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Once again, I am coming out with stats on the colors in the latest fashion collections: this time, for the fall/winter 2026 season. Previous entries: SS26, FW25, SS25, FW24, SS24. Methodology Recap As I’ve done before, I’m using my automated script for going through all the images hosted on Vogue...
Workers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland, the only facility where torpedo fuel is produced for the U.S. Navy In the event of a late-2020s Chinese attempt to invade Taiwan, leading to a US-China military conflict, what would be the most urgent bottlenecks in military equipment?...
Artist: Lily Taylor It’s been a while since I’ve written anything lately, and that doesn’t feel good. My writing voice has always been loadbearing to my identity, and if I don’t have anything to say, if I’m not “appearing in public”, it’s a little bit destabilizing. Invisibility can be comfortable...
One thing Claude Code has really made too cheap to meter is data analysis. If you have a question that statistics could shed light on, and there’s relevant public data online, you can now get your answer frictionlessly. One thing I’d been wondering about for a while was predictors of...
Introduction Back in June, I proposed that it would be a good idea to look for broad-spectrum cancer treatments — i.e. therapies that work on many types of cancer, rather than being hyper-specialized for narrow subtypes. There’s nothing fantastic about this notion. After all, some of the oldest cancer treatments...
Midjourney, “abstract composition on the theme of triumph, with trumpets and rays of light, Art Deco, Tamara de Lempicka, Benedetta Cappa, red and gold, heroic celebration epic pride” In about September 2025, I decided to go on a self-help kick, mostly revolving around stuff like “self-esteem”, “confidence”, and “guilt/shame”. Basically,...
Modern drugs usually have known targets — molecules in the human body, which the drug works by chemically interacting with. Historically, many drugs were discovered empirically, before their mechanism of action was known. Some drugs, like penicillin and aspirin, were identified as the active ingredients in natural products found to...