sarahconstantin

Rider-Waite Tarot, 6 of Pentacles I’ve done enough grant evaluations so far (for ACX grants and SFF) and been involved in philanthropy in various other contexts, at work and informally, that I have developed some idea of how my opinions and intuitions differ from other people’s. I thought it might...

Dithering is also an image processing technique Several times now, I have listened to someone, usually younger than me, debating a big decision, and (explicitly or implicitly), looking for advice, in a certain way that follows a pattern. In the prototypical case, this is a pretty normal kind of decision...

Consider the following situations: * when you are a small, growing startup in a big market, standard advice is not to worry too much about your competitors or try to do anything adversarial “against” them, but just to focus on growing and providing value to your own customers. * when...

Once again, I am coming out with stats on the colors in the latest fashion collections: this time, for the fall/winter 2026 season. Previous entries: SS26, FW25, SS25, FW24, SS24. Methodology Recap As I’ve done before, I’m using my automated script for going through all the images hosted on Vogue...

Workers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland, the only facility where torpedo fuel is produced for the U.S. Navy In the event of a late-2020s Chinese attempt to invade Taiwan, leading to a US-China military conflict, what would be the most urgent bottlenecks in military equipment?...

Artist: Lily Taylor It’s been a while since I’ve written anything lately, and that doesn’t feel good. My writing voice has always been loadbearing to my identity, and if I don’t have anything to say, if I’m not “appearing in public”, it’s a little bit destabilizing. Invisibility can be comfortable...

One thing Claude Code has really made too cheap to meter is data analysis. If you have a question that statistics could shed light on, and there’s relevant public data online, you can now get your answer frictionlessly. One thing I’d been wondering about for a while was predictors of...