Archive - arg min

What should be fair game and fair use for open corpus public intelligence?

Jul 29 • Ben Recht

Public Intelligence

A call for AI models with open weights, open source, and open corpus.

Jul 27 • Ben Recht

Science-based Shredding

Why don’t people tout RCTs of piano lessons?

Jul 22 • Ben Recht

A new essay and some new stories about diet optimization.

Jul 20 • Ben Recht

Methods to Madness

Reading Greg Nuckols and thinking about what it means to get stronger by science.

Jul 17 • Ben Recht

Never Ending Math Equation

Myopic evidence-based medicine can't see whether physical therapy works.

Jul 14 • Ben Recht

Range of Motion

Physical therapy and how it straddles the line between science and craft.

Jul 9 • Ben Recht

Science or bro-science?

Is physical therapy backed by hard science or artisanry?

Jul 6 • Ben Recht

Three Years of Argmin

My annual navel-gazing post.

Jul 1 • Ben Recht

June 2026

CJ2K battles ALS

Chris Johnson's ALS diagnosis and the indefatigable search for treatments.

Jun 30 • Ben Recht

A Tribute to Dimitri Bertsekas

My teacher and friend Dimitri Bertsekas passed away earlier this month.

Jun 23 • Ben Recht

All Data Is Good Data

How the Midjourney ultrasound project started a war between medicine and tech.

Jun 22 • Ben Recht

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