alkjash

[Thanks Inkhaven for hosting me! This is my fourth and last post and I'm already exhausted from writing. Wordpress.com!] Last time, I introduced the concept of the “Fat Newt” (fatigue neutral) build, a way of skilling up characters in Battle Brothers that aims to be extremely economical with the fatigue...

Today, I want to introduce an experimental PhD student training philosophy. Let’s start with some reddit memes. Every gaming subreddit has its own distinct meme culture. On r/chess, there's a demon who is summoned by an unsuspecting beginner asking “Why isn’t this checkmate?” These posts are gleefully deluged by responses...

I left China at the age of four. My memories of those first four years are scattered impressions: a three-leaf clover I chowed down on while Mom’s back was turned, the smell of a revolting herbal remedy, the time an older girl scratched me on the cheek in daycare. We...

[I am delighted to be visiting Inkhaven for the next four days and will attempt to post every day I'm here.] There is a Chinese tradition for using water as a metaphor for human nature. > 人往高处走，水往低处流 > As water flows downwards, people climb upwards. ~ proverb Here the nature...

I'm considering meal replacements for 1-2 meals a day, and recall Soylent and Mealsquares were popular meal replacements ~5 years ago when I visited the Berkeley rationalist scene. I haven't found any recent posts discussing the newer options like Huel or about long-term effects. Does anyone have informed opinions on...

Gordon Seidoh Worley Hey, alkjash! I'm excited to talk about some of David Chapman's work with you. Full disclosure, I'm a big fan of Chapman's in general and also a creator within the meta/post-rationality scene with him (to use some jargon to be introduced very shortly). You mentioned being superficially...

alkjash Hi Ruby! Ready to kick things off when you are. I can start by sharing a toy model about productivity inspired by queuing theory, which seems to have been floating around in vague terms on LW. Ruby I've heard the 60% capacity idea before, and this reminds me of...