Does making unsteady incremental progress work?
There’s a commonly repeated piece of wisdom about incremental improvement which says it’s important to know the difference between $1.01^x$ and $0.99^x$ as as $x$ gets very large. If you… Read more »
Category: Misc
Bird Clothing
I like clothing with birds on it. I also like birds, as well as other animals. I have previously said that I like bird clothing, more than I like bird… Read more »
One of the ways in which the world is currently broken
The other day I saw one of the ways in which things are tragically broken. Broken in such a way that it seems better to sacrifice maybe the most important thing, because the alternative is currently worse.
Obviously panic isn’t useful but don’t ridicule people for being reasonably concerned
I’ve seen a lot of articles and Facebook posts downplaying how bad the coronavirus pandemic is. I’m not writing this because people should panic, but because things look pretty bad… Read more »