Welcome to my little corner on the internet. This is the place where I nerd about all my various interests.
My background is in physics, but I have studied widely both formally and informally. My interests reach well beyond my formal studies sometimes to my detriment.
Below, I have selected a few suggestions for where to start.
Whether you want to know why ISO-8601 is the superior date format, why you're probably wrong about the Dunning-Kruger effect, or why cognitive biases can be rational, I like to dive deep into nerdy topics.
If you like programming, you might like articles about implementing classic algorithms, or forcing functional programming paradigms into python. Maybe you're interested in building a home-lab that doesn't suck.
If you've been meaning to get into AI, you might enjoy my timeless primer on neural networks, or if physics spikes your curiosity more, you might enjoy my gentle introduction to quantum mechanics, or you might want to learn how we characterize if exoplanets are habitable.
The author always shines through the writing, but sometimes I write about things that are a bit more personal such as my experience using an e-bike as my primary mode of transport, and what I learned teaching during the pandemic.
Other times I just share my frustrations about something such as how hard it is to take good notes, and share interesting things you might not know about. I also have a couple of interesting projects that have broader appeal such as
I write about various technology topics, including physics, programming, and machine learning.
I think technology has played an important role in improving the quality of life people: Few people want to get rid of penicillin, pain killers, refrigerators, or radios.
But I'm starting to become convinced that the most important problems of today are social in nature.
We have all this amazing technology right now that could eliminate world hunger, solve climate change, and drastically increase global life expectancy, but we don't implement it due to corporations seeking profit at all costs, and needing cheap labour to produce the technology that the global elite enjoys. Is this really what we want?
Maybe we shouldn't define ourselves through our work sacrificing our health and sleep in the process to buy things we don't want while exporting suffering.
I want a world where AI is used to aid biomedical discoveries, improve weather forecasting, and improve robotics letting them take over dangerous but necessary jobs instead of exploiting loneliness for profit, and stealing the works of real people to generate AI slop while running into unsustainable scaling laws.
I don't want to live in a world where the Danish climate minister says that we need a climate policy with which 80% of the Danish people can identify while the average person in Denmark emits 3 times the 2030 limit. And I don't want a world where this is the most ambitious climate policy.
I want to live in sustainable cities without cars designed for humans with nature, and public utilities.
I don't want 220 million land animals to suffer and ultimately be killed for food every day. Not to mention marine animals with which between 2 and 6 billion animals are killed every day.
Maybe we can choose to be kind to everyone?
If you're still not sure where to start, you can explore what's popular at the moment.
