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A pattern I've noticed among authors I enjoy is that their short stories are often very sedately paced, with a lot of descriptive prose and not much action. But their long stories are peppered with fast dynamic scenes and they avoid detailed descriptions as much as they can get away...
My aunt's family are ultra orthodox Jews, and I used to stay with them occasionally in Bayit Vegan for Shabbat. Once I went for a walk with my cousins. Families there sometimes have dozens of children squashed into tiny apartments, and with the streets closed for Shabbat, the road becomes...
I recently had a two day training course at work where they made a big fuss about Myers-Briggs personality tests, and ensuring that we learn to play to our strengths and identify weaknesses based on this test. Looking it up after the course, I saw that Wikipedia's view on it...
The Question Like every other confusing word, time is overloaded. It means at least two different things: 1: The direction in which entropy increases, and hence in which we experience things. 2: That one dimension of the 4 dimensions of spacetime that is timelike in the Lorentzian sense. Namely, the...
Epistemic Status: haven't worked through all the consequences here. There's currently a big brouhaha going on in the interwebs about Trump's plan to allow 50 year mortgages. Supporters claim that it'll help people buy homes. Detractors point out that a 50 year mortgage doesn't actually reduce monthly payments that much...
Like everyone there are millions of things that I don't know. There are even millions of things I'm certain I'll never know. But only a few of them feel fundamentally confusing. A confusing question is one where I can't imagine how an answer could possibly actually answer the question. At...
This is a prototype attempt to create lessons aimed at teaching mathematical thinking to interested teenagers. The aim is to show them the nuts and bolts of how mathematics is built, rather than to teach them specific facts or how to solve specific problems. If successful I might write more....