Tayur’s miscellany: April 7-13, 2026
Obviously, the title of this post is a riff on: A Mathematician’s…
Comfort Videos
Nudge videos increase consent from next of kin and increase supply of organs and tissues for transplantation.
Some Guys Have All the Luck: Dirac Equation
By Hindu philosophy, Paul Dirac must have had amazing karma points carried over from previous lives.
Newton v Schrodinger (and Heisenberg)
Easily the most-hyped and mis-interpreted result in quantum physics, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle is an inevitable consequence of non-commutativity introduced by Schrodinger.
Śrīdhara Brāhmaṇa: Pythagoras Theorem and Time Dilation
Special Relativity is likely the most consequential application of Pythagoras Theorem!
1917, Bad Boys, Parasite
This past (3-day “MLK”) weekend, I saw three movies, belonging to different…
Śrīdhara Brāhmaṇa: Integer Solutions and Ising Model
In plain English, finding integer feasible solutions physically, exploiting adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics.
Śrīdhara Brāhmaṇa: Imaginary Numbers and Electron Spin
Continuing the commentary on Quantum Integer Programming (QuIP) in conversational English.