(2021)
Donations 2021
What on Earth is a Series I savings bond?
Age and Covid-19 IFR in Africa
Age and Covid-19 IFR in India
Which vaccine?
The Times on EU Vaccines, 2021-03-01
Metaculus has some issues
For whom it tolls
(2020)
Donations 2020
2018-19 Donor Lottery Report, pt. 2
2018-19 Donor Lottery Report, pt. 1
Personal opinions on my Harvard courses H
Speculative preparedness
(2019)
Donations 2019
Elasticities, revisited
Review: The Triumph of Injustice
Everybody knows
Adding HTTPS
(2018)
Donations 2018
Review: Ready Player One
Review: Terra Ignota
Onward, abroad!
(2017)
Donations 2017
Congratulations, Margo!
What I found in the desert
Chelsea Manning / HKS IOP / "Visiting Fellowship" H
The dark joke that was Shkreli's voir dire
Mass Ave, Mt Auburn, and a Tale of Two Schools H
Thoughts on "Be Reasonable" as a collaboration policy H
Is Patriotism A Virtue?
On “’till the stock of the Puritans die” H
Three Gifts from Penny Rheingans
Happy Housing Day! H
What is there to say?
(2016)
Remembering Aaron Swartz
Onward
I'm Registered to (trade my) Vote
A Verse for the City
Those Emails
I can't support the Green platform
Review: Anathem
Provide for the Common Defense
[Meta] My Faults My Own is now (happily) hosted by Digital Ocean
Thou then wert our parent, the nurse of our soul... (A thank-you post) H
A Verse for Commencement Day
At What Price ‘Progress’? H
In the Crimson Again H
They're Not All Saints H
Oral Arguments from Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt
"Weedout" Courses Considered Harmful
Scariness and Self-Selection: A Shopping-Week Meditation
Godspeed Columbia
Devotional Songs
Godspeed Challenger
My Most-Read Posts of 2015
December in Review
If I Ran the Zoo H
As Allies
[Meta] New Year, New Face
(2015)
Notes from the IOP's UC Debate
Greenlaw and Morris for the UC H
Notes from the UC Crossfire Debate H
Stand With Mizzou
A Verse for the Armistice
10/28 Links: Thinkers, Statesmen, Economists, Doctors
Ben Kuhn sums up how Scott Aaronson sums up my thoughts on divestment
For the Brave Sky-Travelers
On the AAU Survey and the Crimson H
The Phone
9/23 Links: Affording College, Thinking Outside the Box, Papametrics
Karim Pirbay is an Email Scammer H
A Verse for the Memorial
Yes, you should hire college-educated computer scientists
Something's Rotten in the State of Facebook
Go in Peace
PredictIt Arbitrage
Good-Adjacency (Examples)
Quotable Candidates
CTY (and the Passionfruit)
A Verse for the Fourth
Love Wins (in quotation)
Something About Bernie
Putting money where my mouth is H
Okay, you can stop it now. H
The Garden and the Jungle
Parental Leave
John Nash, 1928-2015
Words for Baltimore
What is happening in my hometown
A Meditation on π
4/17 Links: The Ecuadorian Tourism Agency, and Other Air Travel Pranks
False Flag Flyers H
A Liberal Critique
4/10 Links: The Once and Future Friday Tradition
I'm in the HPR!
Lower Tuitions at Stanford H
Notes: The Gender Gap in Math
Notes: Parallel Proofs for Parallel Programs
Xerox Xerox
Notes: Building a Better Web Browser
25 Quotable Things
Ted Cruz is Having a Bad Second Day
Three Modest Proposals, Instead of Divesting... H
What did you learn in school today?
A Bag Full of Books, a Cache Full of Blogs
Coda On (Male) Feminists
Why So Few Male Feminists?
Words for Social Justice
News I Don't Want to Read {Today, Ever}
Where I'll be spending my Thursday afternoon
Not Quite a Dissent: On Solidarity [Guest Post, Response]
Empty Declarations
[CS161] The Classic CV Error
A Place and a Role for Allies
[CS161] On Scheduling
Cultivated Publicy
http://dev/null
2/6 Links: Photographs and a Cactus Doctor
Anti-vaxxers
Godspeed
Class Notes
Culpable Priors
1/23 Links: Sciences from Soft to Hard; Eggs from Hard to Soft
Crypto at Davos, or Harvard Profs vs. David Cameron
Changing the Stakes Sideways
1/16 Links: Technologies, Games, and Play
On Charlie Hebdo
1/9 Links: Futures and Pasts of Things
1/2 Links: '2015'
Lynn Conway
Saving Citizens from the Theater of Capital Punishment
(2014)
Facebook is Not Your Friend
12/25/14 #2: A Nontrivially Improved Future
12/25/14 #1: A Highly Improbable Peace
[Meta] A New Face
Burn the Man's Books!
Jon Stewart Vidwrap: Brown, Garner, and Race
11/28 Links: (Un)reality
(Un)fairness
The only thing I'm going to say about Ferguson
11/21 Links: Languages, Language, and Words, Words, Words
With sincerest apologies to Mr. Whitman
{he,they} / {him,them} / {his,their}
Philae faux pas [Mini-Index]
On Comets and Commentators [Guest Post, Dissent]
A Shirt, Counterpoint [Guest Post, Dissent]
11/14 Links: Science, B****es!
A Comet Landing, and a Misplaced Media Firestorm
Democracy! (Part 2: The Democratizing)
Democracy!
10/31 Links: Links, Explosions, and People Talking
Sex: Statistics and Student Opinions
Salk!
10/24 Links: Really Awesome Things
10/17 Links: Back on the Wagon
Happy Ada Day!
I Want to Major in Everything! H
Who goes to class, anyway? H
9/5 Links: Back to School
8/29 Links
Dear Brother: These are the friends I met H
Interlude: More Links on the Ivies H
Dear Brother: Here's How to Get Admitted to Harvard (if you want) H
Dear Brother: Go Wherever You Want for College H
Re-Thinking Prejudices
Who's Swinging the Sword?
The Manxome Foe
Today's Quote: Fallibility
Necessary, True...
Whose Voice? Whose Guide? H
Blogosphere Roundup: Q Difficulty Ratings H
[Meta] We're trying something new here
Where I Stand H
Oh, say... H
Good News in the World!
Some Friendly (College) Advice H
Quora Repost: CS/Math@Harvard? H
Quora Repost: CS and Friends?
Meaning in the Darkness
(2013)
A Circle of Light
How Do You Spend the Darkest Night?
Impressions: Freakonomics
Headlines, News, Events H
Bad Graphs H
107
100 Thanks
[OGPS] A Letter Home
[OGPS] Faith
[OGPS] What I Learned from Jacob Lurie
Epiphany at the Petting Zoo H
A Day's Worth
[OGPS] [China] Week 2 Disasters
[OGPS] Impressions, Addendum
Eating (Food)
[OGPS] Impressions
[China] Regressing
Eating Animals II
Eating Animals I
[China] [Meta] All Posts
[Meta] Inferential Distances
[China] Looking Backwards
[China] [Meta] Internet
[China] Departure, Arrival
[Meta] Name Change
Bad Advice, Quantum Mechanics, Normalcy
Errata, Food, Reductionism
Tired, Dreams, Sunrise, BSG
Theory of Poly Sleep, Reports From the Field
Greetings, Polyphasic Sleep, Chives
