Freedom of will is decision making under uncertainty or cheating. If there is no uncertainty, the only degree of freedom is the decision against doing the right thing.

Apple froze the Ghostty Apple ID today, probably because they felt threatened by the incredible speed with which we're making the built-in Terminal look like a toy. I'm working on fixing this. Might need Tim Sweeney to expand the scope of the lawsuit. (The Ghostty Apple ID was

A beautiful paper that goes through Diffusion step by step, explaining the entire math of it from the beginning.

Physics In History Triangles are relative.

How many holes does a straw have? Topologically, of course, it has 1: it's homeomorphic to a punctured disk. But intuitively it has 2: one at the top and one at the bottom. And this answer lies at the heart of the most rigorous axiomatization of quantum field theory. (1/20)

Already, AI has rediscovered nature’s symmetries and found new equations for dark matter’s clumping patterns. quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-wi…

Curt Jaimungal Prof Finster's insight is extremely sharp. In general the lesson of the past 60 years is that we simply must treat negative-frequency modes as "physically real"; to the extent that there is a "crisis" in fundamental physics, I think it stems directly from the imposition of

An early rule you learn in computer science is: “Never store currency as floats” Nearly every popular language has special, built-in types for money. But why? The *majority* of money-like numbers have no float representation, accumulating to massive errors over time:

Timeout And Retry is the root of all evil

I had a great time talking to Ben and Will about software testing and validation at AWS. In this wide-ranging hour we talk deterministic simulation testing, fuzzing, formal methods, the history and future of testing, and much more.

The Link Wars Debate: Proprietary, Open and Atomic Fabrics. Tomorrow [Thursday Aug-07] 1:25-2:30 PM

One hundred years ago, a 23-year-old postdoc named Werner Heisenberg completed a calculation that would become the heart of quantum mechanics, a radical yet stunningly accurate theory of the atomic and subatomic world. quantamagazine.org/its-a-mess-a-b…

In this episode, I speak with Nobel laureate Gerard ’t Hooft, a theoretical physicist known for his work on the electroweak interaction and his radical ideas about quantum mechanics. To him, the universe is a cosmic pinball machine. Every ball follows a fixed path. No randomness.

Sometimes, the path to groundbreaking statistical methods starts… with a polite cup of tea. ☕ #DataScience #Statistics #ExperimentDesign #MachineLearning #ResearchMethods #ABTesting

The best logical explanation of entropy. (It only took me 11 months to find an hour to read it). arxiv.org/abs/2409.09232

Vol:18 No:9 → Cache Coherence Over Disaggregated Memory vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p2…

Unlike traditional APIs, the MCP client-server communication is two-way. Sampling, if needed, allows servers to leverage clients' AI capabilities (LLM completions or generations) without requiring API keys. While clients maintain control over model access and permissions.

A crazy open problem in algebra: Conjecture (Poonen): 100% (asymptotic density) of finite commutative rings have characteristic EXACTLY 8, i.e. 4 ≠ 0 and 8 = 0 both hold. From this amazing paper: arxiv.org/abs/math/06084…

The #QEC25 conference hosted by YaleQuantumInstitute was really excellent, and videos of all talks are available. So much recent progress on quantum error correction! qec25.yalepages.org

Can Technology Initiatives Succeed Without the Right Ecosystem? As the technology landscape evolves at breakneck speed, even the best technical ideas can stumble without the right ecosystem to support them. For Atomic Ethernet, the difference between a breakthrough and a dead