Ineffective Theory
A Baumol effect for manufacturing and infrastructure?
Six-digit confirmation code statistics
A Note on Peer Review
Democracies are naturally gerontocracies
Bayesian saturation
How (not) to disenfranchise yourself
Recommended Reading
Against Energy Exceptionalism
Plagiarising and Dissembling at the University of Maryland
A note on macro performance in Julia
One-paragraph book reviews
(Weakly) Against scientific taste
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Alex Wellerstein's Restricted Data
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Easily repeated claims are less likely to be true
Thoughts adjacent to the "Proximal Origins" fallout
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My Marginal Hour
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Microcausal and macrocausal explanations
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jax: Initialize an array from a function
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Automating arbitrage on Manifold markets
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Circumscribe expertise (and maybe talk to the police)
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Overestimating the Zero-Point Energy
When Luck Isn't
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A Galactic Simulation of Planck-Scale Physics
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Epistemic Orders of Magnitude
Cheap Data!
Against Sanctioning Researchers
Emergent Hypocrisy
A Sudden Change of Environment
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Expository content is underrated
The Majority are a Majority
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Git Steganography
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Monkeys, Typewriters, and Black Holes
Statistical Lies II: A Secret Survey
Spitznagel's "Safe Haven", Briefly
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The sign problem is not caused by rapid oscillations
The Spectral Density Function of a Correlator
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Molecular Dynamics In Your Browser!
Evolutionary Pressure on Weddings
Links: Negativity Bias Redux
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Notes on Quantum Error Correction
Do cosmic rays cause domain name bit-flips?
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Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth
Trivia From Medema's "Economics Book"
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Mutual Subgroups
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All Hail the Social Mobility Index
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The Legendre Transform and the Path Integral
Quantum Ensembles
A Puzzle: Gauge Theory on a Quantum Computer
Illegible Incentives Matter
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Quantifying the Influence of the Opening on Pawn Structure
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Lies That (Probably) Don't Matter
Harmonic Oscillator Weirdness
Is the Great Stagnation just a narrative?
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To Petition the Government
Magnetism and Congress
Poor Phrasing as a Shibboleth
An Introduction to the Sign Problem
Observing Wavefunctions
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Fluctuations and Phases
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Why privilege closed-form expressions?
What do commutators have to do with causality?
The Weakness of Anthropic Arguments
Henry V's Fallacy
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The Kolakoski Sequence and the Central Limit Theorem
Statistical Lies I: Coronavirus
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First Astrophotography: Neowise
Nothing to Hide: Why Privacy Matters
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