Aug 3, 2026 · 4 min read
Notes on an EBV DNAemia paper —
Notes on "Population-scale sequencing resolves determinants of persistent EBV DNA", Nyeo et al., Nature 2026.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
On Attention —
What am I attending to?
Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Brown Puzzle Hunt 2026 —
My favorite puzzles from Brown Puzzle Hunt 2026.
Dec 14, 2025 · 26 min read
The Apocalyptic Lens: an Essay on Faith —
The Bible speaks of a duality or opposition between God’s realm and the world. In seeking to respect the primacy of Scripture, I set forth an interpretation of "the world" as the cosmic agents of Sin that prey upon humanity and with which humanity often becomes a partner.
Dec 8, 2025 · 3 min read
Chopin Competition 2025 Highlights —
I began watching the Chopin Competition's content in 2018, with their first International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments. Since then, it has become an event whenever the Competition's live content reappears in my YouTube feed. I followed this year's competition quite a bit, but for me, so much of my appreciation took off after the winners were announced. My favorites at the start were Shiori Kuwahara and David Khrikuli; now that has shifted and I can't get enough of Zitong Wang's playing.
Sep 7, 2025 · 6 min read
AI 2027 Observations —
In April, the AI Futures Project came out with AI 2027; I read it one night in May 2025. Here I wanted to write down observations on the piece: some more low-level takeaways.
Sep 6, 2025 · 3 min read
A zkSNARK Syllabus —
"Perhaps the most powerful cryptographic technology to come out of the last decade is general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proofs, usually called zk-SNARKs" —Vitalik Buterin, 2021
Apr 20, 2025 · 14 min read
On Dedekind —
Dedekind, driven by abstraction and parsimony, discovered the utility of constructing sets of numbers and applied it multiple times in his career. In highlighting this set-centered viewpoint, he resolved major questions of foundations, while in a way his and others’ success led to troubled examination of the set concept that came to dominate mathematics at the turn of the 20th century.
Apr 12, 2025 · 5 min read
Analyzing "Objection Funk" —
My friend Alex Irpan has inspired me that it's possible to mix serious and meme content on the same blog. So I'm returning to blogging with a serious take on a stupid topic.
Apr 12, 2025 · 1 min read
LeetCode Interview Prep —
In 2019, I mentored a college student who was applying for computer science internships. I helped source LeetCode problems that I thought were interesting; here is the list I came up with.