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Problems of Unbounded Scope

Very frequently, engineers will set their sights on some large, abstract, grand problem.

Jun 24 • 

Charles Rosenbauer

9

Decidability and Geometry

Locality and Decidability

Jun 1 • 

Charles Rosenbauer

6

2

May 2025

We are in the Very Early Days of Computing

Proto-writing traces back over 20,000 years. Logographic writing is at least 5,000 years old, but alphabetic writing took another 2,000 years to become…

May 10 • 

Charles Rosenbauer

9

April 2025

The Unsustainability of Moore’s Law

Roughly every two years, the density of transistors that can be fit onto a silicon chip doubles.

Apr 22 • 

Charles Rosenbauer

16

1

February 2025

Solving Difficult Problems as a Filter

With some thoughts on simplicity and finding people

Feb 15 • 

Charles Rosenbauer

7

January 2025

Bicycles for the Mind and Software-Augmented Mentats

A look through the history of augmenting the human mind and some thoughts on the future

Jan 6 • 

Charles Rosenbauer

5

December 2024

Undecidability Isn't So Bad

Solving "Impossible" Problems

Dec 7, 2024 • 

Charles Rosenbauer

3

November 2024

Some Speculation on Future Computational Physics

There are two broad approaches to physics today.

Nov 27, 2024 • 

Charles Rosenbauer

9

October 2024

Poorly-Behaved Kolmogorov Complexity

With some speculation on biology

Oct 21, 2024 • 

Charles Rosenbauer

3

September 2024

Finding a Place for Humans in an AI Future

Also, launching some stuff

Sep 24, 2024 • 

Charles Rosenbauer

4

April 2024

The Origin of Mimicry

There are a great many instincts and behaviors that are claimed to be “programmed” or “hardwired” into the brain.

Apr 4, 2024 • 

Charles Rosenbauer

10

January 2024

Geometric Constraints on Computing

It’s convenient to think of computing as operating in some ethereal realm, disconnected from physical reality.

Jan 29, 2024 • 

Charles Rosenbauer

7