2019-12-27
Downside risks of expected value.
2019-11-27
Investigating the progressive case against Chicago's 2020 budget.
2019-10-07
or Who is Scott Alexander?
2019-08-03
Why effective altruists should consider keeping their kidneys.
2019-07-20
Investigating the case for lead poisoning as an EA cause priority.
2019-05-12
A guide.
2019-03-05
Investigating the progressive case against the Chicago mayoral candidate.
2018-11-22
Arguments for a plant-based lifestyle.
2018-08-17
In which the author, with no background or training, dispenses medical advice that should be wholly disregarded.
2018-05-20
Building an inexpensive, open-source meter for locating groundwater.
2018-04-28
A computer solves in two seconds a problem I've been working on for two decades.
2017-11-11
A simple text-to-speech web app so I can talk to people while I have mono.
2017-08-26
Using popular voting methods to determine the name of a new design cooperative.
2017-07-22
A map of recent water main replacements in the city of Chicago.
2017-03-20
Estimating the health impact of leaded water on Chicago's kids, and the cost effectiveness of filtration.
2017-02-13
Let's get the lead out, Chicago.
2017-01-29
An interactive Bayesian tool for augmenting intuition about climate change.
2017-01-20
or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Obamacare.
2017-01-14
An experiment in altruistic diversification.
2017-01-08
The final showdown.
2016-12-21
A speech-to-text hearing aid for talking to your older relatives.
2016-12-17
Building a thing because of a podcast.
2016-12-11
Updated stochastic altruism calculations for 2016 year-end giving.
2016-11-29
A simulation of ranked preference voting with 2016 presidential election data.
2016-11-28
A solar powered fan, light, and phone charger for your bedside table (and also maybe fighting malaria).
2016-09-08
An improved (and somewhat usable!) Divvy station map.
2016-09-05
An analysis of GiveWell's cost effectiveness model using techniques from modern portfolio theory.