© Jongpyo Hong 2025 · Systems under constraint
Interdisciplinary synthesis of engineering, law, and finance.
Scroll Narrative · v1.4
The homepage now reads as a sequence of field notes: engineered devices, legal rules, financial equilibria, memory, and military hierarchy as related pressure systems.
Engineering
Engineering begins with material limits: memory selectors, threshold behavior, pulse variance, and the disciplined act of measuring what a system will tolerate before its hidden architecture becomes visible.
Law
Legal systems convert force into procedure. Their stability depends on recursion, guardrails, and the fragile assumption that rules can bind the actors empowered to rewrite them.
Finance
Markets are narratives with balance sheets attached: debt, housing leverage, asset pricing, and moats become legible when confidence meets liquidity pressure.
Memory
Human memory behaves like a constrained system of storage, retrieval, compression, and loss. Identity persists not by perfect recall, but by the narrative discipline of selecting what can remain.
Military Systems
Military life makes systems visible through schedule, logistics, obedience, and responsibility. It is a closed environment where individual agency is measured against order.
Featured archive
Obedience, responsibility, and the architecture of self, read from inside a system built to remove choice.
Read essay →Senior thesis on selector-only memory, pulse history, and threshold-voltage behavior in Te-based OTS devices.
Open record →A browser superload simulator, and a written account of its mechanics — a multibody rig, a Pacejka tire model, off-tracking geometry, and rollover as the limit that actually binds. The bus kinematics derivation, integrated instead of solved.
Open project →Contact