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...
This site is intentionally sparse, but welcome!
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.
Recent Posts
Good Media Which Doesn’t Justify Its Length: Sanderson’s Wind and Truth
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...
The Tatami Galaxy And The Art Of Adaptation
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...
GPU-Accelerated Scientific Code in Python
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...
Thoughts On News
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...
Half an Argument for Stopping AI Research Now
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...
Book Post: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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...
Custom Email Domains And Tracking
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...
Book Post: Hyperion
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...
Open Source Software Makes Old Device Cool
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...
Making This Site
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...