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Some problems are solved by thinking backwards

Well-being Beyond Feeling Good

A Third Form: Abductive Reasoning

Two forms of reasoning: Deductive and Inductive

The most unhelpful word in scientific discourse

A strategy for Bash aliases and personal scripts

From a Data Structures and Algorithms class to professional software engineering

Measurable and immeasurable code quality

We're all system designers, intentionally or not

Appreciation of the multilayered filmmaking of Inception

Designing systems to work in people's own stated interests

Using LLMs to transcribe handwritten notes

Correlation is not causation

Emergent qualities in complex systems

Designing a Scheduling Content Management System (CMS)

Match-making rating is a lagging indicator of game skill

The age command-line utility

What's the value of the humanities for society?

Frequentist and Bayesian approaches to probability theory

Simulation Hypothesis: Mysticism dressed up for the secular age

Simulation Hypothesis: Contesting on Merits

The Philosophy of Descartes (1596-1650)

A useful role for AI: a critic

Do questions like "what's the nature of..." make sense to begin with?

An overview of major economic doctrines since the 19th century

Make a cult in 5 easy steps

Russell's Paradox

Socrates the First Western Myth

Reflecting on a shortcoming

What I Believe In

Low-Quality, Noisy Information

What Is Engineering, After All?

Science, Technology, and Democracy

Science Is Different

Hedging Is Just Good Judgment

Substitutes for Thought

Enlightened Self-Interest

Writing is not the product of thinking; writing is thinking

Ideas Are Non-Rival Goods

Unverifiable Claims Are Noise

Credit Is Selling Your Future

"What's the test?" and "What's the alternative?"

Good writing, simply

Make the work easy, then do the easy work

I love having read

Alpine Linux on the Raspberry Pi 4

Framework vs Application Code for Managing Complexity

The Ever-Expanding Frontier of Commoditization

Thinking We Humans Are So Much Smarter Than a Century Ago Is Unfounded Vanity

A correct computer program and a sound argument piece are the same