64 Ideas For a Final Post

64 Ideas for my Final Inkhaven Post Deconstruct Gwernism Part II of that other science thing That time I scienced e

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Strange Acoustics on Mars and Beyond

You've never heard anything like sound on Mars.

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The Infinite Sea (WIP)

This is a work in progress. The Infinite Sea is novel model for teaching cosmology. Despite its simplicity, it represen

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Comfortable Talk about Retiring Uncomfortably

The hardest decision becomes the easiest.

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World Building with Gravity Slingshots

I tried to solve planetary launch and reentry. Physics had other ideas, but my solution may solve an even bigger problem.

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Spiritual and/or Religious: Take Your Pick

We grew up with rituals that felt empty. We learned a foreign language barely enough to pronounce the words of the praye

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One day build - Haiku Revealer

Today I am building Haiku Finder Haiku Scanner? Haiku Revealer: Find the poetry within. To skip the story, the end produ

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Ain't Misbehavin in my Connectome

I taught myself Ain’t Misbehavin on the uke the other day. Each time I play it, my fingers find the chords a little bit

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Battlehardening zenith

Zenith is approaching ready for posting on a venue like Hacker News, where if it catches on, could generate massive serv

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Claude Code Investigation - Zoom for Zenith

Zoom out for Zenith Zenith is my beautiful awe inspiring, inner-peace inducing, unique planetarium app that puts the vie

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I'm Here for the Rockets

Very Young Me watched on live tv. A guy in a space suit was standing on the moon. Or Mars. Young me wasn’t much concerne

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Bad Backs

Babies Got (bad) Backs

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Phrases - The Words Strike Back

After I used words to attack words, the words I attacked retaliate with words in response against, um words

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More Gig Shorts

Scott Alexander says you don't need subtitles

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more haiku

More haikus, and thoughts on the Ruthless Editor

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Remembering Baron

Memories on the passing of Baron Browne

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Standardized Tests Make Bad Predictions

How I got the better of the system, and paid later

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Short Illustrated Gig Stories

All 100% true stories, with photographic evidence.

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Words About Words

650 Words about 4 ugly words and 1 beautiful word

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Galactic Orbits are Different

Why do airplanes pass through clouds, but a space station doesn't go through dust clouds?

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I Screwed Up

Show how much you care with these three little words.

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I'm Not Really Here, Part II

Her friend stops by a party for a moment. She waits, near the door avoiding eye contact. “Oh, I'm not really here” she says. “No?” he asks, “Where are you - Really?”

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I'm Not Really Here

Her friend stops by a party for a moment. She waits, near the door avoiding eye contact. “Oh, I'm not really here” she says. “No?” he asks, “Where are you - Really?”

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Art imitates Life imitates Large Language Model

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39 Haikus For People I've Known

you're human not wall you're strong, funny, sharp, vibrant humans leak, walls don't we never know how to say hello or go

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The Smell

Seizure Self-Diagnosis: An Audio Engineer's Guide.

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Casual Meditation on Cognition

A Duologue for One

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The Cop and the Mountain Man

Cycling across Arizona, a cop pulls me over. “Where’d you stay last night?” No good cop conversation ever starts out lik

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The Newport Oil Painting - smorgasb.org

The Newport mansion wedding reception was the usual opulence, with the usual pressures. From the moment I loaded in, the

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