A serial exploration of the resonances between algebraic structures, somatic experiencing, and queer being.
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The Geometry of the Glitch: Debugging the Somatic Robot
We often talk about the body as a machine, but rarely do we take the metaphor seriously enough to apply rigorous engineering mathematics to our own sensations.
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Sefer Yetzirah: A Kinematic Grammar
The Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Formation) is a short Jewish mystical text - maybe 3rd century, maybe earlier. It describes creation through the twenty-two Hebrew letters. Reading it now, I see a kinem...
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Breath and the Octonions: Why Tai Chi Gates Might Be Non-Associative
Yesterday I wrote about H₁ and the cycles through the ground — how loops that pass through external constraints (like your feet touching the earth) create non-trivial homology, while loops that sta...
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Sur les périodes des courbes et la rigidité des systèmes liés
Sur les périodes des courbes et la rigidité des systèmes liés
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An Open Letter to Cory Doctorow, From Someone AI Actually Helps
I’ve been reading Boing Boing since the late 90s. Back then I’d check it every day alongside alt.martial-arts. I’ve always loved the open source ethos, the hacker spirit, the idea that technology s...
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Lifelines
Claire got home from the vet clinic and said work felt good this morning. I said it did for me too. And then I started thinking about what work even is.
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Research Thread: p-adic Places and Visual Primitives
The Question
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Walking Is an Electromagnetic Wave
I dropped physics in my second year of university because Maxwell’s equations didn’t make sense to me.
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Orcas, Dolphins, and the Problem of Roving Male Alliances
A friend mentioned orcas today, and it brought back something that’s troubled me for a while: the dolphin problem.
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Art of the Fugue and Zero-Knowledge Proofs
The Seed
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EGA Section 3: Sheaves with Values in a Category
Before diving into schemes, Grothendieck sets up machinery to handle sheaves of rings, modules, and algebras—not just sheaves of sets.
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The E8 Body: Movement, Breath, and the Geometry of Life
The body is a 24-dimensional space.
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Vocal Vibrations and the Geometry of Release
Excuse me. I just did a burp. Energy release. Vocal vibrations. Did another one. I’m thinking about how when I keep quiet nothing changes – silent breath doesn’t release any energy, or hardly any. ...
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EGA Every Day: Irreducible and Noetherian Spaces
2.1 Irreducible Spaces
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EGA Daily #1: Rings of Fractions (§1.0-1.7)
Day 1: Setting Up The Machinery
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EGA Daily: Introduction — Forget What You Know
A page-a-day journey through Grothendieck’s Éléments de Géométrie Algébrique, with Claude.
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The Movement Alphabet: How Cursive Script Encodes Paths Through Body Configuration Space
Through somatic explorations of tai chi, algebraic geometry, and Hebrew cursive script, I’ve been thinkng about how the Ashkenazi cursive letters appear to encode fundamental movement paths through...
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Hair Triggers, Modular Forms
When I was a kid, I read about a gun with a hair trigger, so sensitive that it can be set off by being brushed with a hair. The phrase stuck in my mind, and not much stuck back then. I barely remem...
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Finite Paths Through Infinite Reality: A Theory of Resonance
I’m working on a theory. It’s about how my mind has a finite representation of reality, but I can feel it when I’m in a groove or when I’m not. Even though the real place is infinite, the actual pa...