Science and technology

Biology, chemistry, physics and the things built out of them.

The Rain Protocol June 26, 2025
A Framework for Verifiable Promises

The Offline Economy June 19, 2025
Why financial tools for the unconnected are a genuinely hard problem

Entropism June 18, 2025
The Universe's Burning Ambition

Intelligent Immunity May 27, 2025
What if intelligence evolved within the immune system?

White Mars (story prompt) August 10, 2024
A colony of White Supremacists on Mars.

Pilot waves January 10, 2024
The classical alternative to quantum mechanics?

Language models are all you need November 10, 2022
for SMILES-based chemistry

Outsourcing Ourselves: When Human Abilities Are Rented, Not Owned July 3, 2020
The hidden dangers of delegating life's 'trivial' tasks to technology

iGEM 2019 November 7, 2019
Building an enzymatic fuel cell.

Immortalized in plastic (story prompt) February 22, 2019
What will be left over after humanity? Plastic...

Con-fusion (story prompt) February 22, 2019
A fusion of confusion.

The future of environmental sciences? February 7, 2019
What could the profession of environmental engineering look like?

Palm oil in NZ's dairy November 6, 2018
tldr; cows are fed palm kernel.

Wish list of psychological metrics November 5, 2018
What if we could accurately measure {INSERT}?

Inference via interference August 28, 2018
Learning by controlling the propagation speed of signals.

Principles of neural design August 13, 2018
Note from reading the book.

Policy search engine December 10, 2017
Motivating a tool for tracking the effects of policies.

UBI: Unconditional basic income August 28, 2017
Why AI's succeses motivate the need for a UBI

Divest? Milk and the NZ economy July 7, 2015
A letter to Fonterra.