Intuition First.

Deep ideas in physics, mathematics, and computing built from the ground up.

Series 01 · Spacetime Geometry

Special Relativity

ESSAY 01 · SPECIAL RELATIVITY 14 min read

Borrowed Seconds: The Geometry of Moving Through Time

You cannot travel through space without paying in time. Explore the simple geometric circle that reveals why speed dilates time and why the cosmic boundary is unbreakable.

Time Dilation Cosmic Speed Limit Twin Clocks
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ESSAY 02 · SPECIAL RELATIVITY 12 min read

The Boundaries of Causality: Inside the Cosmic Light Cone

A flash of light does not just illuminate darkness—it carves spacetime in two. Explore the expanding wavefronts that divide everything that can touch your life from what lies forever out of reach.

Light Cone The "Elsewhere" Cosmic Horizon
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ESSAY 03 · SPECIAL RELATIVITY Coming Soon

The Angle of “Now”: Slicing the Spacetime Loaf

There is no universal cosmic clock. See how motion tilts your slice through four-dimensional spacetime, reshaping simultaneous moments and the physical length of moving worlds.

The Angle of "Now" Spacetime Loaf Length Contraction
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The Illusion of Weight: Why Gravity Is Pure Geometry

Step inside Einstein’s falling elevator to discover why free fall is true weightlessness, how acceleration mimics gravity, and how mass bends the paths of straight lines.

Equivalence Principle Curved Spacetime Geodesics
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Series 02 · Information & Statistics

Information & Statistics

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The Architecture of Surprise: What Entropy Really Measures

From coin tosses to shuffled decks: how turning unexpectedness into mathematical surprise transforms the mystery of entropy into an exact measure of missing information.

Surprise S(p) Shannon Entropy Microstates
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The Cost of False Beliefs: Understanding Cross-Entropy

What happens when your model of the world disagrees with reality? Discover the intuitive geometry of surprise penalties and why cross-entropy guides modern artificial intelligence.

Cross-Entropy Loss KL Divergence Language Models
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Echoes in Time: The Intuition Behind Moving-Average Models

Why do some systems remember their past while others forget in an instant? Discover how random shocks, corporate vesting schedules, and finite memory windows carve the shape of moving-average processes.

Moving-Average MA(q) Random Shocks Autocorrelation ACF Stock Ledger
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About & Philosophy / First Principles

Aayush Agarwal

Senior LLM Research Engineer, Bloomberg · Formerly Google

Working on domain-adapted language models, agentic systems, and natural language processing. Intuition First is a publishing series built on a simple premise: deep and confusing concepts in physics, mathematics, and computation can be understood intuitively from the ground up—without assuming prior knowledge of advanced mathematics.

Building Intuition From the Ground Up

Technical subjects are often taught backwards: learners are handed abstract formulas, rigid definitions, and dense notation first, leaving them to guess what the math actually represents.

Whether uncovering the geometry of spacetime or unraveling information theory and entropy, each essay strips away unneeded jargon to build understanding step by step. When visual simulations clarify a physical trade-off, we provide active, hands-on controls; when conceptual clarity is what matters, we ground the math in tangible thought experiments so equations arrive naturally as descriptions of ideas you already understand.

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