Blog
- 2017
- DIY Drug Discovery - using molecular fingerprints and machine learning for solubility prediction
- Condensed notes from “Ethics of AI” at NYU, October 14-15th, 2016
- Debye relaxation in water, aka “how microwaves work” explained at last
- Using nicotine as a cognitive enhancer
- Why defeating Trump in 2020 may be really hard
- My AI article for middle schoolers: “Robots and Mechanical Men”
- Testing out decision trees, AdaBoosted trees, and random forest
- 2016
- The AI control problem is more pressing than the consciousness question
- Some subtler problems with Wikipedia articles
- Recursion is slow
- An introduction to the water structure problem
- Our Nature Communications paper – ice-like phonons in liquid water
- Some thoughts on Zoltan Istvan's presidential campaign
- “Accelerando” by Charles Stross
- 2015
- Maximum entropy priors
- More counterintuitive Bayesian reasoning problems
- Exclusion zone water
- A physicist’s visualization of Bayes’ theorem
- Moore’s law – Kurzweil vs. Thiel
- Crackpot Nobelists
- Explaining the uncertainty principle correctly
- What’s your evidence threshold?
- Why physicists still use Fortran
- Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception
- Neuromorphic hardware – a path towards human-level artificial intelligence
- Why do we see the frequencies we do?
- The chance that a child will have a severe reaction to the MMR vaccine is less than the chance they will die in a 200 mile car ride
- Tesla’s folly – why Wardenclyffe didn’t work
- “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchel
- Is Tesla’s particle beam weapon practical?
- 2014
- “Halting State” by Charles Stross
- “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Robert A. Heinlein
- “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel
- Some corrections to Matthew Inman’s Tesla puff piece
- Entropy : part I
- 2013
- Digital artwork
- Percolation Theory – the deep subject with the not-so-deep sounding name
- Wasserfadden!
- Periodic Boundary Conditions
- Polyhedra
- A misconception about microwaves
- Does hot water freeze faster than cold? Explaining the Mpemba effect
- What the heck is in this stuff ??
- The human brain is amazing
- On writing well enough
- Quantum effects in water
- More is different
- 2010
- Building a Kernel for 3D Shape Recognition Using Neural Networks
- Some energy drink reviews
- Energy drink ingredients – do they work? A science-based review
- Naked eye observing techniques
- 2009
- Frequently asked questions at the Hirsch Observatory
- 2008
- My top 10 impressionist albums
- Astro pics I took at RPI’s Hirsch Observatory
- My Philosophy of Music
- A Critique of the Institution of Football
- 2007
- Trance, Music, and Trance Music
- My top 10 electronic albums