Thoughts on math, AI, coding, and other things
Since the beginning of 2026 I've been reading lots of tips about how to increase your productivity when using Claude Code and other agentic coding assistants: skills, hooks, parallel sessions etc - great ideas all around. Here's one very cheap and simple piece…
In my career as a research mathematician, I've always enjoyed working on "ordinary" research problems - the sort of problems that advance the state of knowledge in my field, are interesting to think about, occasionally lead to genuinely beautiful new ideas…
I was watching my wife talk to Claude Code the other day and noticed that she asked it to "please" do something. This caught my attention because in my own sessions I've made a point to not use the word "please" (sometimes even consciously suppressing an urge…
Math-colored glasses are glasses that let the wearer view the world from the point of view of a mathematician. In writing this blog, I hope to give you a sense of what it's like to wear such glasses. I will also write about AI, a topic that occupies much of my…