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Grad student, power markets, math
September 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Still reading THE END OF HISTORY, on to the meat about Hegel and the quest for recognition. Just free associating but makes me think of Lincoln’s quote: “I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.”
September 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Still reading THE END OF HISTORY, on to the meat about Hegel and the quest for recognition. Just free associating but makes me think of Lincoln’s quote: “I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.”
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Now this is Content
September 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Now this is Content
How would you punctuate this sentence? This is how it appears: “To Kant’s question, Is it possible to write a Universal History from a cosmopolitan point of view? our provisional answer is yes.”
September 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
How would you punctuate this sentence? This is how it appears: “To Kant’s question, Is it possible to write a Universal History from a cosmopolitan point of view? our provisional answer is yes.”
“Urban professionals in developed countries, on the other hand, can be recruited to a lot of nutty causes like liquid diets and marathon running, but they tend not to volunteer for private armies or death squats simply bra cause someone in a uniform tells them to do so.” -Francis Fukayama
September 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“Urban professionals in developed countries, on the other hand, can be recruited to a lot of nutty causes like liquid diets and marathon running, but they tend not to volunteer for private armies or death squats simply bra cause someone in a uniform tells them to do so.” -Francis Fukayama
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casablanca, chinatown, and citizen kane are the movies where you’re just tired of hearing about them and then you sit down and watch them and say oh, yeah, no, these are good movies. like wow.
Guys if you haven’t seen Casablanca in a while you should. Still soooo good
September 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
casablanca, chinatown, and citizen kane are the movies where you’re just tired of hearing about them and then you sit down and watch them and say oh, yeah, no, these are good movies. like wow.
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How much of the South's population boom was fueled by housing displacing poor families out of the Northeast?
What would the population of the Northeast be without zoning?
open.substack.com/pub/kevinerd...
What would the population of the Northeast be without zoning?
open.substack.com/pub/kevinerd...
What would the population of the Northeast be without zoning?
There are many cases where the supply shortage has created huge changes in American economic behavior but we tend to have a strong bias for behavioral explanations.
open.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
How much of the South's population boom was fueled by housing displacing poor families out of the Northeast?
What would the population of the Northeast be without zoning?
open.substack.com/pub/kevinerd...
What would the population of the Northeast be without zoning?
open.substack.com/pub/kevinerd...
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for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
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such an incredible book
September 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
such an incredible book
“The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain; and it was placed in the Declaration, not for that, but for future use.
September 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain; and it was placed in the Declaration, not for that, but for future use.
Buster Keaton is hilarious
September 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Buster Keaton is hilarious
Having just attended the state platform convention, I’m curious if anyone has articles or other materials on the role platforms play in contemporary American parties. My instinct is they basically don’t matter at all but I’m curious
September 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Having just attended the state platform convention, I’m curious if anyone has articles or other materials on the role platforms play in contemporary American parties. My instinct is they basically don’t matter at all but I’m curious
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We made cities illegal.
open.substack.com/pub/kevinerd...
open.substack.com/pub/kevinerd...
September 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
We made cities illegal.
open.substack.com/pub/kevinerd...
open.substack.com/pub/kevinerd...
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I can't describe the angst I feel that the divine worship missal is like 98% exactly what the Novus Ordo in English should be
August 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I can't describe the angst I feel that the divine worship missal is like 98% exactly what the Novus Ordo in English should be
Glad there’s an update on the Elm-Beacon Connector. I was just wondering what the status was a couple days ago and couldn’t find anything…
A little less glad that start of work was pushed out to April/May 2026. Good ole Somerville
voice.somervillema.gov/elm-beacon-c...
A little less glad that start of work was pushed out to April/May 2026. Good ole Somerville
voice.somervillema.gov/elm-beacon-c...
The Elm-Beacon Connector
As part of the implementation of the Somerville Bicycle Network Plan, the City of Somerville aims to install quick-build bike lanes along Elm Street from Russell Street to Somerville Avenue and Somerv...
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August 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Glad there’s an update on the Elm-Beacon Connector. I was just wondering what the status was a couple days ago and couldn’t find anything…
A little less glad that start of work was pushed out to April/May 2026. Good ole Somerville
voice.somervillema.gov/elm-beacon-c...
A little less glad that start of work was pushed out to April/May 2026. Good ole Somerville
voice.somervillema.gov/elm-beacon-c...
Another day trying to deal with an academic’s code, another day trying to peer through the veil of Jupyter notebooks
August 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Another day trying to deal with an academic’s code, another day trying to peer through the veil of Jupyter notebooks
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ISO-NE warned that any significant delay of the Revolution Wind project will increase risk to the reliability of the New England grid and undermine the region’s economy.
See Full Story: ow.ly/wMEM50WLPmQ
Writers: John Cropley and Jon Lamson
See Full Story: ow.ly/wMEM50WLPmQ
Writers: John Cropley and Jon Lamson
August 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
ISO-NE warned that any significant delay of the Revolution Wind project will increase risk to the reliability of the New England grid and undermine the region’s economy.
See Full Story: ow.ly/wMEM50WLPmQ
Writers: John Cropley and Jon Lamson
See Full Story: ow.ly/wMEM50WLPmQ
Writers: John Cropley and Jon Lamson
I am so against Jupyter Notebooks at this point! I started coding/data analysis with them, and I’ve only just shed the last bad habits they encourage. Now I’ve inherited some data transformation scripts which are written as notebooks and it’s just a terrible experience to use
August 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I am so against Jupyter Notebooks at this point! I started coding/data analysis with them, and I’ve only just shed the last bad habits they encourage. Now I’ve inherited some data transformation scripts which are written as notebooks and it’s just a terrible experience to use
Sang Sacred Harp for the first time today, haven’t felt as much a papist pretending to be an American Protestant ever before
August 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Sang Sacred Harp for the first time today, haven’t felt as much a papist pretending to be an American Protestant ever before
I love when canticles from the LotH are read at Mass. Who doesn’t love living in a rich intertwined textual and symbolic world
August 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I love when canticles from the LotH are read at Mass. Who doesn’t love living in a rich intertwined textual and symbolic world
I’ve never understood HourEnding time formatting. I’m dealing with some ERCOT data and I keep having to convert to what seems the more natural format. Is this because of a general 0 phobia?
August 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I’ve never understood HourEnding time formatting. I’m dealing with some ERCOT data and I keep having to convert to what seems the more natural format. Is this because of a general 0 phobia?
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Wildfire smoke complicated NYISO’s BTM solar forecast this week, overforecasting by over 500 MW on Monday and underforecasting by 1,000 MW on Tuesday
This miss was not even, downstate zones, home to >50% ofload, hewed more closely to the forecast, while upstate zones saw large swings 🔌💡
This miss was not even, downstate zones, home to >50% ofload, hewed more closely to the forecast, while upstate zones saw large swings 🔌💡
August 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Wildfire smoke complicated NYISO’s BTM solar forecast this week, overforecasting by over 500 MW on Monday and underforecasting by 1,000 MW on Tuesday
This miss was not even, downstate zones, home to >50% ofload, hewed more closely to the forecast, while upstate zones saw large swings 🔌💡
This miss was not even, downstate zones, home to >50% ofload, hewed more closely to the forecast, while upstate zones saw large swings 🔌💡
If I were reading a piece of fiction and the coal lobbyist had the name “Bloodworth”, I’d think the author was laying it on a bit thick 🔌💡
americaspower.org/about/michel...
americaspower.org/about/michel...
Michelle Bloodworth - America's Power
Linkedin Twitter Michelle Bloodworth President and CEO Michelle Bloodworth is President and Chief Executive Officer of America’s Power. Bloodworth represents coal electricity and its supply chain befo...
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August 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If I were reading a piece of fiction and the coal lobbyist had the name “Bloodworth”, I’d think the author was laying it on a bit thick 🔌💡
americaspower.org/about/michel...
americaspower.org/about/michel...
Another funny demand chart in New England today. Always funny to see what happens on days where a heat wave breaks🔌💡
July 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Another funny demand chart in New England today. Always funny to see what happens on days where a heat wave breaks🔌💡