Humanity’s Cosmic Endowment
The cosmic endowment is the matter and energy a future civilization could reach. Who should inherit it, and what might we owe conscious minds we create?
Writing
Notes on software, AI tools, books, and life outside work.
Two Nights in Desolation Wilderness
A Labor Day weekend backpacking trip from Granite Lake to Upper Velma Lake, with a new sleep setup and more food than we needed.
Trip to Southern Utah
We flew to Las Vegas, drove into southern Utah, and hiked around Zion, Escalante, and Bryce Canyon.
Farming Expensive Agent Sessions
I’m using expensive agent sessions to refine the instructions that tell Codex how I want the work done.
Camping Indoors in San Francisco
My first week in San Francisco: paperwork, an unfurnished apartment, two cats, Bay Trail runs, and waiting for furniture.
Load Flow and Mandelbrot in the Browser
A browser-based load-flow solver and Mandelbrot explorer let me revisit power-system analysis, numerical precision, and the limits of small client-side tools.
Dropout as Shared-Parameter Bagging
A concrete way to understand dropout in deep learning: sampled subnetworks with shared weights, standing in for a much more expensive ensemble.
An 11-Inch M3 iPad Air for Studying
Notes on the 11-inch M3 iPad Air for reading, handwriting, and remote access without turning it into a laptop replacement.
One Manifest for Responsive Images
This site generates responsive image variants and their lookup metadata together, so components and Markdown do not have to reconstruct filenames.
Make Internal Tools Cheap to Try
A rough internal-tool prototype could let people test their understanding of a workflow before committing engineering time to it.
Medium and Meaning
Making every part myself matters less to me when AI tools still let me express my ideas and taste.
Structure and Optimization in Deep Networks
Notes from Chapter 6 of Deep Learning on representational capacity, low-rank parameterizations, and the choice of activation function.
Math Foundations for Deep Learning
Part I of Deep Learning reviews the linear algebra, probability, and numerical computation that later chapters build on.
The Review Bottleneck in AI-Assisted Coding
Agents can implement tasks in parallel; reviewing plans, checking edge cases, and coordinating the work still fall to me.
Static Markdown Inside This Next.js Site
How repo-backed Markdown becomes static HTML without a CMS, database, or runtime admin surface.
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