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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 09/08/2026

I may be reinventing the wheel, but check out the wheel *I* invented.

Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 30/03/2026

I made a plugin for helping claude / AI agents do any kind of numerical analysis: a workflow to improve input provenance, calculation auditability and observability, and templates for final narrative reports. github.com/bestdan/anal... @paulgp.com @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com

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GitHub - bestdan/analysis-process: Claude Code plugin: conventions for auditable quantitative analysis

Claude Code plugin: conventions for auditable quantitative analysis - bestdan/analysis-process

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 24/03/2026

I'm now the caretaker of a pond. Which has been revelatory in odd ways. For example, the lilypad question in the Cognitive Reflection Test is wrong- in interesting ways. - lilypads are shore-bound, they'd never cover a lake - they grow spatially, not exponentially www.dpegan.com/blog/the-duc...

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 04/02/2026

Days later I'm still chewing on this banger from @gestaltu.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thechoic...

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 20/07/2025

It's funny how distance from problems makes it easier to handle them, whether you're an expert or not. Triggered by this from @davenadig.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/davenadi...

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Holding the Center

We can be falcon, or falconer.

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 27/03/2025

Reflecting on GhibliGate: If the "meaning" we value is devalued by an abundance of it, perhaps what was valuable wasn't the quality itself, but rather its scarcity? Is arts value it's evocation, or that it's singular? NFTs etc - catalyzed by @davenadig.bsky.social and @gestaltu.bsky.social

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 09/03/2025

Great discussion from @aptshadow.bsky.social and Sam Arbesman on all things scif, speculative evolution and our short track record in the cosmos. Love the idea of "cathedral values" where you work on sometime you know won't be finished in your lifetime. open.spotify.com/episode/1PmU...

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Adrian Tchaikovsky⁠ on Bio Trajectories and the Importance of Long-Term Thinking

The Orthogonal Bet · Episode

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

WFH increases productivity by 12% in the public sector. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 24/12/2024

Me, to the three year old hitting his mom on Christmas Eve: "It's time for some game theory."

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 06/12/2024

Quite happy with this.

Eye of sauron with a caption. This is why we can't have nice rings

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 05/12/2024

Every time I see a post ranting about CI I'm not sure if it's Confidence Intervals or Continuous Integration. Either way, I click.

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Dave Nadig @nadig.com · 29/11/2024

He ButterFi/BlueFin folks: Let's have an impromptu meetup on Tuesday/3rd at CELON in NYC on Bryant Park at 5:15. I will be there. I'm pretty sure @dpegan.com @ritholtz.bsky.social and @tomowenmorgan.bsky.social will be there at least. Come have a drink and say hi! Please spread the word!

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 22/11/2024

As a person with all notifications on silent, it's insane when I'm on a call with a person with all notifications on. How do they think with all that noise?

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 17/11/2024

A "feature" i always wanted at the old place was topic filters: i have nothing against {your sport team, your political takes}, but they are noise I'd like to filter out. I wonder if this would be possible here/ on-proto: have an AI classifier filter my feeds to just the interesting stuff.

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qntm @qntm.org · 04/11/2024

Computer, remove all the nuance from this detailed report

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 09/12/2023

👋 @vickiboykis.com do you have a recommended book reading list for software engineering stuff? Like Street Coder or Clean Architecture and ....

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 05/11/2023

On a golden fall hike the kiddo took 10 minutes to herself. It was one of those great "we're alone, together" moments.

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 05/11/2023

Wife: I'm not really into sci-fi. (Show about woman who travels back in time to have two husbands) Wife: Ok, that's interesting.

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 19/10/2023

@mattcolville.bsky.social I just finished Priest and Thief. Great work, thank you for writing them.

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 19/06/2023

- Why are we training AI to be like us? They should be complementary (different)? - How do humans learn concepts with so much less data? - Why would you invest in education when AI seems competent? Some good questions from this convo: youtu.be/1sx7CIX2j4k

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/05/2023

I think mudskippers may actually be the funniest animals in the world

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 05/05/2023

Ok @faineg.bsky.social I've watched some Zipline hype videos and I'm interested. Worth getting excited about for civvy US clients?

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 05/05/2023

Chatbot: I'm sorry, could you rephrase that? Me: Narfal the Garthok. Chatbot: could I speak to an AI please? Me: Narfal. The. Garthok. Chatbot: AI please. A. I.

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Dan Egan @dpegan.com · 04/05/2023

The list of sci-fi stuff I was *sure* I'd never seen in my lifetime is dwindling at an alarming rate: ✅Done: - Star Trek communicators (smartphones) - Star Trek computer voice interfaces 🔜 Soon - Skynet - Androids ❔Remaining: - Aliens - FTL travel - Star Trek replicators - Transporters

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