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I posted two papers to the arXiv in August 2026. Both are about the same thing: the region immediately outside a black hole’s event horizon, and how little freedom nature has in choosing what goes there. [Read More]

Quantum computing occupies an awkward position in data engineering discourse. It is simultaneously over-hyped — vendors selling “quantum-ready data platforms” to people whose actual bottleneck is a badly partitioned Parquet table — and under-appreciated, because the one concrete way it will affect data infrastructure this decade has nothing to do... [Read More]

PyScript, an innovative framework, bridges the gap between Python’s simplicity and the vast capabilities of web technologies. Leveraging WebAssembly and Pyodide, PyScript offers an intriguing approach to web application development, particularly for complex tasks like 3D rendering using WebGL. This article explores the fascinating world of 3D graphics in the... [Read More]

A first-order Markov chain process is characterized by the Markov property, which states that the conditional probability distribution for the system at the next time period depends only on the current state of the system, and not on the state of the system at any previous time periods. [Read More]

In the past, we used libraries such as urllib or requests to read or download data from webpages, but things started falling apart with dynamic websites. [Read More]

This post describes how to connect to a GCP VM instance via SSH behind a firewall. There are two options: SSH over HTTPS or SSH over IAP. The first is the easiest to set up. The second is more secure, but takes more steps. [Read More]

Price index methods are being used or currently being implemented by many statistical agencies around the world (e.g to compute the Consumer Price Index (CPI)) using bilateral or multilateral methods. For years the UK CPI was based on a bilateral method, with alternative data sources such as scanner or web-scraped... [Read More]

A black hole is simply an object from which light can’t escape. If particles of light (photons) cannot escape the surface of the object, then we can’t see the object - hence the name. [Read More]