The Honest State of Quantum Computing in 2026
There is no quantum computer today that beats a classical one on a workload anybody runs commercially. That has been true every year it was denied, it is still …
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Peer Review Is Unpaid, Invisible, and Nobody Is Measuring It
The only quality gate in science runs on volunteer labour worth over a billion dollars a year in one country, with no record of who did it, no measure of …
Read →Olympiad Math Rewards Solving. Research Rewards Asking.
Competition trains you to find the answer to a question someone else guaranteed has one. Research requires deciding which question is worth asking and whether …
Read →What It Costs to Not Trust a Paper
Every figure here is cited. Half of preclinical research does not reproduce, ten thousand papers were retracted in one year, and the direct cost of the first …
Read →The Negative Results Nobody Publishes
An experiment that failed in one lab gets run again in fifteen others, because there is no way to find out that it failed. The numbers on how much of the record …
Read →Who Owns Your Data After You Graduate?
A doctoral student produces the work, holds none of it, and in most cases has no independent record establishing that they did it. Three separate problems that …
Read →Research Log, April and May 2026
Two months in one log, because I did not write one in April. What moved on the Yang-Mills extension, where the topological finance work honestly stands, and why …
Read →Your Research Is Not Safe, And You Probably Know It
A Delhi University professor recently lost six years of PhD research to a bag theft near North Campus. That story stayed with me, because I think most …
Read →Has the Yang-Mills Mass Gap Been Solved? On the Nye Paper and What It Actually Claims
Every time I tell someone I am working on the Yang-Mills mass gap problem, I get the same response. “Hasn’t that been solved?” Sometimes it …
Read →Physics of Market Regimes and Microstructure
Whether physics has anything real to say to financial markets is, to me, already settled. Physics provides the language (phase transitions, scaling laws, …
Read →The Defence Middleware Project: Origin, Build, and Where This Is Going
Indian defence platforms that cannot talk to each other are currently made to talk through proprietary hardware bought from Western vendors. That is a software …
Read →Research Log, March 2026
In March, work that had been building for a long time crossed the line from work-in-progress to something that exists in the world. The preprint went out and …
Read →Why I Am Interested in the Yang–Mills Mass Gap Problem
A reflection on why I am interested in the Yang-Mills mass gap problem.
Read →What the Yang–Mills Mass Gap Problem Actually Asks
An explanation of what the Yang-Mills mass gap problem actually asks.
Read →Why Research Needs Builder Thinking
A reflection on why meaningful research requires the mindset of a builder, written as advice to my younger self.
Read →What Talking to Startup Founders Changed About How I Think About Research
How exposure to startup founders reshaped my approach to scientific research, risk, and execution.
Read →Differences Between Olympiad Math and Research Math
A reflection on the differences between olympiad math and research math, and what each prepares you for.
Read →Why I'm Writing This Blog
What this blog is for, who it’s meant to help, and what I plan to write here.
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