Why You Can't Know Anything In Isolation
Here's something you've probably noticed but never formalized: you can't really know what anything is - you can only know how it behaves in different …...
About
My name is Jepsen. I grew up off the grid in a Tibetan Buddhist community in the mountains of Colorado. My interests lie at the intersection of mathematics, computer science, and philosophy. I value curiosity, authenticity, and empathy. I enjoy low-level programming and cryptography. I am interested in theory of software and mind.
Writing
Differentiation of the Mind
I was debugging a recursive function last week, watching how each call transformed the input, when something clicked. The way my mind was observing th…...
Object Oriented Ego
Think about the difference between object-oriented and functional programming. One bundles data with behavior, the other treats everything as transfor…...
Built
These are free open source projects I have enjoyed working on with innumerable collaborators.
ronkathon
Cryptography Educational Foundations
A collection of cryptographic primitives implemented in Rust, inspired by plonkathon and plonk-by-hand. Built from scratch to understand everything from first principles.
arbiter
A blazing-fast Ethereum sandbox
A blazing-fast Ethereum sandbox that lets developers orchestrate event-driven simulations. Built for probing mechanism security of smart contracts and performing advanced economic modelling.
harness
Mathematics monorepo in Rust
A Rust ecosystem for mathematical abstractions and computations, focusing on rigorous implementations of mathematical structures and algorithms.