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  • Jan 3, 2025

    A combinatorial lemma on Young tabloids

  • Dec 10, 2024

    Why irreducible representations are orthogonal

  • Sep 22, 2024

    Independent vectors and bases: a fun mental exercise for your next walk

  • Aug 28, 2024

    Confusion about imperfect differentials and state variables in thermodynamics

  • Aug 5, 2024

    Direct sum versus Cartesian product versus tensor product of vector spaces

  • May 18, 2024

    Visualizing stochastic processes and martingales

  • Apr 29, 2024

    A quantum mechanics inspired perspective on our human experience

  • Apr 27, 2024

    Intuition for filtrations in stochastic processes

  • Feb 25, 2024

    Dual of a dual space

  • Feb 4, 2024

    Confusion about conditional probabilities

  • Feb 1, 2024

    A step-by-step explanation of how EM (expectation-maximization) is used for training a generative AI model

  • Jan 30, 2024

    Expected value is the same as (Lebesgue) integration

  • Dec 31, 2023

    Brownian motion and time travel

  • Dec 30, 2023

    Filtration and Information

  • Nov 5, 2023

    Free energy: why it's useful

  • Oct 14, 2023

    Free Energy, Part II

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    Free Energy, Part I

  • Jun 24, 2023

    Where Startups Have a Right to Innovate

  • Jun 19, 2023

    Confusion about thermodynamics partial derivatives

  • May 29, 2023

    Confusion about martingales in stochastic processes

  • May 16, 2023

    The second law of thermodynamics and why entropy must increase!

  • May 15, 2023

    Jekyll server running in a container on a Mac with Apple silicon

  • Mar 23, 2023

    Entropy is a state variable!

  • Mar 18, 2023

    The beauty of the thermodynamic temperature scale

  • Mar 1, 2023

    Carnot heat engines and reversibility

  • Jan 2, 2023

    APIs for chemistry and biology

  • Dec 30, 2022

    Making sense of the metric versus the coordinate transformation

  • Dec 25, 2022

    Confusion regarding tensors and transformations

  • Dec 17, 2022

    Quantum mechanics and biology

  • Dec 13, 2022

    R1CS: A Day in the Life of a few Equations

  • Dec 12, 2022

    An Optics Renaissance

  • Dec 10, 2022

    What I learned from Terry Tao's paper on differential forms and integration

  • Dec 9, 2022

    Learning math and physics by being confused


biology

APIs for chemistry and biology

Quantum mechanics and biology

chemistry

APIs for chemistry and biology

Quantum mechanics and biology

embracing transitory confusion

A combinatorial lemma on Young tabloids

Why irreducible representations are orthogonal

Confusion about imperfect differentials and state variables in thermodynamics

Direct sum versus Cartesian product versus tensor product of vector spaces

Visualizing stochastic processes and martingales

Intuition for filtrations in stochastic processes

Dual of a dual space

Confusion about conditional probabilities

A step-by-step explanation of how EM (expectation-maximization) is used for training a generative AI model

Expected value is the same as (Lebesgue) integration

Brownian motion and time travel

Filtration and Information

Free energy: why it's useful

Free Energy, Part II

Free Energy, Part I

Confusion about thermodynamics partial derivatives

Confusion about martingales in stochastic processes

Entropy is a state variable!

The beauty of the thermodynamic temperature scale

Carnot heat engines and reversibility

Making sense of the metric versus the coordinate transformation

Confusion regarding tensors and transformations

Learning math and physics by being confused

life

A quantum mechanics inspired perspective on our human experience

math

A combinatorial lemma on Young tabloids

Why irreducible representations are orthogonal

Independent vectors and bases: a fun mental exercise for your next walk

Confusion about imperfect differentials and state variables in thermodynamics

Direct sum versus Cartesian product versus tensor product of vector spaces

Visualizing stochastic processes and martingales

Intuition for filtrations in stochastic processes

Dual of a dual space

Confusion about conditional probabilities

A step-by-step explanation of how EM (expectation-maximization) is used for training a generative AI model

Expected value is the same as (Lebesgue) integration

Brownian motion and time travel

Filtration and Information

Free energy: why it's useful

Free Energy, Part II

Free Energy, Part I

Confusion about thermodynamics partial derivatives

Confusion about martingales in stochastic processes

The second law of thermodynamics and why entropy must increase!

Entropy is a state variable!

The beauty of the thermodynamic temperature scale

Carnot heat engines and reversibility

Making sense of the metric versus the coordinate transformation

Confusion regarding tensors and transformations

R1CS: A Day in the Life of a few Equations

What I learned from Terry Tao's paper on differential forms and integration

Learning math and physics by being confused

physics

Confusion about imperfect differentials and state variables in thermodynamics

Direct sum versus Cartesian product versus tensor product of vector spaces

A quantum mechanics inspired perspective on our human experience

Free energy: why it's useful

Free Energy, Part II

Free Energy, Part I

Confusion about thermodynamics partial derivatives

The second law of thermodynamics and why entropy must increase!

Entropy is a state variable!

The beauty of the thermodynamic temperature scale

Carnot heat engines and reversibility

Making sense of the metric versus the coordinate transformation

Confusion regarding tensors and transformations

Quantum mechanics and biology

An Optics Renaissance

Learning math and physics by being confused

probability theory

Confusion about conditional probabilities

A step-by-step explanation of how EM (expectation-maximization) is used for training a generative AI model

Expected value is the same as (Lebesgue) integration

Brownian motion and time travel

Filtration and Information

Confusion about martingales in stochastic processes

tech

Where Startups Have a Right to Innovate

Jekyll server running in a container on a Mac with Apple silicon

An Optics Renaissance

zero knowledge proof

R1CS: A Day in the Life of a few Equations


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