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Alex Wein
@alexwein.bsky.social
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data worker, word game liker, pretty boring quite frankly.
Oakland, CA
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AFAICT there are infinitely many such splits, lying on a line that looks roughly like this: it's reasonably far away from the antipodal points that make the land and water hemispheres, but *not* just a great circle away from it. This notebook tries to find it:
observablehq.com/d/db36886905...
A map showing a line that goes through North America, Brazil, the South Atlantic, the Indian ocean, and up to the North Pacific through the Phillipines.
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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here's the source www.val.town/x/alexwein/b...
alexwein/bigwordbot
A TypeScript project on Val Town written by alexwein
www.val.town
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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mary steenburgen studied at (but did not graduate from) hendrix college at least
November 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Honestly, I feel like they’ve run out of premise with the lie detector magic powers. But Dinklage solving mysteries is clearly a slam dunk.
November 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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true every time
a screenshot of a post by Alex Wein on Nov 10, 2022 that says "I always get a littlethrill when I join a table to itself". it has 2 likes.
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I added a new column for `sorted_letters` and did a little wrangle. now other valid guesses besides the puzzle seed will be properly handled
a screenshot of a sqlite query in javascript: const randRowsQ = ` with words as ( select * from judgments where length(word) >= 5 and length(word) <= 10 order by random() limit 7 ), anagrams as ( select words.id, upper(words.word) as word, words.sorted_letters, upper(judgments.word) as valid_anagram from words left join judgments on words.sorted_letters = judgments.sorted_letters ) select id, word, sorted_letters, json_group_array(valid_anagram) as valid_anagrams from anagrams group by id, word, sorted_letters `;
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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after watching a good thinkycon talk, i'm googling to see whether the owner of the boston globe is a particularly evil billionaire or just a regularly evil billionaire
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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a special collection
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM