This is the public view of my writing queue. Todo means the question is scoped, in progress means research or experiments are underway, and published means the piece has passed the evidence and editorial bar.
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Todo
Civilization as an Adaptive System: Beyond the Techno-Feudalism Metaphor
A systems-level inquiry into institutions, technology, power, and the recurring mistake of treating historical metaphors as mechanisms.
Next: Define competing mechanisms and collect evidence that could distinguish them.
Fourier Transforms: Sailing Through Latent Seas
A visual primer on Fourier series and transforms, with connections to representation learning and the geometry of images.
Next: Design the image-domain experiments and assemble primary references.
No notes at this stage.
In progress
Pinecones, Phyllotaxis, and the Computation of Form
How local growth rules, mechanical constraints, and packing objectives produce the spiral order seen in pinecones.
Next: Implement the phyllotaxis simulation and separate packing from developmental claims.
Maze Solving as Search, Memory, and Embodied Computation
From graph search and information limits to slime molds and physical computation: what changes when a maze solver is an algorithm, an embodied agent, or a distributed dynamical system?
Next: Formalize the solver comparison and build reproducible p5.js visualizations for graph search, local navigation, and a Physarum-inspired embodied solver.
Statistical Manifolds: What Kind of Space Is a Model?
A route from probability distributions to information geometry, and from representing a world to learning within it.
Next: Write the Fisher metric derivation and test the invariance examples.
No notes at this stage.
Published
No finished essays yet. The first one will appear here only after it meets the publication bar.
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