May Is Math and Wellness Month
(Previously, previously.) Do you ever spend five months in constant emotional pain waging a desperate and ultimately unsuccessful behind-the-scenes email campaign with the aim of securing a public...
View ArticleThe Typical Set
(Part of Math and Wellness Month.) Say you have a biased coin that comes up Heads 80% of the time. (I like to imagine that the Heads side has a portrait of Bernoulli.) Flip it 100 times. The naïve way...
View ArticleForgive or Forget ("Or", Not "And"): A Trade-Off in Wellness Engineering
Forgiveness is an important input into Wellness, but contrary to popular belief, Forgiveness is incompatible with Forgetting. You can't just Forgive in general, you have to Forgive some specific sin in...
View ArticleGroup Theory for Wellness I
(Part of Math and Wellness Month.) Groups! A group is a set with an associative binary operation such that there exists an identity element and inverse elements! And my favorite thing about groups is...
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Minimax Search and the Structure of Cognition!
(This is a blog post adaptation of a talk I gave at !!Con West 2019!) It all started at my old dayjob, where some of my coworkers had an office chess game going. I wanted to participate and be part of...
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