Writing

These days, I mostly write on Twitter (@krzhang). I have not updated the others (Quora, blogs, etc.) for a long time. For each of these sources, I attach my favorite threads/posts.

• Twitter: my tweets.
  • The Candle, a fable with an abstraction as a main character
  • A Traumatic Experience (Status, as an Elder God).
  • On Conway (RIP) and Academic Culture
  • The Grey Book of Cults (ongoing)
  • How to Destroy School
  • To Tweet or Not to Tweet
  • 1024-follows Celebration: customized freestyle poetry / rap / stories
• Blue Slate, personal blog. Some of the content is protected for a circle of trusted friends. If you are a trusted friend who wants access, ask me for the password.
  • Alphago
  • On Things Big and Small
  • Inner Demonologues, Ingroup Responsibility, Service, Fields and Flow
  • Inner Demonologues II, Fields and Flow II
  • Iceland
• Concrete Nonsense, a group math blog with fellow graduate students circa 2010.
  • General audience:
    • Defense against the Dark Arts: Reverse regression effect
    • On Being Naive (Bayes)
  • Specialized audience:
    • Trees, the BEST Theorem, and Alexander Polynomials
    • A Free Association for Basic Adjoints
    • Three Ways to Skin a Combinatorics Problem
    • WZ-Pairs and “Why Combinatorics is Calculus”
• Necessary Games, Jordan Magnusson’s blog about videogames, with an indie bent.
  • Exit Fate: why jRPGs suck and why you should Play Them
• Quora: I wrote these.
  • “How can I self study linear algebra?”
  • “What benefits do students get from attending SPARC?”