There is merit in merely lingering, but more than a commitment of time, what this requires is a commitment of attention and focus. It is both something which requires practice and which is required for practice
Zeroing Infinity
I’m certainly not mathematician enough to approach the problem in a mathematically rigorous way – then again, most of the arguments cited in Quanta’s article are more philosophical or metaphysical than mathematical.
Designing Experiments
Design of experiments lets us be far more efficient in our experimental approach, reducing the number of runs we need to do to acquire insights, while offering techniques for gaining more insights than we could from just running a bunch of trials.
Not Endings?
Millions of stories are told set in the “real world,” and no one complains they are less than satisfying because the world hasn’t ended yet.
Science in Science Fiction
this post explores the importance of getting little details right, consideration of the audience in the inclusion of such details, and the role of science in, well, science fiction.
Self-Assembly and Repair for In-Situ Resource Utilization
This review will address the state of the art in self-assembly and self-repair technologies and understanding, with an emphasis on applicability to a durable space presence and space resource extraction and utilization.
Character Consistency
Change is hard. There’s a reason “change management” is an entire field, one in which many organizations repeatedly fail. In that sense, an effective character arc can be thought of as a novel-length project in character change management.
Galileo’s Notes on Ptolemy
Copernicus and Galileo, who are credited (perhaps in slightly overstated fashion) with entirely recontextualizing our place in the universe, are thought of in this way, but the reality is that most seemingly revolutionary thinkers were less people who ran in a different direction from everyone else, and more people who saw the trail ahead more clearly and could take the next few steps for us.
Gradations of Omniscience
These terms we use – first person, second person (please don’t use second person), third person limited, third person omniscient – are an easy shorthand to describe how we are choosing to approach narration in a given piece. The more I work with different approaches to viewpoint and storytelling, though, the more important I think it is that the description come after the choice of viewpoint.
Continuously Quantum Reality
In a recent essay from Quanta Magazine, “Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve,” Ball argues for a resolution to these seeming contradictions proposed by Zurek in a recent book called Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism.
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