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Sun Jan 26, 2025 — Ouroboros: An infinite AI content feed

The Gilded Age of content is nearly upon us, when generative AI models will create everything we consume. Everything will be perfectly curated to the viewer and generated on the fly right before your eyes. This post demonstrates how the pieces are nearly there and how easy it is to put an app like this together.
Wed Jan 15, 2025 — I Think, Therefore I Am Everything

As it turns out, our best explanation of physics proves that I’m the only real thing in this universe.
Sun Nov 24, 2024 — Prices Don’t Go Down

With a new U.S. President looming on the horizon and the policies he’ll bring along, people are hoping for economic improvements, for some reason. Unfortunately, the harsh reality of modern economics suggests that prices must always go up.
Mon Aug 12, 2024 — How Does the System Make You Feel?

A quick essay that’s a long time coming on how the economic system of our world makes me feel. In a word: demoralized.
Wed Oct 26, 2022 — Irrational Economics

Why did I pay $12 for a water bottle at a festival? Why did you buy Tylenol over the generic brand of acetaminophen? Did you know it’s really easy to cause liver damage with acetaminophen? In this post, I laugh at the bad economic decisions we make as humans every day.
Fri Aug 12, 2022 — The Economics of Sustainability

A brief (by university standards) essay that ties together history, economics, philosophy, ethics, nutrition, and environmentalism to analyze the prosperity resulting from capitalism and industrialization in contrast to our hopes for a sustainable society.
Mon Jun 06, 2022 — Byte-sized Algorithms: Removing Duplicates

This is just some basic Leetcode-esque stuff I needed to do at work recently. It shouldn’t surprise or impress anyone who has thought about this before, but it was mildly interesting to think and write about.
Thu Dec 30, 2021 — Why NFTs Matter

It’s not about ape avatars, basketball highlights, or other digital trinkets. It’s about authentic relationships.
Fri Jun 04, 2021 — Newspeak in an AI-Driven World

Or: Stop trying to make everyone dumber, Outlook.
Wed May 26, 2021 — Do Self-Driving Cars Dream of Snitching?

A cynical (or realistic) take on how a utopian dream–autonomous, self-driving vehicles–can turn into a dystopian nightmare: the global snitching fleet of the future.
Fri Aug 21, 2020 — On Apple’s Ecosystem

A short blurb on an interesting (if not worrying) possible byproduct if Apple is forced to release their iron grip on the AppStore.
Tue Aug 04, 2020 — Why Does 0.999… = 1?

A simple explanation for a fundamental mathematical truth.
Mon Aug 03, 2020 — On Pascal’s Wager

A guy who took two philosophy courses questions the premises of a 400-year-old argument for the necessity of believing in God.
Thu May 14, 2020 — Minecraft and the Simulation Hypothesis

Are we reaching the hardware limitations of our simulated universe?
Mon Apr 27, 2020 — Contact Tracing Privacy

An analysis of Apple’s novel contact tracing protocol for COVID-19 though the lens of a paranoid privacy enthusiast.
Mon Dec 30, 2019 — Why (Not) Peer-to-Peer?

An overview of the Internet’s growth in the 2010s and some questions about what’s to come… With the current state of centralized content distribution, why aren’t we moving to a peer-to-peer model?
Thu Dec 20, 2018 — Optimizing Sessionless Sessions

Or, arriving at the rationale behind the existence of JSON Web Tokens in an extremely roundabout fashion.
Mon Oct 23, 2017 — Efficient P2P Broadcasting

A memory-less solution that minimizes extra message duplication.
Fri Jul 07, 2017 — Tracking Your Every Move

Or, abusing MAC addresses for fun and profit (well, no profit unless you’re a massive corporation or the government…).

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