In so many parts of our lives, our focus becomes a tunnel towards just ‘making it work’ at whatever cost. For now, I’m going to avoid the snake filled bog that is the exploration of that idea in the realm of morality.  But in engineering and science, dogged focus on... [Read More]

When we last saw our protagonists they were gathered at the art house, which through the power of imagination was the Prancing Pony in Bree. Wait, the protagonists? Are the protagonists the Seniors or the Stackees? From this side of ditch day I’m biased and think the seniors are definitely... [Read More]

It’s time for some tinfoil-hat-line-skirting ideas! I’ve been mulling the idea of automatic documentation.    Getting into the ‘flow state’ is awesome. You feel like you’re rocketing through a problem – one task leading seamlessly to the next until you skid to a stop and say ‘whoah.’ The flow state... [Read More]

I’ve been working on the Quirk-E project, in particular, tuning parameters so that it produces numerical results that resemble reality. [link to blog] I plan to share it on Github soon, but until then, I wanted to bring up some important points about models. I may have made these points... [Read More]

I wrote a new post over at the SSDS blog about the value of engineering research on technologies that may not yet be feasible. Basically, this is how technological tipping points happen - once we figure out that a technology is possible, it lies dormant until developments in other fields make it feasible, at... [Read More]