# charter cities (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover charter cities. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Claims Ledger: What Survived Contact With the Record](https://www.treygoff.com/writing/ufo-claims-ledger) _2026-07-25 · Trey Goff_ Every claim made in a three-hour interview about NASA and Apollo photography, numbered, timestamped, and worked to a public verdict — laid along the interview’s own clock. ## [The Complicated, Un-Sexy, Actually-Working Solution to AI Agent Long-Term Memory](https://www.treygoff.com/writing/agent-long-term-memory) _2026-03-16 · Trey Goff_ How a persistent structured-markdown memory and context-engine system gives AI agents real long-term memory by solving data quality at write time and surfacing context when it matters. ## [How I Became a Christian](https://www.treygoff.com/writing/how-i-became-a-christian) _2025-09-15 · Trey Goff_ A rationalist's journey to faith—from southern Baptist childhood to angry atheism to genuine belief. ## [I Suspect that Xi is Not Worried](https://paulromer.net/xi-is-not-worried/) _2025-04-12 · Paul Romer_ Between Wednesday’s euphoric market reaction to the administration’s narrowed focus on a trade war with only China and the Friday’s quiet surrender exempting Chinese-made computers and smartphones from the President’s reciprocal \[sic\] tariffs, there was a story on Thursday about the astonishing disconnect between Trump’s belligerence and the nation’s… ## [A Harsh Lesson About the World of Tech](https://paulromer.net/harsh-lessons-about-tech/) _2025-01-26 · Paul Romer_ There was a sad moment last week during the collapse of Frontier Math. Epoch AI had created this new benchmark to assess claims that the latest crop of AI models reason just like mathematicians with Ph.D.s who work on the research frontier. ## [Base-Rate Blindness](https://paulromer.net/base-rate-blindness/) _2025-01-21 · Paul Romer_ Over the weekend, I had a chance to get to know Apollo Robbins. If you don’t recognize the name, Apollo came to public attention when he pickpocketed members of Jimmy Carter’s Secret Service detail. ## [Harris’s Agenda is Vastly Better for the U.S. Economy](https://paulromer.net/harris-vastly-better/) _2024-10-23 · Paul Romer_ To protect a hard-earned reputation for objectivity, Nobel laureates in economics usually refrain from making public policy recommendations on the basis of personal values or political beliefs. We comment in public only when logic and evidence show that some proposal is unambiguously worse than a feasible alternative. Donald Trump embraces so many harmful policies that there wasn’t space to… ## [Environment as Code](https://paulromer.net/environment-as-code/) _2024-08-27 · Paul Romer_ In a previous post, I wrote that Anaconda got in my way when I was trying to learn Python. After I wrote that, I tried to recall the specifics. What was it that I started doing with the official Python tools that I didn’t do with Anaconda? Mostly, I broke the rules and made a mess. ## [Escaping from Anaconda's Stranglehold on macOS](https://paulromer.net/escaping-from-anaconda/) _2024-08-26 · Paul Romer_ If you teach a course that requires Python, you’ve encountered students on macOS who are trapped by Anaconda. Typically, they were told to install Anaconda in a first course on Python or data analytics. After that course is over, they discover that they can’t get an official version of Python to run. Many of these students have not used the command line. Many do not understand the…