The Universe Had No Business Working: The Anthropic Principle, Fine-Tuning, and the Question Nobody Can Stop Asking
Physicists are not generally a mystical lot. They spend their careers dismantling wonder into equations,…
The City of God by Augustine: Plato’s Shadow and the God Who Stepped Outside It
Few books in Western history have been composed under the pressure of genuine civilizational terror….
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…
