Confirmation Bias One of the most common biases is confirmation bias. We use it to choose our news sources, our friends, and the kinds of ideas we create and believe about ourselves. One way we can describe our confirmation bias is like an unconscious, instinctive, echo chamber generator. Thought Seed Finder https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec18Loop.mp4 […]
Unstable Death Wobbles
Chaos Theory One of the coolest intersections between science and mathematics is the idea of chaos theory. Mathematics can be thought of as an abstract, extremely specific realm of hallucination. A way that we can imagine things that don’t exist, like parallel lines, imaginary numbers and Euclidian geometry, yet apply those to the […]
Emergent Sentient Consciousness
Beat The Races If you look at the times of various horse races, like the Kentucky Derby, over the past hundred years, you’ll see a slow decrease. This is due to scientific advances in nutrition, sports medicine and strength and endurance training. But similar times of human races, like marathons, the 100 and […]
Reversions To The Mean
Moving Averages Stock charts are a fascinating combination of technical and mathematical specificity and human psychology. One one hand they can be a very accurate representation of a company’s health. On the other hand, they are a pure expression of human psychology. One way to look at a chart is to compare the day […]
Trial and Error Spices
Cooking Class I took this really strange cooking class several years ago. I don’t remember how I signed up for it, only that I found about it in a way that was different than what you might expect to hear about a cooking class. It wasn’t from a flyer, I didn’t read about it […]
Preconscious Chaos
Ratio of Known To Unknown There’s this very common idea that every single second we have about one million bits of information hitting our senses but at the same time our conscious minds are only capable of perceiving a very, very tiny fraction of that. There is this metaphorical thing, maybe an actual thing, […]
Corn Dog Chaos Theory
Local Carnival A couple of weeks ago me and some friends went down to this local carnival fair. Everything and they had was stuff you’d expect at a kind of carnival fair. They had a bunch of booths selling corndogs and burritos and french fries. They had a couple of sketchy looking Ferris wheels […]