Ineffective Theory

2025

• A Baumol effect for manufacturing and infrastructure? 8 Mar 2025
• Six-digit confirmation code statistics 1 Mar 2025

2024

• A Note on Peer Review 18 Nov 2024
• Democracies are naturally gerontocracies 17 Nov 2024
• Bayesian saturation 16 Nov 2024
• How (not) to disenfranchise yourself 15 Nov 2024
• Recommended Reading 31 Oct 2024
• Against Energy Exceptionalism 29 Sep 2024
• Plagiarising and Dissembling at the University of Maryland 18 Sep 2024
• A note on macro performance in Julia 27 Feb 2024
• One-paragraph book reviews 25 Feb 2024

2023

• (Weakly) Against scientific taste 12 Nov 2023
• Alex Wellerstein's Restricted Data 10 Sep 2023
• Links for August 2023 31 Aug 2023
• Easily repeated claims are less likely to be true 10 Aug 2023
• Thoughts adjacent to the "Proximal Origins" fallout 29 Jul 2023
• Links for July 2023 28 Jul 2023
• Links for June 2023 30 Jun 2023
• My Marginal Hour 13 Jun 2023
• Links for May 2023 31 May 2023
• Microcausal and macrocausal explanations 8 May 2023
• Links for April 2023 30 Apr 2023
• Links for March 2023 30 Mar 2023
• Links for February 2023 28 Feb 2023
• jax: Initialize an array from a function 28 Jan 2023
• Links for January 2023 27 Jan 2023

2022

• Links for December 2022 27 Dec 2022
• Links for November 2022 27 Nov 2022
• Links for October 2022 28 Oct 2022
• Links for September 2022 27 Sep 2022
• Links for August 2022 27 Aug 2022
• Links for July 2022 27 Jul 2022
• Automating arbitrage on Manifold markets 28 Jun 2022
• Links for June 2022 27 Jun 2022
• Circumscribe expertise (and maybe talk to the police) 19 Jun 2022
• Links for May 2022 27 May 2022
• Overestimating the Zero-Point Energy 30 Apr 2022
• When Luck Isn't 29 Apr 2022
• Links for April 2022 25 Apr 2022
• A Galactic Simulation of Planck-Scale Physics 14 Apr 2022
• Links for March 2022 27 Mar 2022
• Epistemic Orders of Magnitude 11 Mar 2022
• Cheap Data! 8 Mar 2022
• Against Sanctioning Researchers 3 Mar 2022
• Emergent Hypocrisy 2 Mar 2022
• A Sudden Change of Environment 27 Feb 2022
• Links for February 2022 26 Feb 2022
• Expository content is underrated 21 Feb 2022
• The Majority are a Majority 11 Feb 2022
• Links for January 2022 26 Jan 2022
• Git Steganography 21 Jan 2022

2021

• Links for December 2021 27 Dec 2021
• Monkeys, Typewriters, and Black Holes 19 Dec 2021
• Statistical Lies II: A Secret Survey 11 Dec 2021
• Spitznagel's "Safe Haven", Briefly 10 Dec 2021
• Links for November 2021 27 Nov 2021
• Links for October 2021 27 Oct 2021
• The sign problem is not caused by rapid oscillations 20 Oct 2021
• The Spectral Density Function of a Correlator 14 Oct 2021
• Links for September 2021 26 Sep 2021
• Molecular Dynamics In Your Browser! 25 Sep 2021
• Evolutionary Pressure on Weddings 14 Sep 2021
• Links: Negativity Bias Redux 12 Sep 2021
• Links for August 2021 24 Aug 2021
• Links for July 2021 29 Jul 2021
• Notes on Quantum Error Correction 22 Jul 2021
• Do cosmic rays cause domain name bit-flips? 6 Jul 2021
• Links for June 2021 28 Jun 2021
• Links for May 2021 27 May 2021
• Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth 11 May 2021
• Trivia From Medema's "Economics Book" 8 May 2021
• Links for April 2021 27 Apr 2021
• Mutual Subgroups 11 Apr 2021
• Links for March 2021 27 Mar 2021
• All Hail the Social Mobility Index 24 Mar 2021
• Links for February 2021 27 Feb 2021
• The Legendre Transform and the Path Integral 23 Feb 2021
• Quantum Ensembles 20 Feb 2021
• A Puzzle: Gauge Theory on a Quantum Computer 10 Feb 2021
• Illegible Incentives Matter 6 Feb 2021
• Links for January 2021 27 Jan 2021
• Quantifying the Influence of the Opening on Pawn Structure 24 Jan 2021

2020

• Links for December 2020 26 Dec 2020
• Lies That (Probably) Don't Matter 19 Dec 2020
• Harmonic Oscillator Weirdness 17 Dec 2020
• Is the Great Stagnation just a narrative? 15 Dec 2020
• Links for November 2020 26 Nov 2020
• To Petition the Government 15 Nov 2020
• Magnetism and Congress 14 Nov 2020
• Poor Phrasing as a Shibboleth 11 Nov 2020
• An Introduction to the Sign Problem 7 Nov 2020
• Observing Wavefunctions 27 Oct 2020
• Links for October 2020 25 Oct 2020
• Fluctuations and Phases 10 Oct 2020
• Links for September 2020 26 Sep 2020
• Why privilege closed-form expressions? 25 Sep 2020
• What do commutators have to do with causality? 22 Sep 2020
• The Weakness of Anthropic Arguments 10 Sep 2020
• Henry V's Fallacy 5 Sep 2020
• Links for August 2020 29 Aug 2020
• The Kolakoski Sequence and the Central Limit Theorem 3 Aug 2020
• Statistical Lies I: Coronavirus 27 Jul 2020
• Links for July 2020 23 Jul 2020
• First Astrophotography: Neowise 20 Jul 2020

2013

• Nothing to Hide: Why Privacy Matters 1 Feb 2013