Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes Science excels at periodic phenomena — orbits, waves, cycles. We build technology on them because we can predict them. But there are phenomena in the universe that aren’t periodic yet aren’t random…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes When I think about what AI does for me, I keep returning to a German word: Handlungsimpulsverstärker — an action-impulse amplifier. Here’s the underlying idea. We like to believe that our actions…
Pale Red Dot Dev Log #2 Three working Python scripts—NASA API access, PDS label parsing, coordinate transforms—sat in a folder. They worked. They had comments. And they were about to become a maintenance problem. The issue: standalone scripts capture what…
Pale Red Dot Dev Log #1 Translating a project vision into a structured description is harder than it looks. The ideas exist, but they’re tangled—technical ambitions mixed with unstated assumptions, emotional motivations sitting next to architectural decisions. For Pale Red…
Personal motivation When my child was little, we lived in a desert environment. We had gone camping in the desert many times and knew how the sand would feel and behave when it ran through our fingers, how mountains would…