Andrew 🧮
@ndrewwm.com
he/him/here/hi, data engineer, math student
"Lionel Robbins [...] gave perhaps the most influential summary of the orthodox view when he wrote that economics is the study of the allocation of scarce means among alternative uses. For Keynes, by contrast, the central problem is not scarcity, but coordination." jwmason.org/slackwire/ke...
November 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Lionel Robbins [...] gave perhaps the most influential summary of the orthodox view when he wrote that economics is the study of the allocation of scarce means among alternative uses. For Keynes, by contrast, the central problem is not scarcity, but coordination." jwmason.org/slackwire/ke...
damn it's a beautiful day out
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
damn it's a beautiful day out
back from Spain, filling out my journal from while we were gone-- Jenny and I ended up liking Santander more than we expected
November 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
back from Spain, filling out my journal from while we were gone-- Jenny and I ended up liking Santander more than we expected
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As recently as the late 1980s, tuition at @uwmadison.bsky.social was <$1000/semester. In current dollars, that's about $2500/semester. There is one central reason for that: the . This was a choice. Other choices remain readily available.
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
As recently as the late 1980s, tuition at @uwmadison.bsky.social was <$1000/semester. In current dollars, that's about $2500/semester. There is one central reason for that: the . This was a choice. Other choices remain readily available.
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“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
saying "buen camino" to the beetles on the trail
November 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
saying "buen camino" to the beetles on the trail
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Monte Dolack, After Hours, 1987
September 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Monte Dolack, After Hours, 1987
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"Sensation does not equal causation" and beware of the AI "griftrastructure."
New post!
www.frank.computer/blog/2025/11...
New post!
www.frank.computer/blog/2025/11...
ZIRP+174 Took Your Job, not AI
If you talk about AI and tech jobs (and the bloodbath of the last 3 years) without discussing ZIRP’s rapid disappearance combined with §174 changing (both of which hit the fan in 2022), I can’t take y...
www.frank.computer
November 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"Sensation does not equal causation" and beware of the AI "griftrastructure."
New post!
www.frank.computer/blog/2025/11...
New post!
www.frank.computer/blog/2025/11...
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Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn
belatedly posting this ndrewwm.com/blog/post/au...
Guessing a book's page length from the audiobook's duration
Are page-lengths and listening-times comparable? Some basic analysis using my collection of finished books.
ndrewwm.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
belatedly posting this ndrewwm.com/blog/post/au...
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Just so we're clear: This administration's blatant, unapologetic choice to deny food to 42 million people—to have the money sitting there and say, "No, we'll let them go hungry"—is simply a more overt display of why homelessness and poverty keep worsening in this country.
Because it's *decided.*
Because it's *decided.*
Judge Skeptical Over Trump Administration Decision to Suspend Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Just so we're clear: This administration's blatant, unapologetic choice to deny food to 42 million people—to have the money sitting there and say, "No, we'll let them go hungry"—is simply a more overt display of why homelessness and poverty keep worsening in this country.
Because it's *decided.*
Because it's *decided.*
"Spending money to help families with children is an extremely high-return investment in the nation’s future. ... evidence for large economic benefits from food stamps is far stronger than the evidence for payoffs from investment in physical infrastructure" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-hunger...
The Hunger Games Begin
40 million Americans are about to lose food stamps
paulkrugman.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"Spending money to help families with children is an extremely high-return investment in the nation’s future. ... evidence for large economic benefits from food stamps is far stronger than the evidence for payoffs from investment in physical infrastructure" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-hunger...
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October 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
"Keep it moving" is totally cool, but it does feel a bit weird to quote a 10-month-old post, and then block the OP when they respond
October 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Keep it moving" is totally cool, but it does feel a bit weird to quote a 10-month-old post, and then block the OP when they respond
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The real shit here is the Feds even in their seemingly limitless fiscal capacity will not have the money to shore up all these bad investments. 1 in 4 U.S. homeowners likely at risk of severe climate events in the coming years and the unspoken assumption seems to be the feds will float everyone.
Climate disasters now consume 35% of all US GDP growth.
If the car industry gets its way, and we keep mandating carsprawl into climate disaster zones, I bet we can make the former U.S. one giant disaster fund.
Who wants to bet Confederate states get more funds? www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
If the car industry gets its way, and we keep mandating carsprawl into climate disaster zones, I bet we can make the former U.S. one giant disaster fund.
Who wants to bet Confederate states get more funds? www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
October 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The real shit here is the Feds even in their seemingly limitless fiscal capacity will not have the money to shore up all these bad investments. 1 in 4 U.S. homeowners likely at risk of severe climate events in the coming years and the unspoken assumption seems to be the feds will float everyone.
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I've seen this this morning from people both supporting AND criticizing Platner—ppl arguing it's so widespread it even happens on "our side"—and I promise you, from my extensive first-hand experience with white men both alone and in the field, it is not normal for white men to have Nazi tattoos
this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!
October 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I've seen this this morning from people both supporting AND criticizing Platner—ppl arguing it's so widespread it even happens on "our side"—and I promise you, from my extensive first-hand experience with white men both alone and in the field, it is not normal for white men to have Nazi tattoos
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"These aren’t policy disagreements. These are incompatible visions of what kind of civilization we should be. Citizens or subjects. Democracy or feudalism. Self-governance or hierarchy."
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-coming...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-coming...
The Coming Clash of Civilizations
From the Wilderness of a Recovering Technocrat
www.notesfromthecircus.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"These aren’t policy disagreements. These are incompatible visions of what kind of civilization we should be. Citizens or subjects. Democracy or feudalism. Self-governance or hierarchy."
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-coming...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-coming...
deprecations for the deprecation god
October 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
deprecations for the deprecation god
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They could not gather crowds like this
October 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
They could not gather crowds like this
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starting to read about Malloy (www.malloydata.dev), increasingly worried I'm about to become even more annoying to my teammates
October 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
starting to read about Malloy (www.malloydata.dev), increasingly worried I'm about to become even more annoying to my teammates
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@daringfireball.bsky.social quoted Stanley Kubrick in his defense of AI art, I'm announcing my champion to quote in response: the one, the onlyyyyy 💪 Kurt Vonnegut 💪
macwright.com/2025/10/16/t...
macwright.com/2025/10/16/t...
October 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
@daringfireball.bsky.social quoted Stanley Kubrick in his defense of AI art, I'm announcing my champion to quote in response: the one, the onlyyyyy 💪 Kurt Vonnegut 💪
macwright.com/2025/10/16/t...
macwright.com/2025/10/16/t...
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I’ll share a lot more on this topic once the book comes out. Short version: practically all futurism is *conditional futurism.*
People tell stories about the future in order to influence behavior in the present, and make their prediction more/less likely.
People tell stories about the future in order to influence behavior in the present, and make their prediction more/less likely.
October 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I’ll share a lot more on this topic once the book comes out. Short version: practically all futurism is *conditional futurism.*
People tell stories about the future in order to influence behavior in the present, and make their prediction more/less likely.
People tell stories about the future in order to influence behavior in the present, and make their prediction more/less likely.