Vatsal Bakshi

A daily-updating map of the 2026 El Niño built from NOAA satellite data, and a plain explainer of how a record ocean is measured and forecast: anomalies, grids, the Niño index, seasonal models, and RONI.

A visual, interactive derivation of 3D Gaussian Splatting: radiance fields, the volume rendering integral, NeRF, and how splatting renders photoreal scenes in real time.

The Schwarzschild solution explained visually: how mass curves spacetime, why gravity is the curvature of time, and how orbits and bending light are geodesics of general relativity.

An AI's first answer is shaped like the right answer before it has the substance.

A question that started with selfies and somehow ended with mortality, meaning, and the realization that some of the smartest people who ever lived didn't arrive at an answer either.

Trusted execution environments promise cryptographic proof that an AI model hasn't been tampered with.

An introduction to Riemannian geometry and the mathematics of curved space: manifolds, metric tensors, curvature, geodesics, and covariant derivatives.

If a qubit state is a point on the Bloch sphere, a quantum gate is a rotation.

Classical probability says every digit should appear equally often.

A qubit is not 'both 0 and 1 at once.'

The golf ball flight laws explained: how face angle and swing path combine to produce all nine ball flights, and what Tiger's 9-window drill teaches about controlling them.