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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
- 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- 5 Historical Documents on Universal Truths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)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
- Aliens (1986)
- Time Quotes
- Walkway of Infinity
- Doubtful Duck
- 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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