my name is Paul and I am a data scientist and operations researcher with an academic background in physics (especially quantum information theory), economics and philosophy of science. On this blog I write about various things that I find interesting, which includes things like the historical and social aspects of science, quantum technology, clear explanations of concepts involving statistics, things that people call "crypto", economics. Some time ago I also had strong feelings about Kant and epistemology of science, but since I could never actually articulate them, I've given up on that...
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SOME PROJECTS
I have yet to migrate these from my old blog.
SOME OLD UNI ESSAYS
- On the cost of being uncertain
- Coasian reasoning and mental models in D. C. North’s theory of institutional economics
- On providing reconstructions of Quantum Mechanics using information theoretic concepts
- Individuation in moderate structural realism about spacetime
- The implications of Kant's Dialectic for the question of the world's temporal extension
- Conditions for the Ontic Treatment of Mathematics
- Sounds from Noise