I feel like bar charts don't help me in domains I don't already understand. Like, "number go up", yay?
Visited the Japanese Tea Garden in San Mateo Central Park toady. It was nice. Surprised I haven't been earlier.
Extending off #171, I wish people would stop comparing AI to the calculator. Like, no. That analogy is not going to work anymore.
how is scribd legal
It should be illegal to be jetlagged and sick at the same time.
In digital security, offense seems fundamentally easier than defense:
It's not fair. As the designer of a secure system, you have to think of every possible means of attack and protect against them all, but a cryptanalyst only has to find one hole in your security and exploit it. (Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography)
I'm always amazed things are still standing.
It still boggles my mind that some households wear street shoes indoors.
… as much as I hate Twitter/X, posting a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture as a tweet is actually pretty funny. gj levent.
Today's trivia question:
there's a unique IMO country code which is also a possible
subject distribution for an IMO day ([ACGN][ACGN][ACGN]).
Which country is it?
(Update: Actually there's more than one if you include countries that previously attended IMO but not the last five years.)
On flights I can never finish the provided meals before the flight attendants start collecting the trays.
i never know how to write the part of rec letters where i need to brag about my own credentials first.
Stumbled upon 100 Days in Jakarta and now can't stop re-reading it.
I was asking Claude to proofread something I wrote and it gave me the feedback:
Cosmetic.
\opnameshould resolve to\operatorname— fine if it's defined in your preamble (as in Evan Chen's macros), otherwise it won't compile.
Was a bit startled.
Compliment of the week: "Evan is so nice, but he always wins."
Playing a lot of Exploding Kittens recently, surprised how much I'm enjoying it.
Played my first scored game of Scrabble yesterday and on my second turn I
managed to land ZOOMER on a double word square with the Z on a triple letter
tile.
The rest of the game went downhill from there.
I tried to internally reroute web.evanchen.cc to web.evanchen.cc/index.html
but accidentally rerouted every domain on my site.
(So, e.g., apply.evanchen.cc also got rerouted to
apply.evanchen.cc/index.html, and hence 404's.)
Sorry about that! Should be back in working order now.
rclone sync is destructive and i didn't realize
(hence didn't use --dry-run). ouch.
good thing i'm still just testing.
Trying to transition web.evanchen.cc from Google Cloud to CloudFlare R2.
Let's see how it goes!
Editing a file not under Git version control kind of gives me the heebie-jeebies. It's like there's no one supervising my changes to save me if I need to revert.