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Lightly Held Identities and Ideological Turing Tests
What is the Probability of the Lab Leak Hypothesis?
Beware Ideas that Are Beneficially Selected
Wildly Different Knowledge Levels
2017, Lists, and State of the Internet
Tabula Rasa, Extinction, and Electricity
Internet Context, Natalism, and the Me Too Movement
Evil, Progress, and the Sun
Microtransactions, Speed Learning, and Absent-Mindedness
Nature Abhors a Vacuum: Population and Technology
The Good Old Days of the Internet (Circa 2010)
Relative vs Absolute Wealth
Nonorganic Growth of Nations
More Topics
Travel vs the Internet
Video Game Ratings
On Reviewing Things
Trump
Postmodernism, Progress, and Social Justice
YOLOing, Holes, and Facebook
Facebook Bias, Bernie Sanders, and Ubers in Austin
Tweets, Personalities, and Startups
GDPs, Feelings, and Mountains
Brains, Stories, and Yelling
Bots, Markets, and Assortative Mating
2015 and What I’m Thinking About
Safe Spaces and Universities
Paris and Campus Activism
If You Think Charlie Hebdo Needs to Tone It Down, You Don’t Understand Free Speech (Or Satire)
Interstellar
Is It Offensive?
Are First World Problems Justified?
One Second Left
The Revenge of Geography
Kindles and Current Reading List
On the Video Games and Violence Discussion
Can Geometry Be Racist?
A Single Cause For Everything
How Do Honor Killings Still Happen in 2014?
Observer Selection
Thinking Like an Economist
My College Experience
The Hypercritical Condition?
Mechanisms vs Statistics
Twitter
How Movies Have Conditioned Us to Hate Science and the Future
Science Cannot Disprove Leprechauns
Most Writers Are Writers
Confirmation Bias and the Illuminati
Statistics in the Social Sciences
Dismissing Things Without Evidence
Noam Chomsky on Postmodernism
5 Historical Documents on Universal Truths
The Flaming Laser Sword
The Fountainhead
Out of Context
Culture, Biases, and Empathy
Atheist or Agnostic: A Confusion of Terms?
Are Science and Religion Compatible?
The Construction of Social Progress: Can Civilization Move Forward?
10 Surprising Mathematical Facts
What Is the Best Superpower?
Explained: 11 Ways Christians Are Like Atheists
11 Ways Christians Are Like Atheists
Mathematician’s Answer
Making Use of the Armchair: The Rise of the Non-Expert
Slavery, Sochi, and Steroids: When Does Competition Go Too Far?
My Blogging Philosophy
Internet Trolling
The Spectrum of Choice
The Better Angels of Our Nature
2013 in Review
Blogging Topics for 2014
When Principles Collide
Response to a Response
Game of Definitions
On God and Victim Blaming
The Signal and the Noise, and Other Readings
Rationality vs Irrationality
When Does Not Deciding Count as a Decision?
Standing Up in a Crowded Theater, Studying for Tests, and Other Game-Theoretic Dilemmas
An Atheist’s View on Religion
Big Picture vs Detail Oriented Thinking
On Senior Year
Is the Virtual World Really An Escape from Reality? (Part 2)
More on Pride in Randomness: A Take on Race and Miss America
Thinking of a Topic to Write About
Cultural Values
No Deal
Ethical Dilemmas and Human Morality, part 2
The Moral Landscape
Spontaneous Decision Making
The End of Faith
Thinking, Fast and Slow; and Other Summer Readings
The Swinging Pendulum: Talent vs Hard Work
“Just As Bad”
More on Pride in Race, and Social Revolutions
The Media
Blogging, Chess, and the Sunk Cost Fallacy
Pride in Things Out of Your Control
The Stuff of Thought
My Spring 2013 Semester (Part 2)
Why Do I Care?
Religious Logic: Fundamentalists vs Moderates/Liberals
Two Laptops
A “Hated Minority”?
My Spring 2013 Semester
Quiet
Why Are College Students Not Choosing Math/Science?
Why Atheists Might Seem Nonvocal About Social Issues (Even Though They Strongly Support Your Views)
Hitchens: How Religion Poisons Everything
INTP
Stress and GPA-centrism in College
College and Smartphones
Survival of the Selfish Gene
Math or Computer Science?
Making Mistakes—And Quickly Correcting Them
For Science: Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Death by Black Hole”
Why I Approve of Richard Dawkins’s “The God Delusion”
Thoughts on Classes, Spring 2013
What I Learned from 2012, and My Topics for 2013
Free Will
Computer Science and Math
The Legacy of 2012: The Fall of Superstition
Talent Is Overrated
Are We in a Simulation? A Scientific Test
On the Naming of Terms in Several Disciplines
On Giving Too Much Legitimacy to the Inferior Position
Quote Mismatched
How to (Theoretically) Win a 2-Party Presidential Election with Just 21.8% of the Popular Vote
The Perfect Prediction
Does Your Individual Vote Really Matter?
Blogging Year 3
New Math Blog
New .com Domain
The Rise of Non-Religion as a Political Movement
Orwell, Chomsky, and the Power of Twisting Language
How Do You Define Obvious?
Two Important Principles
Determinism from the Perspective of the Simulation Argument
2012 Embassy Attacks and the Tolerance Paradox
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
An Atheist’s View on Morality
Ethical Dilemmas and Human Morality
The Math You Weren’t Allowed to Do
The Daily Stumble #2: Mint Graffiti
People Who Agree With You for the Wrong Reasons
The Daily Stumble #1: Slow Time
Light in Slow Motion, and Curiosity’s Descent Video
Why Math?
An International Readership
Science Exaggeration in the Media
Year 3
Is the Virtual World Really An Escape from Reality?
Is the Afterlife the Only Motivation?
Curiouser and Curiouser
What If? (From the Creator of xkcd)
The Oatmeal On Religion
Trolling In Cyberwarfare?
Utopia vs Dystopia: A Matter of Semantics?
Rob Ager’s Film Analysis Page
5 Logical Fallacies That Everyone Should Avoid
1.8 Million?!
So What is Real?
The Number 23
Percents
Life Paradoxes
When the Snow Finally Returns: Cornell Spring 2012
Movies of 2011
SOPA
The End of Year 2 and (My Somewhat Delayed) Start of Nanowrimo
[Graph] The Difficulty of Prelims at Cornell
10 Mind Blowing Mathematical Equations
How Many Moves Ahead Do You Calculate?
Lock Picking, and Solving Problems
Cornell Fall 2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Four Months
Osama Bin Laden is Dead, So What?
Everything That Has a Beginning Has an End
White Moves First, and Other Deeply Ingrained Facts
How Important is Having the Right Mood in Writing?
Sleep Deprivation Is Totally Not a New Phenomenon
Still on Winter Break Mode
Cars and Time Management (And Not How They Are Related)
5 Things that Cause Writer’s Block (And How to Avoid Them)
List of Banned Words Constitutes a “Fail”
Dislike vs Not Like: A General Sense of Apathy in the Modern World
My Mirror Behavior
Cornell: First Weeks of Semester 2 [Photos]
On Snow, As Viewed by a Texan
Movies Page
My First Day Back in Ithaca: Cornell and Snow [Photos]
Why US Airways Annoys Me
Off to Ithaca (2nd Time!)
A Chinese Kid’s Response to “Chinese Parenting”
Movies of 2010
A Post on Something Which I Care Nothing About
A Post-Recessionary Blogging Whatever
Why I Am Not Doing PostADay
2010 in Review (For This Blog)
New Year’s Resolutions for 2011
Free Will: How We Do and Do Not Have It
Desk After Birthday [Photos]
The Blue Danube
Is the Glass Half Full?
A Serious Post, As Written by a Completely Serious Person
A Musical Project
My First Semester at College
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Future, and Where We Stand in 2010
Is Black or White a Color?
Crazy Math
Catching Up: Manga
Kevin and the Bear
When You Have No Clue What People Are Talking About
Back in Austin
The Popularity of Starcraft in Korea (and Elsewhere)
7 (+1) Awesome Movie Scenes with the Most Fitting Music
The Postmodern
The Map of Facebook Connections
No Surprise that Zuckerberg is TIME’s Person of the Year 2010
On Cookies
On Food
The Purpose of Our Existence
The Basics of Recursion vs Iteration
Going Viral: Planning vs. the Internet
The Tao
On Marching Band
A Sociological Perspective on Internet Trolling
Favorite Things
A Layman’s Explanation of the Banach-Tarski Paradox
Spikes Without StumbleUpon
Blizzard Servers: Cataclysm
A Bar Joke
The Art of the Haiku
The Art of the Pun
December 1, 2010: The Day of the the Blizzard
Before Blogging: Some Nostalgia
Probably My Most Random Post Ever
Catching up on Movies
Black Friday
Happy Thanksgiving from NYC!
NaNoWriMo: Reaching 50,000
Writer’s Block
Planning vs the Internet
WARNING: Do Not Yawn
If Something Can Go Wrong, It Will
What Happens in New York…
Writing Writing Writing
An Experiment Within an Experiment
I ♥ WordPress!
3:11 AM
The Novel Idea
One Day, and One Day Only
One Year Ago…
Does More Time Mean More Productivity?
Experiment #2: NaNoWriMo
Resourcefulness
Life at Cornell
The End of an Experiment
Two Weeks
Embedded Powerpoints!
Social Networking as News: Examining the 2010 UT Gunman Incident
My Writing Sins
Gumption Traps and Writing
Memory and Multitasking
When I Can’t Think of Anything to Blog…
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty Walkthrough, Difficulty Guide
Logic in Math and in the Arts
Starcraft II Editor — Second Look
Young Goodman Brown
Encountering Infinity Twice in a Row
Cornell Class of 2014 Orientation
Moved in to Cornell!
Cortlandville, NY and How I Got There
Off to Ithaca
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
I Write Like…
Do Androids Dream of Science Fiction?
Unproductivity, and a New Theme!
Plot Similarities in Blizzard Games
Inception (2010)
New Site Icon!
In the Middle of Writing a Novel…
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A Reasoner’s Observations on China
Full Circle
Counting Ducks
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Change, the Change of Change, and the Change Thereof
Writing with Style — John R. Trimble
Blind and Deaf
Freedom of the Press: Baidu vs Google
42
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lady Windermere’s Fan
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Testing Post Through Email
The Duck or the Egg?
A Greeting from China
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Splice (2010)
Trip! (And the Use of Facebook in China)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Youth in Revolt (2010)
What is the name of today’s comic?
The Karate Kid (2010)
On Writing
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Aliens (1986)
Time Quotes
Walkway of Infinity
Doubtful Duck
Multi-Authorship
A Warm Welcome
1984
Ender’s Shadow
Slaughterhouse-Five
Schindler’s List (1993)
Epimenides Duck
Tumblr vs WordPress: Simplicity vs Power
Iron Man 2 Many Explosions
Summer Reading List
The Hunting of the Snark
Gödel, Escher, Bach
The Annotated Alice
Hofstadter’s Law
Self-Referencing Ducks
Let the Right One In
Graduation!
Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?
Reflections on High School
Waiting for Godot
12 Events That Will Change Everything
Pair of Ducks
Is Time an Illusion?
Writing, An Update
666 (Twice)
A Work in Progress
Google and this Blog
Site Update
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar…
The Persistence of Memory
Senioritis
Alice in Wonderland
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Both and Neither
Double Negatives and Statistics
AP/IB Exams
Life, L-IB-erty, and the Pursuit of H-AP-piness
The StarCraft II Map Editor, in Context
Saying What You Mean and Meaning What You Say
Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You
Haiku
New Laptop, and Laptop Comparison
The Great Gatsby
The Aims of Education
Siddhartha
On Writing Well
Visit to the University of Chicago
“Insights Always Seem So Obvious in Retrospect”
Quotations from Through the Looking Glass
Quotations from Alice in Wonderland
College Decisions
Meta Writing and Logic
Spikes from StumbleUpon and Digg Fall by 50% on Second Day
College, and the 15% Rule
April Fools’ Day Ceases to Exist
1337
The Most Common Lie on Census
Ifferisms
Digg Stats: Hits vs. Page
First Millennium Prize Declined
I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like
The Impact of Digg, and Digg vs. StumbleUpon
StarCraft II Unit Review: Protoss Void Ray
The True Impact of StumbleUpon
The Impact of StumbleUpon
US Census 2010 Win
Innumeracy
36.8% in Probability
The Brain’s Dark Energy
Pi
StarCraft II Beta Overview, Cont’d
The Richest of the Rich
TED on 4 am
StarCraft II Beta Overview
Two Pawn Swindle
Oldest Record
The Pirate Hunter
On the Occurrence of Improbable Events
Chess Blogging
Candide
Oxymoronica
Viva la Repartee
Google Buzz
Everything is Illuminated
The Elements of Style
Movies of 2009, Cont’d
Perfect Rigor
College Interviews Part 2
On the Number of Magnitudes Less than a Given Prime
Warcraft III Map Making
Blah Blah
Hen
On Procrastination, as Written by a Procrastinator
Agent Ex
Movies of 2009
A Modest Preposition
Microsoft Surgeon
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
Concerning Football and Competitive Behavior
Nargaque
If I Wrote the Dictionary
2010s: The Decade of Solutions
The Metamorphosis
Negative Correlation
Chargin Mah Lazer
The Man on TV
Year’s End
A Proverbial Attempt at Wordplay (2)
WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter
A Proverbial Attempt at Wordplay
QED
Venn Diagram
Tomorrow’s My Birthday!
xkcd
The Legacy of 2009
On the Twelfth Day
Excellent Poems
The Physics Teacher
College Interviews Part 1
On the Fifth Day
Reflections on 2009
Life in the Multiverse
The Riemann Hypothesis
College Acceptance Status
On the Fourth Day
Consciousness of Stream
I Won the Game!
On the Third Day
Reach the Moon
The Norway Spiral Mystery
On the Second Day
The IB Extended Essay
On the First Day
The Use of Rhetoric to Obscure a Lack of Meaningful Content
Philosophy of The Matrix (Part 2)
Philosophy of The Matrix (Part 1)
IB Theory of Knowledge
The Scarlet Letter Mock Trial
Sleep: A Heuristic Examination
Testing WordPress-Facebook Posting
Compsci UIL “UIL”
The Most Dangerous Enemy
Website and Blog Are Up!

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