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Why post-quantum, why now?
Twelve years after the Tezos white paper, Tezos core developers are unveiling a previewnet for a fully post-quantum version of the protocol. Here's why now,...
Stars Are Hard, Comparisons Are Easy
Absolute movie ratings are noise that drifts with your mood; pairwise comparisons are stable. So stop rating — compare, and let the machine infer calibrated...
Why government debt should be issued as perpetuities
Note that the following idea isn’t particularly new, economists have known this for a while. I only happen to think it ought to be better...
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A Genus-3 Polyhedron, Relaxed
Mizhaev pins down an eight-faced genus-3 polyhedron with exact integer coordinates. Counting gives you the genus; seeing it does not. So I animated the thing relaxing into a smooth triple...
Even a Bag of Words Has a World Model
Skeptics call linear probes that recover geography from an LLM 'mere statistics.' But compression is the discovery of structure — even a plain bag-of-words model of text builds a world...
