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    <title>Truman&apos;s Map 7: Rationalists Should Win</title>
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            A stranger would think I was studying for a test there in my forklift. I calmly turned the pages, soaking in everything I could. Only my eyebrows betrayed the roiling chaos of my wonder, anger, and sheer embarrassment.

I had to understand why They had put me through this. Months before my escape...
        
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    <pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Truman&apos;s Map 6: Politics Is The Mind-Killer</title>
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            I was sure that the missing article from Volume U-V was USSR. It only made sense now that I knew the USSR had built the dome over Seahaven Island.

And I thought I knew how to check:

The USSR posted agents to monitor the use of their dome… There was a small community of Russians in Seahaven… The...
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Truman&apos;s Map 5: Loss Aversion</title>
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            I hauled the three boxes over to my forklift so I could read the encyclopedia and still be ready to make my escape.

I was The Truman of The Truman Show, whatever that was specifically.

When I didn’t find my name in the 2020 World Book Encyclopedia, I had taken it as good news. I was only a pris...
        
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    <pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Truman&apos;s Map 4: Inferential Distances</title>
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            How many more escapes will I have to devise?

I was picking the lock on the first door I had come to. My heart was pounding out of my chest, and I was sure someone was going to come down the corridor at any moment.

The map of the edge of the world said this was the door to a storage facility and...
        
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    <pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Truman&apos;s Map 3: The Map is Not The Territory</title>
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            The darkness was complete when I closed the door behind me. I was beyond the edge of the world for the first time ever. Of course it was dark there.

Then off to my left a utility lamp flickered on over another door. A speaker there crackled to life.

“Mayor Burbank,” said the same nowhere Voice ...
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>How I Failed to Teach Java Using a MUD</title>
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            When I was a computer science teacher, I put a lot of effort into making a text game with the intention of using it to teach. It was unsuccessful, though fun. I've learned a lot since then about wasting effort and about simplifying things for audiences. I might even be able to teach if I gave it another swing. Here's the post-mortem on a project called MUD.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Truman&apos;s Map 2: Making Beliefs Pay Rent</title>
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            The edge of the world is a blue wall painted with clouds. Painted? Maybe it’s something more sophisticated. I couldn’t be sure, but the clouds might have been moving.

“Mayor Burbank,” a booming voice from nowhere addressed me. This was new.

I was spending too much time thinking over things that...
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Truman&apos;s Map 1: The Discrete Conspiracy</title>
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            I did not expect to find the edge of the world when I set sail that morning. I just tacked out of the harbor toward wherever the Gulf of Mexico met the first light of dawn. The timing was right and my hiding spot would be useless in the daylight.

Before that day, I had already estimated that the...
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Which Laravel Collection methods use dot-notation?</title>
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            average, avg, contains, containsStrict, duplicates, duplicatesStrict, every, except, firstWhere, groupBy, implode, keyBy, max, median, min, mode, partition, pluck, pull, some, sortBy, sortByDesc, sum, unique, uniqueStrict, where, whereBetween, whereIn, whereInStrict, whereNotBetween, whereNotIn, whereNotInStrict, whereStrict
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Terrorist Activity In Hill Valley, California</title>
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            The terrorist cell met with Manhattan Project physicist Emmett Brown. FBI files show that Brown is the only scientist in Hill Valley with nuclear experience (see reference 1).
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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