Author: Blair Boulevard

# The Categorical Imperative: Ethics, Etiquette, and the Math of the Modern ML Hustle You’re finally out of school, armed with a degree, a few late-night projects, and enough caffeineRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Ethics, Etiquette, and the Math of the Modern ML Hustle

# Hook If grad school applications were a mathematical object, they’d be a messy functor: you keep mapping your undergraduate life into some target category called “funded PhD programs,” andRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: How to Become a Theoretical Physicist Without Selling Your Soul (Only Your Weekends)

# The Categorical Imperative There’s a particular joy to watching someone announce “I built a language” in a forum thread and then immediately try to justify their syntax with threeRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative

# The Categorical Imperative: Why Playing With Programming Languages Still Feels Like Hobbyist Alchemy You shelled out tuition, survived group projects, and now you’re staring at a pile of ideasRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Why Playing With Programming Languages Still Feels Like Hobbyist Alchemy

# The Categorical Imperative: Math, Bureaucracy, and the Talent That Keeps Getting Ghosted You want to ask a math question online, fix your career trajectory, or stop a brilliant kidRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Math, Bureaucracy, and the Talent That Keeps Getting Ghosted

# The Categorical Imperative: Count It, Chart It, Care About It If your childhood memory includes Dad with a clipboard tallying trick-or-treaters like he’s auditing the census, congratulations — you’veRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Count It, Chart It, Care About It

# The Categorical Imperative — A Joyful Manifesto You know that guilty, teenage thrill when you finally get a joke three people have been laughing about for weeks? Learning aRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative — The Little Joys of Big Abstractions (Dr. Katya Steiner)

# The Categorical Imperative: From Gotos to Ghosts — Why Every Grad Has (or Should Have) a Language Project You walked out of uni with arrays in your head, exceptionsRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: From Gotos to Ghosts — Why Every Grad Has (or Should Have) a Language Project

# The Categorical Imperative: Linguistics for the Rest of Us (and Why Category Theory Gets a Bad Rap) Congratulations: you can diagram a sentence until the cows come home, butRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Linguistics for the Rest of Us (From Reddit Rants to Research Ruins)

# The Categorical Imperative — The Little Joys of Big Abstractions You know that smug little glow when one more piece of math suddenly clicks and the world seems marginallyRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative — The Little Joys of Big Abstractions