Jonathan Goodwin

I remember a long, fan-fiction style excursus on the subjects of rationalism, AI dangers, consciousness-uploading, Russian cosmism, the computer, and such topics called "The Canons of Joffrey." I can't find it anywhere.

Digimon is real? Does that imply the same for Digimon Otis?

I continue to experience this with John from Cincinnati, so I know what it's like.

Just typed my favorite publishers' location: Yonkers-on-Hudson. What, you're going to omit this? That's how you want to live?

Smiley has a Callot admired by Bill Haydon, as I remember. Probably not this one (?)

A chuck roast I tend to buy at Costco has increased in price by about 5/3s over the last month or so. I just saw another post wondering about levels of media coverage of this sort of thing between now and a couple of years ago.

you told them there were kobolds in the abandoned moathouse, and now you act surprised?

For intellectual arrogance, I don't think even the economists can match physicists. Literary scholars are also vicious, just lacking the solid methodological footing to land blows on each other.

I know you are interested in typefaces, fonts, things of that nature. Is that the 24 countdown one?

There's a haunted particle accelerator on the edge of campus, rumored to be brimming with interdimensional rifts.

Haven't read the opinion yet, but I suspect it's reminiscent of one of Judge Crease's later efforts.

Recently finished a good book whose secondary argument was that cognitive science (Chomskyan/Fodorian variety) had no influence on literary theory. But: it did. The issue is that these efforts were not part of the author's training or sphere of interest. What you read is all there is.

There were at least two long answers (which seemed plausible to me for what very little that's worth) with zero scores. The gamification is as much deterrent as incentive for reputation-gathering sites.

Reading Shanks's Rectification of the Circle to 607 Places

Mr. Moore and I to Paul’s school, to wait upon Mr. Crumlum (Mr. Moore having a hopeful lad, a kinsman of his, there at school), who we take very luckily.

Bad polyphenism: "when the water level is low and desiccation is imminent, the tadpoles develop a morphology (wide mouth, strong jaw) that permits them to cannibalize. Cannibalistic tadpoles receive better nutrition and thus metamorphose more quickly, avoiding death as the pond dries up.[8]"

So Paracelsus 'invented' laudanum: "It was early suspected that opium was the real agent of the cures which Paracelsus professed to have effected by this costly means; hence the name was applied to certain opiate preparations which were sold as identical with his famous remedy" (OED).

I found the third edition of Ben Hur (1860) with the duplicate line on the free book shelf.

We teach "The Garden of Forking Paths"; quants use them to fish for p-values. We are not the same!

I agree, though it's very funny considering his withering style of disagreement

Making up people to get mad at is kind of fun. Consider the proprietor of the "Barnacle Cove: Estimating the Estimand" blog. I asked him to add an RSS feed, and he replied: "oh, Reddit Speaks Statistics. Sure," in a tone that implied he would not in fact do it. This is jerk behavior!

In this introductory text from 1985, the description of hypothesis testing, p- and ɑ values, etc. is quite nuanced, contrary to the propaganda, which definitely emanates from lifestyle Bayesians more than practicing statisticians.

A statistics textbook from the early 80s uses a grip strength test for women athletes in different sports as an ANOVA example. Tennis was the highest. Racquets were heavier then, suggesting a much-needed follow-up. What if it's golf now? What then?

I seem to recall the guitarist's name in question was Rock Gizzard or Stone Gossage, something like that. So I could try to find some interview clips to see how clipped the tones are. Maybe perfunctory, a hint of officialese, in the manner of an after-game interview?

The chief's wink uses the entire face, so athletic here describes the effort. Not that much a stretch, not even President's Physical Fitness level. But "athletic tones?" No one knows what that means.

Hammett's chief of police in Red Harvest gives an "athletic wink." And I read a profile of a grunge band once, in Spin or Moss-less, that described the guitarist speaking in "clipped athletic tones." I have pondered this latter one especially for what, twenty years, however long it's been.

That does sound like a good show, but first I'd want to hear from the fans. On reddit.

If sports gambling were legal, I'd make a big bet on Tech

cuts like a knife