Essays
Recent musings...
Beyond the Given Frame
Why the hardest form of creative thought may be recognizing when a problem cannot be solved inside the assumptions that made it legible.
The Intelligence to Know What Matters
Why generating possibilities is different from recognizing a direction worth pursuing, and why judgment depends on memory, consequence, and time.
Can Synthetic Populations Predict Real Behavior?
A benchmark of where synthetic populations recover real-world behavior, where they miss, and how the evaluation avoids hindsight.
Building a Population Simulation Engine
A technical account of the dependencies, networks, state, and timesteps behind a synthetic population engine.