M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 24 Nov 2017 23:08:07 +0000 (15:08 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 05:01:26 +0000 (21:01 -0800)]
prefer relative URLs
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 04:41:47 +0000 (20:41 -0800)]
poking Nevada review stub
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.
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
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
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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 18 Nov 2017 18:34:30 +0000 (10:34 -0800)]
check in
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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 16 Nov 2017 02:16:38 +0000 (18:16 -0800)]
notes: mostly tidying covered material
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 14 Nov 2017 01:26:34 +0000 (17:26 -0800)]
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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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 14 Nov 2017 01:25:09 +0000 (17:25 -0800)]
bullet-biting tag
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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 6 Nov 2017 20:31:39 +0000 (12:31 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Nov 2017 06:49:50 +0000 (23:49 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Nov 2017 01:02:50 +0000 (18:02 -0700)]
"Laser 1"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Nov 2017 00:19:04 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
Creative Commons Attribution license
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
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?
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?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 1 Nov 2017 20:21:04 +0000 (13:21 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 30 Oct 2017 19:13:23 +0000 (12:13 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Oct 2017 06:47:21 +0000 (23:47 -0700)]
"A Leaf in the Crosswind"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Oct 2017 02:45:52 +0000 (19:45 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:59:51 +0000 (11:59 -0700)]
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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
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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:35:56 +0000 (14:35 -0700)]
Miranda Yardley to blogroll
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.
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.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Oct 2017 21:11:17 +0000 (14:11 -0700)]
correct spelling of AGP in tag
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Oct 2017 18:43:58 +0000 (11:43 -0700)]
Trent's comment re "school" trigger warning
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Oct 2017 05:22:23 +0000 (22:22 -0700)]
"Select"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Oct 2017 05:16:00 +0000 (22:16 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Sep 2017 06:55:32 +0000 (23:55 -0700)]
finish and publish "Hormones Day 156 ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Sep 2017 01:11:08 +0000 (18:11 -0700)]
estradiol result came in!
I officially have girl blood!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 25 Sep 2017 20:00:26 +0000 (13:00 -0700)]
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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.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Sep 2017 22:40:27 +0000 (15:40 -0700)]
update schedule
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Sep 2017 22:40:00 +0000 (15:40 -0700)]
check in new labs
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Sep 2017 22:12:44 +0000 (15:12 -0700)]
reördering future interlude dialogues
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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:37:47 +0000 (17:37 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 16 Sep 2017 23:56:34 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
shepherd dialogue coherence
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 Sep 2017 18:30:57 +0000 (11:30 -0700)]
publish "Grim Trigger"
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?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 Sep 2017 00:50:15 +0000 (17:50 -0700)]
publish "The Nadir of Reading Comprehension"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 05:28:06 +0000 (22:28 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 04:21:29 +0000 (21:21 -0700)]
task shuffling
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 04:21:21 +0000 (21:21 -0700)]
queue shuffling
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 02:49:04 +0000 (19:49 -0700)]
schedule shuffling
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 02:48:56 +0000 (19:48 -0700)]
quote shuffling
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 02:03:11 +0000 (19:03 -0700)]
Pelican 3.7 changes `PAGES` to `pages`
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 01:19:12 +0000 (18:19 -0700)]
ditch overridden CSS rules
It can't hurt, right??
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 01:10:06 +0000 (18:10 -0700)]
generate month and year archive pages
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?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 00:34:26 +0000 (17:34 -0700)]
highlight surprise in Turing scoring
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 00:32:27 +0000 (17:32 -0700)]
fix backpage link to index
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 00:26:01 +0000 (17:26 -0700)]
bullet on author page
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 00:25:15 +0000 (17:25 -0700)]
copyright year
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 00:24:51 +0000 (17:24 -0700)]
paginate main site
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%.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 8 Sep 2017 23:28:11 +0000 (16:28 -0700)]
bump dependencies, update .gitignore
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 8 Sep 2017 16:35:42 +0000 (09:35 -0700)]
check in
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
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"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Sep 2017 00:40:37 +0000 (17:40 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 25 Aug 2017 22:04:29 +0000 (15:04 -0700)]
correct "Interlude VII" publication date
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:51:30 +0000 (14:51 -0700)]
publish "Interlude VII"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:51:59 +0000 (14:51 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 24 Aug 2017 02:07:36 +0000 (19:07 -0700)]
drafting "Nadir" and "Interlude VII"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:26:51 +0000 (12:26 -0700)]
check in
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.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 9 Aug 2017 23:11:37 +0000 (16:11 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 2 Aug 2017 20:09:36 +0000 (13:09 -0700)]
move web chores to own notes/ file
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Jul 2017 22:27:48 +0000 (15:27 -0700)]
drafting "A Common Misunderstanding"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Jul 2017 18:05:58 +0000 (11:05 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Jul 2017 04:13:28 +0000 (21:13 -0700)]
publish "What's My Motivation? Or, Hormones Day 89"
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?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Jul 2017 01:39:20 +0000 (18:39 -0700)]
"What's My Motivation?" photoillustration and nibbles
Almost there ...
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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:06:02 +0000 (20:06 -0700)]
typo
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 19 Jul 2017 19:58:18 +0000 (12:58 -0700)]
check in July 2017 lab results
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Jul 2017 03:10:28 +0000 (20:10 -0700)]
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?)
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).
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 13 Jul 2017 05:28:08 +0000 (22:28 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 13 Jul 2017 05:06:57 +0000 (22:06 -0700)]
check in (epigraphs and post_ideas edits)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 13 Jul 2017 02:47:34 +0000 (19:47 -0700)]
Interlude VI
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:52:36 +0000 (12:52 -0700)]
add Tailcalled's blog to blogroll
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 6 Jul 2017 22:54:45 +0000 (15:54 -0700)]
check in
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?
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.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Jun 2017 02:29:36 +0000 (19:29 -0700)]
check in changes to post list
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.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 20 Jun 2017 01:21:13 +0000 (18:21 -0700)]
no one says initials out loud, not even me
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Jun 2017 23:01:30 +0000 (16:01 -0700)]
"Memoirs" Part I final edits and publication
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Jun 2017 16:48:22 +0000 (09:48 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 15 Jun 2017 02:08:37 +0000 (19:08 -0700)]
"Memoirs" Part I complete draft?!
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