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35 from 19 Jun 2018 to 3 Nov 2024
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2024 1

  1. What I learned from 130 hours in a Waymo

2023 1

  1. Reflections from seeing the Starship launch firsthand

2022 7

  1. Results of COVID reinfection survey
  2. The nuclear family isn't working, what can we do instead?
  3. Let's Play Vaccine Battleship
  4. Results of Omicron Experience Survey
  5. Four key principles for a delightful start to parenthood
  6. My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test
  7. Guide to gestational surrogacy

2021 13

  1. The Great Bifurcation of Humanity
  2. High-structure vs High-experimentation cultures
  3. Updates to Long COVID and Delta!
  4. Embracing the Cosmic Endowment
  5. If you’re vaccinated, your main risk from the Delta variant is probably long-haul COVID (Updated 8/11/21)
  6. For animals, the Singularity already happened
  7. Book review: The Biology of Desire
  8. Watching early embryo development changed how we think about human life
  9. The US needs to have a 9/11 Commission style reckoning with its COVID policy failures
  10. The amazing generality of DALL-E
  11. Buy bitcoin when no one is talking about it
  12. The Guaranteed Way to see the Aurora Borealis
  13. The B117 Variant

2020 10

  1. Thought experiment: What's the biggest a tree could grow?
  2. Visibility and Inversion Layers
  3. Reopening indoor dining was a policy mistake
  4. Paragliding Maui
  5. The real story behind Trump's tax returns
  6. Improv games with GPT3
  7. The Great Bay Area Migration Survey
  8. Summer vacations in the era of COVID
  9. The Cheapest Solution to COVID-19 is Right in Front of Our Face
  10. Masks work! Wear them!

2019 1

  1. Diminishing returns on life expectancy at high incomes

2018 2

  1. Paragliding the Alps
  2. Why we had a four-day commitment-themed festival instead of a wedding