Book review: “Ghost-Eye”
From Amitav Ghosh’s latest novel to Jung, ancient Iran, and Periclean Athens
Insight≠Numbers
A blog by Ahmed Fasih
Latest posts
Recentered storytelling: a review of Motherland: Fort Salem
By decentering men and making powerful women the focus of its society, Motherland: Fort Salem has found a storytelling winning formula
“What do you dislike about programming?”
Someone asked: as someone who programs for work and as a hobby, what do you dislike about programming?
Hareonna: visualize weather around the world
Intuitively visualize temperatures from the 13’500+ weather stations in the Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCNd) database, find the places with your favorite weather
Announcing: Devastate—calibrating uncertainty via trivia
A web version of the exercise proposed by Julia Galef in “The Scout Mindset”
A look at S&P 500's real excess return over Treasuries
Conventional wisdom assures us to buy low-cost diversified mutual funds for retirement savings. Let's take a look at what that meant over the last century and more.
Learning about risk, for kids and grownups
Personal experiences teaching kids and grownups about risk through games
Beyond neophilia
How wrong we get the past, and another way to think about the future.
Works in progress
Posts I’m working on!
Announcing: Mudder.js
Generate lexicographically-spaced strings. And for fun, encode numbers in arbitrary-base number systems.
Japanese study books
Regular books, written by people, to help study Japanese.
Co-housing
Some notes on co-housing.
Announcing: Ebisu and Ebisu.js
Ebisu: intelligent quiz scheduling!
Announcing: KanjiBreak
KanjiBreak: collaboratively create kanji character breakdowns!
How Rust slays brittle indexing logic.
A newbie’s response to Steve Klabnik’s question: what does Rust solve for me?
A UTF-8 mini-refresher
Recalling some of the nitty-gritty details of UTF-8 decoding, with Rust sample code.
Conditional probability and the criterion of dissimilarity
Biblical criticism and Bayes theorem. What could go wrong?
Make Ruby HTML tags
If you can’t remember “ruby” vs “rp” vs “rt”, you’re in luck.
Track planes with a USB dongle
Instructions for getting real-time, local commercial and general aviation data with a RTL-SDR USB dongle and open-source software.
Random points on a spherical cap
An adventure in ES2015, spherical caps, and random sampling.
Measure your code, or, Replicating columns in Matlab
Three-ish implementations of an array slicing-and-dicing problem… in Matlab.
Texture-shaded Globe
Texture-shading: you’ve never seen terrain like this before!