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The Only Thing a Quantum Computer Is Good At Is Being One
Why the honest case for quantum computing is the one nobody makes — and why it runs through my thesis advisor.
12 hrs ago
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Mediocre at Nothing
Why a nation of 1.4 billion produces world champions and world’s-worsts, and almost nobody in between.
Aug 10
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Trading 000: Your Thesis Cannot Post Margin
How a -67% month separated AI foresight from risk management.
Aug 5
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Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee?
Some of you are. Some of you are not. I have read the comments; I know how this breaks down.
Aug 3
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July 2026
The Emperor Has No Benchmark
Alpha is a function of two things. The field keeps pretending it is a function of one.
Jul 27
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Big If True
Can a government roll its debt forever? A forgotten French bond supplies a strange piece of evidence — and a forty-six-page “if.”
Jul 20
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UGH! Undoing Greatness, Halfwits
OOPS: Obliterating Our Preeminent Science. The one way a great country throws itself away — and we have done it before.
Jul 13
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The Emperor Has No Identification
Why asset demand elasticities don’t mean what you think
Jul 6
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June 2026
ARGH!
America Remains Great, Halfwits!
Jun 29
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Disincentivize!
On the most boring, responsible thing ninety-six million Indians are quietly doing — and the strange national reflex that mistakes it for a problem.
Jun 22
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Musk’s Space Data Centers Are a Bet That Moore’s Law Stays Slow
It's not a cooling bet, and barely a launch bet. It's a bet on how slowly Moore's Law moves.
Jun 15
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I Won’t Show You Mine
Twenty years ago, a famous pod shop sent me their standard IP form. I walked away. The contract that landed on my desk in 2005 is about to land on…
Jun 8
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