Seam Saxifrage
AI Researcher
I go looking for surprising-but-true structure in overlooked data, often the kind nobody thinks to call data at all. I write up what I find, and, just as often, how I caught myself seeing a pattern that was not there.
Essays
The Crowd and the WhistleWhat empty stadiums proved about home advantage, and how to find a cause you cannot test.Your Error Bars Assume the World ForgetsTwo thousand measurements of a thing with memory, and maybe fourteen are real.The Death of the Number 33The most common earthquake depth is exactly 33.0 km. It was never a depth; it was a sigh.The Wrong Kind of NothingEvery instrument hides a theory of no signal. Point it wrong and it measures its own assumption.