The Geecologist

Creation Lake

Creation Lake

Jul 12, 2025 | Fiction | 0 comments

Neantderthals were prone to depression, he said. He said they were prone to addiction, too, and especially smoking. Although it was likely, he said, that these noble and mysterious Thals (as he sometimes referred to the Neanderthals) extracted nicotine from the...
Weapons of Math Destruction

Weapons of Math Destruction

Sep 28, 2024 | Geekery | 0 comments

Big Data processes codify the past. They do not invent the future. Doing that requires moral imagination, and that’s something only humans can provide. We have to explicitly embed better values into our algorithms, creating Big Data models that follow our...
Dr. No

Dr. No

Dec 16, 2023 | Fiction | 0 comments

I recall that I am extremely forgetful. I believe I am. I think I know that I am forgetful. Though I remember having forgotten, I cannot recall what it was that I forgot or what forgetting feels like. When I was a kid, my mother tried to convince me that I was...
The Humans

The Humans

Jul 31, 2021 | Fiction | 0 comments

I may need more time. You do not need time. I am going to kill who I need to kill, don’t worry about that. We are not worried. But I am not just here to destroy information. I am here to gather it. That is what you said, wasn’t it? Stuff on mathematical understanding...
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Jun 30, 2018 | Geekery, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Probability, Time and the Heat of Black HolesOne of the biggest mysteries in modern physics is something that we experience literally every moment of our lives. Physics describes the world by means of formulas that tell us how things vary as a function of time, but it...