Pcons: a new open-source software build tool
I finally fulfilled a decades-old promise to myself. I wrote a new tool to build software easily, with clear, concise build descriptions.
Morning Coffee
Musings on technology, science, music, art, and life.
Latest posts
What Is the Future of Mathematics?
Will humans still want to do math? Will universities pay for it? Why do we do pure research?
Towards a taxonomy of AI risks
A listing of many different types of risks posed by AI, now or in the near future.
Will AIs Exceed Human Intelligence?
Some thoughts on the debate around the "singularity": is AI intelligence reaching a plateau, or is it likely to continue?
Programming with AI Collaboration
Thoughts on AI-assisted coding in early 2026: acceleration, results, and risks
In Praise of Long Form Music
What do symphonies have in common with the Grateful Dead? How long-form instrumental music acts on the mind and enables subconscious creativity.
Watching the Oceans Warm: Visualizing Climate Change
I created a web tool to visualize warming world sea surface temps on a 3d globe
Deep Timeline – a log-scaled timeline of the universe
A small web project based on a science project I did in the 1970s
Testing the Curse of Dimensionality
I wanted to prove to myself that high-dimensional vectors are almost always nearly orthogonal
Maryland Cream Waffle recipe
Some excellent waffles
The Scientific Method is Evolution Writ Large
Evolution and the scientific method are essentially both processes of variation and selection.
Measuring Small Volumes for Humans
I've always thought that using seeds is a good way to get an intuition of the sizes of small things, so I figured I'd make a chart.
Welcome to my new new blog
I've been thinking about starting a simple blog to share my thoughts on whatever topics come to mind, and replacing my old website from the '90s.
Climate Change and Personal Responsibility
Climate change has become the most pressing existential challenge of our era. We are close to or have already crossed multiple climate tipping points.
On Entropy and Passphrases
How secure is a passphrase vs. a random password?
Looping in Javascript
Javascript and Typescript have _way_ too many ways to iterate and loop over arrays, objects, and iterables.
Javascript Promises and Async/Await
A low-level introduction to Javascript promises and async/await for C++/python programmers.