# Bayesians are to frequentists as vegetarians are to murderers I have close friends who do not eat meat, for moral reasons. It's not that they find meat disgusting. In fact, they find it delicious. Instead they regard meat as murder. And yet we continue to be friends. I myself do not think meat is murder. I regard it in fact as an ordinary and normative part of human society. It's so commonplace. How could it be murder? This sort of moral incompatibility is commonplace. Vegetarians and vegans have to put up with assholes like me all the time. They are surrounded.

When I take train journeys, I sometimes write things. Things that I probably shouldn't publish

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Haven’t seen the talk, but what an excellent deck summarizing memory corruption and the challenges in containing it.

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Salamanders have very large genomes, about 10 times as large as the human genome. And more than half of the salamander's genome is apparently useless. To understand how this can happen, consider the amount of javascript in a typical webpage...

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We all have secret futures We all have secret futures, and stories never told. I could have zigged, but instead I zagged. Turned left instead of right. What if I never tried to hold her hand? Believe it or not, our understandin...

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