Happy Crepusculus! Different latitudes have different earliest sunsets, giving us lots of opportunities to celebrate. blogs.mathworks.com/community/20...

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Hello? ... Is this thing on?

Where do I buy one? I want the bobble-head Mike too!

The privilege of privilege is not even thinking about privilege.

Is there a term of art for things that are endlessly appealing to smart people but fall down in practice? I would put Knuth's Literate Programming in this category.

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What memoirs do the best at being unclouded by self-deception? Maybe ones written in extreme trial. Thinking for example of Ulysses Grant's Personal Memoirs and Speer's Inside the Third Reich.

Well said! "Free will" and "creativity" fit into this same model: things we feel intuitively we understand because we believe we experience them. But they are watermelon seeds when you press on them.

Thank you for turning me on to Ramsey Lewis and the Sound of Christmas! It's now a yuletide fave in our household.

I have a similar product, the Supernote Nomad, and I'm a fan. I love these dedicated note-taking devices. starchamber.com/2024/07/29/t...