Abstraction

MIT SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) Lectures

Notes

Classic deep dive into computation, abstraction, interpreters, and languages.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Mathematical Elegance in Software Design

The best software I’ve written has mathematical elegance—not because it uses advanced math, but because it embodies mathematical principles of abstraction, composition, and invariants.

What Mathematical Elegance Means

In mathematics, elegance …

Working Memory as an Inductive Bias

Exploring how the limited capacity of human working memory acts as a form of regularization, shaping our reasoning and potentially preventing cognitive overfitting.

The Beauty of Mathematical Abstraction

I’ve been thinking more about mathematics lately—not just as a tool for computation, but as a mode of thought.

There’s something deeply satisfying about mathematical abstraction. The way a good theorem compresses complex phenomena into a …