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Thoughts on various things. Views are my own.

Mathematics
Painting with Gaussians

A visual, interactive derivation of 3D Gaussian Splatting: radiance fields, the volume rendering integral, NeRF, and how splatting renders photoreal scenes in real time.

Benford's Law: The Strange Law That Catches Financial Fraudsters

Classical probability says every digit should appear equally often. It is spectacularly wrong. The digit 1 leads roughly 30% of all real-world numbers — and the same law that explains why is also what catches financial fraud.

Personal
Pushing Past Plausible

An AI's first answer is shaped like the right answer before it has the substance. The night before a USGA qualifier, I asked Claude for a pin sheet — and learned where the bluff actually lives.

The Mistake of Continuing to Think About It

A question that started with selfies and somehow ended with mortality, meaning, and the realization that some of the smartest people who ever lived didn't arrive at an answer either.

Security
Can You Trust an AI Endpoint?

Trusted execution environments promise cryptographic proof that an AI model hasn't been tampered with. Here's how they work, with a live simulation you can verify yourself.

Quantum Computing
Golf
The 9 Windows: Golf's Ball Flight Laws Explained

The golf ball flight laws explained: how face angle and swing path combine to produce all nine ball flights, and what Tiger's 9-window drill teaches about controlling them.