Barry Cynamon
@cynamon.bsky.social
By day, recovering economist and lender with a heart at Student Freedom Fund. On here, mostly random thoughts. I like science fiction, biotechnology, household finance, causal inference, home fermentation, and powerlifting.
Which one of you is running a discounting field experiment in Duolingo?
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Which one of you is running a discounting field experiment in Duolingo?
This framing is wrong. GradPLUS Loans will be phased out. Stafford graduated loans will be available in higher amounts for professional programs. Engineering and nursing *are* professions, but they can be done with undergraduate degrees.
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This framing is wrong. GradPLUS Loans will be phased out. Stafford graduated loans will be available in higher amounts for professional programs. Engineering and nursing *are* professions, but they can be done with undergraduate degrees.
Daf yomi sounds bite-sized, manageable. But the fact remains.
October 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Daf yomi sounds bite-sized, manageable. But the fact remains.
What kind of animal would do this? Did a squirrel pick an apple from the apple tree and store it in the bamboo 100 feet away?
September 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
What kind of animal would do this? Did a squirrel pick an apple from the apple tree and store it in the bamboo 100 feet away?
Geordi Meme: Making it better somehow / arguing about how.
September 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Geordi Meme: Making it better somehow / arguing about how.
I discovered one interesting fact while messing around with this. You can orient successive polygons in the circumscription problem to push the center of the limiting circle to the center of the starting triangle. No arrangement achieves that for the inscription problem.
September 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I discovered one interesting fact while messing around with this. You can orient successive polygons in the circumscription problem to push the center of the limiting circle to the center of the starting triangle. No arrangement achieves that for the inscription problem.
Fig. 7 Concentric encircling as in figure 2 but allowing rotation for tighter packing.
September 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Fig. 7 Concentric encircling as in figure 2 but allowing rotation for tighter packing.
Fig. 2 circumscribing a k-gon by a (k+1)-gon all at concentric standard positions.
September 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Fig. 2 circumscribing a k-gon by a (k+1)-gon all at concentric standard positions.
Here is the “dual” problem, where instead of nesting In the interior of the preceding polygon (inscribing n+1 within n) you nest the preceding polygon (inscribing n within n+1).
September 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Here is the “dual” problem, where instead of nesting In the interior of the preceding polygon (inscribing n+1 within n) you nest the preceding polygon (inscribing n within n+1).
Really enjoyed catching up with my brother earlier. He mentioned he had been contemplating nesting successive regular polygons. That throwaway comment grabbed ahold of my imagination and…
September 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Really enjoyed catching up with my brother earlier. He mentioned he had been contemplating nesting successive regular polygons. That throwaway comment grabbed ahold of my imagination and…
Leonardo Da Vinci got a lot of things wrong, but he had really interesting ideas. This anatomical drawing showing the humonculus responsible for the Vitruvian man’s fertility is one such example of his brilliant mind and eye for detail at work.
September 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Leonardo Da Vinci got a lot of things wrong, but he had really interesting ideas. This anatomical drawing showing the humonculus responsible for the Vitruvian man’s fertility is one such example of his brilliant mind and eye for detail at work.
Bulgarian split squats with heavy dumbbells
September 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Bulgarian split squats with heavy dumbbells
We gon' boogie oogie oogie, jiggle, wiggle and dance
Like the roof on fire
We gon' drink drinks and take shots until we fall out
Like the roof on fire
Tell her, tell her baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby
I'm on fire
I tell her baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby
I'm a fireball
Like the roof on fire
We gon' drink drinks and take shots until we fall out
Like the roof on fire
Tell her, tell her baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby
I'm on fire
I tell her baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby
I'm a fireball
August 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We gon' boogie oogie oogie, jiggle, wiggle and dance
Like the roof on fire
We gon' drink drinks and take shots until we fall out
Like the roof on fire
Tell her, tell her baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby
I'm on fire
I tell her baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby
I'm a fireball
Like the roof on fire
We gon' drink drinks and take shots until we fall out
Like the roof on fire
Tell her, tell her baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby
I'm on fire
I tell her baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby
I'm a fireball
We need to figure out this whole parasocial relationship thing before civilization crumbles. There is an alarming convergent evolution of podcaster to cult leader.
August 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
We need to figure out this whole parasocial relationship thing before civilization crumbles. There is an alarming convergent evolution of podcaster to cult leader.
Dropping that Lucas Critique.
August 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Dropping that Lucas Critique.
What’s the most perfectly cast role in cinema history…
July 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
What’s the most perfectly cast role in cinema history…
Would you want to encounter this guy under any circumstance?
July 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Would you want to encounter this guy under any circumstance?
Senate Parliamentarian
June 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Senate Parliamentarian
If Mamdani wins, Mario and Peach are going back to the Mushroom Kingdom.
June 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If Mamdani wins, Mario and Peach are going back to the Mushroom Kingdom.
For one blissful instant, I thought I was about to dive into an article on the evolutionary origins of secret goblins.
May 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
For one blissful instant, I thought I was about to dive into an article on the evolutionary origins of secret goblins.
I was talking about this.
April 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I was talking about this.
