I'm Nate! I'm a Data Scientist and writer. This vault contains notes and rough drafts of ideas that I find interesting. I use it as a dumping ground for things I find interesting, as well as things I'd like to simply understand more deeply. This means that you will come across notes of wildly different qualities. Some will be reasonably well fleshed out, others you may be wondering "wtf is this guy talking about". This is purposefully unpolished. It is meant as an incubation mechanism that can help improve my ability as a thinker, and inspire fully fledged writing pieces. If you want to find a good starting point, I’d recommend starting at the following. # Interesting Entry Points All of the followed notes are *densely connected*. From them you can traverse to all sorts of other ideas. 1. [Argument Is How We Achieve Justification](Argument%20Is%20How%20We%20Achieve%20Justification.md) 2. [Interpretation of Simulations](Interpretation%20of%20Simulations.md) 3. [Defend Science by Arguing Against Arbitrary Boundaries](Defend%20Science%20by%20Arguing%20Against%20Arbitrary%20Boundaries.md) 4. [Newtons Force of Gravity Is Not Real, But Einsteins Curvature of Spacetime Is Real](Newtons%20Force%20of%20Gravity%20Is%20Not%20Real,%20But%20Einsteins%20Curvature%20of%20Spacetime%20Is%20Real.md) 5. [Dr Johnsons Criteria](Dr%20Johnsons%20Criteria.md) 6. [Self-Similarity](Self-Similarity.md) 7. [Good Reasoning](Good%20Reasoning.md) vs [Bad Reasoning](Bad%20Reasoning.md) 8. [Science MOC](Science%20MOC.md) 9. [Problem Solving Process](Problem%20Solving%20Process.md) 10. [Problem Driven Epistemology](Problem%20Driven%20Epistemology.md) 11. [Problems Create a Logic of Reasoning](Problems%20Create%20a%20Logic%20of%20Reasoning.md) # Book Deep Dives To get a sense of how I dig in to understand something, check out [The Fabric of Reality](Fabric%20of%20Reality.md). # Mathematics & ML 1. [Cross Entropy and Neural Network Mechanics - 2023/01/14](Cross%20Entropy%20and%20Neural%20Network%20Mechanics.md) 2. [Space, Transformations and Descriptions](Space,%20Transformations%20and%20Descriptions.md) 3. [Vectors and Representation](Vectors%20and%20Representation.md) (todo: add the important notion of composition) 4. [The Spirit of Linear Algebra](The%20Spirit%20of%20Linear%20Algebra.md) 5. [Polynomials are vectors](Polynomials%20are%20vectors.md) 6. [Elements of $\mathbb{R}^n$ as Vectors](Elements%20of%20Rn%20as%20Vectors.md) # Self Contained Writing 1. [Subtraction Necessitates Addition - 2023/01/08](Subtraction%20Necessitates%20Addition.md) # In Progress These are drafts of essays I am actively writing on. View at your own risk. 1. [*Draft 1 - Moravec's Mistake*](*Draft%201%20-%20Moravec's%20Mistake*.md) 2. [Natural Selection is a Constraint - 2023/01/14](Natural%20Selection%20is%20a%20Constraint.md)