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Math + Physics

Mathing Maths and Feeling Physics

20 Posts · Oct 17, 2024 – May 21, 2026
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Philosophical· May 21, 2026 · 15 min read

Human-in-the-Room

W21 - The catastrophe had red eyes and a server farm that says no. What you got was a Tuesday. The system isn't misaligned—it's exquisitely aligned. Every incentive points the same way: toward you being unnecessary. Not…

Philosophical· May 15, 2026 · 19 min read

The Proof Was Never the Point

W20 — A computer verified its first physics paper and found an error peer review missed. A mathematician quit his tenured position to argue that mathematics has been misdefined for 2,300 years. These are the same story.

Educate \ Learn· May 7, 2026 · 21 min read

The Wrong Name on the Door

W19 — Misattribution isn't an injustice problem, it's an intelligence problem. Put the wrong name on a discovery and the field asks questions designed for the wrong person. The correction never arrives because no one…

A Story to Tell· Apr 2, 2026 · 14 min read

The Cow Came Last

W14 - A cattle monitoring platform, a Calgary winter, a dying mother, and the formula that keeps showing up across a thousand years of mathematics — whether anyone is looking for it or not. The constraint was never the…

Lessons Learned· Feb 19, 2026 · 11 min read

The Persistence of Inferior Standards

W08 - Your calendar is broken, your clock runs on Bronze Age finger-counting, and your interest rates are modeled on Sumerian goat reproduction. We're not living in a high-tech civilization. We're running 21st-century…

Neuroscience· Dec 11, 2025 · 13 min read

The Speed Trap

W50 - They labeled it ADHD. But what if your rapid-fire mind isn't broken—just faster? Here's how the medical system mistakes cognitive speed for disorder, and the unsettling reason they need you to believe you're…

👁️ A Closer Look· Dec 4, 2025 · 11 min read

Architecture Over Scale

W49 - When Google validated my AI thesis, I didn't celebrate. I shrugged. While they wrote 50-page theories, I'd already built the solution—in $75 cow tags. They're just arriving at the starting line as I cross the…

👁️ A Closer Look· Nov 13, 2025 · 12 min read

When Two's Company, Three's a Revolution

W46 - When U.S. sanctions cut off Huawei from advanced chips, they didn't just restrict—they revolutionized. In 2025, blocked from optimizing binary computers, China's tech giant unveiled something radical: the first…

👁️ A Closer Look· Nov 6, 2025 · 13 min read

Power in the Background

W45 - While tech giants wage PR battles over AI, Amazon is quietly building its neural substrate in Indiana cornfields. The real power isn't in the models—it's in who owns the ground they stand on. And we've seen this…

👁️ A Closer Look· Oct 31, 2025 · 26 min read

The 10% Delusion

W44 - Silicon Valley built a trillion-dollar industry on a paper called "Attention Is All You Need." Problem: we misread it. We kept the math, ditched the meaning, and declared victory over intelligence itself. Now even…

👁️ A Closer Look· Oct 16, 2025 · 12 min read

The Bullet Holes We Can't See

W42 - We're studying AI systems that survived safety testing. But what about the ones that didn't make it back—and what they learned to hide? Survivorship bias may be blinding us to the most dangerous possibility:…

👁️ A Closer Look· Oct 9, 2025 · 10 min read

Mirror World of the Three-Body Problem

W41 - We've birthed Knowware: intelligence crystallized into infrastructure. Now we're in a cosmic dance—Hardware, Software, and Knowware spinning in chaotic orbits. Welcome to the digital age's three-body problem. Can…

👁️ A Closer Look· Sep 25, 2025 · 8 min read

How Beautiful Failures Create Innovation Breakthroughs

W39 - Inspired by Brian Potter's analysis in "How Common Is Accidental Invention?" which revealed that approximately 7% of major inventions between 1800-1970 emerged from genuine accidents—a statistic that only hints at…

👁️ A Closer Look· Sep 11, 2025 · 9 min read

The Luddite's Last Stand

W37 - Today's Luddites aren't smashing machines—they're teachers demanding longhand math and surgeons questioning AI diagnoses. While we debate ethics, our judgment muscles atrophy. The real question: can we preserve…

👁️ A Closer Look· Aug 21, 2025 · 8 min read

Digital Supersaturation of Why Everything is About to Crystallize

W34 - Every human attention pattern has been mapped & algorithmically exploited. Every business model decomposed into trackable APIs. Platforms promised infinite growth but now operate like supersaturated…

👁️ A Closer Look· Jul 6, 2025 · 12 min read

We're Not Creating God, We're Discovering God

W27 - God isn't created or worshipped, but discovered in quantum mechanics and neural networks. Rival worldviews realize they've been allies. The twist? We're not decoding divinity, we are the code. We're not creating…

👁️ A Closer Look· Apr 3, 2025 · 15 min read

Capital Disrupted—The AI Native Shift Across Industries

W14 — What once required fifty engineers, twenty million dollars, and three years can now be accomplished by five people, two million dollars, and six months. This isn't hyperbole—it's the mathematics of disruption…

👁️ A Closer Look· Jan 3, 2025 · 14 min read

The Invisible Resolution—NVIDIA's Neural Optics and the Death of Computing as We Know It

W01 - NVIDIA's patent isn't just another tech milestone. It's a silent earthquake, reshaping the bedrock of computing while the industry obsesses over surface tremors. We're not talking incremental change. This is how…

👁️ A Closer Look· Nov 21, 2024 · 16 min read

The Great Marketing Delusion: Rethinking Business Psychology in the Age of Perception

W46 - Forget spreadsheets! Businesses keep botching human psychology—the gap's so wide you could park a train in it! Think: billion-dollar companies, all math, no matter. Explore how understanding perception trumps…

👁️ A Closer Look· Oct 17, 2024 · 4 min read

The AI Revolution Isn't What You Think It Is

W41 - The AI revolution isn't about machines thinking like humans—it's about discovering that intelligence itself follows mathematical principles. What we're learning isn't just changing technology; it's forcing us to…