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Slowness is a Virtue
... at least when you're doing research, not development
Dec 18, 2025
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What scientific ideas are worth pursuing?
A unified model of scientific elegance and convergence.
Dec 16, 2025
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The Cage of Casualness
I. I still remember how shocked I was when I realized that virtually no one at university was serious about studying physics.
Oct 28, 2025
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In Praise of Amateurism
I. One of my icks is reading anything that was clearly only written because the author felt like they had to write, not because they actually felt the…
Oct 26, 2025
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The Games Mathematicians Play
I. One thing I always found frustrating is that no one properly explained to me what modern mathematicians do.
Oct 9, 2025
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The Quantum Tower of Babel
"If God is a mathematician, in what dialect does She/He/They/It speak?"
Feb 11, 2025
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The unreasonable effectiveness of beauty in science
Tons of famous scientists emphasize the importance of aesthetics.
Feb 6, 2025
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How about you read some Einstein instead?
The following quote by Donald Knuth has always resonated with me:
Feb 4, 2025
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