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I’ve been a C/C++ programmer most of my life.

For thousands of years, since the Babylonians and before, humans have studied the mysteries of pure mathematics.

In this article, I attempt to create a taxonomy of the types of risk posed by the rise of Artificial Intelligence.

Will AIs Exceed Human Intelligence?

AI Coding I’ve now produced a few apps using AI coding assistants.

I grew up as a symphony kid in the '70s.

Watching the Oceans Warm: A New Tool for Visualizing Climate Change Climate change is the existential risk of our time.

Deep Timeline: a log-scaled timeline of the universe In junior high school in Syracuse, New York, we did an earth science project to create a paleontology timeline.

The Curse of Dimensionality is a set of well-known mathematical results, one of which is that in high-dimensional spaces, any two randomly chosen vectors are very likely to be nearly orthogonal (at right angles to each other), and in fact you can pack in a

Maryland Cream Waffles This recipe came to me from my mother Carol, who got it from her mother Doris Margaret Wills.

The Scientific Method is Evolution Writ Large Darwin’s theory of evolution was originally inspired by, and applied to, living organisms.

Measuring Small Volumes for Humans There are lots of reasons we need to measure and compare small volumes in everyday life: cooking, medicine, gardening, and more.

I’ve been thinking about starting a simple blog to share my thoughts on whatever topics come to mind, and replacing my old website from the '90s.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

On Entropy and Passphrases Passphrases have been in the news again lately, because of a big data breach at Lastpass, which may have been more serious than Lastpass first revealed.

Looping in Javascript and Typescript Javascript and Typescript have way too many ways to iterate and loop over arrays, objects, and iterables.

Intro I recently came to Javascript from too many years in a C/C++/Python world.