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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

Links for September 2023

Alex Wellerstein's Restricted Data

Links for August 2023

Easily repeated claims are less likely to be true

Thoughts adjacent to the "Proximal Origins" fallout

Links for July 2023

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My Marginal Hour

Links for May 2023

Microcausal and macrocausal explanations

Links for April 2023

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jax: Initialize an array from a function

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Automating arbitrage on Manifold markets

Links for June 2022

Circumscribe expertise (and maybe talk to the police)

Links for May 2022

Overestimating the Zero-Point Energy

When Luck Isn't

Links for April 2022

A Galactic Simulation of Planck-Scale Physics

Links for March 2022

Epistemic Orders of Magnitude

Cheap Data!

Against Sanctioning Researchers

Emergent Hypocrisy

A Sudden Change of Environment

Links for February 2022

Expository content is underrated

The Majority are a Majority

Links for January 2022

Git Steganography

Links for December 2021

Monkeys, Typewriters, and Black Holes

Statistical Lies II: A Secret Survey

Spitznagel's "Safe Haven", Briefly

Links for November 2021

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The sign problem is not caused by rapid oscillations

The Spectral Density Function of a Correlator

Links for September 2021

Molecular Dynamics In Your Browser!

Evolutionary Pressure on Weddings

Links: Negativity Bias Redux

Links for August 2021

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Notes on Quantum Error Correction

Do cosmic rays cause domain name bit-flips?

Links for June 2021

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Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth

Trivia From Medema's "Economics Book"

Links for April 2021

Mutual Subgroups

Links for March 2021

All Hail the Social Mobility Index

Links for February 2021

The Legendre Transform and the Path Integral

Quantum Ensembles

A Puzzle: Gauge Theory on a Quantum Computer

Illegible Incentives Matter

Links for January 2021

Quantifying the Influence of the Opening on Pawn Structure

Links for December 2020

Lies That (Probably) Don't Matter

Harmonic Oscillator Weirdness

Is the Great Stagnation just a narrative?

Links for November 2020

To Petition the Government

Magnetism and Congress

Poor Phrasing as a Shibboleth

An Introduction to the Sign Problem

Observing Wavefunctions

Links for October 2020

Fluctuations and Phases

Links for September 2020

Why privilege closed-form expressions?

What do commutators have to do with causality?

The Weakness of Anthropic Arguments

Henry V's Fallacy

Links for August 2020

The Kolakoski Sequence and the Central Limit Theorem

Statistical Lies I: Coronavirus

Links for July 2020

First Astrophotography: Neowise

Nothing to Hide: Why Privacy Matters

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