Thinking out loud...

I’m going through the paper Shaping regularization in geophysical estimation problems, and in particular the conjugate gradient program to estimate the shaping-regularized solutions. I struggled... [Read More]

Conspiracy theories & cognitive dissonance Conspiracy theories are on the rise. The Corona virus, 5G, vaccinations, pizzagate, Q-anon, election fraud, wall street, modern medicine…it’s a... [Read More]

The intuitive mind How happy are you these days? As remarked in Thinking, Fast and Slow, this is a hard question! It tells us that... [Read More]

Introduction Quark is a popular dairy product. It could be seen as a thicker, more protein-rich and more sour version of yoghurt. In practice, it... [Read More]

Introduction Finite-difference (FD) methods are ways to approximate a function or its derivatives at a given point, by computing a weighted sum of some input... [Read More]