I haven’t been in water since that night. Not a pool, not the sea. So before I tell you what happened, let me say the one thing that matters: if a roadside motel has a pool out back, read the closing time – and obey it. I was on the way back from visiting my …

Alexis’ book THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SAM ALTMAN is available here: https://alexiskirke.com/htdocs/books/tosa-wholebook.epub Something has happened to the people at the frontier of AI. You can see it in Sam Altman’s stillness on the podcasts, in the specific register of his March 2025 post about a piece of AI-produced fiction that had moved him, in Andrej Karpathy’s …

Buddhist concepts as load-bearing Python infrastructure: reactive dependency graphs (Dependent Origination), clinging/retention profiling (Dukkha), and a koans tutorial track. A Python package providing decay containers, a side-effect ledger, structural identity tools, a reactive dependency graph, a retention profiler, runtime three-marks introspection, and a project-quality checker — dependency-free, in roughly 2,000 lines of Python. https://github.com/alexiskirke/buddhist-python OR …

Alexis’ new quantum computer music paper on the use of the HHL algorithm for quantum music is now available on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20882 Quantum algorithms with a proven theoretical speedup over classical computation are rare. Among the most prominent is the Harrow-Hassidim-Lloyd (HHL) algorithm for solving sparse linear systems. Here, HHL is applied to encode melodic …

It does not matter whether A.I.s have feelings; it only matters if enough of us believe they do. The progression of justice and ethics has shown one thing: once enough people FEEL (they don’t need to believe) that another species or minority has feelings just like them – it is only a matter of time …

The full length novel version of THE MANIFOLD by Alexis Kirke is now available on Amazon Prime (Kindle Unlimited): Here’s a review of the original screenplay, by the Black List website: “In terms of painting a location and world-building, creating atmosphere, being effortlessly creepy, and being as tight as a drum, this is excellent. Most …

Quantum Amplitude Estimation for Catastrophe Insurance Tail-Risk Pricing: Empirical Convergence and NISQ Noise Analysis Classical Monte Carlo methods for pricing catastrophe insurance tail risk converge at order reciprocal root N, requiring large simulation budgets to resolve upper-tail percentiles of the loss distribution. This sample-sparsity problem can lead to AI models trained on impoverished tail data, …

Alexis’ story (which was shortlisted by the BBC for broadcast in 2025), is now available as a Kindle Book – “The Last Human Cock on OnlyFans” – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GLRZLH7C

Sick of keys, queries and other cliched metaphors? The most difficult part of the Transformer architecture to get an intuitive understanding of is self-attention. If I have to read another article on self-attention that explains about keys, queries and values – I will projectile vomit. Sorry, but it’s true. So here’s my attempt to explains …

I wrote the article on AI and writing for the BBC Writers website blog a year or so ago. I wanted to update any interested people on why I’ve still been avoiding AI for my screenwriting and other creative writing. I worry that newer writers like myself are the most vulnerable to giving in to …