Forgive Yourself For Your Misadventures
Someone said this to me a while ago, I wish I could remember who, but it’s helped me deal with a lot of adverse circumstances. A lot of us are…
Forgive Yourself For Your Misadventures
AI Doesn’t Innovate
2024nov25 — I was really struck by this tagline on Canva's new 2025 design report, saying "motion elements, dreamy textures, and AI innovation" would shape new design possibilities. As an AI…
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My Laconic Roommate Jim
My laconic roommate Jim was the quickest wit in the west. I lived with the guy for about 10 years, and he never said much, but when he did, it…
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Kupietz’s Law Of Infoavailability
Where technology is concerned: "Information needs expand to fill available bandwidth." Where we used to have to fill in a one-page form, when automation arrived to make it quicker for…
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Satire: “Traffic Lights” and the Left’s Destruction of American Mobility
(Satire, people. This is satire. I actually had someone not get that.) If there's one thing I'm opposed to, which I think represents a very wrongheaded tendency in our society,…
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Crossing detector (feat. 2-field date/time entry demo)
ApopheniaPays Crossing detector & 2-field date/time entry by ApopheniaPays on TradingView.com TradingView Script. Free TradingView account required to use. Direct link: https://www.tradingview.com/script/izM2anXV-ApopheniaPays-Crossing-detector-2-field-date-time-entry/ A demonstration created by request. You specify a…
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Range Strategy demo
ApopheniaPays Range Strategy by ApopheniaPays on TradingView.com TradingView Script. Free TradingView account required to use. Direct link: https://www.tradingview.com/script/vQmYyTp5-ApopheniaPays-Range-Strategy A very simple demo, made by request, to allow a user to…
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AP VWWMA/Volume-Adjusted Price lines 5.4.2 shared alpha
AP VWWMA/Volume-Adjusted Price lines 5.4.2 shared alpha by ApopheniaPays on TradingView.com TradingView Script. Free TradingView account required to use. Direct link: https://www.tradingview.com/script/Hgjz7wXW-AP-VWWMA-Volume-Adjusted-Price-lines-5-4-2-shared-alpha/ Initial alpha release, just for you to play…
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AP Risk Management Assistant 20-02-25.01 shared alpha
AP Risk Management Assistant 20-02-25.01 shared alpha by ApopheniaPays on TradingView.com TradingView Script. Free TradingView account required to use. Direct link: hhttps://www.tradingview.com/script/cviFZ4S5-AP-Risk-Management-Assistant-20-02-25-01-shared-alpha/ Initial alpha release, just for you to play…
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Demonstration of how chart history length affects current EMA values
Demonstration of how history length affects all EMA values by ApopheniaPays on TradingView.com TradingView Script. Free TradingView account required to use. Direct link: https://www.tradingview.com/script/NwvUwIQ3-Demonstration-of-how-history-length-affects-all-EMA-values/ I saw some discussion of this…
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Reminder Message (w/ color picker demo)
Reminder Message (with color picker) - ApopheniaPays by ApopheniaPays on TradingView.com TradingView Script. Free TradingView account required to use. Direct link: https://www.tradingview.com/script/KLNJvOaF-Reminder-Message-with-color-picker-ApopheniaPays/ This is a very simple script. It displays…
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Ideology in Brief: Are You Free?
You're permanently confined to a bed because someone has shackled you to it with iron chains. Are you free? You're permanently confined to a bed because someone surreptitiously slipped you…
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Conflict and Division: One Root Of Fractiousness—the Role of Government
Reading an interesting and wide-ranging article on political analyst David Shor (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/opinion/democrats-david-shor-education-polarization.html) I came across the following passage: "[Shor] and those who agree with him argue that Democrats need to…
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The Infinity Razor
Draft - never published This is an old favorite of mine that I'm glad to see survives in some form on the web. Close to 20 years ago, The Economist…
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More than Coincidence? The Bushes, the CIA, an inexplicable disease cluster, and a TV show
Draft - never published Over the course of the persidency of George H. W. Bush, both he and first lady Barbara Bush developed Graves' disease, a form of lupus. Doctors…
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Online Petition Gets Murder Conviction Overturned
Originally posted on Misinformationvisualization.com on 12/9/2013. According to Change.org’s current homepage: “Family wins release of son from prison! Ryan Ferguson’s family fought for his release from prison for a murder they…
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How To Pick A Better Password
Originally posted on Misinformationvisualization.com on 12/2/2013 Buried in this interesting article about password security from the BBC is the tidbit that studies have found that red-haired women tend to pick…
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Election ’12 fact-finding: Has Obama Increased or Decreased Shark Attacks in the US?
Originally published on MisinformationVisualization.com on Aug 18, 2012 Here’s something Romney’s attack ads refuse to discuss. According to figures from the nonpartisan American Elasmobranch Society and the Florida Museum of…
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Just A Dab’ll Do Ya: Against Libertarianism, Almost
Foreword about "Against Libertarianism", 2023I wrote this, originally a blog post, about 10 years ago. Nowadays I have more to say about this, but for the moment this stands with…
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You’ll love this entry.
I've finally nailed what bothers me so much about those Upworthy headlines. It's that they they tell you what to think about about the video, instead of telling you what…
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The most suggestive term in telecommunications
The 90 days after the creation of a new area code in which either the old or the new code may be used to dial that area is called the…
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In Heaven, Everything Is Fine
I have an idea about what happens after you die. I think when you go to heaven, St. Peter lets you in, they show you to a room. You take…
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These are the people in my neighborhood: Allison
Fly Bar, Alamo Square [My eccentric neighbor Allison walked into a bar where my friend Brent and I were sitting at a table near the door and I called out…
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These are the people in my neighborhood: Allison II
Front stoop of my apartment, day after Thanksgiving, 11/25/05 As I was arriving home, my eccentric neighbor Allison was just leaving her building. Allison: [waves at me] Me: Oh, hey,…
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A step towards understanding (instead of) violence
I’m a big believer in personal responsibility and people being accountable for their actions. That said, there’s only so long you can do something to people that they perceive as…
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The Most Evil Words
I think "fuck 'em" are the most evil two words, the worst thought, in the English language. Maybe they're not terribly evil, said once, by themselves. But no words are.…
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Vocabulary: That Vu That Yu Du So Well
Déjà vu: a false sense that something new has been seen before Jamais vu: a feeling or impression that something familiar is unfamiliar or is being seen for the first…
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Like Butter
You know, it's funny... the other day I just plugged in a backup hard drive that I haven't used in about 4 years. I looked at all the stuff was…
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Man’s Fate: Stone antennae waving
Link: A Geologist Investigates a Mass Extinction at the End of the Permian Period A friend commented on the above as a warning. Well, I do believe we need not…
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The Advice For All Seasons
An Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be always true; in all times, and in all…
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