Essays

Long-form essays on research questions, architectural decisions, and analysis.

• Two Bits of Signal — On the second bit a trained system goes without: not how good a reading is, but how far to trust it. A star tracker carries it because the vacuum charges for its absence; a training loop folds it away, and the model cannot tell what it knows from what it doesn't.
• Wedding Under Gunfire — On identity as trajectory and the watching that carries a self across change. Two anime films six years apart stage the mirror cases — the merger that consummates, the recognition that flickers and fails.
• What the Lens Loses — On the difference between a single-axis read and a reconstruction. Most of what gets called measurement is the first kind, and its seams do not show.
• The Walk — On cognition as walking and what that account makes equivalent. Self-recognition across a decade, recognition of someone known for twenty years, and grief — the same activity over different terrain.