Daniel Martin
Hi, I'm Daniel. I'm interested in physics, software, game design, and much besides. My online projects are below.
Startups
DearMP — Better Case Management Software for UK MP offices to organize incoming mail from their constituents.
Physics
Grabby Aliens — How to calculate the spacetime distribution of alien civilisations in the universe. Coauthored with Robin Hanson et al.
Black hole physics — Two papers on the holographic relation between black holes and condensed matter physics. arXiv. Paper I, Paper II.
Game Design
Cerys, Moon of Fulgora — The player awakens a long-dead civilization's machinery in this popular planet mod for Factorio.
The Foundry — I write, edit & mentor at a community dedicated to Factorio modding. For example, see this article on 2D terrain generation.
Sharpied Kamigawa — A revamped version of Magic the Gathering's Japanese-mythology draft environment.
Rationality
Conjecture Conference Europe — A public conference on critical rationalism.
Podcast interviews — David Deutsch, Robin Hanson and I discuss Predicting the future and the Evolution of culture.
Minor
Diff, Weyl and Conf (.pdf) — A 2018 review talk on diffeomorphisms, Weyl transformations, conformal transformations.
Advanced Mathematica for Theoretical Physics (.nb) — Notebook slides for a 2018 talk on Mathematica.
SpeakLaTeX — Once upon a time, unable to write due to a sports injury, I made a state of the art program for dictating math equations into a computer.
