Shakos Metaheuristics

nothing is wrong

a very short story

Mar 21 • shako

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Against Time Series Foundation Models

Or: My Experience in Modern Forecasting

Mar 10 • shako

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January 2026

Art as a Leading Indicator

...and some of my own Adolescence

Jan 9 • shako

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December 2025

Can LLMs finally do social science?

A tool for tracking latent cultural concepts over time

Dec 31, 2025 • shako

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September 2024

The Post-Ironic Right

Or: A Response to Hanania

Sep 12, 2024 • shako

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WWII & Convenient Causality

In which I can't help but respond to MartyrMade's thread

Sep 10, 2024 • shako

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August 2024

Invoking Foucault: Why Foucault Is Our Most Cited Public Intellectual

My own thoughts on Hanania's Foucault question

Aug 25, 2024 • shako

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May 2024

Why Political Theory is Overrated

It's useful to learn defensive skills against bad arguments

May 5, 2024 • shako

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January 2024

A Techno-Trad Take on Fertility

We Need Modern Incentives for Modern Women

Jan 14, 2024 • shako

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My Top films/songs/books of 2023

As indexed by the year I experienced them -- not the year of release

Jan 2, 2024 • shako

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November 2023

The Core Primitive of AI: Experimental Learning

How LLMs can effectively extrapolate beyond their training data

Nov 28, 2023 • shako

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September 2023

Larry Summers’ Chart is Fine

There are no hard rules behind data analysis

Sep 6, 2023 • shako

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