Blogs & field notes.

Bee’s notebook

Personal notes · Books, experiments & connections

What I’m reading, what catches my eye, and the questions that follow me back to my work. Delone on my desk, Vygodsky in the mail, and a growing reading list.

Latest note: GIGI, meet ICARUS.

Zadachnik

Geometry · Independent research

I’m working through Delone and Zhitomirsky’s geometry problems, recording solutions, geometric interpretations and open questions along the way.

New paper: Flat models of systems with connection · Russian preprint

GIGI Builds

Geometric data systems · Hands-on learning

I use GIGI Builds as a companion to Davis Geometric Summer Camp. Through chapter-by-chapter builds, exercises and interactive demonstrations, we explore how a database can represent the shape and connections of its data.

The site also accompanies my GIGI Builds book, with a path from the structure of a record to the engine, geometric signals and distributed systems.

The monument as its own instrument

Geometry · Measurement · Construction

How do you keep a pyramid aligned as it rises? Compare inherited placement errors with a maintained reference, explore an architectural drawing, and build two idealized pyramids from the same noise sequence.

A mathematical exploration with explicit assumptions and a historical hypothesis to investigate.

FAL-CORE

Flight control · Mach Industries

The flight-control blog grew from studies, correspondence and interactive experiments into The Geometry of Flight. The original entries remain available here; the blog is no longer active.