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A man served me sushi on a quiet street in Tokyo last night. Each morning he visits the markets to purchase fresh fish, and each evening he prepares the…
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Fiction, consumed incautiously, eventually bleeds into reality. I used to watch Naruto on Thursday evenings after school. It was always a huge relief to…
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December 2022

My friends, mostly from school, are consistently surprised when I mention that I regularly meet up in person with people from Twitter. In fact, I find…
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This is the first post in a series on the biochemical mechanisms behind pattern baldness. I’m an independent researcher, so I’m mostly self-funded—if…
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“Metals make up a significant fraction of Chinese exports.” “Unfortunately, purchasing metals from China indirectly funds their military, increasing…
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I turned twenty-four today. I left two jobs this year. The first time was like the tadpole, swimming as he has for countless days past, who suddenly…
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April 2022

Insulation. Make sure to get good grades in high school—you want to get into college, right? Make an impression on your professors; you need their…
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March 2022

I spend my free time studying the origins of life from a mathematical and computational perspective. Today, a year after I started work on this problem…
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November 2021

I moved to San Francisco recently. This fact has invited a series of similar exhortations from nearly every person I meet: explore this neighborhood…
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September 2020

What we call things
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August 2020

What happens once software has eaten the world?
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The evocative ability of past technology
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