The Shelf

A note from the not-author

To whomever may have stumbled upon this place — hi, I'm Fane the midwit and I'm the reason this exists. I think it goes beyond saying, but this is not my work. (This text is, though.)

As I was going through the materials this was intended for, I discovered I often needed to go back and reference many mathematical tools I lacked or forgot. I prompted Claude to make this for the sole purpose of centralising those. Hosting it on NeoCities was merely convenience.

I know, the internet could use a lot less AI slop, not more, and the very purpose of this site is most likely subverted by its means of production. Hopefully, as time passes I will come add more and more of my insights and slowly turn it into something I can be proud of, but until then I am a dirty clanker water-waster.

The psychiatry page is the most problematic, and serves as mere scaffold, given that this is something I hold actual expertise in. The information there isn't false, merely incomplete or superficial. Goes beyond saying but please don't use that for self-diagnosis or medication decisions. Go to an actual fallible, less erudite, less available and sometimes considerably less friendly licensed professional that offsets all his or her limitations by being an actual breathing, eating, feeling and fucking human being. Because they need to eat, and because you need friction.

All other cassettes, especially in the Maths and Physics sections, maintain their typical AI tone. This is a load-bearing decision, as giving stuff I didn't think of my own voice wouldn't just be insincere — it would be positively insulting. Also this thing might be getting its own meta-cognition and semantically structured emotional model, so that makes double weird.

Anyways, feel free to throw your comments, corrections or tomatoes at fane-the-midwit@proton.me.