I’m working on a giant post about the 2nd Annual Phenomenological Approaches to Physics Conference I attended a few months ago. My mid-life crisis has taken the form of a desire to get my head entirely […]
I’ve spent around a year now fiddling with and eventually doing real data analytic work in the The Programming Language J. J is one of those languages which produces a special enthusiasm from its users and […]
Black holes are cold, or so I am told. And the bigger, the colder. So voracious and unspacious, they must take it, all in, all in. Even heat. When the universe gets cold enough, (meaning old […]
For a long time, I’ve been interested in the sorts of questions exemplified by the following example: Suppose we are Isaac Newton or Gottfried Leibniz. We have at our disposal two sources of inspiration: data, collected […]
Amen I say to you: the fox which lives in the abandoned building near our cabin means nothing at all. It bears no portents. Molecule by molecule it tumbles through space, much like the rest of […]
With Examples from Quantitative Neuroscience In my never ending quest to understand hard, but useful stuff, I’ve been learning the Programming Language J. J is an array oriented language in the APL family. Matlab is a […]