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Microsoft’s Majorana Move Isn’t About Qubits. It’s Bigger Than That.
Quantum. Nobody said it was supposed to be straightforward.
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How Not To (and Just Possibly How To) Study Japanese
Coming at a language as an outsider isn’t always a disadvantage. What first feels like an insurmountable barrier can become a vantage point.
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Tradecraft : the Stuff They Don’t Teach You at School
Spies, coders, journalists—they all rely on intuition, improvisation, and experience. It’s tradecraft.
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Weaponised Randomness : Monte Carlo from the Manhattan Project to The Three-Body Problem
They call it “weaponized randomness.” I had no idea what it really was until I stumbled across it in three consecutive books.
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The 2024 Reading List
It’s been a good reading year.
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Elementary : From Hadron Bootstrapping to the Implicate Order
If there’s nothing fundamental about ‘elementary’ particles, if nature never bottoms out, then what remains to hold on to?