<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Lay &amp; Brook</title><description>a personal blog by jhanschoo</description><link>https://jhanschoo.github.io/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Concrete semantics</title><link>https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/concrete-semantics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/concrete-semantics/</guid><description>...</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thoughts on David Szalay&apos;s _Flesh_</title><link>https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/david-szalay-flesh/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/david-szalay-flesh/</guid><description>A protagonist without an internal monologue.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Emplotment</title><link>https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/hayden-white-historical-literary/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/hayden-white-historical-literary/</guid><description>Responding to *The Historical Text as Literary Artifact*, a chapter in Hayden White&apos;s *Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism*.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Implicit Association Test, and (not) Predicting Behavior</title><link>https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/implicit-association-test/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/implicit-association-test/</guid><description>Discussing meta-analyses of the IAT, primarily in relation to behavior</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>jepsen.io/maelstrom</title><link>https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/jepsen-maelstrom/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/jepsen-maelstrom/</guid><description>Distributed computing concepts through implementations cumulating in Raft consensus.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Scott Aaronson&apos;s Fall 2011 MIT 6.893 course reading list</title><link>https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/mit-6893/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/mit-6893/</guid><description>Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>&quot;No guessing&quot; in puzzle games</title><link>https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/no-guessing-puzzle-games/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/no-guessing-puzzle-games/</guid><description>In computational terms.</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Quantum Mechanical Fundamentals: Addendeum—Beyond finite-dimensional spaces</title><link>https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/qmf-addendeum/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/qmf-addendeum/</guid><description>Continuity in properties.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Quantum Mechanical Fundamentals: Part I—Representing states</title><link>https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/qmf-part-i/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/qmf-part-i/</guid><description>We shall see how to implement and represent a single qubit succinctly.</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Quantum Mechanical Fundamentals: Part II—The time-evolution operator and the Hamiltonian</title><link>https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/qmf-part-ii/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/qmf-part-ii/</guid><description>We now model how states change over time.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Quantum Mechanical Fundamentals: Prelude</title><link>https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/qmf-prelude/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/qmf-prelude/</guid><description>I discuss what I&apos;ve been doing recently, and outline the next few posts.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Razor</title><link>https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/the-razor/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://jhanschoo.github.io/blog/the-razor/</guid><description>On Generalization</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>