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7 years agoCreative Commons Attribution license
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7 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

7 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?

7 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)]
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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)]
update schedule

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
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

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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)]
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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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 2 Aug 2017 20:09:36 +0000 (13:09 -0700)]
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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check in July 2017 lab results

7 years agocheck in Ranma "Sorry 'bout this" image
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?)

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?!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 15 Jun 2017 02:08:37 +0000 (19:08 -0700)]
"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

7 years agocopyedit "Smart": quotes, not italics where mistakable for emphasis
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 15 Jun 2017 01:33:44 +0000 (18:33 -0700)]
copyedit "Smart": quotes, not italics where mistakable for emphasis

7 years agoInterlude V
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 14 Jun 2017 06:03:59 +0000 (23:03 -0700)]
Interlude V

7 years agomore "Memoirs" Part I drafting
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 13 Jun 2017 19:34:30 +0000 (12:34 -0700)]
more "Memoirs" Part I drafting

The story seems important to tell, but it's hard, and I can't let it
keep blocking me forever.

7 years agoGod bless 8chan
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 13 Jun 2017 19:33:46 +0000 (12:33 -0700)]
God bless 8chan

7 years agocheck in
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7 years agoGoogle Analytics
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 10 Jun 2017 02:55:30 +0000 (19:55 -0700)]
Google Analytics

I had procrastinated on setting this up because I thought it would be
more wholesomely educational to learn to use a less-magical tool to
analyze the Nginx logs, rather than outsourcing this task (like
increasingly the rest of the world) to Google.

But finding out who likes me and hates me is more important than
wholesome log-analysis education!

The Google-Analytics JavaScript fragment that came with the theme looks
old compared to the one I got from the setup dashboard?

7 years agocorrect miscall in Intellectual Turing Test "no. correct" scoring
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 10 Jun 2017 00:49:09 +0000 (17:49 -0700)]
correct miscall in Intellectual Turing Test "no. correct" scoring

Even if the Bayes-scores are what truly matter, we want the hit/miss
iconography to be right!

7 years agocheck in December 2016 lab results
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 9 Jun 2017 20:14:03 +0000 (13:14 -0700)]
check in December 2016 lab results

Maybe worth cleaning up into neater ASCII-columns later? At least I have
the decency to use em dashes, unlike the kp.org programmers.

7 years agoscoring Intellectual Turing Test predictions
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 6 Jun 2017 00:29:56 +0000 (17:29 -0700)]
scoring Intellectual Turing Test predictions

7 years ago"Questions Such as, What's Wrong With You People?"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 2 Jun 2017 23:31:15 +0000 (16:31 -0700)]
"Questions Such as, What's Wrong With You People?"

7 years agoreörganize post ideas, again
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 31 May 2017 20:04:56 +0000 (13:04 -0700)]
reörganize post ideas, again

7 years agofigured out what to call the reply to "Categories Were Made"; trim done
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 27 May 2017 00:52:20 +0000 (17:52 -0700)]
figured out what to call the reply to "Categories Were Made"; trim done

7 years agomore quick madness notes for "Friendship Survived"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 27 May 2017 00:49:39 +0000 (17:49 -0700)]
more quick madness notes for "Friendship Survived"

I really want to finish telling this narrative soon so that I can gbet
back to (gentle, high-level) memetic warfare proper! I'm busy tonight
and tomorrow, but Sunday/Monday this should be a priority!

7 years agocontinuing to draft "Friendship Survived"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 24 May 2017 23:06:10 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
continuing to draft "Friendship Survived"

7 years agocheck in guide to my February 2017 Facebook meltdown in notes/
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 24 May 2017 03:27:51 +0000 (20:27 -0700)]
check in guide to my February 2017 Facebook meltdown in notes/

7 years agoseparate directory for notes?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 24 May 2017 03:27:09 +0000 (20:27 -0700)]
separate directory for notes?

7 years agoSocial Justice Wizard to blogroll
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 23 May 2017 15:52:24 +0000 (08:52 -0700)]
Social Justice Wizard to blogroll