Newsletters – drossbucket
Update: the newsletter is now on Substack, here. From 2018 to 2021 I experimented with writing a monthly newsletter to track what I’d been reading and thinking about that month. Same sort of …| drossbucket
Update: the newsletter is now on Substack, here. From 2018 to 2021 I experimented with writing a monthly newsletter to track what I’d been reading and thinking about that month. Same sort of …| drossbucket
Happy New Year! This is a fairly run-of-the-mill sort of yearly review post for the most part. But first off I’ve got a few notes on Lark Rise to Candleford. Lark Rise to Candleford I was rereading…| drossbucket
I’m going to try an experiment in June: writing lots of short notebook-style posts, roughly in the style of David MacIver’s notebook blog. I’ve been thinking of testing whether th…| drossbucket
This is another of my research speedrun experiments – I’ve made a category for them now, so look at the earlier ones if you want to know more. Today’s topic was inspired by this t…| drossbucket
This is a genre of post I’ve been experimenting with where I pick a topic, set a one hour timer and see what I can find out in that time. Previously: Marx on alienation and the Vygotsky Circl…| drossbucket
[Written as part of Notebook Blog Month.] This is a bit of an experiment to see how ‘set a timer for an hour and see what you find’ works for finding out basic information about a topic…| drossbucket
I did a ‘speedrun’ post a couple of months ago where I set a one hour timer and tried to find out as much as I could about Marx’s theory of alienation. That turned out to be prett…| drossbucket
I’m over here anyway fixing some equation formatting that WordPress has decided to break, so I may as well call it. If I haven’t written anything here in over two years, and I only come…| drossbucket
I’m pretty quiet on here currently. That’s because I have a different experiment going on instead: spamming out lots of short posts in one sitting on a notebook blog, Notebucket. I just…| drossbucket
[This post is also crossposted on Less Wrong.] The ‘research speedrun’ is a format that I’ve been playing with on here for the last year or so. It’s been more popular than I…| drossbucket
This speedrun is a bit of an experiment and might go terribly. It’s a more open-ended topic than the ones I’ve tried before, and I’m not sure what I even want to know exactly. The…| drossbucket
I wrote this for a monthly newsletter I’ve been experimenting with. I feel a bit awkward about publishing this as a post, because it’s very meandering and unpolished and plain weir…| drossbucket
This is mainly a review of Brian Cantwell Smith’s latest book, The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment. But it’s also a second attempt to understand more of his o…| drossbucket
I’ve been getting interested in the Romantic movement recently. I’d started to dimly sense its enormous influence on later thought, but I had only a hazy idea of the details. So I picked up Isaiah …| drossbucket
I’ve recently been reading Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics, by David Kaiser. Feynman diagrams combine my longstanding interest in physics with my curre…| drossbucket
I’m starting to write up a review of Isaiah Berlin’s The Roots of Romanticism, and this quote fragment jumped out at me: Suppose you went to Germany and spoke there to the people who ha…| drossbucket
I’m a fairly frequent Hacker News lurker, especially when I have some other important task that I’m avoiding. I normally head to the Active page (lots of comments, good for procrastinat…| drossbucket
(This is a speedrun post, where I set a one hour timer to see what I can find out about a subject. See the category tag for more examples.) I’m currently reading Catarina Dutilh Novaes’…| drossbucket
