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  • 73 | Ostende mihi heros

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    May 5, 2025 ∘ ~8 mins ∘ ––– views
    theology
    Popes
  • 72 | Honor Among Sieves

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    May 1, 2025 ∘ ~15 mins ∘ ––– views
    software-engineeringalgorithms
    λ-calculus continued
  • 71 | CPU Schedulers

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    April 27, 2025 ∘ ~33 mins ∘ ––– views
    software-engineeringalgorithms
    How do they work?
  • 70 | Annihilating Hilbert's 2nd Problem

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    April 9, 2025 ∘ ~75 mins ∘ ––– views
    software-engineeringalgorithmscomplexity-theoryturing-machines
    λ-calculus
    poty
  • 69 | The Path Integral

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    March 28, 2025 ∘ ~24 mins ∘ ––– views
    quantumphysics
    more quantum mechanics
  • 68 | Useless Solutions Call for Useless Problems

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    February 25, 2025 ∘ ~153 mins ∘ ––– views
    linear-algebraquantumsoftware-engineering
    quantum mechanics
  • 67 | AlphaZero should've been called 'Go-NaD'

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    February 14, 2025 ∘ ~18 mins ∘ ––– views
    reinforcement-learninggame-theorydigestalgorithms
    Stratego
  • 66 | ML 7: De-noising Auto Encoders

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    January 4, 2025 ∘ ~33 mins ∘ ––– views
    machine-learningreinforcement-learningsoftware-engineeringlinear-algebra
    how do they work
  • 65 | Umber

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    December 25, 2024 ∘ ~40 mins ∘ ––– views
    category-theoryabstract-algebra
    Blissard's Symbolic Calculus
  • 64 | GPUs

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    December 14, 2024 ∘ ~120 mins ∘ ––– views
    software-engineeringlinear-algebra
    How do they work?
  • 63 | ML 6: Characterizations of Federated Learning

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    December 12, 2024 ∘ ~21 mins ∘ ––– views
    machine-learningreinforcement-learning
    Digest from a paper presented at NeurIPS '24
  • 62 | Looking forward into the past

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    November 25, 2024 ∘ ~34 mins ∘ ––– views
    complexity-theorynumerical-models
    Moonwalking through Conway's Game of Life
  • 61 | De-bunking the bed

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    October 17, 2024 ∘ ~38 mins ∘ ––– views
    digestlinear-algebragraph-theory
    disproving long standing conjectures
  • 60 | Reflection Without Remorse

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    June 28, 2024 ∘ ~25 mins ∘ ––– views
    category-theorydigest
    Haskell is divinely inspired, so it makes sense that I can't hardly read it and that the hoogle docs burn my skin.
  • 59 | Salvation's Edge: Verity

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    June 23, 2024 ∘ ~12 mins ∘ ––– views
    group-theoryabstract-algebra
    Destiny 2
  • 58 | Memory

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    May 11, 2024 ∘ ~83 mins ∘ ––– views
    software-engineeringcomplexity-theory
    Stack, Heap, VRAM
  • 57 | Galois Theory 2: The General Quintic is Dead and Évariste Killed Him

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    April 14, 2024 ∘ ~91 mins ∘ ––– views
    galois-theorygroup-theoryfield-theoryabstract-algebra
    towers of Galois
  • 56 | Shapley, Weyl, Buterin, Freedman, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Kant

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    April 11, 2024 ∘ ~60 mins ∘ ––– views
    digestgame-theoryPPEvoting
    Shapley values, Quadratic Voting, and Quadratic Finance
  • 55 | Galois Theory 1: Prelude to the Nonexistence of the General Quintic

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    April 1, 2024 ∘ ~40 mins ∘ ––– views
    galois-theorygroup-theoryfield-theoryabstract-algebra
    elementary symmetric polynomials and power sums of symmetric polynomials
  • 54 | Digest: Thynges that are thynges, that ARE other thynges

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    March 20, 2024 ∘ ~26 mins ∘ ––– views
    digestcategory-theoryset-theoryabstract-algebra
    Eric Hehner's unified algebra
  • 53 | Which Way, Western Man?

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    February 21, 2024 ∘ ~29 mins ∘ ––– views
    literature
    Roger Zelazny's 'Lord of Light' and GZA's 'Liquid Swords'
    poty
  • 52 | The Apollo Guidance Computer

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    January 20, 2024 ∘ ~71 mins ∘ ––– views
    software-engineeringfault-tolerancecodesrocket-science
    An overview of the computer which put man on the Moon from an amateur systems enthusiast perspective
  • 51 | It's a Complex Situation

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    November 7, 2023 ∘ ~38 mins ∘ ––– views
    linear-algebraset-theoryabstract-algebra
    in search of a canonical vector product
  • 50 | Librarians, Luhn, and Lizard Brain

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    August 27, 2023 ∘ ~64 mins ∘ ––– views
    digestgroup-theoryabstract-algebracodes
    A geometric interpretation of the an error detecting code using dihedral group of order 10
    poty
  • 49 | 2.3728596

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    April 10, 2023 ∘ ~80 mins ∘ ––– views
    digestlinear-algebraabstract-algebra
    Using tensors, lasers to find a faster means of matrix multiplication
  • 48 | Digest: Things that are things, but not other things

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    March 26, 2023 ∘ ~36 mins ∘ ––– views
    digestcategory-theory
    Understanding fundaments of category theory with counter examples
  • 47 | Goodhart's Law

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    March 5, 2023 ∘ ~24 mins ∘ ––– views
    scalasoftware-engineering
    How to write really good unit tests
  • 46 | You know what really funges my tokens?

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    January 5, 2023 ∘ ~14 mins ∘ ––– views
    p5.js
    Plotting, scheming, generative art
  • 45 | Smiting the Demon Number: How to Solve a Rubik's Cube

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    October 23, 2022 ∘ ~70 mins ∘ ––– views
    group-theory
    (With Group Theory)
  • 44 | The Magical Number Seven

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    October 9, 2022 ∘ ~39 mins ∘ ––– views
    digestpsychology
    psychology, subitization, chunking, a prison style tattoo gun
  • 43 | FLDR? I Barely Even Know Her!

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    September 23, 2022 ∘ ~24 mins ∘ ––– views
    digeststatisticstrees
    dice, trees, & integer arithmetic
  • 42 | Strong Eventual Consistency

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    September 18, 2022 ∘ ~52 mins ∘ ––– views
    Byzantine-problemsfault-tolerancemusicCRDTs
    punk rock & conflict free replicated data types
  • 41 | How to be a Successful Software Engineer

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    August 23, 2022 ∘ ~11 mins ∘ ––– views
    software-engineering
    A rebuttal to imposter syndrome
  • 40 | Voyager 2

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    July 9, 2022 ∘ ~60 mins ∘ ––– views
    information-theorygroup-theorystatisticscodesrocket-science
    Error Correcting Codes and future-proofing space craft
    poty
  • 39 | Notes on Information Theory

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    July 1, 2022 ∘ ~170 mins ∘ ––– views
    information-theorygroup-theorystatisticscodes
    Notes on Information Theory from Claude, Hamming, Hadamard, CMU, Wiley
  • 38 | ML 5: If My Mother Had Wheels She Would Have Been a Markov Chain Language Model

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    June 5, 2022 ∘ ~28 mins ∘ ––– views
    machine-learninglinear-algebra
    Reject modernity (transformers); embrace tradition (markov chains)
  • 37 | Notes on Category Theory

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    May 5, 2022 ∘ ~118 mins ∘ ––– views
    category-theorygroup-theoryset-theorylinear-algebracodes
    A collection notes on Category Theory for personal reference.
  • 36 | Towards Computational Game Theory Part 2

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    May 1, 2022 ∘ ~16 mins ∘ ––– views
    game-theory
    Nimbers, pencil, and paper, combinatorial game theory
  • 35 | Reasonable Judging

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    April 20, 2022 ∘ ~29 mins ∘ ––– views
    hackathonstatistics
    Using spreadsheets, (not) Gavel, Social Choice Theory
  • 34 | Towards Computational Game Theory Part 1

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    April 17, 2022 ∘ ~33 mins ∘ ––– views
    game-theory
    Philosophy, Economics
  • 33 | Voting Power

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    March 31, 2022 ∘ ~19 mins ∘ ––– views
    pythonpoliticsgame-theoryvoting
    Shapley-Shubrik, Banzhaf, python, a suspicious amount of hypotheticals
  • 32 | Abdicating to the Algorithms: Solving the Redistricting Problem

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    December 13, 2021 ∘ ~36 mins ∘ ––– views
    PPEpoliticsvotingnumerical-models
    I argue that the problem of redistricting is better solved by computational models than by humans, and that their adoption is not only an ethical and logistical possibility, but rather a vast improvement over current techniques.
    poty
  • 31 | Digest: Modeling Uncertainty

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    August 13, 2021 ∘ ~18 mins ∘ ––– views
    digeststatistics
    Daniel's knowledge + Monte Carlo simulations
  • 30 | CS 4104 Algorithms Notes

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    July 1, 2021 ∘ ~187 mins ∘ ––– views
    algorithmsgraph-theorycomplexity-theory
    Graphs, analysis, networks flows, borderline fake math
  • 29 | Digest: Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete

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    March 5, 2021 ∘ ~17 mins ∘ ––– views
    digestmagicturing-machines
    TERRIBLE TURING MACHINES SEASON 2 BABY!!
  • 28 | Visualizing the Josephus Problem

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    December 17, 2020 ∘ ~12 mins ∘ ––– views
    p5.js
    Visualizing the Josephus Problem with p5.js
    poty
  • 27 | Webscraping Workshop

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    November 19, 2020 ∘ ~11 mins ∘ ––– views
    python
    Write-up of introductory webscraping techniques using Python, pandas, and beautiful soup
  • 26 | 'Places Traveled' React Component

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    October 26, 2020 ∘ ~15 mins ∘ ––– views
    react
    Building a React component with the Google Maps API
  • 25 | How to Improve Your Digital Hackathon

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    October 25, 2020 ∘ ~13 mins ∘ ––– views
    hackathon
    Everything as before + remote tools, engagement tactics, and more!
  • 24 | Garbage Collection

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    October 15, 2020 ∘ ~7 mins ∘ ––– views
    pythongraph-theory
    Implementing a simple mark-and-sweep garbage collection strategy
    poty
  • 23 | Digest: Occam's Razor

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    October 14, 2020 ∘ ~14 mins ∘ ––– views
    set-theorypsychology
    Understanding complexity
  • 22 | Digest: TrueSkill 2: Better Bayesian Assumptions Boogaloo

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    August 12, 2020 ∘ ~12 mins ∘ ––– views
    digeststatistics
    Optimal Match Making using Bayesian Inference
  • 21 | ML 4: Kit & Kaboodle

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    June 26, 2020 ∘ ~182 mins ∘ ––– views
    machine-learningreinforcement-learning
    Sutton, Barto, Bhoag
  • 20 | Digest: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

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    June 24, 2020 ∘ ~19 mins ∘ ––– views
    digest
    Derivations from Ioannidis' 2005 article: 'Why Most Published Research Findings Are False' and discussion of the replication crisis
  • 19 | How to Improve Your Hackathon

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    November 11, 2019 ∘ ~14 mins ∘ ––– views
    hackathon
    A plan, a good team, and lots of lead time!
  • 18 | Fibonacci Numbers as Conversion Heuristics

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    October 11, 2019 ∘ ~9 mins ∘ ––– views
    python
    Taking a look at a fascinating relationship between Fibonacci numbers and unit conversion while also learning some Python tools along the way.
    poty
  • 17 | John Stuart Mill’s "On Liberty": Embracing Heresy

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    October 7, 2019 ∘ ~18 mins ∘ ––– views
    philosophycritical-analysis
    Critical Analysis of Mill's essay
  • 16 | ML 3.5: A Post by Peter?

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    August 1, 2019 ∘ ~5 mins ∘ ––– views
    machine-learning
    This text was generated by a rnn with 700 hidden nodes across 4 layers trained on everything I've has ever written over 500 epochs
  • 15 | Terrible Turing Machines - Season 1

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    August 1, 2019 ∘ ~15 mins ∘ ––– views
    turing-machines
    too much free time
  • 14 | ML 3: A Summary of a Summary: DQN Bottlenecks

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    July 26, 2019 ∘ ~5 mins ∘ ––– views
    machine-learningreinforcement-learning
    RL + Sergey Levine + Swords!
  • 13 | Digest: Documentation

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    July 17, 2019 ∘ ~3 mins ∘ ––– views
    digest
    Tips from industry professionals
  • 12 | Digest: Extensional vs. Intuitive Reasoning

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    July 5, 2019 ∘ ~6 mins ∘ ––– views
    digestpsychology
    A Summary of a Summary of a Summary
  • 11 | ML 2: A Discussion of Action Spaces

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    June 27, 2019 ∘ ~3 mins ∘ ––– views
    machine-learningreinforcement-learning
    Just dumb enough that it might work
  • 10 | ML 1: Reinforcement Learning, So Hot Right Now

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    June 26, 2019 ∘ ~12 mins ∘ ––– views
    machine-learningreinforcement-learning
    Overview of a Summary of Reinforcement Learning
  • 9 | Build a K-Nearest Neighbors Graph From Scratch

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    May 12, 2019 ∘ ~13 mins ∘ ––– views
    statisticsp5.js
    Given n-dimensional data that we can classify into various categories, we can use KNN to predict what class an unknown n-dimensional data-point falls into based on its proximity to the nearest K points.
  • 8 | The New Testament at a Glance

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    December 1, 2018 ∘ ~152 mins ∘ ––– views
    literaturecritical-analysistheology
    A semi-exhaustive study guide for the New Testament
  • 7 | Justification by Faith: The Letter to the Hebrews

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    October 1, 2018 ∘ ~5 mins ∘ ––– views
    literaturecritical-analysis
    Historical critcisim
  • 6 | Understanding the Christology of the Gospel of John: The Bread of Life

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    September 1, 2018 ∘ ~5 mins ∘ ––– views
    literaturecritical-analysis
    Historical critcisim of the Gospel according to John
  • 5 | PoliSci Annotated Bibliography

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    August 1, 2018 ∘ ~20 mins ∘ ––– views
    PhilosophyPoliticsLiterature
    A Survey of seminal Poli-Sci readings
  • 4 | The Post-Revolutionary Literary Revolutionary

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    March 1, 2018 ∘ ~22 mins ∘ ––– views
    literaturecritical-analysis
    Critical analysis of Naguib Mahfouz's novel 'The Thief and the Dogs'
    poty
  • 3 | Survey of U.S. Presidents

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    December 15, 2017 ∘ ~107 mins ∘ ––– views
    APUSH
    A biographical survey of US presidents through 2020
  • 2 | Comparing Apples and Oranges

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    August 14, 2017 ∘ ~4 mins ∘ ––– views
    philosophy
    Husserl and phenomenology
  • 1 | The Deafening Sound of Life

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    March 1, 2017 ∘ ~14 mins ∘ ––– views
    literaturecritical-analysis
    Critical analysis of William Faulkner's novel 'The Sound and the Fury'
    poty
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