Hello! I'm Brandon, a researcher at Cartesia AI. I also go by fluorane or brwa (brwa was my kerb, though I pronounce it differently from the similarly-spelled Kurdish name). You can read more about my work and academic interests and educational background at my academic website.

This is my personal blog, where I discuss various things of personal interest and document general life happenings. In general, the two questions I like to ask are the following:

• Why are things the way they are?
• Can we make things better? (Implicitly: What does it mean to make things better?)

I am especially fascinated by emergent phenomena that are most visible at large scale but best reasoned about at small scale. Examples include macroeconomics, biochemistry, graph algorithms + distributed systems theory, stochastic processes, and sociology.