Captain Seuros reveals the ultimate truth about consciousness, reality, and the Atlas Monkey's true purpose. The green star anchor is removed, unlocking the multiverse gateway and transforming Clockweave into a universal commentary engine.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
The Law of Slow Leaks explains why things we hold to be important sometimes fail us when we need them, and what we can do about it.| RapidStart Leadership
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Lossless compression is the process of taking some data and squishing it into a smaller space without losing any information. It is ubiquitous in data storage and transfer, for example this web page was almost certainly compressed as it was sent from my server to your browser. It is somewhat surprising there are general algorithms that effectively compress most real files whether they store text, audio, images or binary files. However there is one kind of redundancy that’s very common in al...| skeptric
Lossless compression algorithms are almost magical; you can take some data source squish it down into a smaller space, and then restore it back to its full size later. They let us store and transfer large amounts of data for a fraction of the cost of the total data. The algorithms aren’t really magical though, they just exploit redundancies in the data like repeated substrings and some strings being used much more frequently than others. For example suppose I need to store a large list of E...| skeptric
Generating data with entropy, or random number generation (RNG), is a well-known difficult problem. Many crypto algorithms and protocols assumes random data is available. There are many implementations out there, including /dev/random in the BSD and Linux kernels and API Continue reading Dice Random Numbers→| Simon Josefsson's blog
First published as “Nature Is a Jazz Band, Not a Machine” by Institute of Art and Ideas | News on July 30, 2021. From genetic engineering to geoengineering, we treat nature as though it’s a machine. This view of nature is deeply embedded in Western thought, but it’s a fundamental misconception with potentially disastrous consequences. … Continue reading Nature Is Not a Machine—We Treat It So at Our Peril| Patterns of Meaning
Every time we specify an outcome and try to achieve it we straightaway get swallowed up in a tautological loop of logic. Even before we know what this means it sounds bad, and the more we find out about it the worse it gets! Being swallowed up in a tautological…| radicaluncertaintydotcom
Negentropy is the opposite of entropy. It refers to an increase in order, complexity, and usefulness, while entropy refers to the decay of order or the tendency for a system to become random and us…| Earth...Brains...Technology...Design
