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6 years agocapitalize alternative title of "Grim Trigger"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Dec 2017 03:28:38 +0000 (19:28 -0800)]
capitalize alternative title of "Grim Trigger"

Style ruling: the definite article at the beginning of the alternative title
should be capitalized even though "Or" is also capitalized. Justification: the
second ("alternative") title should be on equal footing with the first title;
if the second title had been selected as the first title, the definite article
would be capitalized.

6 years agocontinuing to draft "Minimal Viable Product", but ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Dec 2017 02:48:03 +0000 (18:48 -0800)]
continuing to draft "Minimal Viable Product", but ...

Do we really want to pollute _The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue
Thought_ with _more_ akrasia-blogging? ("The Blockhead" was bad enough.)
It's been a worthwhile exercise to get the blood in my fingers flowing, but
I can imagine a reader crying out, "So stop _telling_ me that you have so
many important thoughts left to share, and fucking _show_ me!"—and she
wouldn't be wrong. Maybe salvagable for my real-name blog?

6 years agocontinuing to draft "Minimal Viable Product; Or, Ainslie vs. Pareto"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 23:59:24 +0000 (15:59 -0800)]
continuing to draft "Minimal Viable Product; Or, Ainslie vs. Pareto"

(Continuing our preference for Either/Or Titles, but this working title could
change again)

6 years agofinished (?) draft of "A Common Misunderstanding; Or ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 22:42:13 +0000 (14:42 -0800)]
finished (?) draft of "A Common Misunderstanding; Or ..."

6 years agotentative scheduling??
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 19:56:49 +0000 (11:56 -0800)]
tentative scheduling??

6 years agocopyediting
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 19:54:48 +0000 (11:54 -0800)]
copyediting

"deprivation" with an 'i'; clarifying word "all"; "unpreturbed" doesn't quite
mean that, dummy

6 years agotag curation
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 19:52:00 +0000 (11:52 -0800)]
tag curation

6 years agostart drafting "Ainslie vs. Pareto"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 19:48:37 +0000 (11:48 -0800)]
start drafting "Ainslie vs. Pareto"

6 years agocontinuing to draft "Lesser Known Demand Curves"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 19:14:17 +0000 (11:14 -0800)]
continuing to draft "Lesser Known Demand Curves"

6 years agomore missed location-masking in "Joined"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 18:12:37 +0000 (10:12 -0800)]
more missed location-masking in "Joined"

6 years agomissing Ozy tag capitalization
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 18:03:44 +0000 (10:03 -0800)]
missing Ozy tag capitalization

6 years agoanother missed location mask in "Joined"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 29 Nov 2017 20:56:41 +0000 (12:56 -0800)]
another missed location mask in "Joined"

6 years agocheck in
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6 years agodrafting "Lesser Known Demand Curves"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 29 Nov 2017 08:20:15 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
drafting "Lesser Known Demand Curves"

6 years agotry to capitalize Ozy's tag
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 29 Nov 2017 03:58:14 +0000 (19:58 -0800)]
try to capitalize Ozy's tag

The one word "ozy" felt like a reasonable lowercase tag at the time, but I'm
likely going to end up with "Julia Serano" and "Scott Alexander" tags, which
should clearly be capitalized; I should treat Ozy the same.

(At commit time, the development server seems to still be rendering the tag as
lowercase, which is _deeply confusing_ and may need to be debugged later??)

6 years agoredact a location from "Joined"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Nov 2017 06:25:05 +0000 (22:25 -0800)]
redact a location from "Joined"

so like, there's _also_ a _far_ more "incriminating" link to my real-name blog
(!) still in there, but I almost think the æsthetic of my ostensible
pseudonymity is better satisfied by leaving it in, as if it were just something
Saotome-Westlake happened to stumble across on the web and remember enough to
link. Remember that story about how the key to breaking the Enigma was that it
never mapped a letter to itself? Let's be smarter than that, sort of

6 years agoretroactively cross-post cosplay posts from my other blog
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Nov 2017 06:16:08 +0000 (22:16 -0800)]
retroactively cross-post cosplay posts from my other blog

6 years agoelaborate on epistemic status of "From What I've Tasted of Desire"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Nov 2017 05:48:12 +0000 (21:48 -0800)]
elaborate on epistemic status of "From What I've Tasted of Desire"

This post has gotten a disproportionate amount of attention but justifiably
evokes a lot of "WTF!?"-ness from readers who don't already get where I'm
coming from; maybe strengthen the warning label just a bit

6 years agofix pull to working repo in post-receive hook, probably
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 06:07:25 +0000 (22:07 -0800)]
fix pull to working repo in post-receive hook, probably

It would seem that codes run on behalf of the bare repo have $GIT_DIR='.',
which is not what we want when working on a non-bare repo.

6 years agonote autoscheduler bugs to fix later
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:57:16 +0000 (18:57 -0800)]
note autoscheduler bugs to fix later

6 years agorevise publication time of "The Blockhead"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:53:15 +0000 (18:53 -0800)]
revise publication time of "The Blockhead"

There were at least two bugs in my autoscheduler. Firstly, the git-pull to the
working repo didn't seem to happen for some reason (although it worked when I
invoked the autoscheduler manually). Secondly, the server is on UTC.

6 years agoschedule "The Blockhead", "Interlude X"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:45:35 +0000 (18:45 -0800)]
schedule "The Blockhead", "Interlude X"

(cross your fingers and hope that my auto-scheduler works)

6 years agoyet another "A Leaf" post-publication edit: "clearly"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:43:35 +0000 (18:43 -0800)]
yet another "A Leaf" post-publication edit: "clearly"

6 years agopost idea: FaceApp product review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:42:54 +0000 (18:42 -0800)]
post idea: FaceApp product review

6 years agonotes check-in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:42:06 +0000 (18:42 -0800)]
notes check-in

6 years agocheck in
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check in

6 years agoprefer relative URLs
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 05:01:26 +0000 (21:01 -0800)]
prefer relative URLs

6 years agopoking Nevada review stub
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 04:41:47 +0000 (20:41 -0800)]
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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 18 Nov 2017 18:34:30 +0000 (10:34 -0800)]
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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

6 years agocheck in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 14 Nov 2017 01:26:34 +0000 (17:26 -0800)]
check in

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

6 years agocheck in
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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?

7 years agocheck in
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7 years ago"A Leaf in the Crosswind"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Oct 2017 06:47:21 +0000 (23:47 -0700)]
"A Leaf in the Crosswind"

7 years agocheck in
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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"

7 years agocheck in
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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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check in

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)]
update schedule

7 years agocheck in new labs
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Sep 2017 22:40:00 +0000 (15:40 -0700)]
check in new labs

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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 16 Sep 2017 23:56:34 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
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"

7 years agocheck in
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7 years agotask shuffling
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 04:21:29 +0000 (21:21 -0700)]
task shuffling

7 years agoqueue shuffling
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Sep 2017 04:21:21 +0000 (21:21 -0700)]
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)]
bump dependencies, update .gitignore

7 years agocheck in
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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)]
correct "Interlude VII" publication date

7 years agopublish "Interlude VII"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:51:30 +0000 (14:51 -0700)]
publish "Interlude VII"

7 years agocheck in
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7 years agodrafting "Nadir" and "Interlude VII"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 24 Aug 2017 02:07:36 +0000 (19:07 -0700)]
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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