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2026

Developing immunity to propaganda original ↗

15 Sept 2026

Q3 books 2026 original ↗

7 Sept 2026

The tools of Dan Gelbart original ↗

5 Aug 2026

Warfighting ability original ↗

27 Jul 2026

Statistical picture of Quantum Mechanics original ↗

27 Jun 2026

Progress: real and Potemkin original ↗

9 Jun 2026

Q1/2 2026 books original ↗

20 May 2026

Bouncing droplet “quantum mechanics”original ↗

28 Apr 2026

FAUB robot program failure original ↗

15 Apr 2026

Beyond Quantum with Khrennikov original ↗

9 Apr 2026

Very small engines original ↗

25 Mar 2026

Post money Silicon Valley Lotharios original ↗

14 Mar 2026

Coding assistant experience original ↗

18 Feb 2026

Conditional probability: an educational defect in Physics didactics original ↗

16 Jan 2026

Optimizing for old battles original ↗

7 Jan 2026

2025

Winter Q4 2025 books original ↗

27 Dec 2025

Don’t go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales original ↗

19 Dec 2025

The first AI bubble original ↗

10 Dec 2025

Wacky fun physics ideas original ↗

22 Nov 2025

Things that should be considered essential vitamins but aren’t original ↗

8 Nov 2025

Stochastic computing original ↗

31 Oct 2025

Pre-Dreadnaughts: an aesthetic appreciation original ↗

3 Oct 2025

Further examples of group madness in technology original ↗

26 Sept 2025

Best quantum computing paper of 2025 original ↗

17 Sept 2025

Summer Q3 2025 books original ↗

9 Sept 2025

A-5 Vigilante original ↗

13 Aug 2025

Biological anomalies 2 original ↗

29 Jul 2025

Exercise science is not science original ↗

14 Jul 2025

Variable beta decay original ↗

20 Jun 2025

Q2 Books 2025 original ↗

1 Jun 2025

Reversible computards: classical and quantum original ↗

12 May 2025

More grad school stories original ↗

1 May 2025

Entropic gravity original ↗

21 Mar 2025

Q1 2025 winter books original ↗

1 Mar 2025

Examples of group madness in technology original ↗

5 Feb 2025

Some interesting open problems in technology original ↗

22 Jan 2025

Winter 2024 books original ↗

10 Jan 2025

HG Wells was awful in every way original ↗

3 Jan 2025

2024

Towards a new kind of science and technology original ↗

18 Dec 2024

Fall 2024 books original ↗

4 Dec 2024

Lush: my favorite small programming language original ↗

19 Nov 2024

Outsourcing your thoughts original ↗

12 Nov 2024

False pregnancy, canine and otherwise original ↗

6 Nov 2024

Late summer/early fall 2024 books original ↗

27 Sept 2024

Amateur astronomy update pt 3: newb shopping lists original ↗

16 Sept 2024

Marketing 101 original ↗

3 Sept 2024

Crazy but likely health ideas original ↗

23 Aug 2024

Really dumb “health” headlines original ↗

16 Aug 2024

Amateur astronomy update pt 2: insights and notes original ↗

3 Aug 2024

Amateur astronomy update pt 1: new hardware original ↗

26 Jul 2024

Summer 2024 books original ↗

15 Jul 2024

Prediction markets are vile midwittery original ↗

5 Jul 2024

I’m a scientist, I don’t believe in anything original ↗

25 Jun 2024

Spring books 2024 original ↗

11 Jun 2024

Planning of invention 3: Westinghouse Gas Turbines original ↗

5 Jun 2024

Grad school adventures original ↗

20 May 2024

Dune 2: Life of Brian with Space Mexicans original ↗

12 May 2024

The problem with tech journalism original ↗

30 Apr 2024

Saving the world and “passion” is bullshit original ↗

16 Apr 2024

Against the nerds original ↗

28 Mar 2024

Post-quantum gravity original ↗

18 Mar 2024

More suspect machine learning techniques original ↗

14 Mar 2024

Pre-spring 2024 books original ↗

8 Mar 2024

The Birthday paradox as first lecture original ↗

15 Feb 2024

Yet another bookpoast early 2024 edition original ↗

8 Feb 2024

SBIR funny papers part 1 original ↗

3 Feb 2024

Patrician entertainment: 70s British-TV original ↗

26 Jan 2024

Unix ETL tools are better than you original ↗

8 Jan 2024

2023

Further books for December original ↗

26 Dec 2023

Various marketing hysterias in machine learning original ↗

17 Dec 2023

Obscure luxuries original ↗

13 Dec 2023

Calling a bureaucrat by its name original ↗

29 Nov 2023

Computers reduce efficiency: Case Studies of the Solow Paradox original ↗

21 Nov 2023

Raumpatrouille Orion: Teutonic Star Trek original ↗

16 Nov 2023

Current year US military is hilarious original ↗

8 Nov 2023

Some more books, mostly optics original ↗

30 Oct 2023

How to win big in the supplement industry: also a Fisking of Huberman original ↗

24 Oct 2023

Zwicky’s morphology of innovation original ↗

16 Oct 2023

Paleontology and fungi original ↗

9 Oct 2023

Godzilla original ↗

2 Oct 2023

September books are best books original ↗

24 Sept 2023

Georges Lemaître, Father of Big Bang theory original ↗

8 Sept 2023

An aphorism for each of the greatest aphorists original ↗

31 Aug 2023

Historical censorship attempts and shifting elites original ↗

19 Aug 2023

Standards: a ratchet of progress original ↗

9 Aug 2023

Death of the physical library original ↗

28 Jul 2023

Yet further books July 2023 original ↗

19 Jul 2023

Famous encounters original ↗

1 Jul 2023

Renaissance Books original ↗

26 Jun 2023

“Human Accomplishment” by Charles Murray original ↗

19 Jun 2023

Chesterton’s fence applied to the engineering of physical objects original ↗

13 Jun 2023

DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning original ↗

31 May 2023

Further books (May 2023 )original ↗

20 May 2023

Foxhound original ↗

15 May 2023

Management consultants as Soviet apparatchiks original ↗

28 Apr 2023

Silly Con Valley Camp Followers and other Weirdos original ↗

14 Apr 2023

Sonoluminescence original ↗

31 Mar 2023

How to be a technology charlatan original ↗

23 Mar 2023

Yet more books (March 2023)original ↗

10 Mar 2023

Quantum computing shorts original ↗

3 Mar 2023