The Orbits We Choose
On women in science, family, and the people who help us find our way.
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We don't ask airplanes to flap like birds. Why do we insist AI write like us?
Feynman pointed out that airplanes fly without flapping their wings. But writing is not only the mechanism that carries a finished thought onto the page — it is part of how the thought gets made, which is what makes handing it to AI a different bargain than handing over my handwriting.
The Universe Makes Pancakes First
The early universe was a plain with almost no relief; the CMB’s part-in-a-hundred-thousand temperature ripples carry its imprint. Gravity raised that relief into the cosmic web — in a stranger order than almost anyone pictures. With a browser-tab universe to watch it happen.
A Tale of Two Tails
A small forensic look at the public OpenReview record for the NeurIPS 2023 AI4Science workshop. Accepted oral and poster papers share a venue but not a score distribution, and the shapes are more revealing than the means.
The Scientist Strikes Back
A story about AI agents, test suites, and why the breakthroughs that mattered still came from scientific judgment and human conversation.