Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Not the one featured in the video below! The story is here. (Hat tip: Tyler Cowen.)

Originally posted on prior probability:
As you may have heard by now, the NBA recently released a 113-page manual in anticipation of the resumption of the 2019-20 season. (Check out this summary of the manual by Ben Cohen for The…

Originally posted on prior probability:
Review (part 2 of 2) of Matthew W. Slaboch, A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics (U Penn Press, 2018). In my previous post, I mentioned that the concept of progress…

Originally posted on prior probability:
Review (part 1 of 2) of Matthew W. Slaboch, A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics (U Penn Press, 2018). As soon as I heard about Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen’s…

Originally posted on prior probability:
Hello. Because this is a one-man blog, and because I will be taking a vacation for the rest of July and for most of August, I will be blogging much more sporadically, if at all,…

“Rear Window” has to be one of the most beautiful films of all time. Yet, if you google “rear window” what you will find is a lot of cutting-edge essays commenting on the themes of voyeurism, the “male gaze”, etc. … Continue reading →

Note: This post is dedicated to the memory of my colleague and kindred spirit Carlos “Carlitos” del Valle, who the world lost on Saturday, July 11, 2020. I am also dedicating this post to all the people who were lucky … Continue reading →

Note: I lost my friend and colleague Carlos “Carlitos” del Valle on Saturday, July 11, 2020. All my posts this week (except this one) are in his honor. May he never be forgotten. My second collaboration with Carlitos involved a … Continue reading →

I just wasted an hour of my day attempting to navigate the Internal Revenue Service’s “free fillable forms” website in order to file an extension on my 2019 tax return. Suffice it to say I ended up just printing the … Continue reading →