Pascual Merita
I live in London but I’m originally from Valencia, Spain.
I’m one of the co-founders of Mozart AI, where we’re building the next generation of music creation tools.
Previously, I worked as a Research Engineer at Huawei R&D, improving how language models retrieve and use information.
Here, I share random thoughts, reflections and questions I keep coming back to. Some splashes of music and AI here and there too, as they’ve been a recurring part of what I work on.
Thoughts
Books
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
On the Freedom of the Will
Arthur Schopenhauer
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Algorithms to Live By
Brian Christian
The Infinity Machine
Sebastian Mallaby
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
The Dark Forest
Liu Cixin
Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff
The Power of Regret
Daniel H. Pink
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
- Knowledge, Creativity, and P versus NP
Knowledge, Creativity, and P versus NP
Avi Wigderson
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Richard Feynman
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
Kenneth O. Stanley
Finite and Infinite Games
James P. Carse
The Vital Question
Nick Lane
Exhalation: Stories
Ted Chiang
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Ted Chiang
- What's Expected of Us
What's Expected of Us
Ted Chiang
How to Live
Derek Sivers
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert
Other
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arxiv.orgImagine while Reasoning in Space: Multimodal Visualization-of-Thought
- Iincompleteideas.net
The Bitter Lesson
Richard Sutton
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
Steve Jobs
AlphaGo Documentary
Jungle - Busy Earnin', Glastonbury 2019
Jungle
Diffusion for World Modeling: Visual Details Matter in Atari
The Problem with (LLM) Reasoners
Aidan McLaughlin
Ilya Sutskever
Lex Fridman
PyTorch Documentary
Jungle - Busy Earnin', Music For Life 2018
Jungle
Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
- Kkliu.io
Large Language Models can Simulate Everything
Kevin Liu
Andrej Karpathy
Lex Fridman
Starship — Critical Path
SpaceX
Parcels - Live Vol. 1
Parcels
- arxiv.org
Large Concept Models: Language Modeling in a Sentence Representation Space
cs.virginia.eduYou and Your Research
Richard Hamming
Dario Amoidei
Lex Fridman
Parcels - Live from Red Rocks, Colorado
Parcels
SakanaAI's AI Scientist
spruce.worldDon´t Ask Successful People for Advice
Spruce Campbell
Cursor team
Lex Fridman
Parcels - Myenemy (Live @ Funkhaus Berlin)
Parcels
- spruce.world
Talking to Geniuses
Spruce Campbell
Ilya Sutskever
Dwarkesh Patel
Parcels - Hideout (Live @ Funkhaus Berlin)
Parcels
- Ppaulgraham.com
The Right Kind of Stubborn
Paul Graham
Geoffrey Hinton
Sana
RÜFÜS DU SOL - Live from Joshua Tree
RÜFÜS DU SOL
blog.samaltman.com
How to Be Successful
Sam Altman
KREA.AI: la startup de IA con más de 30 millones de usuarios
itnig
Anderson Paak & Mac Miller- Dang! - Live
Anderson .Paak & Mac Miller
- Ppaulgraham.com
Taste for Makers
Paul Graham
Agentic Backpressure Deep Dive
Boundary
FKJ & Tom Misch - Losing My Way (Live from O2 Academy Brixton)
FKJ & Tom Misch
washingtonpost.com'The Secretary Problem'
The Washington Post
Building a Company in Stealth
Travis Kalanick, a16z
FKJ, Ylang Ylang EP
FKJ
'The Secretary Problem' is too bad a match for real life to usefully inform our decisions
Robert Wiblin
FKJ - Live at MELT 2019
FKJ
- Kkliu.io
How do you find your people, when searching is itself an antipattern?
Kevin Liu
FKJ - Canguu
FKJ
Advice for ambitious 19 year olds
Sam Altman
Tom Misch - It Runs Through Me
Tom Misch
- Ppaulgraham.com
How to Do Great Work
Paul Graham
L'Impératrice @ La Felicità for Drop
L’Impératrice
C. Tangana: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
C. Tangana
Oracle Sisters - Asc. Scorpio / Tramp Like You / RBH
Oracle Sisters
Dabeull Band - Sweet Baby
Dabeull Band
Dabeull Band - Live in Paris
Dabeull Band
Dabeull & Rude Jude - Indastudio
Dabeull & Rude Jude
Dabeull - So Many Hands - Indastudio
Dabeull
HER - Five Minutes - Live at JITWVHQ
HER
L'Impératrice — VACANCES (Live à Dour)
L’Impératrice
Air - La Femme d'Argent
Air
Vulfpeck - Beastly
Vulfpeck
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity (Live in Verona)
Jamiroquai
Jamiroquai - Little L (Live in Verona)
Jamiroquai
Jamiroquai - Time Won't Wait (Live at Scala, London 2007)
Jamiroquai
Jamiroquai - Bad Girls / Singin' in the Rain (Live in Verona)
Jamiroquai
Nile Rodgers & CHIC: Tiny Desk Concert
Nile Rodgers & CHIC
Bellaire & Georges - Contrasts
Bellaire & Georges
Mayer Hawthorne - Henny & Gingerale
Mayer Hawthorne
HÆLOS - Pray (Live on KEXP)
HÆLOS
Simply Broke - La Infinita (Mashup)
Simply Broke
Simply Broke - I wanna Be Like You (Cover)
Simply Broke
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson - Earth Song
Michael Jackson
BB & Q Band - On The Beat
BB & Q Band