- How My Blog Handles Math and Images in HTML, Atom, and Email in 2025
A stack of kludges that seems to work.
- Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Environment, Part 2
Graph theory and epistemology, oh my!
- Speak Up If You're Stuck in a Zazen Rut
Some topics seem off-limits in Zen: What's the goal of meditation? How do I get better at it? I talk about my doubts and break some silences.
- Knowledge and Common Knowledge in a Distributed Environment, Part 1
A profound 1990 paper about epistemology in distributed systems.
- Optimizing a Meditation Retreat with a SAT Solver
I used Google's OR-Tools to schedule a Zen retreat.
- Aerial Silks in the Gunks
Kelsey Roman performing with aerial silks suspended from the Nectar Vector climb on Millbrook, a cliff in the Gunks.
- RIP Sojourner
In memory of Sojourner Truth Armstrong Davis, a singular and solitary hamster.
- From Python Programmer to Distributed Systems Researcher in 10 Years Without a PhD
How I wound up on MongoDB's research team.
- Taming Google Scholar Alerts
Instead of a daily deluge, get a weekly summary.
- Gunks, June 2025
Climbing in the Gunks on June 21 and 22, 2025.