Feb 29, 2024 from Outside the Asylum The Duality of Machine In which I am grumpy about bad philosophy of mind.
Feb 27, 2024 from Bartosz Ciechanowski Airfoil The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many failed, some eventually succeeded in achieving that goal. These days we take air transportation for...
Feb 25, 2024 from Outside the Asylum An Actually Intuitive Explanation of P-Values Academic science revolves largely around one number, the "p-value". This number has been the cause of a huge amount of confusion, so I spent a week trying to figure out what it actually means. I th...
Feb 15, 2024 from Outside the Asylum Surviving cEDH I ran my first cEDH event this past weekend. It was ...interesting.
Feb 12, 2024 from Peralta's notes on Luis Peralta Who is knocking at the door? A few years ago, after being bored of watching hundreds and thousands of failed ssh login attempts to my home server, I asked myself: what are these folks trying to bruteforce with? OpenSSH would l...
Feb 12, 2024 from Let’s get Person-al 🗨️ plagiarism is the currency of the internet I call it “plagiarism is the currency of the internet”:
Feb 11, 2024 from Peralta's notes on Luis Peralta Enabling Full Disk Encryption on Dell XPS 9320 with Ubuntu 22 I did not find a clear set of instructions on how to enable full disk encryption on a newer Dell XPS 9320 that came with Ubuntu pre-installed. This machine is now replacing an older XPS13 (9360) th...
Feb 05, 2024 from Let’s get Person-al 🗨️ A Predictable Ui Is A Good One Until Generative Ai We judge an interface as “good” if the user knows what to expect, and is never faced with results or feedback that seem out of the blue or confusing to them. I still think this is true, but maybe w...
Jan 28, 2024 from Peralta's notes on Luis Peralta Old School Geo Toolbox Bringing this up as part of the blog so that it does not get lost. Back in 2020, Ed suggested that I presented at Geomob BCN, an event for geospatial enthusiasts, and that I shared some of the old ...
Jan 16, 2024 from nutcroft When hope and gloom unite This is the Matrix and I am Neo. Not because I am the One — I'm not. The reason I am Neo is because I really can fly, I really can stop bullets, I really can download knowledge to my brain. The rea...
Jan 14, 2024 from Peralta's notes on Luis Peralta Poor Man's Apps Script Performance Metrics Not so long ago, I was writing about measuring Apps Script function performance, in particular those offered as part of the environment by Google. As add-ons get more complex and we rely more on ot...
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.
