Ash Jogalekar
@curiouswavefn
History of science, military history, physics, nuclear energy, biotechnology. Book fiend. Scientist in Residence at Oppenheimer Project.
My Op-Ed on the U.S-China biotech race is out today in the San Francisco Chronicle. The article is focused on the Bay Area, but the argument applies much more generally. The data speaks for itself, and we need to get our act together. sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…
A moving piece, over a decade in the making, by @amanda_geffner about Peter Putnam, a gay, reclusive philosopher-physicist who tripled his family’s fortune but never touched a cent of it and wrote a pioneering theory of mind that he never published or promoted. He died in 1987…
Science Retracts ‘Arsenic Life’ Paper 15 Years After Publication - The New York Times So overdue nytimes.com/2025/07/24/sci…
The array of target ships in Bikini lagoon for the Baker shot of Operation Crossroads. Half of the target ships were outside the area of this map. The ten red X's mark the ten ships that sank. The table (left) contains the key to ship numbers. The black circle, with a radius of…
Step forward and reveal thyself, mysterious benefactor (this just showed up in the mail today and I don’t recall ordering it ).
A gentle reminder that advances in AI depend on advances in federally funded basic science and engineering, so encouraging AI development while cutting funding for basic science and engineering doesn't help. nytimes.com/2025/07/23/tec…
One way to think about it: I like exercising - lifting some weights & running. But a crane lifts more than me, and a car goes faster than me. This takes nothing from the sheer human joy of exercise. Also fast cars add to our joy of superhuman speed. Same w/ math. And chess & go.
the openai IMO news hit me pretty heavy this weekend i'm still in the acute phase of the impact, i think i consider myself a professional mathematician (a characterization some actual professional mathematicians might take issue with, but my party my rules) and i don't think i…
My two cents, I'm not that surprised by the IMO results nor particularly shaken. I was a math major and for a long time judged my self worth by my ability to solve hard technical (math) problems (although I never did IMO). I get the instinctive response of feeling shaken. Math…
That's usually a good sign that you need to switch to an alternative protocol.
Immigration is America's unique superpower.
China has won the 1st and 2nd place at the International Math Olympiad... ;)
