Month: July 2026

When I was in college, I took a throwaway course on ethics and ethical relativism one summer to avoid needing an extra semester for a double major. It actually ended up being my favorite class I took during all of my time in college, even though it was wildly unrelated to my majors.  The idea…

Friday means it’s time for something more fun than rants about getting shutdown. It’s been around six months since I made some puzzles, so why not do some today? The Wordle is fairly easy, the crossword is fairly easy, and the Connections is fairly diabolical. On the bright side, there are unlimited attempts unlike the…

We spend a lot of time talking about loops in this hobby. Moving your money in a circle with some (hopefully) profitable intermediaries is basically…the whole thing. I think we sometimes manage to make some loops unnecessarily complicated while leaving too much risk hanging off others. Let’s do a little thought exercise. Example #1 –…