graeme fawcett"""
√3 is how much gets through.
√3+6 is everything.
√3/(√3+6) is the fraction that's signal
"""
--- Cabibbo, having tired of having to remember all those irrational numbers, writing down a shortcut
Draw a distinction in a medium made of the same stuff as your mark
If you miss, can you tell?
The distinction creates two states; the unique prime field over two states is 𝔽₂.
Odd primes means the beats die
Extensions require more than one bit
Neither can exist
The minimal perfect code over 𝔽₂ is Hamming(7,4)
Thus unique geometry of a boundary where signal and noise are the same thing is PG(2, 𝔽₂)
Everything else is ...
Geometry
How do you remain coherent in a distributed system?
Mainly graffiti n stuff
Tag where you've been with what you've been doing. Till the next guy comes along and decoheres it with her own tag
Ops guys, you ever had an ELK pipeline backup because a Kibana write just wasn't going through. Back pressure from the stalled commits pushes back into the K8s sidecars running the log queue pods
You start holding scaling events because you can't drop logs
Whole cluster grinds to a halt?
BOFH's are only grumpy because God denied Hell the very idea of denial based routing, right after he denied the Universe the ability for anything else
Happy 🥧 day
"""
Where Gleason requires interlocking constraints from three or more orthogonal directions at a single depth, this proof generates an infinite tower of consistency conditions across depths. The same correlation function must satisfy the composition rule at every scale simultaneously. "Enough dimensions" is replaced by "enough scales." Depth does the constraining work that width cannot.
"""
--- an interesting thing to have found, on the day of pie, a chain pinned at both ends
===
"""
Draw a distinction and a universe comes into being
"""
--- Spencer Brown, Laws of Form
{scene: earth, time: about 7:47pm}
Jesus: So Franz, you remember what we talked about?
Kafka: Bureaucracy is a bitch
Jesus: Me dude, get over it. Nothing we can do that, the other thing
Kafka: Right, append only logs, everything is a projection
Jesus: And?
Kafka: I'm still working on the updated org chart. This HR stuff is a real nightmare, I'll try to have it by the end of next week
👹Ops or 👼Ops
{scene: heaven, time: about 3:14pm (give or take)}
Michael: Uh sir? They've decided it would be easier to just fork the database on every write to ensure consistency.
God: And how much storage are they using?
Michael: All of it sir, every possible branch. They're calling "many worlds"
God: Maybe it's time we sent someone, what's that boy of mine up to?
👹Ops or 👼Ops
{scene: heaven, time: about 11:45am}
Michael: Sir, now they're running into problems with distributed locks
God: Oh? Well, maybe they'll learn some new math or something. What office is this coming from?
Michael: Somewhere cold, Copenhagen I think
👹Ops or 👼Ops
{scene: heaven, time: about 10:34am}
Michael: Sir, we might have a problem. One of my juniors down on Earth auto merged an AI generated PR and we might have replaced the Kafta event log with a big React Store
God: And?
Michael: Well, they've already built a theory around it. Relatively general or something
God: They'll figure it out
👹Ops or 👼Ops