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The Lord of the Rings and the Siege of Leningrad
This is just a short followup about something I noticed in the LOTR map. To begin with, let me show you the area of the map I am talking about: For starters, the Lord of the Rings was written after The Hobbit, and so Tolkien when drafting the map for LOTR did an interesting trick, Continue reading
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Rotated Canonical Direction Analysis of The Hobbit’s “Wilderland” Map
Or: How Tolkien walked around map tables. Sooo, what did I see in THIS one? Quite a bit actually, and it’s quite scattered, but hear me out. To make this simpler, I’m going to avoid the big reveal, and just show you where I think Tolkien got the idea for the design of this map. Continue reading
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AI and the Five Element Theory of Chinese Cuisine
or Easy Randomization Schemes while Grocery Shopping I wanted to write a little about how I purchase two-weeks worth of ingredients for dinners so that I minimize how often I have to place an order from Instacart. But before I get into that, I want to mention that for breakfast I dislike having to cook Continue reading
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Possible Origin of the term “Shipboard Evolution”
Spoiler: Darwin’s “Origin of the Species” You read the spoiler, so I’ll get straight to the point: Charles Darwin was HOT! He was like Wiz Khalifa or Britney Spears! Nobody could stop talking about him or thinking about him! When someone’s ideas are that famous, then because they are thought about by so many people Continue reading
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A Wandering, Bronze Age Parallel about the Danger of AI to Civilization As We Know It!
OR Overworked Sun-Gods in a Time of Poor Management Optimization Whoa! What’s this crap about!? I’d like to talk about the Bronze Age, but more precisely, the possible reasons that many of the bronze age cities collapsed. Then I’d like to connect this to a particularly gloomy scenario about how deploying AI to help manage Continue reading
British Empire, Bronze Age, christianity, City Expansion, Codebreaking, Computer Age, Education Disruption Due To Conflict, Fallen Cities, farming, Home Mainetance, Information Technology, Islam, LLM Better Than Search Engines, Logan 5 What Have You Done, Logan’s Run City Computer, Moon Worship, Personal Psychological Models, Roman Empire, Sun Worship, Uncontrolled Population Growth, Upper Level Management Techniques, World War 2 -
The Lord of the Rings and World War 2
I like maps. In fact, I like them so much that I’ve become aware of their potential to dangerously mislead as much by what they reveal as what they conceal. My love of maps stems from two formative experiences in my life. The first were the maps of J.R.R. Tolkien in his Middle Earth books. Continue reading
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Ascetic Laboring is Coool
I’m re-reading a small book by a famous Russian Orthodox priest that lived in the 1800s, and in one part of it, a fellow named Nicholas Motovilov implied that there was some idea going around in 19th century Russia that laboring as a monk was fashionable. This is not as ridiculous as it sounds. The Continue reading
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Scaling Up Birdfeeding Operations
I was thinking to myself about something I saw on the internet. Someone was asking for advice on how to keep the large, greedy birds from eating all the birdfeed, which prevents all the small, pretty, well behaved birds from eating themselves. I’m about to put in some bird feeders myself, and while I was Continue reading
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