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Wed Oct 26, 2022 —
Irrational Economics
Why did I pay $12 for a water bottle at a festival? Why did you buy Tylenol over the generic brand of acetaminophen? Did you know it’s really easy to cause liver damage with acetaminophen? In this post, I laugh at the bad economic decisions we make as humans every day.
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Fri Aug 12, 2022 —
The Economics of Sustainability
A brief (by university standards) essay that ties together history, economics, philosophy, ethics, nutrition, and environmentalism to analyze the prosperity resulting from capitalism and industrialization in contrast to our hopes for a sustainable society.
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Mon Jun 06, 2022 —
Byte-sized Algorithms: Removing Duplicates
This is just some basic Leetcode-esque stuff I needed to do at work recently. It shouldn’t surprise or impress anyone who has thought about this before, but it was mildly interesting to think and write about.
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Thu Dec 30, 2021 —
Why NFTs Matter
It’s not about ape avatars, basketball highlights, or other digital trinkets. It’s about authentic relationships.
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Fri Jun 04, 2021 —
Newspeak in an AI-Driven World
Or: Stop trying to make everyone dumber, Outlook.
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Wed May 26, 2021 —
Do Self-Driving Cars Dream of Snitching?
A cynical (or realistic) take on how a utopian dream–autonomous, self-driving vehicles–can turn into a dystopian nightmare: the global snitching fleet of the future.
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Fri Aug 21, 2020 —
On Apple’s Ecosystem
A short blurb on an interesting (if not worrying) possible byproduct if Apple is forced to release their iron grip on the AppStore.
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Tue Aug 04, 2020 —
Why Does 0.999… = 1?
A simple explanation for a fundamental mathematical truth.
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Mon Aug 03, 2020 —
On Pascal’s Wager
A guy who took two philosophy courses questions the premises of a 400-year-old argument for the necessity of believing in God.
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Thu May 14, 2020 —
Minecraft and the Simulation Hypothesis
Are we reaching the hardware limitations of our simulated universe?
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Mon Apr 27, 2020 —
Contact Tracing Privacy
An analysis of Apple’s novel contact tracing protocol for COVID-19 though the lens of a paranoid privacy enthusiast.
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Mon Dec 30, 2019 —
Why (Not) Peer-to-Peer?
An overview of the Internet’s growth in the 2010s and some questions about what’s to come… With the current state of centralized content distribution, why aren’t we moving to a peer-to-peer model?
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Thu Dec 20, 2018 —
Optimizing Sessionless Sessions
Or, arriving at the rationale behind the existence of JSON Web Tokens in an extremely roundabout fashion.
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Mon Oct 23, 2017 —
Efficient P2P Broadcasting
A memory-less solution that minimizes extra message duplication.
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Fri Jul 07, 2017 —
Tracking Your Every Move
Or, abusing MAC addresses for fun and profit (well, no profit unless you’re a massive corporation or the government…).