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Feb 12, 2026 11 min read

Why the Universe Builds Minds

Four frameworks agreed on what intelligence is. Thermodynamics explains why it exists. Intelligence does not fight entropy. It is how the universe flattens its own gradients.

The Dissipators 2/?

Feb 10, 2026 11 min read

Four Lenses on One Thing

Intelligence is the capacity to distill regularities into compact structure and deploy that structure in new contexts. Four independent traditions tried to define intelligence. They appear to disagree. They do not.

The Dissipators 1/?

Feb 01, 2026 7 min read

Pulling the Thread

A child pulls at why until the thread unravels. This series follows the same instinct from AGI to thermodynamics, asking what intelligence actually is and why the universe keeps building minds.

The Dissipators 0/?

Jan 21, 2026 8 min read

Bridging Healthcare AI's Last Mile

Innovation without access is just a promise. As AI automates who gets care, the governance question becomes the most important question.

Dec 09, 2025 8 min read

The Architecture of Irreplaceability: On Primitives, Depth, and Leverage in the AI Era

What a six-person startup's breakthrough on the hardest AI reasoning benchmark reveals about the real source of leverage in the age of AI.

Dec 05, 2025 11 min read

The Geometry of Meaning: Vector Similarity from First Principles

Retrieval is about finding similar things. But what does similar actually mean, and how do we measure it? A first-principles look at the math behind semantic search.

Oct 14, 2025 9 min read

Updating My Priors (and My Grinder): A Bayesian Fanatic's Journey from Crema to Cardiograms

What espresso taught me about intelligent sensing, continuous learning, and why being wrong faster might be the most valuable skill in cardiac AI.

Sep 15, 2025 6 min read

A Unified Framework for Bayesian Thinking and Machine Learning

From understanding the world to acting on it: a cohesive framework for learning, modeling, and continuous refinement through Bayesian principles and ML tools.

Aug 29, 2025 6 min read

The AI Paradox: Why Middle Layers Might Actually Win

AI flattens charts but amplifies complexity. The overlooked middle layer of integrators, translators, and orchestrators becomes the competitive edge.

Aug 09, 2025 5 min read

The Intelligence Inflection

Silicon intelligence has cleared the bar; our human bandwidth is now the choke point. It’s time to evolve the interface and own the augmentation stack.

Jul 04, 2025 3 min read

512 Particles and a Dream: Building the Landing Animation

A landing page deserved 512 morphing particles and a state machine ballet. This build log shows how math and mischief became the site’s heartbeat.

Jun 28, 2025 5 min read

Complextropy and Complexodynamics

Complexity peaks between sterile order and white-noise chaos. Coffee, entropy, and ML offer a new map for designing systems that still feel alive.

May 10, 2025 3 min read

The Entropy Warrior's Creed: A Philosophy for SaMD

After the architecture patterns comes the philosophy. The Entropy Warrior’s creed is about choreographing failure in service of care.

SaMD 6/6

Mar 03, 2025 4 min read

The Evolution Trap: Why Medical Software Becomes Unmaintainable

Technical debt compounds differently when regulators are watching. This chapter shows how entropy quietly mortgages every medical codebase.

SaMD 5/6

Feb 24, 2025 5 min read

Becoming Antifragile: When Medical Software Gets Stronger From Chaos

Resilience is table stakes; antifragility is the goal. Let medical software feast on small shocks so it learns before patients bear the load.

SaMD 4/6

Feb 14, 2025 7 min read

Testing the Untestable: When Edge Cases Are The Norm

Edge cases are the entire patient population. Testing SaMD means courting chaos until failure modes introduce themselves politely.

SaMD 3/6

Jan 24, 2025 9 min read

The Three-Zone Architecture: Structure for Chaos

Safety-critical software needs intentional crumple zones. The three-zone architecture tames chaos without sacrificing the regulated core.

SaMD 2/6

Dec 14, 2024 3 min read

Zoomer's Sliders: When PowerPoint Just Won't Zoom It

Why settle for slides when you can zoom through a gigapixel story? Zoomer's Sliders is the DIY map for presentations that refuse to sit still.

Sep 24, 2024 5 min read

The Paradox of Perfect Control in Medical Software - SaMD

SaMD demands crystalline compliance inside a turbulent clinical world. Part 1 frames the paradox and why entropy management beats false control.

SaMD 1/6

Aug 24, 2024 8 min read

Carbon Meets Silicon: Why Local Agents with Persistent Memory Are the Answer

Build a local-first agent with layered memory that actually remembers you. Owning the interface between carbon and silicon beats renting intelligence by the token.

May 15, 2024 4 min read

Modeling and Compression

Every useful model is a tasteful compression of reality. Losing the right information is the craft that separates signal from trivia.

May 06, 2024 5 min read

The Long Run: Finding Meaning in 26.2 Miles

Four years from gasping at Mile One to finishing 26.2. Running became a systems manual for persistence, leadership, and keeping promises to yourself.

Apr 20, 2024 3 min read

From Bird Flocks to Intelligence: The Power of Emergence

Bird flocks, markets, and neural nets obey the same simple rules. Emergence is the quiet proof that intelligence can blossom from humble parts.

Mar 10, 2024 2 min read

Life Lessons from Machine Learning

Machine learning mirrors how we grow up: feedback, prompts, and constraint budgets. These parallels are the soft skills your models secretly teach you.

Feb 15, 2024 3 min read

State Space Models vs Transformers: A Nuanced Perspective on Sequence Modeling

Comparing the strengths and limitations of State Space Models and Transformers in sequence modeling tasks

Oct 01, 2023 14 min read

Charting the Evolution of Data Science Talent at The Event Horizon of AGI

Data science careers are mutating fast at the edge of AGI. Here’s how to stay relevant when models automate the tasks but not the judgment.

Apr 09, 2021 3 min read

Inclusiveness Starts from Within

Gratitude and grief can coexist. Twenty years in America taught me that inclusion starts with honest conversations we’re brave enough to initiate.