Archive
(2025)
(2024)
Drug development costs can range over two orders of magnitude
Poker is a bad game for teaching epistemics. Figgie is a better one.
(2023)
Asimov on building robots without the First Law
“Liquidity” vs “solvency” in bank runs
(Naïve) microeconomics of bundling goods
(2022)
The FDA on Fluvoxamine, round 1
So you want to work on biosecurity
(2021)
What on Earth is a Series I savings bond?
Age and Covid-19 IFR in Africa
How proper scoring rules are like order books
The Times on EU Vaccines, 2021-03-01
(2020)
2018-19 Donor Lottery Report, pt. 2
2018-19 Donor Lottery Report, pt. 1
Personal opinions on my Harvard courses H
(2019)
Review: The Triumph of Injustice
(2018)
(2017)
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
On “’till the stock of the Puritans die” H
Three Gifts from Penny Rheingans
(2016)
I can't support the Green platform
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
Oral Arguments from Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt
"Weedout" Courses Considered Harmful
Scariness and Self-Selection: A Shopping-Week Meditation
(2015)
Notes from the IOP's UC Debate
Greenlaw and Morris for the UC H
Notes from the UC Crossfire Debate H
10/28 Links: Thinkers, Statesmen, Economists, Doctors
Ben Kuhn sums up how Scott Aaronson sums up my thoughts on divestment
On the AAU Survey and the Crimson H
9/23 Links: Affording College, Thinking Outside the Box, Papametrics
Karim Pirbay is an Email Scammer H
Yes, you should hire college-educated computer scientists
Something's Rotten in the State of Facebook
4/17 Links: The Ecuadorian Tourism Agency, and Other Air Travel Pranks
4/10 Links: The Once and Future Friday Tradition
Notes: Parallel Proofs for Parallel Programs
Notes: Building a Better Web Browser
Ted Cruz is Having a Bad Second Day
Three Modest Proposals, Instead of Divesting... H
A Bag Full of Books, a Cache Full of Blogs
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]
2/6 Links: Photographs and a Cactus Doctor
1/23 Links: Sciences from Soft to Hard; Eggs from Hard to Soft
Crypto at Davos, or Harvard Profs vs. David Cameron
1/16 Links: Technologies, Games, and Play
1/9 Links: Futures and Pasts of Things
Saving Citizens from the Theater of Capital Punishment
(2014)
12/25/14 #2: A Nontrivially Improved Future
12/25/14 #1: A Highly Improbable Peace
Jon Stewart Vidwrap: Brown, Garner, and Race
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}
Democracy! (Part 2: The Democratizing)
10/31 Links: Links, Explosions, and People Talking
Sex: Statistics and Student Opinions
10/24 Links: Really Awesome Things
10/17 Links: Back on the Wagon
I Want to Major in Everything! H
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
Blogosphere Roundup: Q Difficulty Ratings H
[Meta] We're trying something new here
Some Friendly (College) Advice H
Quora Repost: CS/Math@Harvard? H
(2013)
How Do You Spend the Darkest Night?
[OGPS] What I Learned from Jacob Lurie
[OGPS] [China] Week 2 Disasters
Bad Advice, Quantum Mechanics, Normalcy
[Polyphasic Sleep] Errata, Food, Reductionism
[Polyphasic Sleep] Tired, Dreams, Sunrise, BSG
[Polyphasic Sleep] Towards a Theory of Polyphasic Sleep, Reports From the Field