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●shubz@torus~/writing%cat ./README.md# essays · notes · ideaslast updated· 17 jul 2026

An essay garden, growing slowly.

Thinking on the projects I actually built. Some pieces are finished; some are still arguing with themselves.

with lots of
interactive diagrams,
obviously.
shubz@torus~/home%grep -l 'all' *.mdx# 8 of 8
shubz@torus~/home%cat ./featured.md# bluedot-unit1

§02Featured

no.01 · ai strategy & policy

A unit on bending the curve

Who shapes artificial intelligence and what 'shape' means.

22 min read↗ read
A unit on bending the curve
shubz@torus~/home%ls ./essays/# 8 listed

§03All essays

  1. Underlying Assumptions on the AGI Strategy CourseSix assumptions the AGI Strategy readings share, that almost none of them defends.no.02 · ai strategy & policy · 18m
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  2. The civilisation frameFour readings, four ideologies, one shared unit of analysis.no.03 · ai strategy & policy · 16m
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  3. Tracing a Kill Chain Through the AGI Strategy CourseOne concrete failure story walked backwards through all five units.no.04 · ai strategy & policy · 20m
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  4. Six engines for one songbookFive base models plus an ensemble on Taylor's full catalogue.no.05 · recommendation · 7m
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  5. The wave of advance · July '26Five muskrats, one equation, and the square-root speed limit on how fast anything — a gene, a species, a bad idea — can spread.no.06 · mathematical biology · 7m
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  6. Turing's last equation · June '26How diffusion, usually a smoothing force, can write a pattern from nothing.no.07 · mathematical biology · 8m
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  7. Predator and prey, on a closed loop · May '26The May figure: Lotka–Volterra, drawn for Robert May.no.08 · mathematical ecology · 4m
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§04Working notes

~/writing/drafts — pieces still arguing with themselves
01
The same word, five meaningsHow most AI debates dissolve once you say whose dictionary you're using.ai strategy & policy · not yet published
02
Two colours and a HadamardZX-calculus as a way of picturing — and actually proving things about — quantum circuits.quantum computation · not yet published
03
JAYA, improvedImproving a parameter-free optimiser with a fitness trade-off and elitism.optimisation & bioinformatics · not yet published
04
Pricing the next scarfFive-source forecasting and an LMSR prediction market on fashion micro-trends.forecasting & markets · not yet published
05
Positive by how muchFour automated methods replicating a pathologist's threshold on immune cell data.computational biology · not yet published
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Cells that can't existA standard clustering algorithm, plus nine immunology constraints.computational biology · not yet published
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