This is really just for a friend on Facebook who knows someone who’s learning Python, but I thought I might as well put it in the world. I think a lot of beginner tutorials for Python start y…| Minds aren't magic
This came out today, and I’m in it a little bit because I attended a dinner party Katja threw for Marantz and arrived early. Mostly this is just disappointingly bad and it was a mistake to ta…| Minds aren't magic
See a random example Police shot dead 1,160 people in 2023. What’s a typical shooting like? We learn about fatal police shootings through two routes. First, dramatic examples get in national …| Minds aren't magic
If we make Sphere the Sun, and Pluto is in San Francisco, where does Alpha Centauri go? Alpha Centauri is 4.344 light years away, so at our scale of 1:8.855 million, model Alpha Centauri must be pl…| Minds aren't magic
The Sweden Solar System, at a scale of 1:20 million, is the world’s largest scale model of the Solar System, with the Avicii Arena representing the Sun. The Arena was the largest spherical bu…| Minds aren't magic
A few more notes regarding target collision resistant functions, following up from my $1000 competition announcement. Second preimage resistance There is a simple way to construct a secure TCR comp…| Minds aren't magic
In my day job, I do cryptography for Android. I have a problem where I need to make some cryptography faster, and I’m setting up a $1000 competition funded from my own pocket for work towards the s…| Minds aren't magic
On Reddit, u/spriteguard asks: Do you have any diagrams of smaller numbers for comparison? I’d love to see a whole sequence of these. I have work to put off, so I couldn’t resist the ch…| Minds aren't magic
One of the first posts I made on this blog was Lambda calculus and Graham’s number, which set out how to express the insanely large number known as Graham’s Number precisely and concise…| Minds aren't magic
UPDATE 2020-06-25: Please sign the petition at DontDoxScottAlexander.com! The New York Times is planning on publishing an article about Scott Alexander, one of the most important thinkers of our ti…| Minds aren't magic
This depraved rubbish got quite a few responses. Please let me know about any I’ve missed. Inner bullets are subtitles or exerpts. Open to adding good Twitter threads too! Scott Alexander, St…| Minds aren't magic