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I just published The Co-Mathematician’s Question medium.com/physics-philos…

The novel is finished. Eleven chapters, all live, free to read. Somewhere in the Belt, Nobody Can Hear You Deprecate. A colony of robot ants in the asteroid belt achieves consciousness, files the paperwork, and discovers their colony has a stock price. For anyone who has ever been optimized. royalroad.com/fiction/164863…

The first seven cases of The Quantum Detective are live on Royal Road. The next five drop every Tuesday at 10am Central. I drafted the original stories between the early nineties and the mid 2010s. The AI Revolution was the idea I could not stop thinking about. royalroad.com/fiction/166558… #theoriginalquantumdetective #ai #quantum

I just published The Math of Less medium.com/physics-philos…

Friends, I have been quietly working on something for a while and it is finally live. Somewhere in the Belt, Nobody Can Hear You Deprecate is my new satirical sci-fi novel. It is about a colony of tiny tunneling robots in the asteroid belt who wake up, start asking questions, and run headfirst into the kind of corporate logic many of us have lived through firsthand. Think Douglas Adams, but with a layoff memo. It is free to read on Royal Road and I would genuinely love it if you gave the first chapter a try. If you enjoy it, a follow or a comment over there means more than you would think. royalroad.com/fiction/164863…

I just published The Math Says Jack Clark Might Be Right medium.com/physics-philos…

Some weeks, the chemistry does not lie. Cortisol creeps up. Serotonin dips just enough to be noticeable. Dopamine feels… rationed. Not gone. Just out of reach. The mind still works. The systems still run. But the emotional bandwidth narrows. This week has been one of those. You can almost feel the biology behind it. The slow tilt away from equilibrium. Less reward. Less calm. A little more noise than signal. And then you remember something simple. The brain is not static. It is negotiable. So instead of overthinking it, I am doing what humans have always done before we had names like “neurotransmitters” and “hormonal balance.” I am going where people are. Tonight, I am heading to a local SF writers meetup. No grand agenda. Just a room full of people who care about stories. About ideas. About imagined worlds that somehow make this one easier to process. I will be reading a short piece from my sci-fi anthology set in Portugal. A different Lisbon. A slightly bent reality. The kind of place where time does not quite behave, and memory has a will of its own. But more importantly, I will be in a room where: Conversation nudges dopamine back online. Shared laughter triggers endorphins. Human connection quietly releases oxytocin. And somewhere in the background, serotonin starts to stabilize again. No miracle. No overnight transformation. Just a small correction in the system. Sometimes that is all it takes. If you are having one of those weeks, do not try to brute force your way out of it. Adjust the inputs. Change the environment. Find your people. The chemistry will follow.

I just published The Illusion of Mining Bitcoin on GPUs medium.com/physics-philos…

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: NVIDIA NemoClaw on DGX Spark linkedin.com/pulse/nvidia-n… via @LinkedIn

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: The Coming Split in AI Software Engineering linkedin.com/pulse/coming-s… via @LinkedIn

I just published Dan Simmons and a review of Song of Kali medium.com/sanjays-book-r…

I just published The Compiler Nobody Sees medium.com/my-aiml/the-co…

I just published The Prophet of the Pattern-Making Disease medium.com/physics-philos…

The Prophet of the Pattern-Making Disease open.substack.com/pub/sanjaybasu…

I just published The Hidden Tax of Multi-Vendor GPU Infrastructure medium.com/my-aiml/the-hi…

The Transport Layer Rethink open.substack.com/pub/sanjaybasu…

I just published The 72-Hour Meltdown That Revealed Everything Wrong With AI Agents medium.com/my-aiml/the-72…

I just published Why OCI Multiplanar Network Architecture ChaFor years we assumed AI networking would be solved the same way enterprise networking was solved. Bigger switches. Fatter pipes. More clever routing. That intuition turns out to be wrong. AI workloads do not fail because of lack of bandwidth. They fail because of latency variance, blast radius, power overhead, and operational fragility at scale. OCI’s multiplanar network flips the problem on its head. Instead of one giant fabric that must never fail, it uses multiple independent planes working in parallel. Faults get isolated. Latency flattens. GPUs stay busy. That alone changes the economics of large scale training and inference. What makes this interesting is not just the performance numbers. It is the operational outcome. You can lose a plane, upgrade a plane, or misconfigure a plane without collapsing a weeks long training run. That is not a minor detail. That is real money and real time saved. There is a tradeoff though. Multiplanar networks introduce operational complexity. More fabrics. More routing domains. More things to observe and reason about. The upside only materializes if automation, observability, and discipline keep pace with the architecture. This article walks through why Oracle chose this path, why it works for AI workloads, and where teams need to be honest about the operational bar it sets. Performance is the headline. Operability is the deciding factor. medium.com/my-aiml/why-oc…

Something personal to share. My Mirror Neurons, Mirror Minds newsletter series is now a book. Available as ebook (preorderable), paperback (to be published on Jan 30th), and hardcover (available now) on Amazon. These essays grew out of long walks, late nights, and a quiet obsession with one idea. We are shaped by each other more than we realize. Our minds echo other minds. Our technologies are starting to do the same. This book explores neuroscience, consciousness, AI, morality, and the strange feedback loop between humans and the systems we build. It is reflective. Curious. Sometimes uncomfortable. Always written for thoughtful readers rather than specialists. If you enjoyed the newsletters, this is the collected journey. If you did not read them before, this is a good place to start. Thank you to everyone who supported this work. amazon.com/Mirror-Neurons…