Blog

My blog posts in chronological order (latest first)

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Can Claude understand (modded) Minecraft?

No. Claude can Code but Claude can't Minecraft

777 words · 1/29/2026

Effective Altruism?

Why I'm an Effective Altruist

2146 words · 6/14/2025

I forked a blog codebase

In magic we trust

119 words · 9/24/2024

Topology and loving math

How topology helped re-ignite my love for math

1312 words · 4/15/2024

MathJax test

Testing MathJax

24 words · 4/5/2024

EA Slides 2022

Presentation about Effective Altruism at Matematiikkalinjan Perinnepäivät

5 words · 11/19/2022

Dnd 5e Eldritch Invocations

Eldritch Invocations listed by unlock requirement

2620 words · 10/22/2020

Learning from Haskell

Learning to program, from Haskell

419 words · 8/19/2020

Programming tools

Thoughts on programming tools

216 words · 3/1/2020

Review: The AI Does Not Hate You

(Tom Chivers, 2019)

388 words · 7/9/2019

Realifying

Confusing form thoughts about creativity

504 words · 6/22/2019

Disorderly reading

Disorderly reading

301 words · 6/11/2019

Tietojenkäsittelytieteen tutkimus Suomessa

Yliopistojen tietojenkäsittelytieteen tutkimusryhmät ja -alueet 2019

648 words · 6/9/2019

Quotes: Venkatesh Rao on Freedom

Quotes from varying texts from ribbonfarm.com 2013-2015

1658 words · 6/9/2019

Expressing Myself

Expressing my self

497 words · 6/7/2019

Quotes: Be Slightly Evil

Notes on Being Slightly Evil (Venkatesh Rao, 2013)

371 words · 6/5/2019

Diffracting

Thoughts on some particular sources of diffracted mood

62 words · 6/4/2019

Review: Normal People

(Sally Rooney, 2016)

131 words · 5/31/2019

Things Of Interest

Things of Interest

98 words · 5/28/2019