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2026 5

  1. The goalposts are shrouded, not moving
  2. MSE loss does not generate superposition
  3. Dev log: implementing new syntax in GHC
  4. Sabbatical
  5. Thoughts on the Pause AI protest

2025 3

  1. Zendo for large groups
  2. Boots theory and Wikipedia
  3. Boots theory and Sybil Ramkin

2024 4

  1. The Elm community is not "very active"
  2. Book review: the Iliad
  3. Conditional prediction markets are evidential, not causal
  4. Cryptocurrency taxation in the UK

2023 6

  1. Headphones hook
  2. Ruining an expected-log-money maximizer
  3. Three configurable prettyprinters
  4. How tall is the Shard, really?
  5. Does descaling a kettle help? Theory and practice
  6. Life Has a Cruel Symmetry

2022 5

  1. On Kelly and altruism
  2. Blog meta: disabling comments
  3. A list of Petrov buttons
  4. PD-alikes in two dimensions
  5. Variadic functions in Hindley Milner

2021 7

  1. Walkthrough: Filing a UK self-assessment tax return
  2. Ten Hundred Megaseconds
  3. Against "blankfaces"
  4. Book Review: Order Without Law
  5. 99% shorter
  6. A command-line grammar of graphics
  7. Haskenthetical update: user-defined macros

2020 10

  1. Specialized Labor and Counterfactual Compensation
  2. Against boots theory
  3. Classifying games like the Prisoner's Dilemma
  4. Short essays on various things I've watched
  5. Haskenthetical
  6. Chris Masterjohn on Coronavirus, Part 2
  7. In my culture: the responsibilities of open source maintainers
  8. version 1
  9. Chris Masterjohn on Coronavirus, Part 1
  10. My Bet Log

2019 3

  1. Tapping Out In Two
  2. The Effect pattern: Transparent updates in Elm
  3. A reckless introduction to Hindley-Milner type inference

2018 3

  1. "Now here's why I'm punching you..."
  2. The Mathematics of Matched Betting
  3. Pareto improvements are rarer than they seem

2017 1

  1. Improving goimports

2016 6

  1. The Parable of the Clock
  2. Data surgery is not rocket science
  3. The Sally-Anne Fallacy
  4. Political Polarization in the US House of Representatives
  5. Officially faceblind
  6. A Scream of Swifties

2015 7

  1. Unix pro tip: Print and pipe
  2. London Cycle Hires and Weather
  3. Towards a Taxonomy of Logic Puzzles
  4. The Farmer's Dilemma
  5. Cooperative conversational threading
  6. How the UK taxes periods
  7. A Half-Baked Idea for Keeping Code and Docs in Sync

2014 8

  1. How Red Will the Oceans Run?
  2. bsert - "Better" asserts in Python
  3. Brief movie reviews
  4. How unbalanced is The Resistance?
  5. Meetup report: London LW paranoid debating session
  6. Cliffs Notes: "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science", part 1
  7. Pi py
  8. Fascists and Rakes

2013 3

  1. The "Poorly Defined Scotsman" fallacy
  2. Your Opponent Can Precommit Too
  3. London LW CoZE Exercise Report

2012 2

  1. PiiWii - A Raspberry Pi-powered robot controlled by a Wii nunchuck
  2. Calculating e in bash

2010 1

  1. Silly Things to do with Shebang Lines