(2022)

17 May The FDA on Fluvoxamine, round 1

9 Apr Series I (April 2022 update)

10 Mar So you want to work on biosecurity

9 Mar Onward, again

28 Feb To Icosian Reflections

(2021)

31 Dec Donations 2021

11 Dec What on Earth is a Series I savings bond?

19 May Age and Covid-19 IFR in Africa

12 May Age and Covid-19 IFR in India

24 Apr Which vaccine?

2 Mar The Times on EU Vaccines, 2021-03-01

12 Feb Metaculus has some issues

5 Jan For whom it tolls

(2020)

31 Dec Donations 2020

14 Dec 2018-19 Donor Lottery Report, pt. 2

13 Dec 2018-19 Donor Lottery Report, pt. 1

4 May Personal opinions on my Harvard courses H

29 Mar Speculative preparedness

(2019)

24 Dec Donations 2019

24 Nov Elasticities, revisited

6 Nov Review: The Triumph of Injustice

21 May Everybody knows

16 Mar Adding HTTPS

(2018)

29 Dec Donations 2018

9 Jun Review: Ready Player One

26 May Review: Terra Ignota

2 Mar Onward, abroad!

(2017)

26 Dec Donations 2017

24 Dec Congratulations, Margo!

21 Oct What I found in the desert

16 Sep Chelsea Manning / HKS IOP / "Visiting Fellowship" H

17 Aug The dark joke that was Shkreli's voir dire

6 Aug Mass Ave, Mt Auburn, and a Tale of Two Schools H

9 Jul Thoughts on "Be Reasonable" as a collaboration policy H

4 Jul Is Patriotism A Virtue?

24 May On “’till the stock of the Puritans die” H

14 May Three Gifts from Penny Rheingans

9 Mar Happy Housing Day! H

29 Jan What is there to say?

(2016)

12 Nov Remembering Aaron Swartz

1 Oct Onward

27 Sep I'm Registered to (trade my) Vote

11 Sep A Verse for the City 

28 Jul Those Emails

24 Jul I can't support the Green platform

28 Jun Review: Anathem

17 Jun Provide for the Common Defense

13 Jun [Meta] My Faults My Own is now (happily) hosted by Digital Ocean

27 May Thou then wert our parent, the nurse of our soul... (A thank-you post) H

25 May A Verse for Commencement Day 

6 May At What Price ‘Progress’? H

13 Apr In the Crimson Again H

4 Mar They're Not All Saints H

2 Mar Oral Arguments from Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt

4 Feb "Weedout" Courses Considered Harmful

2 Feb Scariness and Self-Selection: A Shopping-Week Meditation

31 Jan Godspeed Columbia

30 Jan Devotional Songs

28 Jan Godspeed Challenger

24 Jan My Most-Read Posts of 2015 

21 Jan December in Review 

19 Jan If I Ran the Zoo H

18 Jan As Allies

17 Jan [Meta] New Year, New Face

(2015)

18 Nov Notes from the IOP's UC Debate

16 Nov Greenlaw and Morris for the UC H

14 Nov Notes from the UC Crossfire Debate H

11 Nov Stand With Mizzou

11 Nov A Verse for the Armistice 

28 Oct 10/28 Links: Thinkers, Statesmen, Economists, Doctors 

13 Oct Ben Kuhn sums up how Scott Aaronson sums up my thoughts on divestment

12 Oct For the Brave Sky-Travelers 

8 Oct On the AAU Survey and the Crimson H

26 Sep The Phone

23 Sep 9/23 Links: Affording College, Thinking Outside the Box, Papametrics 

18 Sep Karim Pirbay is an Email Scammer H

11 Sep A Verse for the Memorial 

8 Sep Yes, you should hire college-educated computer scientists

28 Aug Something's Rotten in the State of Facebook

22 Aug Go in Peace

20 Aug PredictIt Arbitrage

14 Aug Good-Adjacency (Examples)

9 Aug Quotable Candidates

19 Jul CTY (and the Passionfruit)

3 Jul A Verse for the Fourth 

26 Jun Love Wins (in quotation)

7 Jun Something About Bernie

4 Jun Putting money where my mouth is H

3 Jun Okay, you can stop it now. H

1 Jun The Garden and the Jungle

26 May Parental Leave

25 May John Nash, 1928-2015

28 Apr Words for Baltimore

28 Apr What is happening in my hometown

23 Apr A Meditation on π

17 Apr 4/17 Links: The Ecuadorian Tourism Agency, and Other Air Travel Pranks 

17 Apr False Flag Flyers H

17 Apr A Liberal Critique

10 Apr 4/10 Links: The Once and Future Friday Tradition 

8 Apr I'm in the HPR!

2 Apr Lower Tuitions at Stanford H

1 Apr Notes: The Gender Gap in Math

30 Mar Notes: Parallel Proofs for Parallel Programs

30 Mar Xerox Xerox

27 Mar Notes: Building a Better Web Browser

26 Mar 25 Quotable Things

25 Mar Ted Cruz is Having a Bad Second Day

25 Mar Three Modest Proposals, Instead of Divesting... H

14 Mar What did you learn in school today?

14 Mar A Bag Full of Books, a Cache Full of Blogs

10 Mar Coda On (Male) Feminists

8 Mar Why So Few Male Feminists?

7 Mar Words for Social Justice

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

26 Feb Where I'll be spending my Thursday afternoon

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

24 Feb Empty Declarations

23 Feb [CS161] The Classic CV Error

20 Feb A Place and a Role for Allies

20 Feb [CS161] On Scheduling

14 Feb Cultivated Publicy

9 Feb http://dev/null

8 Feb 2/6 Links: Photographs and a Cactus Doctor 

5 Feb Anti-vaxxers

1 Feb Godspeed

29 Jan Class Notes

28 Jan Culpable Priors

27 Jan 1/23 Links: Sciences from Soft to Hard; Eggs from Hard to Soft 

27 Jan Crypto at Davos, or Harvard Profs vs. David Cameron

21 Jan Changing the Stakes Sideways

15 Jan 1/16 Links: Technologies, Games, and Play 

14 Jan On Charlie Hebdo

12 Jan 1/9 Links: Futures and Pasts of Things 

4 Jan 1/2 Links: '2015' 

4 Jan Lynn Conway

31 Dec Saving Citizens from the Theater of Capital Punishment

(2014)

30 Dec Facebook is Not Your Friend

24 Dec 12/25/14 #2: A Nontrivially Improved Future

24 Dec 12/25/14 #1: A Highly Improbable Peace

23 Dec [Meta] A New Face

10 Dec Burn the Man's Books!

4 Dec Jon Stewart Vidwrap: Brown, Garner, and Race

3 Dec 11/28 Links: (Un)reality 

26 Nov (Un)fairness

25 Nov The only thing I'm going to say about Ferguson

23 Nov 11/21 Links: Languages, Language, and Words, Words, Words 

20 Nov With sincerest apologies to Mr. Whitman 

19 Nov {he,they} / {him,them} / {his,their}

18 Nov Philae faux pas [Mini-Index]

18 Nov On Comets and Commentators [Guest Post, Dissent]

17 Nov A Shirt, Counterpoint [Guest Post, Dissent]

15 Nov 11/14 Links: Science, B****es! 

15 Nov A Comet Landing, and a Misplaced Media Firestorm

4 Nov Democracy! (Part 2: The Democratizing)

2 Nov Democracy!

1 Nov 10/31 Links: Links, Explosions, and People Talking 

30 Oct Sex: Statistics and Student Opinions

28 Oct Salk!

23 Oct 10/24 Links: Really Awesome Things 

17 Oct 10/17 Links: Back on the Wagon 

14 Oct Happy Ada Day!

2 Oct I Want to Major in Everything! H

15 Sep Who goes to class, anyway? H

5 Sep 9/5 Links: Back to School 

29 Aug 8/29 Links 

6 Aug Dear Brother: These are the friends I met H

29 Jul Interlude: More Links on the Ivies H

28 Jul Dear Brother: Here's How to Get Admitted to Harvard (if you want) H

27 Jul Dear Brother: Go Wherever You Want for College H

10 Jul Re-Thinking Prejudices

24 Jun Who's Swinging the Sword?

16 Jun The Manxome Foe

7 Jun Today's Quote: Fallibility

4 Jun Necessary, True...

23 May Whose Voice? Whose Guide? H

21 May Blogosphere Roundup: Q Difficulty Ratings H

13 May [Meta] We're trying something new here

11 May Where I Stand H

3 May Oh, say... H

25 Mar Good News in the World!

21 Jan Some Friendly (College) Advice H

21 Jan Quora Repost: CS/Math@Harvard? H

21 Jan Quora Repost: CS and Friends?

5 Jan Meaning in the Darkness

(2013)

25 Dec A Circle of Light

25 Dec How Do You Spend the Darkest Night?

25 Dec Impressions: Freakonomics

18 Dec Headlines, News, Events H

15 Dec Bad Graphs H

9 Dec 107

29 Nov 100 Thanks

27 Nov [OGPS] A Letter Home

31 Oct [OGPS] Faith

31 Oct [OGPS] What I Learned from Jacob Lurie

27 Oct Epiphany at the Petting Zoo H

11 Oct A Day's Worth

3 Oct [OGPS] [China] Week 2 Disasters

20 Sep [OGPS] Impressions, Addendum

20 Sep Eating (Food)

18 Sep [OGPS] Impressions

11 Sep [China] Regressing

1 Sep Eating Animals II

26 Aug Eating Animals I

26 Aug [China] [Meta] All Posts

24 Aug [Meta] Inferential Distances

24 Aug [China] Looking Backwards

24 Aug [China] [Meta] Internet

12 Aug [China] Departure, Arrival

7 Aug [Meta] Name Change

5 Aug Bad Advice, Quantum Mechanics, Normalcy

1 Aug Errata, Food, Reductionism

30 Jul Tired, Dreams, Sunrise, BSG

25 Jul Theory of Poly Sleep, Reports From the Field

19 Jul Greetings, Polyphasic Sleep, Chives