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6 years agopoking Nevada review stub
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poking Nevada review stub

6 years agolink to actual text of Creative Commons license
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 04:33:37 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
link to actual text of Creative Commons license

Maybe Larry Lessig's minions think they're being cute by publicizing a
"human-readable summary" rather than the actual license, but I think that
phrasing is kind of insulting to lawyers. Plus, the license fulltext page
doesn't have an obnoxious fundraising banner, unlike the "deed" page.

6 years agointroducing Pelican Scheduler
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 03:43:22 +0000 (19:43 -0800)]
introducing Pelican Scheduler

I haven't tested this end-to-end yet, but I've spot-checked most of the
individual pieces and it's plausible that this will work.

Some might say, "You know, you could schedule posts in advance without writing
any code at all if you just used WordPress"

but

then you'd be using WordPress

6 years agoPelican footer link to main site, rather than 3.6.3 docs
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:36:00 +0000 (16:36 -0800)]
Pelican footer link to main site, rather than 3.6.3 docs

6 years agonow with Gitweb! link it in footer; check in copy of Nginx conf
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:33:10 +0000 (16:33 -0800)]
now with Gitweb! link it in footer; check in copy of Nginx conf

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agosplit off another priority tier
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 16 Nov 2017 02:19:53 +0000 (18:19 -0800)]
split off another priority tier

I would like to go get a new dayjob before too long; this distinction is worth
making

6 years agonotes: mostly tidying covered material
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 16 Nov 2017 02:16:38 +0000 (18:16 -0800)]
notes: mostly tidying covered material

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6 years agomore post-publication edits to "A Leaf"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 14 Nov 2017 01:25:46 +0000 (17:25 -0800)]
more post-publication edits to "A Leaf"

A typo, and being nicer to my contact

6 years agobullet-biting tag
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 14 Nov 2017 01:25:09 +0000 (17:25 -0800)]
bullet-biting tag

6 years agonotes: two links and an adaptable Secret Conspiracy Chatroom moment
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 9 Nov 2017 22:29:19 +0000 (14:29 -0800)]
notes: two links and an adaptable Secret Conspiracy Chatroom moment

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6 years ago"Laser 1"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Nov 2017 01:02:50 +0000 (18:02 -0700)]
"Laser 1"

6 years agoCreative Commons Attribution license
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Nov 2017 00:19:04 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
Creative Commons Attribution license

6 years ago.gitignore entry for note/reference material I don't want to check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 4 Nov 2017 18:40:16 +0000 (11:40 -0700)]
.gitignore entry for note/reference material I don't want to check in

6 years agolink Gwern's Death Note essay in "The Line in the Sand"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 4 Nov 2017 01:18:33 +0000 (18:18 -0700)]
link Gwern's Death Note essay in "The Line in the Sand"

Maybe this kind of context-setting makes the "doesn't know information theory"
remark clearer?

6 years agosome post-publication edits to "A Leaf in the Crosswind"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 4 Nov 2017 01:06:07 +0000 (18:06 -0700)]
some post-publication edits to "A Leaf in the Crosswind"

Is even this not precisely what I want to say?

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7 years ago"A Leaf in the Crosswind"
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"A Leaf in the Crosswind"

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7 years agoa key subparenthetical qualifier in "Hormones Day 156"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 16 Oct 2017 06:10:03 +0000 (23:10 -0700)]
a key subparenthetical qualifier in "Hormones Day 156"

This is not the kind of blog that can be unambiguously "marketed." It's
something that needs to exist, and it's something that should be carefully
promoted to carefully-sliced market segments

7 years agoimport "Interlude XI" draft
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 13 Oct 2017 23:45:08 +0000 (16:45 -0700)]
import "Interlude XI" draft

Like "Interlude X", this is a gem from my Facebook vaguebooking period

7 years agoMiranda Yardley to blogroll
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:35:56 +0000 (14:35 -0700)]
Miranda Yardley to blogroll

7 years agoafter-the-fact edits to "Hormones Day 156"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:27:11 +0000 (14:27 -0700)]
after-the-fact edits to "Hormones Day 156"

A powerful reason for keeping my blog's source in Git, is that I feel less
guilty about making nontrivial edits to already-published posts (which already
have a publication date and often, like this one, are about a particular point
in time): it's clearer that I'm refining my expression rather than trying to
edit the past, when there's an easily-accessible log of what changed and when.

7 years agofix school plausibility in "Select"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:00:43 +0000 (14:00 -0700)]
fix school plausibility in "Select"

I said "Harvey Mudd" because they have a reputation as a STEM-specialty school,
but Trent and another friend of the blog pointed out that they don't actually
have a graduate program; the other friend suggested CMU as a replacement
respecting the desired prestige ordering.

7 years agocorrect spelling of AGP in tag
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Oct 2017 21:11:17 +0000 (14:11 -0700)]
correct spelling of AGP in tag

7 years agoTrent's comment re "school" trigger warning
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Oct 2017 18:43:58 +0000 (11:43 -0700)]
Trent's comment re "school" trigger warning

7 years ago"Select"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Oct 2017 05:22:23 +0000 (22:22 -0700)]
"Select"

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7 years agofinish and publish "Hormones Day 156 ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Sep 2017 06:55:32 +0000 (23:55 -0700)]
finish and publish "Hormones Day 156 ..."

7 years agoestradiol result came in!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Sep 2017 01:11:08 +0000 (18:11 -0700)]
estradiol result came in!

I officially have girl blood!

7 years agocheck in
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7 years agopublish "Interlude IX"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 24 Sep 2017 20:18:25 +0000 (13:18 -0700)]
publish "Interlude IX"

This one is kind of mean. Forgive me.

7 years agoupdate schedule
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Sep 2017 22:40:27 +0000 (15:40 -0700)]
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7 years agocheck in new labs
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7 years agoreördering future interlude dialogues
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Sep 2017 22:12:44 +0000 (15:12 -0700)]
reördering future interlude dialogues

7 years agopublish "Neither as Plea nor as Despair"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Sep 2017 21:01:41 +0000 (14:01 -0700)]
publish "Neither as Plea nor as Despair"

This one is pretty obscure, but it's my blog and my æsthetic

7 years agocheck in
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7 years agoshepherd dialogue coherence
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shepherd dialogue coherence

7 years agopublish "Grim Trigger"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 Sep 2017 18:30:57 +0000 (11:30 -0700)]
publish "Grim Trigger"

7 years agoMaria Catt is back online!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 Sep 2017 07:09:19 +0000 (00:09 -0700)]
Maria Catt is back online!

And under her real name, unlike some cowards, huh?

7 years agopublish "The Nadir of Reading Comprehension"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 Sep 2017 00:50:15 +0000 (17:50 -0700)]
publish "The Nadir of Reading Comprehension"

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7 years agotask shuffling
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task shuffling

7 years agoqueue shuffling
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queue shuffling

7 years agoschedule shuffling
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 02:49:04 +0000 (19:49 -0700)]
schedule shuffling

7 years agoquote shuffling
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 02:48:56 +0000 (19:48 -0700)]
quote shuffling

7 years agoPelican 3.7 changes `PAGES` to `pages`
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 02:03:11 +0000 (19:03 -0700)]
Pelican 3.7 changes `PAGES` to `pages`

7 years agoditch overridden CSS rules
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 01:19:12 +0000 (18:19 -0700)]
ditch overridden CSS rules

It can't hurt, right??

7 years agogenerate month and year archive pages
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 01:10:06 +0000 (18:10 -0700)]
generate month and year archive pages

7 years agotag cloud
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 00:57:46 +0000 (17:57 -0700)]
tag cloud

Markup adapted from the tag-cloud plugin README. It may be worth upstreaming my
alphabetical-sort fix?

7 years agohighlight surprise in Turing scoring
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 00:34:26 +0000 (17:34 -0700)]
highlight surprise in Turing scoring

7 years agofix backpage link to index
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 00:32:27 +0000 (17:32 -0700)]
fix backpage link to index

7 years agobullet on author page
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 00:26:01 +0000 (17:26 -0700)]
bullet on author page

7 years agocopyright year
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 00:25:15 +0000 (17:25 -0700)]
copyright year

7 years agopaginate main site
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 00:24:51 +0000 (17:24 -0700)]
paginate main site

7 years agoknock font size down 2 points
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 8 Sep 2017 23:32:48 +0000 (16:32 -0700)]
knock font size down 2 points

On my screen, the blog has always looked better at 90%.

7 years agobump dependencies, update .gitignore
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 8 Sep 2017 23:28:11 +0000 (16:28 -0700)]
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7 years agoreorg: separate post-schedule from scratch notes, all in notes directory
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 7 Sep 2017 21:06:28 +0000 (14:06 -0700)]
reorg: separate post-schedule from scratch notes, all in notes directory

7 years ago"maybe humans like us too and dress like us at Comic-Con"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Sep 2017 00:49:27 +0000 (17:49 -0700)]
"maybe humans like us too and dress like us at Comic-Con"

7 years agocheck in
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7 years agocorrect "Interlude VII" publication date
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 25 Aug 2017 22:04:29 +0000 (15:04 -0700)]
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7 years agopublish "Interlude VII"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:51:30 +0000 (14:51 -0700)]
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7 years agocheck in
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7 years agodrafting "Nadir" and "Interlude VII"
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drafting "Nadir" and "Interlude VII"

7 years agocheck in
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7 years agocheck in stub for "Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:24:18 +0000 (12:24 -0700)]
check in stub for "Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean"

(This one will require a bit of math that I've seen the outline of for a
long time, but hadn't yet got around to mastering.)

7 years agocheck in
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7 years agomove web chores to own notes/ file
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move web chores to own notes/ file

7 years agodrafting "A Common Misunderstanding"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Jul 2017 22:27:48 +0000 (15:27 -0700)]
drafting "A Common Misunderstanding"

7 years agocheck in
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7 years agopublish "What's My Motivation? Or, Hormones Day 89"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Jul 2017 04:13:28 +0000 (21:13 -0700)]
publish "What's My Motivation? Or, Hormones Day 89"

7 years ago"What's My Motivation?" fill in final missing paragraph and change?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Jul 2017 07:30:03 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
"What's My Motivation?" fill in final missing paragraph and change?

7 years ago"What's My Motivation?" photoillustration and nibbles
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Jul 2017 01:39:20 +0000 (18:39 -0700)]
"What's My Motivation?" photoillustration and nibbles

Almost there ...

7 years agodrafting "What's My Motivation?"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:57:01 +0000 (13:57 -0700)]
drafting "What's My Motivation?"

one or two more paragraphs—and a picture of the new pills after I get to
the pharmacy—and I hope to publish this tonight or tomorrow

7 years agotypo
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:06:02 +0000 (20:06 -0700)]
typo

7 years agocheck in July 2017 lab results
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7 years agocheck in Ranma "Sorry 'bout this" image
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check in Ranma "Sorry 'bout this" image

I don't know exactly how I'm going to use this, but it's too perfect not
to use somewhere. (Where did you think the first part of my surname came
from?)

7 years agowork in _On the Science_ FAQ link in track champ post
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 17 Jul 2017 06:54:27 +0000 (23:54 -0700)]
work in _On the Science_ FAQ link in track champ post

I tend to frown on editing already-published posts, but this is just too
good (and Git is here for the historians).

7 years agocheck in
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7 years agocheck in (epigraphs and post_ideas edits)
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7 years agoInterlude VI
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 13 Jul 2017 02:47:34 +0000 (19:47 -0700)]
Interlude VI

7 years agoadd Tailcalled's blog to blogroll
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:52:36 +0000 (12:52 -0700)]
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7 years agocheck in
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7 years agoMaria Catt marked her blog private
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 6 Jul 2017 22:19:48 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
Maria Catt marked her blog private

Isn't it awful how stuff just disappears off the face of the internet?

7 years agodrafting "What's My Motivation? Or, Hormones Day 7X"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 6 Jul 2017 18:52:00 +0000 (11:52 -0700)]
drafting "What's My Motivation? Or, Hormones Day 7X"

digit X TBD depending on when I finish it (pray I need not alter the 7)

This is from the 3 July "Shut Up and Write" meetup.

7 years agocheck in changes to post list
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Jun 2017 02:29:36 +0000 (19:29 -0700)]
check in changes to post list

7 years agomention Scott's profession
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 27 Jun 2017 23:43:11 +0000 (16:43 -0700)]
mention Scott's profession

This way, the "(besides Scott)" later in the paragraph should have
context even for readers who don't know who he is.

7 years agono one says initials out loud, not even me
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 20 Jun 2017 01:21:13 +0000 (18:21 -0700)]
no one says initials out loud, not even me

7 years ago"Memoirs" Part I final edits and publication
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Jun 2017 23:01:30 +0000 (16:01 -0700)]
"Memoirs" Part I final edits and publication

7 years agocheck in
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7 years ago"Memoirs" Part I complete draft?!
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"Memoirs" Part I complete draft?!

7 years agoit's not clear to me why I thought "Spiro" should be capitalized
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 15 Jun 2017 01:47:59 +0000 (18:47 -0700)]
it's not clear to me why I thought "Spiro" should be capitalized