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Like anyone else, I’m just trying to make sense of the planet I’ve found myself on and the universe I’ve found myself in. This blog collects various write-ups and thoughts from my reading and research, along with other miscellanea. Most of these are from my spare time and so represent no expertise other than curiosity, others are however drawn from my working life and are better informed. Most of them were written for my own purposes, a couple of them to amuse my wife.

Since the topics reflect my own interests at different points in time, they can be rather eclectic. You’ll probably be well-served to follow the link above to get the blog organised by tags as this will better enable you to find those most relevant to you, or to visit the page for a specific tag.

Posts

An Applied Primer on Optimal Transport for Measuring Dataset Distance

08 Apr 2026 in Data Science

Richard Rorty's Philosophy and Social Hope

05 Apr 2026 in Philosophy

Some Complaints About Lepore's If Then, Which I Otherwise Enjoyed

04 Apr 2026 in History

Some Facts About My Cat, Russell

27 Mar 2026 in Miscellaneous

The Good Commuter's Rulebook

22 Feb 2026 in Miscellaneous

Ozeki's Timecode of a Face

21 Feb 2026 in Literature

Pierre Menard's Quixote

18 Feb 2026 in Literature

Extracting Latent Dimensions Using Metric Unfolding

05 Nov 2025 in Political Methodology

Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows

19 Oct 2025 in Literature

Some Comments on a Recent NS Piece

03 Oct 2025 in Politics

Bernard Crick's Defence of Politics Against Democracy

12 Jul 2025 in Political Theory

Isaiah Berlin on the Scientific Method in History

18 Jun 2025 in Philosophy

Before Economics

14 May 2025 in Economics

Albert Camus, Daniel Dennett, and Robert Musil Walk Into a Bar

09 May 2025 in Literature

Montaigne on Wealth

27 Apr 2025 in Philosophy

Kołakowski Against Relativism

08 Mar 2025 in Philosophy

There is No Assumption-Free Way to Use Likert scales

08 Feb 2025 in Political Methodology

Low-Dimensional Ideology is a Special Case of the Manifold Hypothesis

05 Feb 2025 in Political Methodology

Archived Posts

I have a bad habit of deleting, or taking offline, blogs and blog posts I am no longer satisfied with for one reason or another. To try and beat this habit, I’m making archived posts from this site’s blog available, so that I still have a mechanism for removing posts whose quality I am no longer satisfied with without permanently deleting them. You can find them here: blog archive.