Philosophy for Designers 1 Phenomenology and the impossibility of experience design This is Part 1 in an ongoing series on philosophy, design and cognitive science. You can also check out the reading list behind this series. Let’s consider a simple scenario involving two completely different people using the exact same banking app on identical iPhones. The first person is walking down a
CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space These are CubeSats. Satellites that are going to space—or at least, the ones I have here are prototypes. But these have one thing in common: they’re all powered by either a Raspberry
Quantum Information Supremacy I’m thrilled that our paper entitled Demonstrating an unconditional separation between quantum and classical information resources, based on a collaboration between UT Austin and Quantinuum, is finally up on the arXiv. I’m equally thrilled that my coauthor and former PhD student William Kretschmer — who led the theory for this
My review of Claudes new Code Interpreter released under a very confusing name
Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5 Python and Pyodide
YouTube views are down dont panic YouTube views are down (don’t panic) September 15 update: @YouTubeInsider confirmed that the issue is related to viewers who have adblockers enabled—YouTube’s been in an arms race with ad blocking tools, and the fallout is a substantial
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT aka Research Goblin is shockingly good at search
Hilbert space treating functions as vectors
For the record In response to my recent blog posts, which expressed views that are entirely boring and middle-of-the-road for Americans as a whole, American Jews, and Israelis (“yes, war to destroy Hamas is basically morally justified, even if there are innocent casualties, as the only possible way to a future of coexistence
I bought the cheapest EV a used Nissan Leaf I bought the cheapest EV (a used Nissan Leaf) I bought a used 2023 Nissan Leaf in 2025, my first ’new’ car in 15 years. The above photo was taken by the dealership; apparently their social media team likes