Articles by surprisetalk
1

"I built a site to explore and analyze all 18,500 Pitchfork reviews" (reddit.com)

4

The lifelong exercise that keeps Japan moving (2020) (bbc.com)

4

YouTube Launches on Apple Vision Pro (macrumors.com)

2

A Brief History of Xenopus (asimov.press)

2

Rethinking High-School Science Fairs (asteriskmag.com)

1

Memory Safety Is (matklad.github.io)

1

Bio-Theory Lab Notes (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

3

Survival Analysis of the Supreme Court (entropicthoughts.com)

1

How to Win Titular Metagames (taylor.town)

1

Mapping Ignorance (mappingignorance.org)

1

Making a Game for the Pokémon Mini [video] (youtube.com)

2

Trying to Make an Automated Ecologist (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

3

Agent orchestration isn't just for coders (handyai.substack.com)

1

The strongest encryption is just noise (hypertextgarden.com)

1

Terence Tao: Why I Co-Founded SAIR [video] (youtube.com)

5

I Just Returned from China. We Are Not Winning (nytimes.com)

1

A Language for Agents (pocoo.org)

2

The seam through the center of things (usefulfictions.substack.com)

12

Sex Workers Are Built Different (Graph Dump) (aella.substack.com)

2

No-code History: Sketchpad (2022) (instadeq.com)

1

Alzheimer's: from causes and risk factors to models and interventions (nintil.com)

2

Hard problems in social media archiving (alexwlchan.net)

2

Download the map of your city for offline use (practicalbetterments.com)

1

I guess we're doing Moon factories now (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

2

We have outgrown the Process model (sidhion.com)

1

How to Create Real Permitting Certainty (ifp.org)

1

Interactive Fiction and Text Adventures Database (ifdb.org)

2

You Don't Need It (moq.dev)

1

Singing the Gospel of Collective Efficacy (interconnected.org)

2

So I Got an EEG (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

2

SAC of Enshittification (digitalsorceress.com)

2

The Perfect Device (sometimes.digital)

1

FWD: Re: radioactive fungus email from grandma (2024) (taylor.town)

2

The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead (joanwestenberg.com)

1

Musicals use motifs to tell stories (pudding.cool)

2

Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish? (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

1

Can a Single Screenshot Predict a Game's Success? [video] (youtube.com)

1

John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds (plover.com)

1

The Impact of Housing Affordability on Consumption, Work Effort, and Investment (ssrn.com)

2

Friendship maintenance (avabear.xyz)

1

Concat Arrays with SQL Aggregate Functions (2024) (taylor.town)

25

The three year myth (spacedino.net)

1

The Blurry Boundaries Between Programming and Direct Use (joshuahhh.com)

1

Taylor's Media Criticism System (2023) (taylor.town)

2

Stellarium Web Online Star Map (2021) (stellarium-web.org)

1

My Internet Yardsale (departure.blog)

3

The Coherence Premium (joanwestenberg.com)

2

Building an Obsidian RAG with DuckDB and MotherDuck (motherduck.com)

2

Struggling Towards an Algebraic Theory of Music (reasonablypolymorphic.com)

2

To be well-calibrated is to be punctual (lesswrong.com)

2

Making Money on OnlyFans Is a Lot Harder Than You Think (2020) (vice.com)

1

Crocker's Rules (sl4.org)

11

Shades of Halftone (maximeheckel.com)

1

Blockchain Is a Galactic Algorithm (shakeddown.substack.com)

1

AI After Drug Development (asteriskmag.com)

1

We Just Discovered Why Light Does This [video] (youtube.com)

2

Downgrade your phone to a limited data plan (practicalbetterments.com)

1

Self-Assembling Space Structures [video] (youtube.com)

1

Case Study: Agape (supernuclear.substack.com)

1

Apple should acquire Wolfram Research (2023) (taylor.town)

2

Never name a new species of an existing dinosaur genus (svpow.com)

10

Do Metaprojects (taylor.town)

1

Pick Practical Principles (2022) (taylor.town)

1

Introduction to radix (best cognate-tree grower, pre-α, dormant) (tsvibt.blogspot.com)

1

No Time to Back Down: A Game of Resolve (alexanderbjoy.com)

1

Barcode Experiments (grantcuster.com)

1

90% of everything is sanding e.g. laundry (interconnected.org)

12

Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI? (marginalrevolution.com)

1

Digital Signals Theory (brianmcfee.net)

1

Put Your Reputation on the Deadline (2023) (taylor.town)

1

Wolbachia bacteria could help us tackle neglected tropical diseases (ourworldindata.org)

1

Travel to Cheap Destinations (nomagicpill.substack.com)

95

Speed up responses with fast mode (claude.com)

1

Bang bang he murdered math {the musical } (2024) (taylor.town)

2

OldMapsOnline (oldmapsonline.org)

2

What It's Like to Be a Worm (asimov.press)

2

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

2

iPhone Easter Egg: Back Tap (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

1

Kolakoski Sequence: Links Between Recurrence, Symmetry and Limit Density (2020) (arxiv.org)

52

Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place (eukaryotewritesblog.com)

3

The Only Way to Make Money (2022) (taylor.town)

1

Building Brains on a Computer (asimov.press)

1

JJ's Razor (2019) (sonyaellenmann.com)

3

100M CROWPOWER and no horses on the moon (taylor.town)

2

My bird has a pet hamster (brooke.substack.com)

1

The Gap Between Machines and Citizens (foaster.ai)

1

Chinese Text Project (ctext.org)

2

The Paperwork Reduction Act Doesn't Reduce Paperwork (factorysettings.org)

13

Animated Engines (animatedengines.com)

2

What Is Ruliology? (stephenwolfram.com)

1

Draft Emoji List for 2026/2027 (emojipedia.org)

2

Free WordArt Generator – Create 90s Text Effects Online (makewordart.com)

1

There aren't enough smart people in biology doing something boring (2024) (owlposting.com)

1

Emergent Task Timer for Lawyers (dsriseah.com)

3

Cooking with glasses (macwright.com)

1

She Had 13 Children. Then Came the Felony Charges (2025) (nytimes.com)

2

Mechanical Movements (507movements.com)

4

Culture Isn't Stagnating, You Guys Are Just Old (jenn.site)