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My main output was to teach you 500 strange words . I got cross about the prestige of certain knowledge workers . I collated some skits . I tried to predict what would happen this year . I reflected on what I did wrong in school . I wrote about the difference between knowing (the password, the algorithm) and grokking . I wrote about the perception of value and dissed phenomenology again . I wrote about how unrealistic realistic art is . I made analogies between my philosophy and the ancients' . I reviewed Robin Hanson's grand book, Geoff Dyer's nonbook, and Ted Chiang's sculptures . I estimated how many lives the media thinks certain kinds of lives are worth . I estimated how many hours I have spent on maths . I wrote a poem about the north . I wrote a poem about nationhood . I made a joke ranking of mathematics students . I wrote about how it feels to grok statistical learning for the first time . I wrote about the compleat scientist . I wrote about Nazi nuclear...

I reviewed an old book about new China . I reviewed Use of Weapons , conceptual art, and Biblical literalism . I wrote a long poem about technical wonder . I poked about Civ V 's ideology . I riffed on scientific and non-scientific knowledge . I listed a range of new and/or rare words . I was impressed by nonfiction about nonreal things . I listed some free web services for developers . I gave an algorithm for working out why your boot drive doesn't work . I talked about songs about music critics and we listened to them . I reviewed British villainy, Accelerando , and an Estonian poet . I reviewed an excellent bedroom synthpop album . I listed more new and/or rare words with no clear theme . I reviewed books on social physics, ' The Hitch ', and Japanese poetry. I reviewed the gentlest introduction to Bayesianism . I got very maternal about the former Bishop of Edinburgh . I listed more new and/or rare words, on maths and wrestling . I applauded preppers with o...

I reviewed Prévert, phenomenology of computing , and the New Testament in Scots. I reviewed Taleb as an evolutionary epistemologist and angry apolitician. I translated a Tang octave. I wrote a poem about the NHS. I again reflected on the awfulness of identity via a thought experiment. I translated a Golden Age Viennese lyric. I drew equivalences between key concepts in maths, object-oriented code, and metaphysics. I learned how to code out loud. I reviewed Putnam, Waugh and a sad Australian cynic. I reviewed an appalling academic paper I was made to read. I psychologised academics who cling to one method. I enjoyed Werner Herzog and listed casualties in his vicinity. I made an attempt to criticise our new century's zeitgeist. I pulled fragments from DFW's last nachlass. I reviewed the very best book on late-70s / early-80s pop music. I distinguished a toolchain from a stack. I reviewed lots of things I shouldn't have been reading and learned Javascript. I quoted Huxl...

I reviewed a huge number of things because I was unemployed (Oliver Sacks, China Mieville, Clive James, David Foster Wallace, David Graeber, Ed Glaeser, Daniel Haybron). I argued against a new popular kind of intellectual puritanism. I set out my consequentialism, which tries not to squash other goods than justice (DRAFT!). I talked about my life goals in the context of death and politics (DRAFT!). I calculated the highest wage a strict consequentialist can keep for themselves. I thought about the net-negativity of most jobs. I made a playlist that tries to get you to save yourself. I tried to dress up my maths education in ordinary transcendent meaning. I wrote a poem in pseudo-SQL. I reviewed Rousseau, LeGuin, Giddens, Fukuyama, Gleick. I made a scrapbook of semi-scientific thoughts. I made a scrapbook about epistemology and harm harm harm. I reviewed Chomsky's sloppiest book. I wrote a poem about the impulse of criticism. I wrote a poem about the former. I reviewed Gellhorn,...