# Topics

*The figures are the index. Each one gathers the pieces that touch it: mathematics, optimization, beauty, agents, philosophy, the mind, science, Chitrakāvya and the human experience.*

The index. Everything written here is filed under one or more of these.

-   [Mandelbrot![Mandelbrot](/figures/mandelbrot.svg)![Mandelbrot](/figures/mandelbrot-dark.svg) Mathematics Fractals, higher-order structure, and the proofs that feel inevitable once you see them. Self-similarity as a way of thinking. 3 pieces](/topics/mathematics)
-   [Descent![Descent](/figures/descent.svg)![Descent](/figures/descent-dark.svg) Optimization Gradients, search, equilibria, and what a system is really minimising when it looks like it is learning. 1 piece](/topics/optimization)
-   [Phyllotaxis![Phyllotaxis](/figures/phyllotaxis.svg)![Phyllotaxis](/figures/phyllotaxis-dark.svg) Beauty Why some structures feel right before they are proven. Murmurations, metre, proofs, mountains. 1 piece](/topics/beauty)
-   [Society![Society](/figures/society.svg)![Society](/figures/society-dark.svg) AI and agents Emergence, alignment as architecture, and what happens when the players are no longer human. 3 pieces](/topics/agents)
-   [A tree![A tree](/figures/tree.svg)![A tree](/figures/tree-dark.svg) Philosophy Dominant thoughts and curiosities of life and mind in India. 6 pieces](/topics/philosophy)
-   [Stillness![Stillness](/figures/stillness.svg)![Stillness](/figures/stillness-dark.svg) Yoga and the mind The oldest engineering manual for awareness, read by someone who builds minds for a living. 4 pieces](/topics/mind)
-   [Interference![Interference](/figures/interference.svg)![Interference](/figures/interference-dark.svg) Science and technology Notes from building infrastructure for machines that see, and from the papers that change how I think. 3 pieces](/topics/science)
-   [Knight's tour![Knight's tour](/figures/tour.svg)![Knight's tour](/figures/tour-dark.svg) Chitrakāvya Computation as poetry. Sanskrit verses that are also diagrams and algorithms, and the side research around them. 1 piece](/topics/chitrakavya)
-   [A walk![A walk](/figures/walk.svg)![A walk](/figures/walk-dark.svg) The human experience What it is like to be a person learning in public, one moment at a time. 2 pieces](/topics/human)

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