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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 8 posts
Why Newton Rewrote the World — The Apple, the Principia, and Prediction as a Test
The apple did not fall on Newton's head. The source of that anecdote is the 1752 memoir of William Stukeley, and the story came from an eighty-three-year-old Newton himself. The miracle year of 1665, when plague closed C
2026-07-26 · 15 min read #humanities#science#history-of-science#newton#physicsAssembling and running an engine in a browser tab — a look at Combustion Lab
Combustion Lab (combustionlab.net) lets you assemble an internal combustion engine and run it crank-angle by crank-angle, right in a browser tab, no install required. It shows the intake, compression, combustion, and exh
2026-07-11 · 6 min read #simulation#thermodynamics#webassembly#physics#engineThe Weirdness of Quantum Mechanics — A World That Betrays Intuition
From the double slit to superposition, entanglement, uncertainty, and Schrödinger cat. A friendly tour of the quantum world that endlessly defies our intuition, explained through analogy and thought experiment, with a lo
2026-06-21 · 26 min read #quantum-mechanics#physics#science#philosophy#superpositionRelativity Made Simple — Time and Space Bend
Starting from the constancy of light speed, on to time dilation, the link between mass and energy, and finally to general relativity, which says gravity is the curvature of spacetime. Following Einstein thought experimen
2026-06-21 · 23 min read #relativity#physics#science#spacetime#gravityEntropy and the Arrow of Time — Why a Broken Cup Never Comes Back
Why does a broken cup never reassemble on its own? An accessible tour of the second law of thermodynamics and entropy in the language of disorder and probability, the reason time flows in only one direction, Maxwell demo
2026-06-21 · 21 min read #entropy#thermodynamics#physics#time#scienceThe Principles of Climate Science — How the Earth Warms
A step-by-step walk through how the Earth warms, from the physics of the greenhouse effect to the carbon cycle, the evidence in ice and sea level, and feedbacks and tipping points. A fact-based, balanced account of what
2026-06-21 · 36 min read #culture#climate-science#greenhouse-effect#carbon-cycle#earth-systemThe Big Bang — How the Universe Began
From the discovery of an expanding universe to the decisive evidence of the cosmic microwave background, we trace the 13.8 billion year story of how everything began. Dark matter, dark energy, and the possible fates of t
2026-06-21 · 52 min read #cosmology#big-bang#astronomy#universe#physicsIntroduction to Astronomy -- A Complete Guide to Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
What are the stars in the night sky, how did galaxies form, and how big is the universe? An accessible guide to the essentials of astronomy, from the solar system to black holes and the Big Bang.
2026-04-10 · 12 min read #culture#astronomy#science#space#physics