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Hilbert space treating functions as vectors

For the record In response to my recent blog posts, which expressed views that are entirely boring and middle-of-the-road for Americans as a whole, American Jews, and Israelis (“yes, war to destroy Hamas is basically morally justified, even if there are innocent casualties, as the only possible way to a future of coexistence

I bought the cheapest EV a used Nissan Leaf I bought the cheapest EV (a used Nissan Leaf) I bought a used 2023 Nissan Leaf in 2025, my first ’new’ car in 15 years. The above photo was taken by the dealership; apparently their social media team likes

Deep Gratitude In my last post, I wrote about all the hate mail I’ve received these past few days. I even shared a Der-Stürmer-like image of a bloodthirsty, hook-nosed Orthodox Jew that some troll emailed me, after he’d repeatedly promised to send me a “diagram” that would improve my understanding of the

Staying sane on a zombie planet Hardly for the first time in my life, this weekend I got floridly denounced every five minutes—on SneerClub, on the blog of Peter Woit, and in my own inbox. The charge this time was that I’m a genocidal Zionist who wants to kill all Palestinian children purely because of his

Recently 2 End of Summer 2025 edition August is nearly over, and summer’s leisurely mornings have given way to the choreography of the school year. For our family, this means we have returned to spending the earliest hours of the day juggling work commitments while trying to usher a first and third grader out the door, well

Deep Zionism Suppose a man has already murdered most of your family, including several of your children, for no other reason than that he believes your kind doesn’t deserve to exist on earth. The murderer was never seriously punished for this, because most of your hometown actually shared his feelings about your

How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi Now that Joel0 in the TrueNAS community has created a fork of TrueNAS that runs on Arm, I thought I’d give it a spin—on a Raspberry Pi. I currently run an Ampere

Devote your time Sometimes you need to allow a field to lie fallow. Sometimes you need a break. Sometimes, if your life feels overwhelming and time is moving by way too fast, what you need is to inject silence and space for lingering to remind yourself what it is to feel human. Designer Frank

Introducing Philosophy for Designers One of the defining characteristics of what it means to be human—perhaps the thing that sets us most apart from the rest of the animal kingdom—is that we are tool makers. We humans make technology. And the technology we make, in turn, often makes us. This reciprocal shaping between humans