Feb 2021
A loop from conspiracy theories to Gladwelling to Science and back to Marjorie Taylor Greene
A summary of my in-progress writing projects.
Nov 2020
I recently watched an excellent talk by Richard Murray about the challenges for ML in safety critical systems.
Apr 2020
I'm sharing my self- modifying source code password manager for Emacs.
A334259 is a new sequence I submitted to the OEIS that counts the self-locating numbers among the primes.
Mar 2020
I wasn't able to find a SEIR model on the Internet to play with, so I made a simple one in Python and Jupyter.
COVID-19 is not like the flu. I try to build some intuition to help people understand this fact.
Sep 2019
A curious remark about interacting control loops by Van Jacobson and my effort to understand it.
Jun 2019
I recently participated in a panel on Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and 5G.
Nov 2018
Connecting the symmetries of the chessboard, generating permutations, and 17th century algorithms for ringing church bells.
Oct 2018
Maybe the most complicated possible way to answer the question: "How many times do I need to flip a coin to see both sides?"
Dec 2016
Processes that aggregate events with exponentially distributed statistics are everywhere in systems. I use moment generating functions to introduce the Gamma distribution, which helps understand the behavior of such processes.
I'm Soren Telfer. From 2012-2020, I ran AT&T's Silicon Valley innovation lab, where we delivered hundreds of projects that impacted almost every part of the business. Now I'm consulting on technology and writing about what I find interesting.
I've been a CTO, written a ton of software, and have been kicking around physics for the last twenty years.