Outside the Asylum

Sigh

A friend invited me to play Screeps a few years back, and I fell in love with it immediately.

I've discovered a critical national security flaw in the Magic: The Gathering rulebook.

I figured I would put together a brief overview of my skills and experience for those who might want to hire me for something.

Can we have our cake and eat it too?

And They're Currently Being Cracked

I try to stay ahead of scams, and appreciate knowing what to look out for.

How can some Youtube channels get so popular while having absolutely no idea what they're talking about?

In which I enter a debate 12 years after it stopped being relevant

Team events have a lot of subtle challenges that individual events do not.

Making Twitter a bit less psychically harmful.

For all the times in your life when you've desperately needed to know the outcome of a particular random walk.

A response to Michael Huemer, who recently argued that defense attorneys should recuse themselves from cases where they believe their clients are guilty.

Trying to figure out why people have so much trouble with certain kinds of math.

I present a new, definitely-intentional tool for helping judges practice their ability to tell valid reasoning apart from confident nonsense.

I put together a quick script to mass block people on Twitter, since all the old tools to do this have stopped working.

From computer security to writing the MTG rulebook, there are some failure modes that everyone tends to fall into.

A modest proposal to reform the system of summoning judges to assist players in need.

A tool to help with top 8 math, designing prize structures, cEDH tournament structures, etc.

I explain why you shouldn't go to TCG-Con.

In which I am grumpy about bad philosophy of mind.

Academic science revolves largely around one number, the "p-value".

I ran my first cEDH event this past weekend.

The Oberth effect is an aspect of orbital mechanics that has been bugging me for the better part of 5 years, and I think I may have finally figured it out.

Counterfeits are a delicate subject.

Loops are another one of those areas where Magic's rules and policy intersect in an awkward way.

Does it make sense to talk about the probability of a future event that's more complicated than a die roll or coin toss?

I contemplate what's the worst thing a judge could do.

Prediction markets have been growing in popularity lately, and I address a common point of confusion.

I threw together a simple draft bracket printer, for running ODEs, top 8 drafts, cube drafts, or whatever else you might need such a thing for.

A guide to rules and policy interactions with The One Ring.

Stop Trying to Make CR Backups Happen

Negotiation Assistant

Teaching Magic

Rational Agents Cooperate in the Prisoner's Dilemma

The Economics of Organized Play