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Shower thought

2024 April 03 · 1000 words
Idle musings on water and eternity

Ant in a labyrinth: random walk with invasion percolation

2024 March 21 · 3000 words
Investigating the behavior of a random walk on a percolation cluster

The coastline paradox

2024 March 14 · 800 words
Measuring the coastline of Massachusetts

Response to Michael Weissman re. covid origins debate

2024 March 01 · 3000 words
An answer to criticisms

Percolation theory and fractal dimension

2024 February 29 · 3500 words
Investigating largest clusters in percolation networks

$100K covid origins debate winner announced

2024 February 19 · < 500 words
Natural origin wins the Rootclaim covid origins debate

Introduction to Bayesian reasoning and hypothesis testing

2024 February 18 · 6000 words
Confused by p-values? Look no further!

The invisible king: solutions to 6 and 7

2024 February 17 · < 500 words
Chess problems

Percolation theory and finding the critical point

2024 February 15 · 2000 words
Investigating largest clusters in percolation networks

The invisible king: problems 6 and 7

2024 February 10 · 800 words
Chess problems

Exercises on random walks

2024 February 08 · 2500 words
What is the probability a random walk returns to its starting point?

The invisible king: problem 5

2024 February 03 · 500 words
Chess problems

The invisible king: problems 3 and 4

2024 January 27 · 600 words
Chess problems

The invisible king: problems 1 and 2

2024 January 20 · < 500 words
Chess problems

Judge Chutkan rules on absolute immunity

2023 December 02 · 1500 words
Highlights from the legal front lines

Boston’s GLX: a case study in cost disease

2023 October 01 · 1500 words
Why is infrastructure so expensive in the US? I have no answers, but I do have rambling thoughts

Links

2023 September 22 · 900 words
Algiers’ paradoxical name; a polynomial that took 80 years to discover; ChatGPT’s monty hall difficulties; and what is an angzarr anyway?

Real numbers, made real

2023 August 21 · 2000 words
A brief look at the mysterious world of real numbers

Rarest knight forks in chess history

2023 July 23 · 2500 words
What pair of pieces have only been forked once in chess history?

Taxing cryptocurrency: is this good for bitcoin?

2023 May 04 · 900 words
Why taxing cryptocurrency mining doesn’t hurt anyone, and how to de-decentralize bitcoin in one easy step

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