Jan 10, 2024 from Outside the Asylum An Actually Intuitive Explanation of the Oberth Effect The Oberth effect is an aspect of orbital mechanics that has been bugging me for the better part of 5 years, and I think I may have finally figured it out.
Jan 08, 2024 from Outside the Asylum Handling Counterfeits in a Tournament Counterfeits are a delicate subject. People tend to have strong feelings about them, and when something goes wrong, players often get upset. I try to go over the reasoning behind the counterfeits p...
Jan 06, 2024 from nutcroft Manifesting democracy We cannot presuppose a democratic society before its existence. We can only identify a democratic system in a society after such society has existed for a nontrivial amount of time; insofar as demo...
Jan 01, 2024 from nutcroft On the essence of decisions and hope What is a decision and why does it matter? I. One could claim that decisions do not matter insofar they are not actions. Decisions are not facts. They are just something someone said and maybe some...
Dec 15, 2023 from Outside the Asylum Strange Loops Loops are another one of those areas where Magic's rules and policy intersect in an awkward way. I don't have all the answers here, but I provide the ones I do have.
Dec 11, 2023 from nutcroft Applied anthropology On my way to an anthropology lecture today, I learned much more about humans than I could expect of the lecture. To clarify: the content of the lecture was great yet, with respect to understanding ...
Dec 10, 2023 from Outside the Asylum Understanding Subjective Probabilities Does it make sense to talk about the probability of a future event that's more complicated than a die roll or coin toss?Traditional entry-level math education leads people to many misconceptions in...
Nov 29, 2023 from Outside the Asylum The Worst Crime I contemplate what's the worst thing a judge could do.
Nov 28, 2023 from Outside the Asylum Prediction Markets Are Not Polls Prediction markets have been growing in popularity lately, and I address a common point of confusion.
Nov 07, 2023 from Outside the Asylum Draft Bracket Printer I threw together a simple draft bracket printer, for running ODEs, top 8 drafts, cube drafts, or whatever else you might need such a thing for.
Nov 01, 2023 from bearblog Fix for Error E1 on Tuya Zigbee TRV Smart Radiator Valves Tuya Smart TRVs unfortunately suffer from a design flaw where they will produce an apparently unresolvable error after being stored. Luckily this is an easy fix!
Oct 29, 2023 from Hammy Havoc Audio Post-Production for The March Onwards (2023) My partner, Mary Ann Mahoney, and I did audio post-production on another documentary for frequent-collaborator Alex Arjoon of REEL Guyana, called The March Onwards (2023). We, Split An Atom, did re...
Oct 15, 2023 from Outside the Asylum One Ring to Confuse Them All A guide to rules and policy interactions with The One Ring.
Oct 09, 2023 from Joybuke Stuckism: What Conservative Action Really Is Often, I write my work with a presumption in mind: Progress is bad. This view is based in various points of view, some on the question of Industrialism, others on the corrosion inherit to progress-...
Sep 20, 2023 from Outside the Asylum Stop Trying to Make CR Backups Happen Stop Trying to Make CR Backups Happen
Sep 04, 2023 from Outside the Asylum Rational Agents Cooperate in the Prisoner's Dilemma Rational Agents Cooperate in the Prisoner's Dilemma
