A Page for Today Series · 2 episodes

I open my idea notebook to a random page and lay that day's thoughts on the line I find there.

1. Ep. 1

   The Story That Fits on One Napkin

   How many characters fit on a single square napkin handed out at a restaurant? Between the lie of dividing by area and the honest arithmetic of the floor function, this piece is about how a container called length reshapes the shape of a thought. It's the first entry in A Page for Today, a new series that opens an idea notebook at random.

   2026-09-28
2. Ep. 2

   The Machines That Guess What Comes Next

   Starting from a line that says no one knows the next word, this piece follows the thread from the Kalman filter that predicts a missile's next position, through weather forecasting and grocery carts, to the LLMs that choose the next word. The second installment of A Page for Today.

   2026-09-29