Apparently, hypocrisy is not un-AustralianI arrived in Australia a decade ago, clutching a visa and armed with rosy assurances from every Aussie I’d met back home in Canada. These…Jul 3A response icon1Jul 3A response icon1
I’m a physicist by trade, not by training, and that mattersWhat a “stranger” in physics sees from withinJul 1A response icon20Jul 1A response icon20
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The entirely reasonable effectiveness of mathematicsIn 1960, physicist Eugene Wigner famously marveled at the “unreasonable effectiveness” of mathematics in its description of nature. Many…Jun 26A response icon23Jun 26A response icon23
Is the universe a computation?What if reality isn’t made of matter or energy at its deepest level, but information? Could the universe itself be performing a grand…Jun 21A response icon16Jun 21A response icon16
Totalitarianism no longer needs a tyrant — it only needs an APIAttention Conservation Notice. A thousand or so words for anyone who’s ever suspected the system is not just broken but has achieved a…Jun 20A response icon2Jun 20A response icon2
Promptxiety and the Tyranny of Perfect Vibecode— an anxious love letter to the people who edit their own thoughts before the algorithm can judge themJun 4A response icon1Jun 4A response icon1
Bottom-up or top-down. What exactly is the nature of reality?At the very tip of the Statue of Liberty, defining the highest point on Lady Liberty’s torch, sits a single atom of gold.May 27A response icon18May 27A response icon18
Politicians are living rent-free in your “quiet spaces”Attention Conservation Notice. This is a rant. Not a eulogy, not a civic announcement — a rant about how even grief, even the quiet act of…May 21A response icon2May 21A response icon2
What Does It Mean to Excel at Math?“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.” — John von NeumannMay 20A response icon27May 20A response icon27
