Archive
2024
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08 Dec
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The six intrinsic benefits of sports, per Ted Gioia
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24 Nov
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NIH reform is in the air
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13 Nov
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Before making clinical trials faster, let's first agree on what they are
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10 Nov
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The immigrant indignation loop
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05 Nov
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A few mildly related pre-election observations
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28 Oct
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RSS and Instapaper as cup and saucer
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26 Oct
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Tolkien and the Incerto
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23 Oct
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Bench to bedside in a bad way (on the virtue of clinical trials)
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12 Oct
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Blogosphere's end
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07 Oct
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Food for thought, conservative and modern
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28 Sep
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The Forever Plague and its enemies
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18 Sep
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Today in teaching birds how to sing
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11 Sep
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Neighborhood forests and skyscraper trees
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03 Sep
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ChatGPT, the blog expert
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02 Sep
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ChatGPT, the font expert
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21 Aug
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Zombie medicine: it's everywhere, it's evil, and it's coming to get you (and your money)
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12 Aug
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The American Dream isn't dead, it's just not evenly distributed
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20 Jul
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The unintended consequences of death-delaying technologies
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18 Jul
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Why are clinical trials expensive?
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12 Jul
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Failure of imagination, drug cost edition
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07 Jun
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Polished excrement and diamonds in the rough
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05 Jun
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NotebookLM got an upgrade, and now I want DEVONthink AI even more
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04 Jun
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Notes on election day
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31 May
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Condemnation games
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25 May
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Anyone who is saying that LLMs are overrated hasn't used them for writing code
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22 May
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Why clinical trials aren't Steinway pianos
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20 May
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A short list of authors and books that by all accounts I should have found wonderful, or at least interesting, but ended up with a feeling of — meh — at best and often genuine dislike
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12 May
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After three months, I can put Apple Vision Pro in the "worth it" category
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10 May
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About that Apple add
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05 May
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Good podcast alert: the VPZD show
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03 May
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My entries in the April 2024 Photoblogging Challenge
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03 Apr
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The new Apple Vision Pro immersive video is fine
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02 Apr
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📺 3 Body Problem
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25 Mar
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Style over precision, yet again
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14 Mar
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📚 Finished reading: Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
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07 Mar
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Can someone with connections please forward this to HBO?
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06 Mar
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An update on my use of AI
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05 Mar
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Apple Vision Pro versus business class ticket
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04 Mar
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Monday morning thoughts
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01 Mar
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ChatGPT as a chatbot is quite good, actually
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27 Feb
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The low-hanging fruit of medicine
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26 Feb
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On Journalist Science
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20 Feb
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📺 True Detective: Night Country
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16 Feb
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There is at least one good reason to use AVP in public; alas, even I am too self-conscious to do it
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11 Feb
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Apple Vision Pro and productivity, one week in
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05 Feb
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February lectures of note
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03 Feb
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The first 24 hours with my new toy
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27 Jan
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Thank you for reading a draft of this
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18 Jan
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Apple's App Store is not a walled garden, it's a dumpy casino
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11 Jan
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📚 Finished reading: Talent by Tyler Cowen
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11 Jan
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Middle school smart phones
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07 Jan
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Five somewhat esoteric mental models I have found useful
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05 Jan
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January lectures of note
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02 Jan
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📚 24 books for 2024
2023
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31 Dec
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📚 2023
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30 Dec
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🎵 2023
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29 Dec
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🍿 2023
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28 Dec
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The wellness visit
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24 Dec
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📺 2023
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23 Dec
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Voices in my head, 2023
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15 Dec
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Theory and practice, drug cost edition
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07 Dec
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Midlife unclenching
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05 Dec
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December lectures of note
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03 Dec
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Spikes and swords and the misinformed
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20 Nov
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Why not use machine learning to rank residency applicants?
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14 Nov
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No one is hiding the miracle cures
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10 Nov
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Term confusion alert 2: outcome versus endpoint
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08 Nov
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The problem of optimization and scale
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06 Nov
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📺 Bodies (2023)
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03 Nov
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November lectures of note
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02 Nov
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Skandalfreude: on the joys of being scandalized
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31 Oct
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Term confusion alert: efficacy versus effectivness
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27 Oct
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The first principle of being successful is to be lucky
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26 Oct
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The sad state of (Serbian) science news
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24 Oct
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The Get Shorty style of peer review
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22 Oct
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Convulsionews
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20 Oct
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News noise
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20 Oct
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Education as scaffolding
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19 Oct
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Will the last journalist please turn off the lights?
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16 Oct
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Technology as the last refuge of a scoundrel
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15 Oct
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Notes from Honolulu
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11 Oct
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Promoting legislative reversal
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10 Oct
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On flaneuring
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09 Oct
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When did medical conference sessions become Apple keynotes?
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04 Oct
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The Renaissance woman
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03 Oct
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October lectures of note
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02 Oct
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Sometimes, the Tartars do show up
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01 Oct
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My entries in the September 2023 Photoblogging Challenge
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29 Sep
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Everything is hi-tech and no one is happy
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28 Sep
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Box-checking and deadlines are important, but are they "Science"?
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27 Sep
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Things I got wrong: in-person versus online
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23 Sep
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The Nobel committee hits and misses
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22 Sep
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Doing more is the American way, but you have to do more of the right thing
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22 Sep
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Some Friday afternoon drug price whataboutism
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21 Sep
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Drug price shenanigans
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18 Sep
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Re-capitalizing the i̶Internet
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17 Sep
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Why AI can't replace health care workers just yet
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16 Sep
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On the benefits of microblogging
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15 Sep
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There can be only one (priority)
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06 Sep
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September lectures of note
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04 Sep
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An update on shark teeth
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01 Sep
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Notes from a recorded lecture
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31 Aug
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Regulating Wisely
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29 Aug
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The (non)ergodicity of cancer screening
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26 Aug
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Notes from the Jersey Shore
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25 Aug
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The roundaboutness of Apple
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24 Aug
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Three good pieces
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21 Aug
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A few more notes on that vaccine study
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20 Aug
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Here's why.
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17 Aug
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A few brief updates on the petition to end Maintenance of Certification requirements
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14 Aug
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Fairwell, Kindle
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13 Aug
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Notes from Smith Island
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11 Aug
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"Freakonomics and global warming: What happens to a team of 'rogues' when there is no longer a stable center to push against?"
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09 Aug
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The Washington Post's innumeracy (or is it just bad faith) continues
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08 Aug
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Lockdowns or vaccines? Both, of course.
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07 Aug
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"The average doctor in the U.S. makes $350,000 a year. Why?"
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04 Aug
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🍿 Oppenheimer (2023) was a *good* movie, but…
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03 Aug
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There is no left digit bias in medicine
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02 Aug
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Maximize this
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31 Jul
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My Venkatesh Rao reading list
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29 Jul
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Salvage and spoilage
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23 Jul
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Sometimes, that small print does matter
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20 Jul
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The definition of cancer, with a few side notes on impact factor
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18 Jul
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Kenilworth in July
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16 Jul
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A few personal blogs of note
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15 Jul
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📺 The Bear, Season 2
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12 Jul
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Good words used badly: equitable
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10 Jul
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Shark teeth
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06 Jul
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An Island Out of Time (2019)
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05 Jul
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"Climate change could swamp this island. Home sales are surging."
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03 Jul
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Notes from OBX
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02 Jul
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Of roasts and awards
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30 Jun
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The making of a suitcase word: "gaslighting"
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28 Jun
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"All Immigrants Are Born on the Fourth of July"
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26 Jun
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Browser check
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23 Jun
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That feeling you get when something a long time coming finally does come out
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17 Jun
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WaPo: "Could cancer become a chronic, treatable disease? For many, it already is."
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16 Jun
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The Style of Board Orders and Chairman's Letters (and, one should add, E-mails)
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13 Jun
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🏀 ESPN: How the Nuggets cultivated the NBA's most dynamic duo
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05 Jun
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The people against the United States Congress
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04 Jun
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ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners.
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25 May
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"The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re Horrified"
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24 May
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Chores
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18 May
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Back to school
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09 May
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Revisiting AOL Hell
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02 May
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Millions of D.C. traffic tickets remain unpaid as bad drivers flee penalty - The Washington Post
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02 May
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May lectures of note
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27 Apr
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Notes on moving
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12 Apr
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Old man yells at "date me" docs
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11 Apr
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DMV flags
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06 Apr
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The Mastodon Vibe
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03 Apr
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April lectures of note
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02 Apr
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Updated thoughts on AI
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02 Apr
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Dopamine exchange networks
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01 Apr
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Now let me sell you something
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21 Mar
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Peace and joy through keeping house
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17 Mar
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Who needs TikTok when you have encyclopedias?
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16 Mar
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AI's thoughts about Stephen Wolfram's thoughts about whether AIs will take all our jobs and end human history
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15 Mar
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Daylight Shifting Torture
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12 Mar
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FT: the spectacular unravelling of the tech industry’s banker
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10 Mar
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Annus semi-mirabilis
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09 Mar
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Air power
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07 Mar
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My Browser Can Write Blog Posts For Me!
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03 Mar
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Fact checking fail of the day
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02 Mar
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BS bonanza
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01 Mar
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March lectures of note
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20 Feb
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Bias of the day: immortal time
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17 Feb
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LLM convergence
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16 Feb
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Notes from the future
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15 Feb
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Is the Sunshine Act a joke?
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09 Feb
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The academic prisoners' dilemma
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04 Feb
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Et tu, FT?
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03 Feb
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February lectures of note
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02 Feb
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Nitpick of the day: clinical trial versus clinical study
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01 Feb
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National Cancer Advisory Board meeting on February 9
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01 Feb
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Science and medicine blogs on FeedLand
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31 Jan
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Some work news
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28 Jan
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Invention versus discovery, medical treatment edition
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27 Jan
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Competing our way to Skynet
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23 Jan
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My first Covid-19 paper
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23 Jan
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Some phrases in Latin, from profound to trite
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21 Jan
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My position in regards to ChatGPT
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19 Jan
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Why are people losing their minds over ChatGPT?
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14 Jan
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News distortion, a case study
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12 Jan
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A yearly theme, of sorts
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09 Jan
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From the Annals of Internal Medicine: Curiosity
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06 Jan
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23 books for 2023
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03 Jan
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2022 in review: lists
2022
2021
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31 Dec
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Encanto
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31 Dec
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Newsletters of note
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31 Dec
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Corona 300
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29 Dec
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Influence
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28 Dec
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Don't Look Up
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28 Dec
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Goodbye, Drummer (for now)
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25 Dec
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Zero to One
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25 Dec
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Voices in my head, 2022
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28 Oct
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Godwin’s Law and the Rise of Hyperbole on MedTwitter
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23 Oct
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Dune (2021)
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19 Oct
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The Mysterious Benedict Society, Season 1
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18 Oct
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A brief chronology of my employment
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11 Oct
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CODA
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08 Sep
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The Mare of Easttown
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26 Aug
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The White Lotus, Season 1
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06 Aug
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How I handle meetings (which most certainly is not how everyone should, but again, may be useful to some)
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02 Aug
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Blogroll
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31 Jul
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Notes from West Virginia
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22 Jun
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The Mitchells vs. The Machines
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17 Jun
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Range — Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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05 Jun
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Clearing the PDF log jam
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03 Jun
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Interstellar (2014)
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31 May
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Mulan (2020)
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30 May
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Cruella (2021)
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29 May
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A promising young woman (2021)
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19 May
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Conspiracy — Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the anatomy of intrigue
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13 May
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Dune (1984)
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24 Apr
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Shin Godzilla (2016)
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21 Apr
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Against sarcasm
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20 Apr
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The Year Earth Changed (2021)
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19 Apr
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Our Towns (2021)
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18 Apr
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Kong: Skull Island (2017)
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17 Apr
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Godzilla (2014)
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19 Mar
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The Tree of Life
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16 Feb
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The Undoing
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14 Feb
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The Social Network
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03 Feb
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Chernobyl
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30 Jan
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The Mandalorian, Season 2
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24 Jan
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The Goldfinch
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23 Jan
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The Mandalorian, Season 1
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16 Jan
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Things I used to like but now wonder what in the world I was thinking
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16 Jan
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Things I heard were good but was holding out for reasons unknown then wondered why I haven't tried them sooner
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13 Jan
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Some observations on Covid-19 from recent personal experience
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12 Jan
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets
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08 Jan
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National Treasure
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07 Jan
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Day Seven
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06 Jan
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Day Six
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05 Jan
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Day Five
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04 Jan
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Day Four
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03 Jan
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Day Three
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02 Jan
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Day Two
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01 Jan
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