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Chancellor Ceti
I'm Chancellor Ceti, reader of much and understand-er of little. STEM interests are physics, math, economics, and Rust programming(🦀🚀). Non-STEM interests are films, literature, music, history, politics (primarily US and Indian), and international relations. My posts here will mostly concern these topics, as well as occasionally griping about how painful life is.
See about page (top menu) for more details on who exactly created this train wreck of a website and specifics of what my interests are.
Why I am skeptical of the reasoning used by the UNHRC to call Israel's actions genocide, and more importantly, why disagrements on the use of that word shouldn't undermine the unity of people who agree war crimes are being committed and that this should stop.
Great book combining personal experiences while travelling with an amazing crash course on the history, politics, and cultures of the former Soviet Central Asian countries. Beautiful writing, fun to read, and deeply informative.
Highlighting potential negative consequences of Western companies withdrawing from supply chains with child labor, if such a move were unaccompanied by other poverty-alleviating measures and a strong education system.
Satire in case it wasn't obvious -- a call for better vetting of candidates, and not electing people whose social media presence and political views are as unhinged as Trump's
How the US controls the Venezuelan government's finances, what they plan to do with that leverage, and why this power could potentially have disastrous consequences for human rights and environmental degradation, as well as constituting an affront to democratic principles
A great travel book full of adventure, insight into history and architecture, and brilliant descriptions of the many people and places Dalrymple interacted with on his journey from Jerusalem to Xanadu
The media has blown the significance of Himanshu Jangra's joke out of proportion, and the government's response is characteristic of thought policing. A young man's life shouldn't be ruined by a slightly offensive joke at a stand-up comedy show.
What the rise in quantity and usage of brainrot words tells us about Gen Z's intellectual life and culture, as well as the power corporate-run algorithms have over our minds
Adapted from a Discord monologue, asks a series of questions on what is justified in protest vs what is excessive, provides historical examples to create further confusion about right-vs-wrong
Adapted from a Discord monologue, addresses the importance of not alienating the upper class, mainly uses the example of the Allende government in Chile
An analysis of their five-point manifesto and its reductive rhetoric, their poor organizational structure, and why they're valuable to Indian democracy despite those limitations
I show how to derive the Dirac delta term in the formula for the electric field caused by a dipole. We use some cool tricks with spherical harmonics to derive the result in a fun way.
I show how to get improvements on Stirling approximation to any desired degree of accuracy using two Taylor series expansions and a handful of other nice tricks.
Solving a number theory problem about lattice points visible from the origin using an ingenious application of the Euler Product Formula and an integral derivation of the value of Zeta(2)