June 8, 2026. What happens when you ask AI to curate an exhibit about AI creativity? We find out.
June 7, 2026. If we live in a simulation, could the simulators control our minds? Probably not! I explain how complexity theory hands us a computational notion of free will.
June 2, 2026. A journey through the realms of art, literature, philosophy, math, physics, engineering and beyond, all through the lens of a humble cone of swarf.
February 6, 2024. This essay reflects on what made Bell Labs so successful as an βinstitute of creative technologyβ, why that success has been so hard to replicate, and how one might attempt to replicate it in a distributed, self-organized, and rebellious fashion.
January 17, 2024. In the first issue of 6IT: the mathematics of supervising children; unreliably clairvoyant demons; why the sky is blue (and why it isnβt); a Poisson process for primes; sychronizing fireflies; and quantum error correction from Penrose tilings.
December 2, 2023. Introduction to the site and its author.