NoCo — 429 North Country Road, St. James, NY 11780
A late‑afternoon light settles over North Country Road — the moment when St. James stops…
The Vestigial Bias: How AI Language Models Inherited the Prejudices of Their Ancestors and Why They Cannot Simply Shed Them
AI bias isn’t a bug — it’s an inheritance. Using Darwin’s concept of vestigial structures, this piece examines why bias in large language models cannot be patched at the output layer alone.
Per Se — 10 Columbus Circle, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10019
Twenty-one years into its residency above Columbus Circle, Per Se remains the most consequential fine…
The Stony Brook Gristmill Murder of 1871: When Industrial Sabotage Turned Deadly on the North Shore
Every mill town on Long Island had its rhythm. Grain arrived by schooner and ox…
The Lenin Anthology, Edited by Robert C. Tucker — A Review
Eight hundred and thirty-two pages distilled from over fifty volumes of a dead man’s writing…
Vermeer’s Light Was Not Supernatural — It Was a Camera Obscura, and the Forensic Proof Is in the Geometry
For three centuries, art historians called Vermeer’s lighting miraculous. A physicist with a projector and some math called it a lens. Here’s the Hockney-Falco thesis and what the debate reveals about genius.
