Algorithms, Nature, and Society

On mathematics, machines, and what the proof never held When I was young, I learned about the great Sanskrit poet and playwright Kālidāsa, the author of Śakuntalā and other works whose beauty has survived across centuries.

From Shannon’s prediction game to modern transformers—and what gets lost in meaning The Mysteries of Words A few years ago, I sat in a dissertation defense for a student working on language models, and something quietly unsettled me.

The story of how diffusion models create—and what they leave behind I’m excited to share my new piece, How AI Generates: From Noise to Form.

When intelligence turns inward, it creates the structure in which suffering can arise When Light Meets Mind In 1930, Berlin, two men sat across from each other.

What AI-optimized schools misunderstand about learning It was just a question over breakfast.

A computational anatomy of intelligence.

How Intelligence Arises from Nature, One Layer at a Time The Trouble with Definitions “The Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao.” — Lao Tzu As a mathematician, I’ve long sought clean definitions.

Why AI Won’t Transcend Us—But the Race to Superintelligence Might Redefine Us At the dawn of the nuclear age, a handful of scientists raced to split the atom.

नेति नेति Not this, not this. — Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad The Frame Before the Frame: A Prehistory of Discovery Long before there were “scientists,” there was science.

What mathematics reveals about the limits of today’s AI — and why AGI remains distant “An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God.” — Srinivasa Ramanujan When I was in high school, my mother gifted me a copy of The Man Who Knew…