I can ride out a wave of stress to meet a deadline or finish an emotionally intense activity, but as soon as it’s over and I let myself relax, I hit a wall and become functionally useless, woozy almost. Zombified. It’s not a blood sugar crash, though feels similar. At that point I basically just […]

As AI promises to make us faster, smarter and limitless, Pope Leo XIV is making a quieter, stranger case: Our imperfections may be exactly what make us human.

I’m responding to a piece criticizing the stochastic parrots paper — not wholly backing the parrot metaphor, but also don’t think that models “understand” what they are saying / convey meaning the same way that humans do. Shot: Polly wants a better argument by SE Gyges Humans acquire large classes of concepts primarily through language, […]

Cavendish Space: a way of describing and designing environments that adapt to neurodivergent nervous systems rather than forcing neurodivergent people to adapt to rigid, sensory-hostile, socially coercive spaces.

Cavendish Space is the relational space where conditions, context, and capacities interact.

At the heart of Cavendish Space is a simple but profound question: do we feel safe with…