Topics
The index. Everything written here is filed under one or more of these.
- Mandelbrot
MathematicsFractals, higher-order structure, and the proofs that feel inevitable once you see them. Self-similarity as a way of thinking.3 pieces - Descent
OptimizationGradients, search, equilibria, and what a system is really minimising when it looks like it is learning.1 piece - Phyllotaxis
BeautyWhy some structures feel right before they are proven. Murmurations, metre, proofs, mountains.1 piece - Society
AI and agentsEmergence, alignment as architecture, and what happens when the players are no longer human.3 pieces - A tree
PhilosophyDominant thoughts and curiosities of life and mind in India.6 pieces - Stillness
Yoga and the mindThe oldest engineering manual for awareness, read by someone who builds minds for a living.4 pieces - Interference
Science and technologyNotes from building infrastructure for machines that see, and from the papers that change how I think.3 pieces - Knight's tour
ChitrakāvyaComputation as poetry. Sanskrit verses that are also diagrams and algorithms, and the side research around them.1 piece - A walk
The human experienceWhat it is like to be a person learning in public, one moment at a time.2 pieces