Five years later, I had a revelation that the solution to this, as with all things, lies in the Bible.

The First Commandment is that, if you ever find yourself

Sometimes the Discourse touches upon whether polyamory increases the number of single men. (I haven’t yet heard the symmetric concern voiced, so I’ll focus on single men here.)

So, …

Rants about algorithmic bias are a dime a dozen, but this one actually taught me something! Let me relay it, in story form.

Suppose you have a decision in front of you! You have some gamble you can …

• Take two moderately interesting functions that map the unit square to itself; for example, \[(x,y) \rightarrow \left(1-y^2, \sqrt{x}\right)\] and \[(x,y) \rightarrow \left(\frac{x+y}{2}, x\right)\]. …