This site is written by Leon Bambrick (leodo not show thisnbamdo not show thisbrickdo not show this@gdo not show thismail.com). It aims to be a complete, timeless, annotated repository of things I find sort of interesting. The original blog post launching the wiki is here. There…

The category "Category" is a special category. (Also, the "Category" category is a special category) Articles marked "Category" serve as descriptions for a Category. When viewing a category the content of any article of the same name as the category, with a category of "Category…

I seem to have a few places where I'm collecting things. - Resources to help build your first product — all resources for building products - TIL — all things I learn as I learn them (particularly technical things) - List of Potentially Useful Concepts — all mental models - Aweso…

The finger that points to the moon is not the moon The German word Istigkeit translates as "Isness" What "is" isness? I'll get to that in a moment. Let's talk for a moment about Relational Frame Theory, and the unique characteristics of human intelligence. Humans, us, we k…

The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. —Famous Smart Alec, Samuel Clemens Analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog, in the end they both die. —Woody Allen I used to believe that jokes stopped being funny when they were analyzed. But since becoming a father I …

What is the connection between these three things? - A Chinese legend of an invisible cord tied around the ankle that connects those who are destined to meet. - Kabbalist belief that a thin scrap of woolen thread can be worn to ward off misfortune brought about by the evil eye. -…

Please see Unbounded Recursion (Alternatively see Recursion where you can learn about applying bounds to your recursion, or detecting cycles in referential data structures) there is no general method to determine whether a given program will ever halt or will run forever; this is…