Eben Blaisdell
Mathematician | Maker
Hello, I'm Eben! I'm a mathematical logician who loves bringing ideas into the real world.
Professionally, I work for MITRE as a senior cyber security researcher, helping defenders bring new tools to bear against real threats. More broadly, I work on applying AI/ML to NP-complete problems, domains where solutions are hard to come by but failure and validation are both cheap.
Personally, I have lots of fun small ideas and love getting to make them. Here are some!
Favorite quotes
“It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.” — Alfred North Whitehead (my academic great-great-grandfather), An Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
“Existence is basically playful.” — Alan Watts