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• 21:15, 22 December 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Settlement Amazon Gift Card from Settlement Prepaid Card.png
• 21:13, 22 December 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2024-12-22/Class Action Settlements (Created page with "thumb|This is the best way to receive money - electronic, immediately usable Because my data is out there on the Internet everywhere, I often get notification of class action settlements. It's usually pretty easy to check if they're real and then submit one's information. The easiest ones arrive as Venmo money. The funny thing about the whole thing is that I even do this stuff because it's never a lot of money. Still, it...")
• 20:56, 22 December 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Venmo Screenshot - Sovos Class Action.jpg
• 20:56, 22 December 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Venmo Screenshot - Sovos Class Action.jpg
• 19:04, 21 December 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Anti Pigeonhole Principle (Created page with "The Anti Pigeonhole Principle is that if there are <math>n \in \mathbb{N}</math> pigeons and <math>m \in \mathbb{M}</math> pigeonholes such that <math>n < m</math> then there must be some pigeonholes that are empty. For sets <math>A</math> and <math>B</math> and function <math>f: A \to B</math> with <math>|A| = n ; |B| = m</math> where <math>n < m</math>, then <math>\exists b \in B</math> such that <math>|f^{-1}({b})| = 0</math>. Also, see wikipedia:Pigeonhole pr...")
• 17:41, 6 December 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Talk:Blog/2024-11-23/Human Ability (Created page with "{{draft}} Most people can achieve heights far beyond what they achieve. All sorts of self-help advice grants this, but I have personal anecdotes that illustrate that this is likely the case. == Perfect Time-Sense == My school in India did not have clocks visible anywhere. When the school bell rang, you were on to your next class, but that was the only indicator that it was the next moment. My father eventually gave me my grandfather's smooth-...")
• 00:52, 28 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2024-11-27/LA Koreatown (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Jun Won Dak - Indoors.jpg}}|thumb|Charming little place with 4 seats]] We're in Hollywood, Los Angeles for Thanksgiving with my cousin and decided to go to Koreatown for lunch since there isn't anything like this up in San Francisco. We walked about a little and ended up at this place Jun Won Dak, which turned out to be a small 4-person version of a bigger restaurant called Jun Won that had to close due to pandemic restrictions preventing patrons...")
• 00:12, 28 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Jun Won Dak - Indoors.jpg
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• 21:46, 26 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Benevolent Terrorist (Created page with "Many societies cannot do things because they are trying to preserve what came before. For anyone who has played video games or run a business, they know that things often have not just a capital cost but also an operational cost. Societies are the same: over time they accumulate many things that add operational costs. Often, these things cannot be removed despite their costs because doing so is not politically palatable. A Benevolent Terrorist serves such societies...")
• 04:18, 24 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Samsung S90C (Created page with "== Trouble Staying Logged In == Samsung TVs have a problem with email addresses that have a `+` sign in them. If you do that with your Samsung account then you won't be able to stay logged into your streaming service logins since your Samsung account is how your TV stores the login state (I know, crazy). This also makes Airplay unusable for things like streaming Youtube since the way to use accounts is to keep hitting the button over and over again until it suddenly lo...")
• 01:03, 23 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Talk:Fictional Enemies Are Evil Selves (Created page with "{{draft}} A well-known cliché is that no villain really thinks he's evil. In the 2000s this is mostly represented in English language content as villains whose motivation has a kernel of sense. But perhaps the most convincing villains<ref name="evil-force" /> are ones with a completely coherent world-view and philosophy, but with exactly opposite alignment. Almost all of us also have ease imagining how ''we'' would behave badly, so we imagine our enemies as those versio...")
• 01:02, 23 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Talk:Action At A Distance Scales Exponentially (Created page with "{{draft}} Getting everyone to agree on anything significant is work. This is a view that most people find unobjectionable. Even exempting all the explanations about human nature, this is hard by default simply because transmitting information is hard and sometimes impossible. This is easily visible in hidden identity games where people are explicitly supposed to deceive the people they play with, but it's true in lots of cases. While some humans know this, since it's pre...")
• 17:37, 22 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Talk:Blog/2024-11-22/Code Red in the Medical Building (Created page with "Today was the day I was supposed to go into the lab to get some blood draws and urine samples for the All of Us research project. In general this is a pretty simple process: * You register online * Fill in some questionnaires about your life * Sign up for an appointment with All of Us * Attend the appointment And the process itself is fine. However, I was perhaps ten minutes late to my appointment and perhaps 10 minutes after I’d checked in, the fire alarm went off...")
• 00:25, 21 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2024-11-20/What Stopped Me (Created page with "People often say that something or someone forced them to stop doing things. In tech, this is often because someone made fun of them not knowing something and so on and so forth. For me, I've never quit doing something because of that. I have sewn, fenced, shot a bow and arrow, rode a motorcycle, skated, wrote code, danced, and so on and loads of these things involve looking foolish to many people. And to be honest, I'd always wonder why someone "quit programming because...")
• 23:52, 19 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Matchsticks in a Triangle.jpg
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• 01:03, 19 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Legibility Is Immortality (Created page with "There are things that form the backbone of anglophone historical knowledge: the World Wars (particularly the Western Front), the Roman Empire, Jesus Christ, the Pyramids. The primary thing which these things share is English language legibility. Important works have been translated into or written in English and rendered into an accessible style. This alone determines whether they're remembered forever, or consigned to some dedicated historians record. Perhaps the most...")
• 17:12, 16 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page IVF (IVF initial draft)
• 01:29, 16 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Spring Fertility Sperm Donation - TV View.png
• 01:29, 16 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Spring Fertility Sperm Donation - TV View.png
• 01:27, 16 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Spring Fertility - Sperm Donation Room Seats etc..png
• 01:27, 16 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Spring Fertility - Sperm Donation Room Seats etc..png
• 23:44, 15 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Gene Mutations (Created page with "Both Julie and I are carriers of a gene mutation in the GJB-2 gene. This makes it quite likely that our children will have what is called non-syndromic hearing loss, i.e. they will be born deaf or hard of hearing without other changes to the body. == GJB-2 Gene Problems == The Gap Junction<ref name="gap-junction" />Protein Beta-2 (GJB-2) gene codes for<ref name="dna-basics"/> the protein Connexin-26. As you can imagine, a protein can break in many ways. One common way...")
• 23:11, 15 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Screenshot Decibel Tx Pipeline.png
• 23:11, 15 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:Screenshot Decibel Tx Pipeline.png
• 00:17, 15 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2024-11-14/GM Plants (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:USDA Chart of Indian Cotton Production (1990-2015).png}}|thumb|India got Bt Cotton in 2002]]One of the things that amazed me when I moved to America is the anti-GMO movement here. I was born in 1988 so I was about 14 years old when Bt Cotton was introduced to India. About this time I was obsessed with reading the news (I'd finish the newspaper every day in the morning) and the back page of one of the supplements to The Hindu...")
• 23:52, 14 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:USDA Chart of Indian Cotton Production (1990-2015).png
• 23:52, 14 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs uploaded File:USDA Chart of Indian Cotton Production (1990-2015).png
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• 22:34, 13 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Pregnancy (Initial post)
• 19:56, 13 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Purity Is Sin (Created page with "Reality has fractal complexity, descending into depths as ones tools to inspect it increase in resolution. Models are facsimiles of reality that are useful to predict or describe this complexity. Their usefulness therefore comes from their simplicity. But necessarily, this means that they elide the minor harmonics. This, in turn, means that strict adherence to the model is pointless since you only use the model to attempt to run a simulation further...")
• 18:23, 13 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Observation Dharma (Created page with "Observation Dharma is the idea of one's purpose being to act as a lens and recorder into existence through experiencing it. Even failure at one's proximate objectives meet observation dharma, though ideally such failures are visible for intelligent beings to search the universe. At least one kind of participant in Multicellular Mankind has observation dharma explicitly: explorers. But all actions that one can take could be this since all actions explore the spac...")
• 03:42, 11 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2024-11-10/A Stranger In The Night (Created page with "We had quite a bit of fun this Saturday. We played an escape room at the Palace of Fine Arts, stuffed ourselves on a pizza tasting menu at Tony's, and then played some board games. thumb|The Caltrain station, mostly normal, and the scene of the night's unexpected entertainment == The Attraction == [https://palace-games.com/the-attraction/ The Attraction] is one of the escape rooms at the Palace Games in the...")
• 03:18, 11 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Caltrain Station at 4th and King, San Francisco.jpg
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• 18:29, 8 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Blog/2024-11-08/Brown M&Ms (Created page with "Van Halen famously had a rider in their 53-page contract that said: {{Blockquote | quote=M&Ms (Warning: Absolutely no brown ones) | source=Van Halen event rider<ref name="mm-truth"> {{Cite web |url=https://www.metaltalk.net/chris-dale-myth-busting-the-van-halen-brown-mm-story.php |title=Myth-busting the Van Halen M&M story |last=Dale |first=Chris |date=Oct 1, 2020 |website=Metal Talk |access-date=Nov 8, 2024 }} </ref> }} The idea, supposedly, is that adherence...")
• 16:59, 8 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page File:Screenshot Slack - Prop M.png
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• 21:55, 4 November 2024 Roshan talk contribs created page Talk:Blog/2024-11-04/Tip of the Spear (Created page with "A thing I used to think as a child was that I was the tip of the spear: my most recent ancestor generations reached their apotheosis in me. Some might argue this is some light megalomania but I think it was a pretty useful belief. I started life with a purpose to fulfill. This was helped along with the fact that my parents did love me very much and made my brother and me the center of our family's world. As I've grown older, I became more aligned with a belief that I am...")