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ascotson Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far

my Z_spiritual(T) has been unusually high recently because all of this slop is supercharging the value I've been generating through ego-confrontation and progressive liberation

ascotson Claude partial outage

Project completely disappeared. Conveniently for Anthropic, the bug report also went down, so they weren't spammed by my stale complaints after the project magically resurfaced.

ascotson Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width

Now I'm considering how many tokens I've wasted writing "tihs" instead of "this" - tens! Any how much extra work goes into understanding misspellings?

ascotson Does Georgism work? Five years later

How does LVT square away zoning laws that require commerical real estate to maintain vast parking lots that sit 50% unused?

ascotson Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals

looks like we both created educational materials about the same topics - except yours clearly is higher effort in terms of prose and human effort.

https://learn.mimmsy.com/

Was toying with the idea that with everyone vibe coding niche educational sites (this is a claim about myself, not this site) it would be nice if that effort could go into building an auditable library of widgets/ educational resources users could trust.

Disclaimer: my concept is a stalled WIP/ completely vibe coded, but for me it was fun POC of a widget registry that can be served into chats via mcp

ascotson Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

Googling "gtao graphics" results in "Grand theft auto online"

"Gtao technique" was more helpful: Ground Truth Ambient Occlusion

ascotson A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)

Frontotemporal dementia

ascotson Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

100% agree. If the models are so capable that they're advancing math, it doesn't seem like a stretch to expect they should be able to determine with "doing math research" entails and the best way to use their capabilities towards that end. Why do we need to hand hold the models by telling them to do parallel research, keep threads independent, etc.