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I was thinking more about the cosine approximation to the Gaussian exp(−z²) ≈ (1 + cos(sin(z) + z))/2 that I wrote about last week. The two expressions above are close along the real axis but not along the imaginary axis. If z = iy, the...
Marc Andreessen's recent appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast presented a striking example of AI promotion (or AI hype, as you please). We can discuss his extraordinary claims and predictions another time. My topic this morning is something...
Privacy is a fundamental human right. Discover why it's the foundation of freedom, autonomy, and human dignity in the age of mass surveillance
LEGO: Recreate an iconic Spanish landmark with the LEGO® Architecture Sagrada Família (21065) model kit. This 12,060 piece set (the largest LEGO building set to date) is a challenging and rewarding adventure for yourself or any travel...
From Lenin’s Asylum: Two Years in Moldova, by A. A. Weiss (Everytime Press, 2018), Kindle pp. 61-62: On the night before I left for Spain, Dariya knocked and entered my room with her teaching notebook. She’d settled in comfortably as …...
by Gertrud U. Rey On May 17, 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern in response to an Ebola disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The situation is...
Jessica writes: I get so tired of people dumping on decision theory because real world decisions are complex. If decision theory is so deeply flawed, I’d love to know what alternative methods the critics advise for trying to evaluate and...
A deep dive into the architecture of FokosDB, a distributed database built ontop of Cloudflare Developer Platform.
The Today I Learned lists have now been moved into a database to make it easier to query, pivot and explore.
I’m continuing on with watching the miniseries Edward the King (1975) in desperate hopes of
A blunt personal reflection on sex work, kink, dysphoria, intimacy, and the difficulty of wanting intimacy without knowing how to safely receive it