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about six weeks ago, I started running a play-by-post real-time "logistics wargame" I made, called Cataphracts. It started with 5 players, now it has 23. I've tweeted about it a bit, but here's a short blogpost with more thoughts and observations ⬇️ (link below)
April 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
about six weeks ago, I started running a play-by-post real-time "logistics wargame" I made, called Cataphracts. It started with 5 players, now it has 23. I've tweeted about it a bit, but here's a short blogpost with more thoughts and observations ⬇️ (link below)
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More and better data means more PCA + k-means clustering work, which means we are discovering new worlds of welfare capitalism every year. What an exciting time to be alive.
June 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
More and better data means more PCA + k-means clustering work, which means we are discovering new worlds of welfare capitalism every year. What an exciting time to be alive.
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This is a MATT DARLING 2022 TAKE MUST CREDIT MATT DARLING x.com/besttrousers...
June 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is a MATT DARLING 2022 TAKE MUST CREDIT MATT DARLING x.com/besttrousers...
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April 1, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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![Goon of Fortune, sometimes called Wheel of Goon,[1] is an Australian drinking game involving cheap cask wine (colloquially known as "goon". mouse hovers over the hyperlinked word goonsacks which links to "boxed wine" article](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreihzsjwz5fusydocgnitdmq5rhjbfozsly6qyw4hrhxos644uyl5pa@jpeg)
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The Ottoman scribal service is perhaps the dynasty’s finest achievement, allowing the sultan to collect immense tax revenues, mobilize huge armies and fleets, and control territories from Tunisia to Tabriz and from Azov to Aden. But for some reason, Sultan Donald is allowing his new Grand Vizier...
February 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The Ottoman scribal service is perhaps the dynasty’s finest achievement, allowing the sultan to collect immense tax revenues, mobilize huge armies and fleets, and control territories from Tunisia to Tabriz and from Azov to Aden. But for some reason, Sultan Donald is allowing his new Grand Vizier...
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There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)
Delta Green Severance spinoff where the agents fight a doomed war combatting maddening cosmic evil…then happily go home knowing nothing about it. They just think they work in a SCIF that requires them to be severed and occasionally has them do long hours.
February 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)
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Contrapositives are for cowards. Behold.
![Theorem. If $n$ is an integer and $n^2$ is even, then $n$ is itself even.
Proof. Contrapositives are for cowards, so assume $n$ is an integer and $n^2$ is even. Then $n^2=2k$ for some integer $k$, and thus $n^2-2k=0$. Behold:
\[ n = n + (n^2-2k) = n(n+1)-2k. \]
Both $n(n+1)$ and $2k$ are even, so $n$ is even.
QED.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4wrxafbsjycxbpjo4e42ht6q/bafkreihucnue4bdyzulcrzddytan5ttdx56rg5ci6cn4vhxw5lebnbdzma@jpeg)
January 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Contrapositives are for cowards. Behold.
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guy who starts waving "fight for $15" in support of the original congestion pricing levels
January 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
guy who starts waving "fight for $15" in support of the original congestion pricing levels
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sorry, not sorry, not going to care about christmas because i grew up with a loving, psychologically supportive father in constant state of peace, happiness, and excitement about the future.
hearing the key in the door was my own personal “christmas” for almost 20 years.
hearing the key in the door was my own personal “christmas” for almost 20 years.
December 24, 2024 at 11:26 PM
sorry, not sorry, not going to care about christmas because i grew up with a loving, psychologically supportive father in constant state of peace, happiness, and excitement about the future.
hearing the key in the door was my own personal “christmas” for almost 20 years.
hearing the key in the door was my own personal “christmas” for almost 20 years.
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Obligatory the missile knows who's been naughty because the missile knows who's been nice. By subtracting naughty acts from nice, or nice acts from naughty (whichever is greater), the missile creates an ethos.
December 24, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Obligatory the missile knows who's been naughty because the missile knows who's been nice. By subtracting naughty acts from nice, or nice acts from naughty (whichever is greater), the missile creates an ethos.
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me: [carefully placing a baby on my boss’s desk]
my boss: and the other one
me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]
my boss: and the other one
me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]
I have to take an annual fire safety training for work, and I am reminded that I asked some of the folks who manage these things how they evacuate the NICU and apparently they have vests you can load up with babies
December 21, 2024 at 1:18 PM
me: [carefully placing a baby on my boss’s desk]
my boss: and the other one
me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]
my boss: and the other one
me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]
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Hello Bluesky! (and bye-bye Twitter).
I just wrote a blog post about a bump in the road along the way to teaching a computer a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
xenaproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/f...
I just wrote a blog post about a bump in the road along the way to teaching a computer a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
xenaproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/f...
Fermat’s Last Theorem — how it’s going
So I’m two months into trying to teach a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem to a computer. We already have one interesting story, which I felt was worth sharing.
xenaproject.wordpress.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Hello Bluesky! (and bye-bye Twitter).
I just wrote a blog post about a bump in the road along the way to teaching a computer a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
xenaproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/f...
I just wrote a blog post about a bump in the road along the way to teaching a computer a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
xenaproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/f...
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let's all read "Galileo's Statistical Analysis of Astronomical Observations" (Hald, 1986) www.jstor.org/stable/14031...
Galileo's Statistical Analysis of Astronomical Observations on JSTOR
A. Hald, Galileo's Statistical Analysis of Astronomical Observations, International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique, Vol. 54, No. 2 (Aug., 1986), pp. 211-220
www.jstor.org
December 12, 2024 at 2:42 AM
let's all read "Galileo's Statistical Analysis of Astronomical Observations" (Hald, 1986) www.jstor.org/stable/14031...
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Happy anniversary to my favorite copy editor comment of all time.
"You use 'long eighteenth century' a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another."
"You use 'long eighteenth century' a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another."
December 1, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Happy anniversary to my favorite copy editor comment of all time.
"You use 'long eighteenth century' a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another."
"You use 'long eighteenth century' a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another."
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NO, says the subjectivist Bayesian, it belongs in minds. NO says the die-hard frequentist, it belongs in hypothetical infinite sequences. NO, says the propensity theorist, it belongs in magic metaphysical bullshit. I rejected those answers <curtain opens to reveal Logical Foundations of Probability>
December 1, 2024 at 10:59 AM
NO, says the subjectivist Bayesian, it belongs in minds. NO says the die-hard frequentist, it belongs in hypothetical infinite sequences. NO, says the propensity theorist, it belongs in magic metaphysical bullshit. I rejected those answers <curtain opens to reveal Logical Foundations of Probability>