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Are dreams event sequence predictions? Are brains LLMs for events rather than words?original ↗
21 Aug 2025
Svelte 5original ↗
17 Jun 2025
Our AI Future: Widespread Job Losses, Fraud, & Cyberhacking, Killer Robots, Disinformation Everywhere... and the End of Humanity???original ↗
16 Jun 2025
JavaScript: The Evolutionary Languageoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2025
Why I Spurned an Exciting Job Building Live Sports Betting Apps... And Years Later Can Sleep At Nightoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2025
Jazz I Love: Japan Editionoriginal ↗
20 May 2025
Announcing GuessTheUS.comoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2025
AIs are brilliant morons or moronic geniuses... and rapidly becoming savantsoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2025
AI Coding Adventureoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2025
Enjoying a Tech Exploration Sabbatical!original ↗
30 Mar 2025
Studying Chinese again... after a 25-year hiatusoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2025
How NOT to pursue a PhDoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2025
Honest news sources covering China (and Youtube's apparent suppression of them)original ↗
17 Feb 2025
Holiday letter: Lavin family best of 2024original ↗
2 Jan 2025

2024

Books I Read in 2024original ↗
21 Dec 2024
UAPsoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2024
The lonely, helpless angst of post-high school parentingoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2024
Hernia Surgery and Recovery Adviceoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2024
Stop Snoring. Sleep Soundlyoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2024
Jazz I Love: Trombone Editionoriginal ↗
28 May 2024
Jazz I Love: Piano Editionoriginal ↗
26 May 2024
College Admissions Insanityoriginal ↗
20 May 2024
Project Learn Piano: 10-month updateoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2024
Jazz I Love: 1960s Editionoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2024
Project Learn Piano: 8-month updateoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2024
Jazz I Love (4/?)original ↗
31 Jan 2024
Jazz I Love (3/?)original ↗
30 Jan 2024
Books I Read in 2023original ↗
29 Jan 2024
Piano Project: Update 2original ↗
14 Jan 2024
Walking on a warm winter day!original ↗
13 Jan 2024

2023

How much piano can I learn in 15+ minutes/day over six months?original ↗
9 Dec 2023
Our Amazing Planetoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2023
Jazz I Love (2/?)original ↗
9 Oct 2023
Jazz I Love (1/?)original ↗
8 Oct 2023
Education and Inequalityoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2023
Xi Jinping Has Ruined Chinaoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2023
Income Inequalityoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2023
Robert Reich Demystifies Government and Economicsoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2023
Protect Your Passwords With KeePassXCoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2023
Intolerance Intoleranceoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2023
Never Stop Learning... Slowlyoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2023
Books: Absorb the Distilled Wisdom of Expertsoriginal ↗
28 May 2023
Stop micromanaging & micromonitoring knowledge workers!original ↗
20 May 2023
Why I Love Elixiroriginal ↗
16 May 2023
Internet Service Providers and Customer Lock-Inoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2023
Why Are Americans So Rude? Can We Fix This?original ↗
21 Apr 2023
America's Half Century of Rising Industry Concentration, Market Power, and Corporate Profitabilityoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2023
TV Series I've Enjoyed Recentlyoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2023
My Blog Is Back... Thanks to Elon!original ↗
2 Apr 2023

2020

Corporations & Complexity Blocking Internet Innovationoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2020
Critical Habitsoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2020
Tech Keeps Going Staleoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2020

2013

Science advances when scientists are proven wrongoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2013

2011

Programming advice from Ancient Rome: "Festina lente"original ↗
1 Jun 2011
'Atari founder: "I [ignored] grades... I interviewed them strictly on their hobbies"'original ↗
22 May 2011
Cowards and heroesoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2011
The evolutionary origins of human fatherhoodoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2011
Why hasn't even a single banker been jailed for fraud?original ↗
17 Feb 2011

Undated

About meoriginal ↗
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