Digital Money and Tracking
I recently listened to an interview with Zeke Faux, who wrote Number Go Up. Then I read the book, which is a less-than-flattering book about the cryptocurren...
I think that organizing my thoughts into moderately coherent paragraphs is a good way to help myself think better. I might post here about anything except physics. I’m going to focus on writing more rather than writing well, because I think I’ll get better faster that way than if I obsess over posts and rarely publish.
I recently listened to an interview with Zeke Faux, who wrote Number Go Up. Then I read the book, which is a less-than-flattering book about the cryptocurren...
This is a blog, so I guess I can write about my life. I got a really bad resperatory infection in early January. I was stuck at home for a little over a week...
I recently received an English translation of Tomihiko Morimi’s The Tatami Galaxy. The book was adapted into an animated television series by the same name d...
This is my personal blog, not a coding blog, but I spent the last two weeks obsessing over code, so coding is personal. If you don’t care about computer scie...
The site that I go to for technology news recently put up a subscription which I decided I had a bit of a moral obligation to pay for. Journalism is hard but...
I thought I could make a short intuitive argument for why AI research is dangerous, but I got halfway through and realized that the argument was no longer sh...
After my grandfather mentioned it a few times, I finally checked out a copy of this essay by Thomas Kuhn, which is over 100 pages deconstructing the practice...
I am not a fan of tracking by private companies. I don’t want any sufficiently motivated person to be able to buy every physical location or web site I’ve vi...
Earlier this year I read Dan Simmons’ Hyperion, and it was an excellent read. It’s one of those sci-fi books like Dune that plays fast and loose with science...
I have a long history of finding free software online to make old devices do something cool. I would load games on my school calculator in high school, and I...
I have wanted to start writing on my own web site for a while. I needed to find a cheap way to host a web site. Ideally it would have its own domain, and I d...