Daniel Goldman
Essays and explorations across my interests, from science and software to philosophy and the systems that shape everyday life.
Writing & publications
Main blog
Politics & philosophy
Science & culture
Planetary futures
Where I write
My writing lives mainly on my blog and Medium. Start with the main blog for a broad view, or follow a publication for a particular subject.
Politicoid
Political philosophy and science: examining governance, society, and the relationships among people, technology, and the natural world.
The Spiritual Anthropologists
Religion, philosophy, science, art, and public health, explored through the varied ways people understand and live in the world.
Terluna
Writing around the possibility of an open, living Moon and the scientific and engineering questions such a world raises.
Current work
Planetary environments
Mathematics
Experimental computing
Models, mathematics, and working software
These ongoing programs connect theoretical questions with explicit calculations, documented assumptions, and code that can be inspected.
Terluna & World-crafting
What would it take to sustain an open, living Moon? Terluna examines atmosphere, radiation, ecosystems, and industry. World-crafting develops climate, storm, and wave models for worlds with different gravity, daylight, and atmospheric depth.
Habitability and integrated engineering feasibility remain open research questions.
Graph Numbers
Arithmetic built from graphs: using disjoint unions and Cartesian products to connect finite structures with infinite limits. The current local-completion framework brings together local geometry, inversion, heat calculations, and defect analysis.
Proof notes and an exact Python library accompany the developing theory.
Megapad-64 & Akashic
A tile-oriented computer architecture and its software environment: emulator, Forth BIOS and operating system, source simulator, and applications spanning numerical tools, graphics, audio, and documents.
The software platform is experimental; physical hardware is a separate development track.
My wider research also covers public health, adaptive systems, ancestry, anthropology, and economic theory. The research page brings together selected papers, project repositories, and their publication or development status. Code is also available on GitHub.
Discussion
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