The author at Alamo Square

I’m Mike McCoy. I think about science, art, the mind, and the multifarious combinations of each that make up the totality of the world.

I have a PhD in applied and computational mathematics from Caltech. I live in San Franciso and enjoy doing odd jobs: data science @Cruise, tracking satellites with 3d printed robots @Exclosure, research on LLM morality with Prof. Anna Leshynskaya, and collaborating with the AI Objectives Institute. Currently at Fleet.ai.

I’m a founding member of Coup de Foudre, an art collective that builds high-voltage interactive installations—giant musical Tesla coils, etherial plasma tubes, that kind of thing. I also play guitar, cook seriously, and occasionally write poetry.

This blog is for things I want to work out in writing: math I find beautiful, photos I’ve taken, experiments I want to run, and ideas that won’t fit anywhere else. If something here resonates, I’d love to hear from you.

You can find me as @_alternator_ on Hacker News, @mbmccoy.dev on Bluesky, @mbmccoy on Mastodon, or @mbmccoy on GitHub. My academic publications are on Google Scholar.