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2026
October
05 Oct
The Day Claude Decided to Delete My Whole Codebase
June
23 Jun
Token Saving as Noise Reduction
April
17 Apr
GitHub Stars Are for Sale, and the Real Problem Is Not Vanity
07 Apr
There Is an App for That — Until There Isn’t
March
04 Mar
The Model Has No Seahorse: Vocabulary Gaps and What They Reveal About LLMs
03 Mar
Oppenheimer Didn’t Have an Acceptable Use Policy
February
22 Feb
More Context Is Not Always Better
18 Feb
If You Think This Is Written by AI, You Are Both Right and Wrong
16 Feb
Two Routes to the Expansion Rate: The Hubble Tension Near 5σ
12 Feb
Car Wash, Part Three: The AI Said Walk
10 Feb
Automate the Boring Stuff: Setlist to Playlist
January
28 Jan
Your Encryption Keys Are in Virginia: On BitLocker, the FBI, and Why European Universities Need Sovereign Software
20 Jan
Should I Drive to the Car Wash? On Grounding and a Different Kind of LLM Failure
15 Jan
Try to Relax — and Other Things That Prevent Themselves
2025
December
25 Dec
A Christmas Star (Minus the Star, Plus a Moon Nobody Asked For)
11 Dec
The Golden Bead Cube Weighs One Kilogram
04 Dec
Constraining the Coding Agent: The Ralph Loop and Why Determinism Matters
October
14 Oct
A Gas at Temperature T: Xenakis and the Physics of Stochastic Music
August
15 Aug
From Oxide to Oversampling: The Physics of Recorded Sound
12 Aug
Can the AI Friend Make You Lonelier?
July
07 Jul
Star Polygons and Drum Machines
June
23 Jun
The Cat’s Eye: Slit Pupils, Thin-Film Mirrors, and 135-Fold Dynamic Range
10 Jun
Your Transcript Is Already an Interpretation: AI Transcription and Grounded Theory
May
15 May
There Is No Blue Pill: The Epistemology of the Red Pill/Blue Pill Choice
April
07 Apr
The Oldest Algorithm in the World Plays the Clave
March
22 Mar
The Papertrail: AI PDF Renaming and the Tokens That Make It Interesting
20 Mar
The Oracle Problem: What The Matrix Got Right About AI Alignment
January
27 Jan
From Thought Experiment to Qubit: Schrödinger’s Cat at Ninety
13 Jan
Below Threshold: What Google’s Willow Chip Actually Proved
2024
December
07 Dec
Artificial Intelligence in Music Pedagogy: Curriculum Implications from a Thementag
November
28 Nov
Inner Echo: On Making Mental Illness Visible, and What That Even Means
22 Nov
After the Connection Is Stable, the Hard Part Begins
18 Nov
Primes Are Energy Levels: The Montgomery-Odlyzko Conjecture
October
21 Oct
The Hamiltonian of Intelligence: From Spin Glasses to Neural Networks
07 Oct
Three Rs in Strawberry: What the Viral Counting Test Actually Reveals
September
09 Sep
Why Cats Purr at 25 Hz: Vocal Fold Pads and the Physics of Self-Sustained Oscillation
August
20 Aug
The Invisible Entrance Fee: On Privilege, Education, and the Institutions That Reproduce Both
05 Aug
Why 44,100? The Accidental Physics of the CD Sampling Rate
July
22 Jul
How Cats Drink: Inertia, Gravity, and the Froude Number at the Tip of a Tongue
June
14 Jun
The Boring Parts of Networked Music Performance
May
10 May
There Is No Such Thing as Full Accessibility — Only Barrier Reduction
April
03 Apr
Are Cats Liquid? The Deborah Number and the Rheology of Cats
March
11 Mar
Hunting Exoplanets with Your Phone: A Classroom Experiment That Actually Works
08 Mar
You Cannot Have All Three: The Fairness Impossibility Theorem
February
13 Feb
What the Videography Manual Didn’t Cover: Filming Music Education
08 Feb
When Musicians Lock In: Coupled Oscillators and the Physics of Ensemble Synchronisation
January
15 Jan
The Impossible Heptagon
2023
December
15 Dec
Twelve Is Not an Accident: The Group Theory of Musical Tuning
November
13 Nov
Non-Commutative Pre-Schoolers
October
09 Oct
LK-99: Six Weeks That Showed How Physics Works
03 Oct
Zero Angular Momentum: The Falling Cat and the Geometry of Shape Space
September
14 Sep
Can a Planet Have a Moon? Teaching Exomoon Detection with a Disco Ball Motor
August
26 Aug
How Low Can You Go? Measuring Latency for Networked Music Performance Across Europe
July
07 Jul
The Milky Way Is a Gravitational Wave Detector
June
14 Jun
Fremde Welten: Teaching Exoplanet Detection in the Secondary School Classroom
May
09 May
How to Actually Film a Classroom: An Open-Access Manual on Classroom Videography
April
19 Apr
The Charm of Impossibilities: Group Theory and Messiaen’s Modes of Limited Transposition
February
18 Feb
Nobody Is Normal: A Roast I Had to Retract
2022
November
08 Nov
Spiral Out: Tool’s Lateralus, the Fibonacci Sequence, and the Mathematics of Musical Structure
October
17 Oct
What Black Hole Images Actually Show (and Why a Wormhole Would Look Different)
14 Oct
The Lab Goes Home: astro-lab@home and the COVID Pivot in Astronomy Education
July
05 Jul
Why Universities Need Their Own YouTube
April
11 Apr
Teaching Stellar Evolution Without a Star: DIY Experiments and a Board Game
2021
November
23 Nov
They Told Me Not to Use Design Thinking. They Were Right.
September
17 Sep
Mission to Mars: Teaching Air Pressure with a Smartphone and a Vacuum Pump
2020
November
17 Nov
Please Stop Saying the Sun Is on Fire
June
14 Jun
What Happens When You Film Student Teachers: ViLLA and the Case for Video in Teacher Education
January
22 Jan
Hello World — What Is This Blog?