Notebook
We drew our heavy revolvers (suddenly in the dream there were revolvers) and exultantly killed the gods.Ragnarök, Jorge Luis Borges
First there are two kinds of writers: those who write for the sake of the subject and those who write for the sake of writing.
On Writing and Style, Schopenhauer
A commonplace book.
Nothing here is finished, everything is a draft.
- Selected aphorisms of Nicolas Gómez Dávila 142 words
- John Webster 362 words
- Webster's 1913 47 words
- Giuseppe Paleologo's non-ArXiv Bookmarks (BETA) 88 words
- Giuseppe Paleologo's ArXiv Bookmarks 64 words
- Computational complexity reference page 28 words
- Energy and power reference page 249 words
- John Calvin 2 words
- John Stuart Mill 449 words
- Lyrics to Why Independent Record Stores Fail by Marah 247 words
- Monte Carlo 17 words
- Portfolio optimization links page 276 words
- Queueing theory links page 224 words
- The Infinite Server Queue 374 words
- The Solow Paradox 106 words
- The violence of medieval Europe by way of Bertrand de Born, noble troubadour 153 words
- Tyler Cowen 217 words
- Uniformization and computing matrix exponentials 237 words
- Vienna 185 words
- Memory links 11 words
- Private equity 14 words
- Protestantism 50 words
- USA 17 words
- San Francisco 60 words
- The math links page 214 words
- Jesus was a sailor 76 words
- Wealth 163 words
- Spirituality and Chance 53 words
- Materialists and utilitarians 314 words
- Pocket New Testament 38 words
- Budapest Semester in Mathematics 493 words
- Conformity 499 words
- William Feller 107 words
- Leisure 165 words
- Finite Poisson approximation 510 words
- A semester of probability with Persi Diaconis 736 words
- Saint Marinus 68 words
- The QWERTY-Dvorak Permutation 617 words
- Learning Exhaust 286 words
- Taleb's probability theory library 1157 words
- Max Weber and the Spirit of Capitalism 782 words
- Max Weber on Puritanism and Worldly Asceticism 223 words
- Planar Brownian Motion with Convex Hull