Monday, January 29, 2018

Roko's Basilisk and why people were afraid of it

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I'm really late on this one, but I wanted to explain Roko's Basilisk, for all the people who heard about it a while ago and never re...
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Monday, January 15, 2018

The Monty Hall Problem, Bayes Theorem, and a fault in Numberphile

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I watch a lot of educational videos on YouTube, in particular the awesome channel Numberphile.  I recently saw their video on the Monty...
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Monday, December 25, 2017

Richard Feynman and the Message of Christmas

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I often come across as a Grinch during Christmas.  It isn't that I don't like the holiday, it's that I find the actual celebrati...
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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Alternative to the d20 System

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Early D&D used to be a mishmash of various different rules. Roll this die for this, that die for that, look on a table for this other t...
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Advanced Berenst#in Bears Theory - Complex Euclidean Space

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I wrote a blog post several years ago about the Berenst#in Bears that, somehow, against all odds, managed to get picked up on the intern...
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Saturday, November 4, 2017

A Rule for Shields from Descending Armor Class, Applied to Ascending Armor Class

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I've been playing 'D&D 'ever since I was a young boy and found my dad's Dungeon Master's Guide on his bookshelf (the...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

test

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test for commenting Update: I think I figured it out.  Comments should work better now. From my phone I can comment.  From my computer, ...
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