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Bayesian Inference, Choosing Priors, and Magic Mushrooms

2023-01-22

There is a nice documentary on Netflix, called Fantastic Fungi. It’s about mushrooms. It describes how mushrooms live, and how they can be used for different things. A particular use of mushrooms is described in more detail in the movie, which is the use of psilocybin (an hallucinogenic) in the treatment of depression. Impressively, test subjects and scientists describe that one single high dose of psilocybin led them to a mystical experience that they rated as one of the most significant in their lives [1].…

Map Everything With the Zettelkasten

2020-06-05

They Say / I Say When I was living in Uppsala in 2015, I went to the bookstore with my good friend, Pietari. I remember picking a book on the shelf called They say / I say, written by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. At the time, I had picked the book because it was to my self a good example of Americans picking overly simplistic titles for their books, which was obviously a symptom of the intellectual decadence of the country (very nuanced, I know).…

BLEH!

2020-02-08

Originally, this article was called “Hello world”. It’s a tradition: The first program you write in a new programming language just prints “Hello world!”. I’m not really fond of traditions, and now that I think about it, my first programs usually take the shape of print("BLEH") Or some variation of that. So BLEH it is. In a way, the most interesting aspect of starting a blog is that I don’t even remember hearing the word “blog” from an actual person, recently.…