Insight≠Numbers

From Amitav Ghosh’s latest novel to Jung, ancient Iran, and Periclean Athens

By decentering men and making powerful women the focus of its society, Motherland: Fort Salem has found a storytelling winning formula

Someone asked: as someone who programs for work and as a hobby, what do you dislike about programming?

Intuitively visualize temperatures from the 13’500+ weather stations in the Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCNd) database, find the places with your favorite weather

A web version of the exercise proposed by Julia Galef in “The Scout Mindset”

Conventional wisdom assures us to buy low-cost diversified mutual funds for retirement savings.

Personal experiences teaching kids and grownups about risk through games

How wrong we get the past, and another way to think about the future.

Posts I’m working on!

Generate lexicographically-spaced strings.

Regular books, written by people, to help study Japanese.

Some notes on co-housing.

Ebisu: intelligent quiz scheduling!

KanjiBreak: collaboratively create kanji character breakdowns!

A newbie’s response to Steve Klabnik’s question: what does Rust solve for me?

Recalling some of the nitty-gritty details of UTF-8 decoding, with Rust sample code.

Biblical criticism and Bayes theorem.

If you can’t remember “ruby” vs “rp” vs “rt”, you’re in luck.

Instructions for getting real-time, local commercial and general aviation data with a RTL-SDR USB dongle and open-source software.

An adventure in ES2015, spherical caps, and random sampling.

Three-ish implementations of an array slicing-and-dicing problem… in Matlab.

Texture-shading: you’ve never seen terrain like this before!