Maxim Raginsky
@mraginsky.bsky.social
unexpected find at an antiques shop
January 18, 2026 at 11:44 PM
unexpected find at an antiques shop
diamondback night tonight
January 17, 2026 at 11:33 PM
diamondback night tonight
Also, Gustav Fechner (of Fechner’s law) had interesting philosophical views:
January 16, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Also, Gustav Fechner (of Fechner’s law) had interesting philosophical views:
I thought this from Forest Passage was insightful though:
January 14, 2026 at 2:34 AM
I thought this from Forest Passage was insightful though:
From “Leopardi and the machine age” by Hilda L. Norman:
January 13, 2026 at 5:22 AM
From “Leopardi and the machine age” by Hilda L. Norman:
From the same source:
January 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM
From the same source:
Interestingly, the authors of this MIT technical report from 1994 were using "coherence" more or less in the same sense: dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721....
January 10, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Interestingly, the authors of this MIT technical report from 1994 were using "coherence" more or less in the same sense: dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721....
opening up the 2026 reading season
January 6, 2026 at 6:47 PM
opening up the 2026 reading season
lol, lmao even
src: Gian-Carlo Rota, "Husserl and the reform of logic"
src: Gian-Carlo Rota, "Husserl and the reform of logic"
January 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
lol, lmao even
src: Gian-Carlo Rota, "Husserl and the reform of logic"
src: Gian-Carlo Rota, "Husserl and the reform of logic"
Bring back elitism, please!
January 5, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Bring back elitism, please!
That’s the main point I tried to get across here: realizable.substack.com/p/the-parado...
January 2, 2026 at 5:39 PM
That’s the main point I tried to get across here: realizable.substack.com/p/the-parado...
ok, how about this one
December 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
ok, how about this one
magret de canard, pommes de terre sarladaises, good burgundy
December 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
magret de canard, pommes de terre sarladaises, good burgundy
Swedish cardamom bun time
December 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Swedish cardamom bun time
back at my favorite coffee place in Paris: Araku Coffee
December 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
back at my favorite coffee place in Paris: Araku Coffee
From J. Carlson and J. Doyle, "Highly optimized tolerance: A mechanism for power laws in designed systems" (1999). Today's salient example would be AI systems, but all the same points stand. journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
December 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
From J. Carlson and J. Doyle, "Highly optimized tolerance: A mechanism for power laws in designed systems" (1999). Today's salient example would be AI systems, but all the same points stand. journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
look at these tall bois
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
look at these tall bois