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Alternative Interpretations of Special Relativity
Steelmanning Poincaré and Lorentz
May 12
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Impossible Assumptions
Don't look too closely.
May 9
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What Foundational Questions Are Worth Asking?
An Invitation
Apr 16
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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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