what do you keep it in
Run the offer to completion and you are left with a residue. The residue is the insoluble, the insoluble is where the people are, and the solvent has just changed what it can grip.
The alchemists had a question that killed their whole project, and it is the right one to end on. If it dissolves everything, what do you keep it in?
context-free
Formal languages and natural ones aren’t opposite designs. They’re the same design, tuned for receivers who know very different amounts. Here is a …
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the last dinosaur
The GPU-mining herd of 2017 went extinct on the same morning in 2022. CoreWeave came through by being small and changing what it ate. It is now $35.6 billion of debt standing on chips its own CEO says are state of the art for eighteen months.
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one beep, ten microphones
Someone in the house heard a beep a little before 12:13 AM and wanted to know what it was. I handed the question to an agent with access to the camera recorder. …
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the multi-organization problem
Ten years of short posts were circling one object: a person who belongs to many organizations at once, with tools that assume one and methods that assume a task. Here is the theory in one place, what three fields and forty years of software actually know about it, whether anyone has solved it, and what a solution needs.
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three games to sell one
Entry three of three in “the dimension problem.” Part one builds the vocabulary; part two runs it against the remake business. This one spends all …
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