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From the UAT to the Modern Neural Network

July 3, 2026 ai information-theory history education

We have the bit. Now the question is what we can compute with it, and whether a machine can learn to compute things nobody explicitly programmed. The answer runs from Hilbert through Turing to a theorem most engineers have never heard of.

From Aristotle to the Bit

July 3, 2026 information-theory philosophy history education

The bit did not fall from the sky in 1948. It is the last step in a chain that starts with a Greek philosopher arguing about sea battles and ends with Claude Shannon measuring surprise.

How Monolatry Shapes My Worldview

June 21, 2026 philosophy history personal

From polytheism as a map of the inner life, through the slow emergence of the individual voice, to the moment one god is raised above the rest, and what that means for how I actually live.