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News I Don't Want to Read {Today, Ever}

content warning: discussion of recent American terror incidents "Jury Selected in Boston Marathon Bombing Trial", reports The Crimson today. I don't care. I am so far beyond caring about where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ends up that I'm refusing to click on that link, and won&

Where I'll be spending my Thursday afternoon

James Mickens is speaking at the Harvard CS Colloqium at 4pm today in Maxwell-Dworkin, which is amazing because James Mickens is amazing because James Mickens is the author of "The Night Watch": As a highly trained academic researcher, I spend a lot of time trying to advance the

Not Quite a Dissent: On Solidarity [Guest Post, Response]

A friend and classmate offers the following anonymous guest post in response to yesterday's post on (empty) declarations of solidarity. Their post follows with no edits by me. The internet is a great and terrible thing. I say this often. We are inundated with a dramatically larger \(N\

Empty Declarations

One Faults reader responded to my (now closed) call for guest-post responses; their thoughts are well worth reading at My Faults My Own | On Solidarity [Guest Post]. (0) Context: The Crimson | UC Passes Act of Solidarity in Light of UNC Shooting. But first, Scott Alexander writing in Slate Star Codex

[CS161] The Classic CV Error

This is a very technical post, largely for the benefit of the students of CS161: Operating Systems, for which I am a Teaching Fellow this semester. It may be useful to you if you're interested in operating systems for some reason, but if you're not in

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