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… and post a write-up on this blog. That sounds crazy of course – who has the time to read a paper every weekday? Let alone write it up! I’ve done it for each of the last two calendar y…
On the day after Christmas, my city-mapping project Majuro.js appeared on the front page of Hacker News. It would be a few days before I found out, because I was out of internet, cell phone, or even radio contact on Arno Atoll, a razor-thin string of tropical islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Alex Sexton lives in Austin, TX and works as a software engineer at Pierre.co.
This week has been… eventful. And when I say eventful, I can say this has been the funniest pentest I have ever been on in my life. Let me tell you about it!
I. Kaj Sotala has an outstanding review of Unlocking The Emotional Brain; I read the book, and Kaj’s review is better. He begins: UtEB’s premise is that much if not most of our behavior is dr…
Did the Biggest Loser contestants really damage their metabolism or was something else going on?
On the benefits and lack of demerits of nicotine (research up to 2015)
I’ve been feeling a certain stagnation in Mac software these past few years. In this piece I try to understand why.
I love my two cats dearly and they bring a lot of joy to my life, but they also bring other things, like poop, and fur. When I tried to research mitigations for any of these it was 100% SEO listic…
In November 2021, we finished our series A Chemical Hunger, where we argue that the obesity epidemic is the result of environmental contaminants, and that one of those contaminants might be lithium…
Update (6/24): For further thoughts and context about this unfolding saga, see this excellent piece by Tom Chivers (author of The AI Does Not Hate You, so far the only book about the rationalist co…
People pay $0.50-$2.00 for an hour of digital entertainment.
New research from Dr Rachael Bedford as part of the TABLET project recruited 12-month-old infants who had different levels of touchscreen usage.
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I say a lot of things. I avoid lying at all costs, and instead prefer to simply leave out a lot of... details. Like why I started a game dev...
Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours
Most people sense that school today is poor preparation for the world of work. I think there is a fundamental reason why: linearity. School is a
Overconsumption is a spiritual problem, not a money problem. Lessons about desire from "Spirited Away".
In 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket Books, a line of diminutive volumes (measuring 4 by 6 ... Read more
A simple mental model that can help you navigate your career.
Thinking about inbox management, RSS feeds, and email overload
I've long believed that we seriously underestimate kids. Hanging around with my friend's daughters who were 2, 3, and 5 when I was in college was really illuminating as I found myself interacting and conversing with his (admittedly smart) 2 year o...
