I’ve had decades to stew in my education, which was in physics and biology. And in those decades, the religion of my youth, Catholicism, in which I had some interest as a young person, has become […]

I’ve been piloting the use of GPT4 for work and personal projects lately. I am something of an AI Skeptic, but GPT4 (in particular) has surprised me with its ability to perform sort of complicated tasks […]

I’ve got to admit, ChatGPT is pretty amazing. And I’ve spent a few nights, as a technical professional and teacher, wondering how it might complicate my life. And I’m sure it will. But I think its […]

Back when I was a sleep-deprived new dad watching my own kid’s brain bootstrap itself into reality, I became fascinated with the fact that images, and much of art, undermine the apparent causal relations which rigidly […]

When we invent a new technology, we become cannibals. We eat ourselves alive since these technologies are merely extensions of ourselves. The new environment shaped by electric technology is a cannibalistic one that eats people. To […]

Typically, I write my scientific reports in Latex. A makefile orchestrates all my analysis in stages, and some steps produce latex fragments that appear in the final document. A typical step reads the previous steps’s appropriate […]

A few nights ago I dreamed that I was standing on the edge of a giant sunken waterway, some kind of vast floodwater system in which six inches or so of water flowed at a good […]

I had a kid a year and a half ago. Because I’m a physicist, people bought me “physics for babies” books. We’ve got two: General Relativity for Babies and Quantum Mechanics for Babies. To be totally […]

I’ve got an eight month old. Watching a baby come to terms with the world can teach you a lot of things. For instance, and as a kind of hors d’oevre, consider the word “shush.” To […]

When I think about whats wrong with the world, I often return to the image of a dead dog on the highway I drive to work every morning.   I say dog, but it’s probably a […]