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Warc Extractor – Update

June 28, 2022July 6, 2022
ryan
Programming

The most popular thing I have ever built is my warc-extractor. I built it while working on a university project that was effectively pulling various datasets from the internet (twitter, internet archive, conventional scrapping etc) and experimenting with various ways

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A Theory Of Games

May 6, 2022May 6, 2022
ryan
Games

My family had a play structure in our back yard that my brothers and I would use to defend against real and imagined invaders. The structure had two floors. The ground floor was a converted sandbox with with four walls

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A Mathematical Universe

April 1, 2022February 24, 2022
ryan
Philosophy

In Michio Kaku’s book “hyperspace: a scientific odyssey through parallel universes, time warps, and the 10th dimension” Kaku describes a moment that inspired his intellectual journey. “When I was 8 years old, I heard a story that would stay with

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A Reintroduction to Truth

March 1, 2022February 27, 2022
ryan
Philosophy

(Note: This is a rehash of a much earlier blog post.) I discovered physics at a relatively young age and fondly remember reading every book I could find on the subject at the local library; quantum physics, higher dimensions, multiple

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Re: Barry Bonds Without a Bat

November 16, 2019June 24, 2022
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Games, Ryan

So, first a disclaimer: I know very little about actual baseball. I do, however, love games, numbers, strategy, and game theory. So when Chart Party (a recurring feature on the sports YouTube channel SB Nation hosted by Jon Bois) ran

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Udebs: game analysis engine.

June 15, 2019June 24, 2022
ryan
Games, Ryan

I recently did a presentation on some software that I’ve been working on for the last few years. Code can be found here. https://github.com/recrm/Udebs

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The internet is too big.

April 29, 2019May 9, 2019
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Ryan

On March 26 2019, the European union passed the copyright directive — a new, comprehensive set of rules that are supposed move the European copyright laws, written before the internet was a thing, into the digital age. The directive includes

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Small Worlds, Mathematics, and Humanities Computing

June 28, 2015February 21, 2022
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Ryan

I did it! I graduated. It’s not perfect, but it is finished. Abstract: Primarily the conversation surrounding humanities computing has been mainly focused on defining the relationship between humanities computing and conventional humanities, while the relationship humanities computing has to

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Galatea 2.2, Game Theory, and Romance: A Scientist Pretending to be a Humanist on a Humanist Pretending to be A Scientist.

June 28, 2015February 21, 2022
ryan
Ryan

(Note: This is a paper I wrote for the University of Alberta’s Graduate comparative literature conference. I wrote it mostly on a dare; I didn’t really even know what comparative literature even was when I wrote it. I have a

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Does Juri exist? Classifying Existence.

September 23, 2011February 21, 2022
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Philosophy, Ryan

Defining existence, like many philosophical terms, is a notoriously difficult task. Intuitively it is extraordinarily simple concept, which is a problem. When asked if anything exists anyone can give a quick binary answer: either it exists or it doesn’t. Humans

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