It occurs to me that when I'm learning Korean, the set of words I frequently use (from my tiny vocabulary) tells much about my personality. I have a lot of words like 멍청하다, 게으름을 피우다, 창피하다.
Feels a bit like a deck-builder game for your thoughts.
Cute patch notes:
7.70.0. We fixed a bug on Microsoft Windows that made the Signal Desktop title bar orange instead of blue. If you've grown to love the citrus-themed color scheme over the past few days and this bugfix makes you feel blue, you can adjust your system accent color in your Windows settings.
Tonight's dream: I'm working on the final meta-meta puzzle of an online hunt,
and I'm pretty stuck on it.
Then it occurs to me I haven't seen FAIR PLAY as an answer yet, so I was
like, "huh, wait a minute... was that not promised?"
And so I call in FAIR PLAY, and it's correct.
How does anyone learn linear algebra taught via matrices? Like, I don't think I could understand what was going on in 18.06 if I hadn't taken Math 55a first, and I have a PhD in math. I can't imagine how confused the poor undergraduates must be.
I appreciate papers like Bluffing in Scrabble, arXiv:2509.10471:
It is well known that in games with imperfect information, such as poker, bluffing with some probability can be a component of the optimal strategy. However, as far as we know, nobody has ever exhibited a Scrabble position in which the optimal strategy involves bluffing, or even a Scrabble position in which the optimal strategy is a mixed (i.e., randomized) strategy. We present a carefully constructed Scrabble position, that could actually arise in a tournament game with no invalid words played, in which the optimal strategy (assuming that a tied score leads to the point being split equally, with no recourse to so-called "spread points" as a tie-breaking mechanism) is to make Move A with probability 1/3 and to make Move B with probability 2/3. Move B can reasonably be called a bluff, in the sense that it sets up a threat which the player cannot in fact execute, but which the opponent may not be able to rule out.