Energy vs. Intelligence
Twenty-six fictional universes on a scatterplot of usable energy per capita against deployable cognitive work per capita.
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My 2026 Hugo Winner Picks
Here’s who my model is picking to win each of the big five 2026 Hugo Awards, and the probability I’d put on each win. Finalists were announced April 21. …
Read →Why ZFS RAIDZ1 Made My Photo Library 17x Slower (And How I Fixed It)
My Apple Photos library is about 3 TB — roughly 1.3 million files. It outgrew a single drive a while back, and I had a wish list for the replacement setup: Span multiple …
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Chromecast Photos 2024
As of 2024, here are the photos of mine that are currently featured on Google Chromecast. You may have seen them on your television as a sort of default screensaver. This …
Read →Lettercasty
An AI Podcast for your Newsletter I’ve been working with the folks at Full Stack Economics to build an automated system that converts their newsletter into a …
Read →Twitter Favorites
I’ve been running a newsletter for a while now via Substack, it just contains interesting stuff I find on Twitter each day. I use it as an outlet for my need to …
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Chromecast Photos 2021
As of 2021, here are the photos of mine that are currently featured on Google Chromecast. You may have seen them on your television as a sort of default screensaver. …
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Two Tower Photos
Recently my Google Display decided to create an automatic collage out of these two photos, and I was very impressed, so I’ve recreated it here. Upon further …
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3D Printed IKEA Skadis hooks
I have an IKEA Skadis pegboard, and when I bought it, I also got some of the standard hooks to go with it. Unfortunately, I discovered pretty quickly that the official …
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Refried Beans
In late February 2020, we bought some dry pinto beans, 50 pounds to be precise. Needless to say, we’ve been looking for ways to use them up. Ingredients 5 ounces …
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Editing Example
I think I remember Trey Ratcliff writing that you should expect to spend more time on editing photos than on taking them. I can’t say I always spend that much time …
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Stanford Photos 2020
I recently walked around the stanford campus to see if I could get some interesting photos. Classes are all going on online, so the campus was mostly deserted. flickr …
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Food Photography
My recent post on pancakes made me think of some of the other food photography I’ve done. From top to bottom: Hamburger from Gobble, Whiskey in Scotland, Espresso …
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Pancake Recipe
I don’t believe in making pancakes with a mix, and it seems like a good time to finally document my simple procedure. If you want to read background about this, …
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Vienna Photos
These Photos are from my trip to Vienna way back in 2016. These two buildings are the museums of history (above) and nature (below). I caught them at a particularly …
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
This site doesn't make money, so let's go straight to the recipe. Ingredients 2 cups flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 2 sticks of butter ¾ cup white sugar ¾ cup brown …
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Chromecast Photos 2019
These photos of mine were featured in the 2019 set of Chromecast photos, you may have seen them on your television as a sort of default screensaver. This is CN Tower, …
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Some old Stanford Photography
Photos I took of stanford in 2016 to test out different options for HDR. flickr album
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Cabin Photos
These photos were selected to decorate a cabin in Lake Tahoe, one is even of Lake Tahoe. flickr album
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