About me.
data science · physics · machine learning · research
Who I am
Hi, I’m Maximilian Nicholson. I’m a data scientist and researcher interested in the places where machine learning, physics, and mathematics meet. I spend most of my time building models, writing about ideas that fascinate me, and trying to understand how intelligent systems — biological and artificial — learn and generalise.
This site is where I collect my writing: long-form essays on topics ranging from general relativity to AI governance, interactive simulations, and the occasional research preprint. I believe the best way to learn something deeply is to explain it clearly, so a lot of what you’ll find here started as notes to my future self.
This site
Everything here is built with Next.js and React. The blog posts use interactive charts (Plotly), LaTeX rendering (KaTeX), and custom simulations to make complex ideas as tangible as possible. The source code is public on GitHub if you want to poke around.
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