Truth in modeling
Random thoughts on the nature of truth when building models of reality.
Evaluating generative poetry
Random experiments with generative poetry and attempting to write executable poem.
Measuring computation in scribe lives
For any given computational operation, we might ask: "How many ancient Babylonian scribes would I have to pay to work out this operation by hand, for their entire lives, in order to find the result?". Mining one bitcoin is approximately ~184 gigascrives.1
Escaping the heat death of the universe
This article covers a speculative system that would allow us to circumvent the heat death of the universe and live for an arbitrarily long time in realities of our own design. (It was was largely motivated by a recent playthrough of SOMA - highly recommended).
The meaning of life can only be felt
A common issue with people who believe life is meaningless is that they are unwilling to accept that life can be meaningful unless a logical proof of universally objective meaning is provided. This will never materialize, but that does not mean that “meaning” does not exist.
Outbreak simulation
This is an old disease outbreak simulation I wrote sometime around the beginning of the pandemic. The caveats to this model being (A) I had and have no background in epidemiology, (B) the code sucks. At the time I was in some OSINT-ish amateur-epidemiologist discord channels, and if I remember correctly I created this to quantitatively 'prove' that nothing ever happens. In retrospect, it's interesting how wrong I was...
