something they would like to pursue in the future or instills upon them some traits that would nourish their soul. However, generally the child forces themselves to participate and doesn't explore their own interests or feels the need to validate their parents' decisions, so they go along with it to avoid disappointing the parents. "It's like we're writing the albums, the greatest hits come after." "Small spaces when carefully observed can reveal wonders."

Article/ Natural Language Autoencoders \ Anthropic (9/10)

This is another major step towards understanding neural networks. First sparse autoencoders now natural language autoencoders with each step comes more understanding but we have yet to fully grasp full dominance over this domain.

Article/ Teaching Claude why \ Anthropic (8/10)

I found this line particularly insightful. “Although training on aligned behaviors helps, training on examples where the assistant displays admirable reasoning for its aligned behavior works better.” Anthropic is learning to raise children from first principles. Raising a child is art so there is no way to ensure your kid turns out okay in the future. Hope it isn't the case for AI cause that will mean total destruction...

Article/ Thariq on X: "Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML" (6/10)

Article/ The World Inside Neural Networks (7/10)

10 May

Manga/ Akane-banashi chapter 205 (8/10)

Manga/ Blue Box chapter 241 (6/10)

Manga/ Centuria chapter 90 (8/10)

Manga/ Ichi the Witch chapter 81 (8/10)

Manga/ Kagurabachi chapter 121 (9/10)

Manga/ Sakamoto Days chapter 258 (7/10)

Manga/ Someone Hertz chapter 32 (8/10)

Manga/ SPY x FAMILY chapter 134 (8/10)

Anime/ One Piece Ep. 1161 (6/10)

Article/ 2028 Is When Traditional Publishing Plans to Quietly Kill Literary Fiction (7/10)

Article/ Alignment is not solved but it increasingly looks solvable (7/10)

Article/ do you know what's really sexy? - by md (7/10)

Article/ if you've forgotten how to live, start here. - by amber. (10/10)

Article/ Internet Is Becoming a Power Plant: Follow the Money (5/10)

Anime/ NIPPON SANGOKU: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun - Ep. 6 (8/10)

Article/ people are portals - by maja (7/10)

Article/ some parts of you only emerge for certain people - by maja (8/10)

Article/ speak so you can be found - by maja (7/10)

Article/ The Real Singularity is the Friends We Made Along the Way | the singularity is nearer (8/10)

"I heard once that the Singularity was just the rapture for 150+ IQ people and I dismissed it as some weird envy of 150-IQ-nerds-are-right thing. Umm yea, the people saying the rapture thing were right, and belief in the rapture for nerds is now migrating down the IQ slide."

Article/ The world reveals itself to those who travel by foot (8/10)