Essays in English
We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.
—Anaïs Nin
Exponentiation rules in ℝ – May 2, 2023.
This is something one usually learns in a piece-wise fashion, because it is information that is usually scattered among all sorts of different books (analysis, algebra, etc.). Well, here I round it all up in one place. #math #reals #exponentiation
Lost Notes on Afghanistan – September 23, 2021.
Why the West was never really bothered with the plight of the Afghans (despite all "news" to the contrary).
On the follies of the so-called Intellectual Property – May 2016.
Where I expand on the reasons why “intellectual property” is a very misleading name for copyright, patent, etc., law. And here is some follow-up discussion after a talk where I presented these ideas.