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A Market Is a Machine for Telling You Things You Don't Want to Hear

On price signals, moral hazard, and the going rate for a different answer

Posted on August 3, 2026

In much of America it is illegal to buy a car from the company that made it. Pull that thread and it keeps going: crop insurance, exclusion petitions, deposit insurance, a $110 price floor, and emergency orders for power plants that produced zero electricity. Every claim is sourced.

Against College as a Business

Posted on July 31, 2026

A business is defined by a loss condition. The university has none, which makes "run it like a business" a category error rather than a reform. What the costume displaced, the one activity where the commercial logic operates at full competence, and what happened when the institution was finally asked to refuse something.

The State Space of Research

Toward a Phenomenology of Perception (the Machine Kind)

Posted on March 24, 2026

Benchmarks, ablations, and peer review aren't bureaucracy — they're the mechanism by which a field builds reliable knowledge. A walkthrough of the operational epistemology of CV research.

Fourteen Significant Digits of Nonsense

On the growing gap between code we can generate and code we can trust

Posted on March 19, 2026

Seven tiers of compute, from fixed-point mainframes to confabulating LLMs — and why verification debt explodes when we pretend Tier 7 behaves like Tier 4.

"SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING FROM SCRATCH"

Posted on October 3, 2025

A brutal takedown of "self-supervised" learning that starts with ImageNet pretrained weights, human-shaped optical flow, dense depth that cannot separate measurement from hallucination, benchmark circularity, and "foundation models" that are really six stories up.

OH, YOU'RE A PHENOMENOLOGIST? NAME THREE EIDETIC REDUCTIONS.

Posted on July 14, 2025

Radar "phenomenology," Husserl's epoché, methodology catfishing, Crisis of the European Sciences, and intellectual stolen valor—unless you read Husserl or call the work what it is.