A scientist must be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.
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About
I'm Isaac King. This is the home for all of my writing and other projects that don't fit anywhere else. I write about information security, Magic: The Gathering, mathematics, philosophy, and whatever else I feel like writing about.
I take a slightly different approach from most blogs; I don't write very much, but what I do write, I write to be mostly timeless, and I try to keep my articles up-to-date as things change. If you notice anything on any of these pages that you believe to be inaccurate or outdated, please let me know so I can fix it. If you'd like to be notified of new posts you can subscribe in the top right corner.
Contact Information and Other Profiles
MTG Rules
- RulesGuru
- Meet a Melvin
- Step By Step: Layers
- Step By Step: Damage
- Step By Step: Dependency
- One Ring to Confuse Them All
- Step By Step: Declaring Attackers
- The Magic Rules are not Complete
- Deep Analysis: Text, Abilities, and Effects
- Stop Trying to Make CR Backups Happen
- Step By Step: Replacement Effect Lookahead
- Grafdigger's Cage and Grist: A Detective Story
MTG Judging
- Confidence
- Card Legality
- Strange Loops
- Spindown Dice
- Trick Questions
- Surviving cEDH
- Teaching Magic
- Watching Magic
- The Worst Crime
- Positive Feedback
- Judge Terminology
- Staying Up To Date
- What is "Cheating"?
- How to Extend Time
- Event Bracket Printer
- Judge Search Engine
- The Confidence Game
- It's Ok To Ask For Help
- Judge Conference Tips
- Card Counting Calculator
- The Lost Art of Shadowing
- Disqualification Information
- You Have To Make a Ruling
- Why Players Don't Call Judge
- Judge Calls in the 21st Century
- Round Robin Results Calculator
- The Philosophy Behind Deviations
- Competitive REL Tournament Primer
- Assigning Blame vs. Solving Problems
- Handling Counterfeits in a Tournament
- Running Effective Roleplay Workshops
- How to Avoid Unnecessary Match Losses
- Guidelines for Writing Good Judge Questions
- Magic Judges are Obsolete; It's Time to Replace Them With Prediction Markets
Other MTG Content
- Magic Math
- Card Name Sorter
- Don't Go to TCG-Con
- Tournament Simulator
- Probability Calibration
- Judge's Tower Design
- Randomness in Magic
- Card Name Regex Golf
- Counterfeits Vs. Proxies
- Misprints I'm Looking For
- In Defense of Pile Shuffling
- The Competitive Megacombo
- Misprint Price Guessing Game
- In Defense of Not Pile Shuffling
- The Economics of Organized Play
- High quality image of the MTG card back
Non-MTG Content
- Trivia Platform
- Twitter Blocker
- Disease Statistics
- Zombie Philosophy
- Fantasy Realms Bot
- Negotiation Assistant
- Random Walk Calculator
- Manifold Betting Calculator
- Manifold Subsidy Experiment
- On Duct Tape and Fence Posts
- Prediction Markets Are Not Polls
- The Hidden Complexity of Thought
- Understanding Subjective Probabilities
- An Actually Correct Explanation of P-Values
- Testing GPT-3's Mathematics Comprehension
- Testing DALL-E 2's Mathematics Comprehension
- An Actually Intuitive Explanation of the Oberth Effect
- Rational Agents Cooperate in the Prisoner's Dilemma
- Human Communication is Complicated and Frustrating
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