Published Research.
What I've written on AI, quantum and chips, newest first. One line on each so you can pick what to read.
Articles
Recent writing
From Jan 2025 to Mar 2025, newest first.
- From Recipes to Chefs: Navigating AI Workflows and Agents · Mar 3, 2025. AI workflows follow a set recipe, AI agents adapt like a chef, and I walk through how the two differ.
- Microsoft's Quantum Computing Breakthrough - Majorana 1 · Feb 20, 2025. What topoconductors are, told as one-way quantum highways, and why they matter for keeping qubits coherent.
- Semantic Search & Knowledge Graphs: The Wandering Scholar and the Living Library · Feb 10, 2025. A story about a scholar and a living library that shows how semantic search and knowledge graphs connect ideas instead of flipping pages.
- TSMC's Arizona Fab 21 Produces Most Advanced Silicon in America · Jan 20, 2025. TSMC's Phoenix fab is making 4nm chips with yields close to Taiwan's, at a higher cost per chip.
- The Timetable for Practical Quantum Advantage · Jan 13, 2025. Jensen Huang said useful quantum computing is decades away, quantum stocks fell hard, and I look at the real timetable.
Earlier writing
From Jan 2024 to Aug 2024, newest first.
- Save money on AI queries through OpenRouter.ai · Aug 5, 2024. A little-known site, OpenRouter.ai, for paying less for AI queries.
- Meta Launches Llama 3.1 Open-source LLM · Jul 29, 2024. Meta's Llama 3.1 came in 8B, 70B and 405B versions, and early benchmarks showed each version competitive within its class.
- USAF Flies High with Quantum Navigation and SandboxAQ · Jul 22, 2024. A short history of navigation, from landmarks to the sextant, leading up to the USAF's quantum navigation work with SandboxAQ.
- Open-Source Large Language Models (LLMs) for Dummies · Jun 24, 2024. Where open-source software came from, starting with the GNU Project in 1983, and what that means for open-source LLMs.
- Silicon Wars: The Battle for the World's Fastest CPU · Jun 17, 2024. From the first integrated circuit in 1958 to today's race for the fastest CPU.
- Investors Line Up to Purchase $1B FTX Stake in Anthropic · Mar 25, 2024. Investors line up to buy FTX's stake in Anthropic as Anthropic moves toward products with Claude 3.
- IonQ and DESY Tackle Airport Gate Optimization with Quantum Tech · Mar 18, 2024. Quantum computers won't replace classical ones. They pair with CPUs on hard optimization problems, like airport gate assignments.
- The Meteoric Rise of Nvidia · Mar 12, 2024. How Nvidia grew from a 1993 startup into one of the most valuable tech companies in the world.
- Infleqtion Publishes 5-year Roadmap Alongside Acquisitions of SiNoptiQ Inc. and Morton Photonics · Mar 11, 2024. How quantum company Infleqtion got its name and its neutral atom approach, with its 5-year roadmap and two acquisitions.
- Microsoft Azure Quantum Launches New SDK for Developers · Jan 29, 2024. SDKs are how classical developers will turn into quantum developers, and quantum companies say they can't find enough trained ones.
- Building Whoville: The Microscopic World of Nanoscale Manufacturing · Jan 23, 2024. Nanoscale manufacturing builds things from atoms and molecules too small to see, explained through Horton Hears a Who.
- QuEra Sets Sights on Leading in Quantum Error Correction with Logical Qubits · Jan 16, 2024. QuEra's roadmap targets a 100-qubit error-corrected system by 2027, which could put it ahead of IBM.