Was cleaning up some files and found this very old screenshot from back when I was trying to do a brown color scheme on my test (and was horrible at CSS). Can't help but wonder what I was thinking:
I started reading the new Nate Silver book on risk, and this passage got me thinking: I wonder if the effective altruists/rationalists deliberately construct their worldview and mental models in a way where they get to focus on the most "exciting" things.
From an old 2005 review of The Mythical Man Month:
I've taken to hanging ESR's list of Unix principles to my wall, a lot of good advice here:
The jokes write themselves:
Just found out about Albert Pinkham Ryder's "Jonah", reminds me a lot about what I love about expressionism.
One of the highlights of his post:
Finished reading Social Contagion, excellent book on the COVID-19 pandemic in China from a Marxist lens. Provides a lot of novel and nuanced insight into a variety of subjects from agriculture to statecraft.
Working on the
#PoliTree (formerly
#PoliticalDichotomyAssessment) still, the actual model is pretty much done, now comes the coding. Here's two of the potential site design approaches I'm considering going with.
I think the time has come to return to finishing up that polcomp killer I had to put on hold (it's been 5 years).
