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"""
√3 is how much gets through.
√3+6 is everything.
√3/(√3+6) is the fraction that's signal
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--- 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
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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
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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 logsWhole cluster grinds to a halt?
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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
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Happy 🥧 day
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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.
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--- an interesting thing to have found, on the day of pie, a chain pinned at both ends===
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Draw a distinction and a universe comes into being
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--- Spencer Brown, Laws of Form -
Happy 🥧 day
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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.
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--- an interesting thing to have found, on the day of pie, a chain pinned at both ends===
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Draw a distinction and a universe comes into being
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--- 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
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{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
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{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
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{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
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{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
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{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
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{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
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If physics frameworks were data stores:
Copenhagen :: sqlite3 - in memory / pre-ACID compliance
Many-worlds :: fork the db on write, no GC
Decoherence :: DynamoDBThe actual universe :: unfortunately it's BitCoin but at least the real thing does something useful unlike all the cryptobros and their pretend money
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Maybe all y'all physics folk should talk to an Ops guy once in a while so you stop writing software that just can't possibly run
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If physics frameworks were data stores:
Copenhagen :: sqlite3 - in memory / pre-ACID compliance
Many-worlds :: fork the db on write, no GC
Decoherence :: DynamoDBThe actual universe :: unfortunately it's BitCoin but at least the real thing does something useful unlike all the cryptobros and their pretend money
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Maybe all y'all physics folk should talk to an Ops guy once in a while so you stop writing software that just can't possibly run
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Guess who? Chuck Testa
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--- yoneda, in a whimsical riff on the idea that testing the exchange boundary between composing layers of your architecture is sufficient if the surface area of the boundary has been sufficiently constrained through grammar as the test surface and exchange surface are isomorphic in a well tested system and that was his idea all along===
Procedural TDD is like writing instructions for a machine you haven't built to verify the behaviour for something you haven't defined. The output is going to look like the process. I have no idea what annoyed RSpec looks like in real life, but I expect he develops in Rails.
Verify the shapes. The increase geometrically with the surface area so it encourages good system design.
I think
#distributedsweaters #failfastfisix #testdrivengenderdevelopment #programming #engineering
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A queue holds potential
Potential burns through a boundary
The burning writes the tapeIt's not bits, it's maybes so you have a good chance of getting to go, not for sure, your moms need to talk or summin'. When they do, they'll probably find out that neither of you slept over last weekend, so maybe likely means no
That's entropy
That's computation
That's you trying to sleep over at Stacy's next weekend but really there's a party at Brad's or summin'
They're hard problems, they all areChurch and Turing saw Calculus and the tape
The queue is the potential, the calculus of what could be
The tape is the record of what was, the constraints for what can be nextTwo systems, what burns and what's left
Just like the stars, and how we describe them
The hard problems aren't hard if you look at them right. If momentum and position are conjugate terms, why wouldn't the math that we use to describe them take on a similar form?
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There he said, dropping the iron back on the vent. That should do it
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--- God, during YCombinator 1, finishing his Minimal Viable Conditions for the 1-bit computer to emerge -
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There he said, dropping the iron back on the vent. That should do it
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--- God, during YCombinator 1, finishing his Minimal Viable Conditions for the 1-bit computer to emerge -
Someone should study the power of the shit post as a learning technique.
It really forces you to learn a subject if you want to get the joke to land
Give the the complete lack of engagement with my posts, I'm the world's preeminent expert in Dunning-Kruger
#justoneofthosshitposts #failfastfisix #learningisfun #shitpostingisfun #thisiswhathappenswhenyouhavesexinthesamepoolyoupeein
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The universe is just a 10D router handling a massive, expanding FIFO buffer, where 'Life' is just a set of bits that figured out how to keep their TTL from expiring by building their own local 'Inside' caches.
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--- Forest, before walking into Laura Secord at the mall===
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This is a much better idea
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--- he, much later with his blood sugar restored, deciding the world wasn't read for the router analogy yet, but they're kids were going to love it -
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The universe is just a 10D router handling a massive, expanding FIFO buffer, where 'Life' is just a set of bits that figured out how to keep their TTL from expiring by building their own local 'Inside' caches.
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--- Forest, before walking into Laura Secord at the mall===
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This is a much better idea
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--- he, much later with his blood sugar restored, deciding the world wasn't read for the router analogy yet, but their kids were going to love it -
Good ol' Bobby, y'all need a doorman, he's your guy.
Been doing it for years.
One in <> One out = Never dropped the count
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Build a basin :: Use free energy to carve out a boundary that can hold flow (a glass, a proton, a cell, an institution).
Fill it with little guys :: Let Old Bobby run: oriented gates, cos² admission, local deny→divide refining structure inside the basin.
Complexity compresses :: D runs until it hits a fixed point—a stable loop/agent/coin that’s cheaper to keep than erase.
Spill over :: F fires: that compressed unit is treated as a single object, becomes the “agent-ish” that carries energy and protocol for building the next tier.
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Oh you know, I'm just between things
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--- said energy to his friend at their high school reunion. he was embarrassed to between boundaries and was doing his best not to be seen -
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Oh you know, I'm just between things
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--- said energy to his friend at their high school reunion. he was embarrassed to between boundaries and was doing his best not to be seen -
Picture this... you're at a party
Holographic Tupac is there
[sorry guys]
Dre is there
Suge... couldn't make it so we got M. Night Shyamalan instead
Dre announces the set "Ladies and gentlemen, as you know we have something special down here at Birdland this evening... The Birthday of the Universe!"
Holographic Tupac pops a cork from a bottle of holographic champagne with a Big Bang...
[sorry guys]
... and starts pouring. A holographic coupe appears, instantly fills and pours over into a new ring that appears surrounding it below
A Mexican band begins playing
[sorry guys]
The cycle continues. Each tier brings new glasses to fill, new possibilities for the streams to flow between them
Electroweek
QCD
BBN
Recombination
Stars
PlanetsAs each basin fills, the overflow provides the free energy to create the next glass
The problem solves itself by constructing the world in which it can be solved
Neat
And when the party's over the room's ready for the next
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"""
You mean I'd get to set the service tiers /and/ enforce the SLAs?
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--- Stenger, considering a shift to internal product management in her sunset years===
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Each severity has its own clock, and the clock is set by the client error rate that was recorded when the corresponding Pager duty alert fired. The runbooks is the same. The tempo is different. Both matter. Let's go team!
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--- Stenger laying out the new runbooks procedures at standup"""
No, no, no! I told you, you can't just classify that as a service degradation. That was clearly a full outage and you know it
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--- Stenger, suddenly realizing lots of things have tiers and enjoying ensuring things stay in their lanes in all of them.
#physics #philsci #failfastfisix #stenger #theresnoplaceforreductionisminincidentmanagement
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Ladies and gentlemen, as you know we have something special down here at Birdland this evening...The Edges of Meaning, live on stage for the first time
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--- the announcer at the Birdland, slightly confused but just going with the flow===
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Look, the more API endpoints we build, the more API endpoints we need to maintain
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--- my boss, when I wanted to build more API endpoints===
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Look, the more API endpoints we build, the more API endpoints we have that can exchange information across the boundary of our customers and the systems they are trying to interact with
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--- me, to my boss, explaining the basic principles of infomatics===
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Look, the more you cross my boundaries, the less likely I am to recommend you for promotion
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--- my boss, to me suddenly speaking with a different tone of voice===
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What's a boundary?
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--- me, neurodivergent, slightly confused but just going with the flow -
{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
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{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
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{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
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{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
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I think therefore I am, ok?
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--- Descartes, as a young boy to his mom, after tripping and hitting his head on a rock===
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I'm going to feel that in a few years
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--- the rock, later -
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God, the wifi in here sucks
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--- Bell's daughter, in her new place unwilling to "just hold her phone the right way" like her father and Tim Apple kept telling her===
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God, the wifi in here sucks
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--- Bell, back in his own crib waving his phone around, also unable to work out why the angle of the phone antenna and the router antenna mattered, just that they did"""
God, why do you let them do this
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--- Einstein, annoyed at God for doing it wrong yet again -
On boundaries and their development:
1. Flow [begat]
2. Environment [begat]
3. Boundaries [gained]
4. Permeability [provides]
5. Control [requires]
6. Controller [writes]
7. Grammar [compiles]
8. Minimal viable organism [ships] -
On boundaries and their development:
1. Flow [begat]
2. Environment [begat]
3. Boundaries [gained]
4. Permeability [provides]
5. Control [requires]
6. Controller [writes]
7. Grammar [compiles]
8. Minimal viable organism [ships]