From Math to Metal
A laboratory for constructing and deconstructing physical systems from first principles.
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SPPARRS: A Systems Design Checklist for Sparring with Constraints
A broader design checklist beyond PPA: Security, Power, Performance, Area, Reliability, Relativity, and Scale. Systems do not care about your favorite metric. They hit back.
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Why $f(x)$ Is Not Free
A first-principles treatise on why computation is never just
y = f(x): transport, state, hardware operators, boundaries, memory, routing, security, noise, and the hidden geometry inside every computation. -
What Is Data?
Part 1 of a first-principles derivation of data: signals, observation, reference frames, unresolved states, sequences, equivalence classes, and the myth of the perfect bit.
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An INTP's Systems Guide to Escaping the 3Ps
Perfectionism, procrastination, and paralysis modeled as systems failures. A personal, slightly unhinged, but practical loop for turning overthinking into execution.
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How Em-Dashes Destroyed My Blog Credibility
Ideation vs Presentation -- Signaling authenticity in the Age of the AI Boom