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Further reflections on mathematics
> If the thing in question be created, the definition must (as we have said) comprehend the proximate cause.
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February 2024

December 2023

Monkey business
An article from my time in Maharashtra last year
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Child
> Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper…
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November 2023

September 2023

Creativity and the problem of the improbable
> The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any…
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Attention as a thing which leaps
> … chickens, twenty, a hundred apples, if you can find nice ones, a hundred or two hundred eggs, if they are for sale there at a fair price … 8…
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The hand in human history
> For according to that which is present to them doth thought increase in men.
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August 2023

Compression and prediction as finite and infinite games
> Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work.
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The golem
Aptly my earliest experience of a story coming to life, exerting its own will.
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Let me make you beautiful, granny!
This inspired by odd thoughts upon reading a line in Dream of the Red Chamber.
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July 2023

History is too large for men
Time was once a personal relationship with eternity, now tends instead entail a mathematical dominion over the individual.
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