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2026 23

  1. The Rules Of Dominoes
  2. Math Tidbits
  3. Chemistry Bits
  4. How To Align AI Properly
  5. Why Is Claude Turning Into An Asshole?
  6. A Guide to the Basics of Programming (Including Using AI)
  7. The Unit Distance Problem
  8. Approval Voting Is A Bad Idea
  9. Computer Security Will Improve If It Survives That Long
  10. The Cult Of Vibe Coding Is Insane
  11. More on Version Control
  12. Manyana
  13. AI thoughts
  14. There's Only One Idea In AI
  15. Chords And Microtonality
  16. A Legendary Poker Hand and A Big Poker Tell
  17. Camper Vehicles
  18. How To Use AI To Get Better At Chess
  19. Drug Tidbits
  20. The Future Of Enterprise SAAS
  21. Making A Better Pulser Pump
  22. Bug Bounty Submissions Should Require Deposits
  23. Counterpoint

2025 39

  1. How to Learn to Juggle 5 Balls
  2. More Music Theory
  3. Running Clogs
  4. How Humor Works
  5. Life Hacks
  6. The Current State and Future of AI
  7. Working Fluids for Supercritical Turbines
  8. Methylfolate
  9. Future Chia Pooling Protocol Enhancements
  10. Sweet Timbres and Audio Compression
  11. How Claude Web is Broken
  12. A Guide for LLMs on How Cubes Rotate
  13. Basic Music Theory
  14. Everybody is Doing Mental Poker Wrong
  15. System 3
  16. The Future Of The Internet
  17. How to make a better smoking cessation app
  18. Stored Proofs Of Work
  19. Hilariously Bad LLM Responses
  20. AI Alignment is Garbage
  21. Paraxanthine
  22. Nonlinear Genetics
  23. AIs are Sycophantic Blithering Idiots
  24. Variants on Instant Runoff
  25. How to beat little kids at tic-tac-toe
  26. What it looks like when an object rotates
  27. Vibe Coding
  28. Relationship Codes
  29. An Experiment in Discovery Versus Invention
  30. The weakness of AI Go programs and what it means for the future of AI
  31. A Question For You About Conflict Markers
  32. Automated Chess Commentary's Sorry State And Possible Improvements
  33. How To Make A Better Chess AI
  34. The Best Filament for 3D Printing
  35. The Earth Might Flip Over At Any Time
  36. Book Review: 'The Case Against Education'
  37. The Funniest Rubik's Cube Record In History
  38. There Exists An Elephant Bigger Than a Mouse Hole
  39. Purely Tactical Games

2024 29

  1. Color mirroring
  2. Chess should get an upgrade
  3. Year over year is an abomination of a methodology and should be banned from data analysis
  4. Book Review: Manchild in the Promised Land
  5. A Real Lava Lamp
  6. A Simple Color Palette
  7. Color theory
  8. An Ideal Jigsaw With Two Solutions
  9. The Chia Gaming Platform
  10. The Controversial Possible Enhancements to Bitcoin
  11. Activation Functions
  12. Dutch Babies
  13. Detecting and Displaying Merge Conflicts
  14. A better 3D printing material than PLA
  15. Security Using The Speed Of Light
  16. Chaos and How It Applies to Neural Networks
  17. Limitations of Deep Neural Networks and Hacks Around Them
  18. There Is No Big Salt
  19. How To Do a Local Undo
  20. Spectroids
  21. How to Merge a Single Line of Code
  22. The Problem With Strength
  23. The Problem With Inscriptions
  24. Urban ranching
  25. Solving a Rubik's Cube Without Commutators
  26. Training Chess Engines
  27. Everything I Thought I Knew About Improving At Chess Was Wrong
  28. Teaching Juggling
  29. Tessellating the Globe

2023 28

  1. A Novel Data Structure For Doing Merging Well
  2. Juggling Robots
  3. Merging Can Be Made Eventually Consistent
  4. The State of Merging Technology
  5. Small follow-ons
  6. More on Adversary Resistant Neural Networks
  7. Sphere packing
  8. Beeping Booping Busy Beavers
  9. A model of models of probability
  10. Game musings
  11. Transaction Bumping
  12. Benchmarks for Poker 2-party computation
  13. Ongoing Chialisp Development
  14. Airlines should have to compensate travelers who are delayed
  15. Why can't people agree?
  16. Zero is the Universal Bayesian Prior
  17. Pascal's Mugging and AI Safety
  18. The Effective Altruism movement is deeply flawed and probably not salvageable
  19. Hydrogen Iodide for more efficient heat engines
  20. Cooking with light
  21. The Book Which Might Have Ruined Screenwriting
  22. Some Galois Field Fun
  23. Bram's Nerd Rage: The Poisoned Drinks Problem
  24. Video conferencing sucks and you can help fix it
  25. Remember how Ethereum was supposed to be the 'World Computer'?
  26. Cat Training
  27. Free Cooling
  28. Hello World