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2 weeks
Commentatus

There are plenty of musings on how to write better stories. I’m more of a reader than a writer, so that advice is rarely relevant to me. As a reader, what does matter to me is how to write better comments, especially for the stories I enjoy. How do I express what I feel while reading a story? What’s worth expressing? How can I be honest about both the good and the bad parts without hurting
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99 weeks
Vanishing sets and ideals

This is my third time trying to write this post. The previous two times, I failed to find a way to write about this well, so I'll instead write about it badly.
I started trying to understand algebraic geometry (very) recently, and I bumped into what's called the Nullstellensatz. I haven't understood it yet, but there's a slice of the intuition that I found fascinating.
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100 weeks
Stray thoughts on disambiguating "love"
I think this one stands on its own, so I'm just going to list it out bluntly.
- Broadly, love seems like the desire for someone or something to have a place (or a bigger place) in the world. I thought of this one some time ago while writing about cutie marks.
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101 weeks
Bifurcation of self

When I think back on the things that changed my life, they tend to be either epiphanies or shocks. The former, often new perspectives on things that have always been a part of my life. The latter, an unexpected job, a car crash, and echoes I never thought I’d hear. This post is about a thing that, for me, made a mockery of the line between the two.
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127 weeks
Emotions as a sense for stories

In vision and hearing, the objects we work most directly with aren't the things our eyes and ears pick up. Our eyes pick up photons, and our ears pressure waves, yet our conscious mind are not quite built to work with photons and pressure waves. What actually matters, the end form of our senses, are the compositions. They're things like shapes, patterns, and words, and these things don't
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Oct

17th

2017

Meetup this Friday in Redwood City, CA · 2:36am Oct 17th, 2017

What this guy said: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/767534/meetup-this-friday-in-redwood-city-ca. I'm posting this here on the chance that you're more likely to join if you see it twice.

Bad Horse, GaPJaxie, horizon, and I will be getting together at a Denny's in Redwood City (near San Francisco) at 7PM PT this Friday October 20th. If you like ponies, you're welcome to join us! Awkwardness is expected.

This is the first time we're getting together outside of any con. One of us doesn't live in the area (yet), so it could be a long while before this happens again.

Address: 1201 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063
Denny's phone: (650) 364-4545
Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/DB6REneuvJm

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