Here are the monthly archives.

• May 2017 (1)
• March 2017 (2)
• January 2017 (1)
• November 2016 (1)
• May 2016 (5)
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• December 2015 (2)
• November 2015 (1)
• January 2015 (1)
• November 2014 (1)
• June 2014 (8)
• May 2014 (10)
• April 2014 (9)
• March 2014 (9)
• February 2014 (4)
• January 2014 (4)
• December 2013 (6)
• November 2013 (4)
• October 2013 (4)
• September 2013 (6)
• August 2013 (4)
• July 2013 (5)
• May 2013 (7)
• April 2013 (1)
• March 2013 (6)
• February 2013 (7)
• January 2013 (2)
• December 2012 (4)
• November 2012 (6)
• October 2012 (5)
• September 2012 (8)
• August 2012 (12)
• July 2012 (5)
• May 2012 (4)
• April 2012 (1)
• February 2012 (1)
• January 2012 (2)
• November 2011 (1)
• October 2011 (2)
• September 2011 (2)
• August 2011 (3)
• May 2011 (1)
• April 2011 (1)
• March 2011 (2)
• February 2011 (9)
• January 2011 (10)
• December 2010 (37)
• November 2010 (16)
• October 2010 (8)
• September 2010 (10)
• August 2010 (11)
• July 2010 (13)
• June 2010 (31)
• May 2010 (25)
• April 2010 (17)
• March 2010 (19)
• February 2010 (11)
• January 2010 (21)
• December 2009 (28)
• November 2009 (9)

For the adventurous (and mainly for myself), here is a list of all posts (sorted in backwards chronological order):

• 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
• New Blog Theme!
• 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
• A Blogging Experiment
• 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
• Blogging, Controversy, and Meta-Controversy
• 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
• The Future of this Blog
• 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 and Blogging
• 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!