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Book Review: Gravity's Rainbow
What makes a book great?
Feb 2
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Familiarity begets interest
A pleasant byproduct of learning new things
Jan 23
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And the Lord said to Moses, I will rain down optimization from heaven
On the false analogy between evolution and optimization
Nov 13, 2025
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The hard problem of community building
Reflections on RatFest 2025
Oct 18, 2025
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Ben Chugg
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On Recht's bureaucratic theory of statistics
Engaging in the statistics wars. Does it make sense to talk about ex ante policy on its own?
Sep 18, 2025
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Book review: Stoner
John Williams' 1965 classic. Or, the best book ever written.
Aug 29, 2025
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Two math cultures
Math as engineering vs math as discovery
Aug 25, 2025
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There are no Ramanujans in Abstract Expressionism
Or: What does it take to draw a rectangle really really well?
Aug 9, 2025
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