Hi! I’m a programmer person.
Things I get excited about
- Epistemology, decision theory, game theory.
- Tricking my brain into doing what I want it to.
- Statistics and its everyday applications (they do exist! They do!).
- Economics and its everyday applications (they do exist! They do!).
Things I’ve written
- Mildly against COVID risk budgets
- Versis on COVID-19
- Mongoose Simulator 2019
- Attractors
- The anthropic principle: five short examples
- Hypertime writeup+simulator
Things I’ve Done
- I wrote a site where you can bet against your friends.
- I wrote a Hanabi engine that does much better record-keeping than any other I’ve seen.
- I wrote a to-do list app that supports blocking-dependencies between tasks and prioritizes answering the question “what can I do right now?”. Somewhat “Getting Things Done”-inspired. (Abandoned ~2024-07-01 in favor of an Obsidian plugin.)
- I wrote a super-simple, super-portable GUI library for Python. It has no dependencies (other than Python 2.7 or later), and uses a browser as a front-end, thereby not requiring Qt or wxWidgets or PyObjC or any other low-level libraries that will flood you with abstruse error messages when you try to install them. It has run out-of-the-box on every system I’ve tried it on, and it has excellent documentation. (This was one of my earliest works. If doing it again, I’d do it vastly differently, but I’m pleased to see it still works flawlessly nine years later.)
- I wrote two password managers. I realize that this is a terrible idea, but I’m proud of my intellectual babies anyway. If you find a problem, please let me know and withdraw a bounty that you feel is fair from my bank account.
Last time I ensured everything on this page was up-to-date: 2024-05-21.