Oct 31, 2024
These are my notes from a class at the Berkeley Math Circle on October 31rd, 2024. You can find an accompanying handout here.
Today we’re going to be talking about hyperbolic geometry.
But before we talk …
Oct 31, 2024
These are my notes from a class at the Berkeley Math Circle on October 23rd, 2024. You can find an accompanying handout here.
Today we’ll be talking about spies and secret messages and the question of …
Oct 9, 2024
I renamed the blog again. Now it’s called “Reason in Revolt”, which is a lyric from an English version of the Internationale. It’s available at reasoninrevolt.net. All the old URLs still …
Sep 10, 2024
Tonight I went to the Acquired podcast live show. Acquired’s tagline is “Every company has a story: Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them as a …
Aug 30, 2024
Laputa, from Gulliver's Travels. Home of the hopelessly rational people who "If they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman, or any other animal, they describe it by rhombs, circles, parallelograms, …
Aug 24, 2024
In the ant community, each worker performs its proper functions. There may be a separate caste of soldiers. Certain highly specialized individuals perform the functions of king and queen. If man were to adopt …
Aug 6, 2024
The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps
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Jul 29, 2024
There is an intellectual movement called “rationality” which, if one has any connection to the tech world, is difficult to avoid in the Bay Area. Closely related is “effective altruism”, …
Jul 1, 2024
Here are some Risograph prints I made in 2023 and the first half of 2024. Apologies for the photos being a bit dim.
This is a riff on a NIMBY slogan. This is a tree in Warsaw. For the TANC trip to Cuba. To …
Jul 1, 2024
Bathing is fun Bathing is already a popular pastime in the bay: from Archimedes Banya to Good Hot to the (sadly gone) Essex tub.
It’s a good time and people know it!
Bathing provides us with a slice of …