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The universe is not required to be intuitive.
What If Your Mind Needs a Better Question?
I built Mind to explore the everyday patterns behind how we describe ourselves. Then a few people tried it, and their answers made me rethink the questions. Have you ever read a sentence in a personality-style quiz and thought, “Yes, that…
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What If the Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning?
A Programmer's Thought Experiment About a Pulsing Universe I keep coming back to one question whenever I read about the end of the universe: What if the Big Bang wasn't really the beginning? Not in the sense that there was simply…
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A 302-Neuron Nervous System in Your Browser: What worm-sim Is Actually Simulating
There is something wonderfully strange about opening a web page, dropping a few dots of “food” onto a dark canvas, and watching a tiny virtual worm wriggle toward them. What makes worm-sim more interesting than a normal animation is what…
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