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The Man Who Proved Racism with a Bell Curve
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The Man Who Proved Racism with a Bell Curve

Karl Pearson invented half the statistical tools in your ML pipeline. He also used them to argue for biological inferiority. This is a warning.

History of ScienceEssay No. 06
Mar 15, 2026
11 min read
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Your Brain is a Terrible Hard Drive — Heres the Fix
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Your Brain is a Terrible Hard Drive — Heres the Fix

You have consumed thousands of hours of lectures and tutorials. You remember almost none of it. This is not a personal failure. Its a hardware problem.

Knowledge & LearningEssay No. 05
Jan 1, 2026
8 min read
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A Million Requests Walk Into a Server — The Philosophy Behind Distributed Systems
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A Million Requests Walk Into a Server — The Philosophy Behind Distributed Systems

Your favourite app serves millions of people simultaneously without breaking a sweat. Nobody told you how unsettling the machinery behind that actually is.

Distributed SystemsEssay No. 04
Nov 1, 2025
10 min read
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Before There Was Code, There Was the Colony
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Before There Was Code, There Was the Colony

The most elegant algorithms in computer science werent invented. They were observed — in colonies, in slime, in the mathematics of survival.

Nature & Computer ScienceEssay No. 03
Oct 1, 2025
9 min read
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OpenAI Finally Went Open — And Nobody Agreed On What That Means
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OpenAI Finally Went Open — And Nobody Agreed On What That Means

The company that put the Open in its name just released open-weight models. The internet had thoughts.

Open Source AIEssay No. 02
Aug 5, 2025
9 min read
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From Autocomplete to Autonomous: The Rise of Agentic AI
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From Autocomplete to Autonomous: The Rise of Agentic AI

AI used to answer your questions. Now its starting to ask its own.

Agentic AIEssay No. 01
Jul 1, 2025
8 min read
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