Archives

2026  11

April  1

There Is an App for That — Until There Isn’t

7 April 2026 · 15 min · Sebastian Spicker

March  2

The Model Has No Seahorse: Vocabulary Gaps and What They Reveal About LLMs

4 March 2026 · 17 min · Sebastian Spicker

Oppenheimer Didn’t Have an Acceptable Use Policy

3 March 2026 · 11 min · Sebastian Spicker

February  5

More Context Is Not Always Better

22 February 2026 · 6 min · Sebastian Spicker

If You Think This Is Written by AI, You Are Both Right and Wrong

18 February 2026 · 11 min · Sebastian Spicker

Two Expansion Rates, One Universe: The Hubble Tension at 5σ

16 February 2026 · 19 min · Sebastian Spicker

Car Wash, Part Three: The AI Said Walk

12 February 2026 · 7 min · Sebastian Spicker

Automate the Boring Stuff: Setlist to Playlist

10 February 2026 · 6 min · Sebastian Spicker

January  3

Your Encryption Keys Are in Virginia: On BitLocker, the FBI, and Why European Universities Need Sovereign Software

28 January 2026 · 8 min · Sebastian Spicker

Should I Drive to the Car Wash? On Grounding and a Different Kind of LLM Failure

20 January 2026 · 9 min · Sebastian Spicker

Try to Relax — and Other Things That Prevent Themselves

15 January 2026 · 15 min · Sebastian Spicker

2025  15

December  3

A Christmas Star (Minus the Star, Plus a Moon Nobody Asked For)

25 December 2025 · 6 min · Sebastian Spicker

The Golden Bead Cube Weighs One Kilogram

11 December 2025 · 11 min · Sebastian Spicker

Constraining the Coding Agent: The Ralph Loop and Why Determinism Matters

4 December 2025 · 9 min · Sebastian Spicker

October  1

A Gas at Temperature T: Xenakis and the Physics of Stochastic Music

14 October 2025 · 15 min · Sebastian Spicker

August  2

From Oxide to Oversampling: The Physics of Recorded Sound

15 August 2025 · 19 min · Sebastian Spicker

The AI Friend That Makes You Lonelier

12 August 2025 · 11 min · Sebastian Spicker

July  1

Star Polygons and Drum Machines

7 July 2025 · 9 min · Sebastian Spicker

June  2

The Cat’s Eye: Slit Pupils, Thin-Film Mirrors, and 135-Fold Dynamic Range

23 June 2025 · 11 min · Sebastian Spicker

Your Transcript Is Already an Interpretation: AI Transcription and Grounded Theory

10 June 2025 · 10 min · Sebastian Spicker

May  1

There Is No Blue Pill: The Epistemology of the Red Pill/Blue Pill Choice

15 May 2025 · 13 min · Sebastian Spicker

April  1

The Oldest Algorithm in the World Plays the Clave

7 April 2025 · 10 min · Sebastian Spicker

March  2

The Papertrail: AI PDF Renaming and the Tokens That Make It Interesting

22 March 2025 · 9 min · Sebastian Spicker

The Oracle Problem: What The Matrix Got Right About AI Alignment

20 March 2025 · 14 min · Sebastian Spicker

January  2

From Thought Experiment to Qubit: Schrödinger’s Cat at Ninety

27 January 2025 · 10 min · Sebastian Spicker

Below Threshold: What Google’s Willow Chip Actually Proved

13 January 2025 · 18 min · Sebastian Spicker

2024  18

December  1

Artificial Intelligence in Music Pedagogy: Curriculum Implications from a Thementag

7 December 2024 · 14 min · Sebastian Spicker

November  3

Inner Echo: On Making Mental Illness Visible, and What That Even Means

28 November 2024 · 9 min · Sebastian Spicker

After the Connection Is Stable, the Hard Part Begins

22 November 2024 · 10 min · Sebastian Spicker

Primes Are Energy Levels: The Montgomery-Odlyzko Conjecture

18 November 2024 · 17 min · Sebastian Spicker

October  2

The Hamiltonian of Intelligence: From Spin Glasses to Neural Networks

21 October 2024 · 19 min · Sebastian Spicker

Three Rs in Strawberry: What the Viral Counting Test Actually Reveals

7 October 2024 · 6 min · Sebastian Spicker

September  1

Why Cats Purr at 25 Hz: Vocal Fold Pads and the Physics of Self-Sustained Oscillation

9 September 2024 · 10 min · Sebastian Spicker

August  2

The Invisible Entrance Fee: On Privilege, Education, and the Institutions That Reproduce Both

20 August 2024 · 9 min · Sebastian Spicker

Why 44,100? The Accidental Physics of the CD Sampling Rate

5 August 2024 · 14 min · Sebastian Spicker

July  1

How Cats Drink: Inertia, Gravity, and the Froude Number at the Tip of a Tongue

22 July 2024 · 9 min · Sebastian Spicker

June  1

The Boring Parts of Networked Music Performance

14 June 2024 · 10 min · Sebastian Spicker

May  1

There Is No Such Thing as Full Accessibility — Only Barrier Reduction

10 May 2024 · 8 min · Sebastian Spicker

April  1

Are Cats Liquid? The Deborah Number and the Rheology of Cats

3 April 2024 · 10 min · Sebastian Spicker

March  2

Hunting Exoplanets with Your Phone: A Classroom Experiment That Actually Works

11 March 2024 · 8 min · Sebastian Spicker

You Cannot Have All Three: The Fairness Impossibility Theorem

8 March 2024 · 13 min · Sebastian Spicker

February  2

What the Videography Manual Didn’t Cover: Filming Music Education

13 February 2024 · 9 min · Sebastian Spicker

When Musicians Lock In: Coupled Oscillators and the Physics of Ensemble Synchronisation

8 February 2024 · 11 min · Sebastian Spicker

January  1

The Impossible Heptagon

15 January 2024 · 8 min · Sebastian Spicker

2023  11

December  1

Twelve Is Not an Accident: The Group Theory of Musical Tuning

15 December 2023 · 17 min · Sebastian Spicker

November  1

Non-Commutative Pre-Schoolers

13 November 2023 · 9 min · Sebastian Spicker

October  2

LK-99: Six Weeks That Showed How Physics Works

9 October 2023 · 18 min · Sebastian Spicker

Zero Angular Momentum: The Falling Cat and the Geometry of Shape Space

3 October 2023 · 13 min · Sebastian Spicker

September  1

Can a Planet Have a Moon? Teaching Exomoon Detection with a Disco Ball Motor

14 September 2023 · 7 min · Sebastian Spicker

August  1

How Low Can You Go? Measuring Latency for Networked Music Performance Across Europe

26 August 2023 · 8 min · Sebastian Spicker

July  1

The Milky Way Is a Gravitational Wave Detector

7 July 2023 · 18 min · Sebastian Spicker

June  1

Fremde Welten: Teaching Exoplanet Detection in the Secondary School Classroom

14 June 2023 · 7 min · Sebastian Spicker

May  1

How to Actually Film a Classroom: An Open-Access Manual on Classroom Videography

9 May 2023 · 11 min · Sebastian Spicker

April  1

The Charm of Impossibilities: Group Theory and Messiaen’s Modes of Limited Transposition

19 April 2023 · 11 min · Sebastian Spicker

February  1

Nobody Is Normal, Nobody Is Sick: A Roast of a Well-Meaning Slogan

18 February 2023 · 12 min · Sebastian Spicker

2022  5

November  1

Spiral Out: Tool’s Lateralus, the Fibonacci Sequence, and the Mathematics of Musical Structure

8 November 2022 · 13 min · Sebastian Spicker

October  2

What Black Hole Images Actually Show (and Why a Wormhole Would Look Different)

17 October 2022 · 8 min · Sebastian Spicker

The Lab Goes Home: astro-lab@home and the COVID Pivot in Astronomy Education

14 October 2022 · 6 min · Sebastian Spicker

July  1

Why Universities Need Their Own YouTube

5 July 2022 · 8 min · Sebastian Spicker

April  1

Teaching Stellar Evolution Without a Star: DIY Experiments and a Board Game

11 April 2022 · 7 min · Sebastian Spicker

2021  2

November  1

They Told Me Not to Use Design Thinking. They Were Right.

23 November 2021 · 9 min · Sebastian Spicker

September  1

Mission to Mars: Teaching Air Pressure with a Smartphone and a Vacuum Pump

17 September 2021 · 8 min · Sebastian Spicker

2020  3

November  1

Please Stop Saying the Sun Is on Fire

17 November 2020 · 13 min · Sebastian Spicker

June  1

What Happens When You Film Student Teachers: ViLLA and the Case for Video in Teacher Education

14 June 2020 · 8 min · Sebastian Spicker

January  1

Hello World — What Is This Blog?

22 January 2020 · 2 min · Sebastian Spicker