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Tricky grammar

February 2025 updates

May 2024 updates

January 2024 updates

March 2023 updates

January 2023 updates

November 2022 updates

"A Man's A Man for A' That" in Modern English

Short musings

The Confucian virtue of learning

Uncertainty due to computational approximation in Bayesian inference

Comment ranking algorithms: Hacker News vs. YouTube vs. Reddit

Highlights of Canadian geography

Mathematics as a service

March 2020 links

Robin Hanson predicts China virus disaster

Ranking cities by weather

Q&A with William Saunders: Preventing AI catastrophes

Whence the English names of countries

Nov 2019 links

Ascending auction bidder strategy

Belief aggregation with computational constraints

North American population growth

Counting solutions to equations

Quote: Bertrand Russell's anecdote

Advice for students

Qs

Quote: Knuth on Dijkstra

Link: Generated poetry

Three excellent lecture videos

Quote: Maud Ray Kent

Classic probability puzzles and their solutions

What's the probability of the Riemann Hypothesis?

The Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing is Bayesianism

Data from Canadian 700MHz and 2500MHz spectrum auctions

Link of the day: Journal of Craptology

U of Toronto study space info

Markov of Chain: Automating Weird Sun tweets

Building a shell with JavaScript

Modeling aesthetics in mathematics

Quote of the day: Yuri Gurevich

Link of the day: Learn the Greek alphabet

Link of the day: Jon Skeet speaks

Command line Grooveshark post-Grooveshark

Status of the day

Quote of the day

Quote of the day

Quote of the day

Link of the day

Some resources for learning Mandarin

Quote of the day

LessWrong gems

Status of the day

Status of the day

Quote of the day

General thoughts on computer security