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I spend my free time studying the origins of life from a mathematical and computational perspective. Today, a year after I started work on this problem…

Mar 6

Insulation. Make sure to get good grades in high school—you want to get into college, right? Make an impression on your professors; you need their…

Apr 4

The evocative ability of past technology

Aug 21, 2020

What happens once software has eaten the world?

Aug 27, 2020

I moved to San Francisco recently. This fact has invited a series of similar exhortations from nearly every person I meet: explore this neighborhood…

Nov 1, 2021

What we call things

Sep 1, 2020

Here is how I think scientific funding should work. Funding should be allocated by experts and stakeholders, using a voting mechanism, to problems (e.g…

Mar 12

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