A local resident-learning argument for owning nuance instead of renting scale: source-grounded atoms, low-rank learning transactions, validation gates, and operator control.
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The problem with maths is not that 1 + 1 = 2 is false. It is that maths hides the cost of making unlike things countable.
Machine learning runs everything always-on looking for patterns. Reverse machine learning keeps everything sleeping until a threshold fires, then activates only what's relevant. Most of your processing should be dormant.
One lens, Kolmogorov complexity, to cut through 95% of data engineering format, codec, and layout wars.
A geometric catalogue of how motion misbehaves, built from four pillars: Scale, Shape, Temporal, and Correlation.
A file-based backend for digital instruments that gives patients, practitioners, and suppliers cleanly separated views over the same data, rooted in a single cryptographic identifier.
Comparing the Australian Dream of homeownership versus investing in Bitcoin. A 15-year analysis with real numbers.
A complete worked example showing exactly what quantum computers do and don't do when factoring numbers.
Dashboards full of charts versus one geometry-based value that actually answers the question: Should I care right now?
Negative tail events quietly accumulate over a lifetime. This is an argument for also manufacturing exposure to positive tail events on purpose.
Positive and negative do not mean good and bad. They mean add and remove. A practical framework for understanding behaviour, interfaces, and artificial intelligence training.
A speculative piece on primes, projections, and the idea that the difficulty of the Riemann Hypothesis might be hiding in the way we ask the question.
The no free lunch theorem is cute; atmospheric carbon dioxide and ocean heat content are not. Two metrics that actually matter for artificial intelligence's real-world cost.
A strange unnamed behaviour observed during fika in Sweden: everyone halves the remaining cake, ensuring no one takes the last piece.
My first computer. Hundreds of hours journaling on an incompatible machine. Why this site looks the way it does.