Every Trap Is Near the Floor
To be stuck, every direction around you has to point up. In a million dimensions that almost never happens except near the bottom, which is why AI training works at all. … readEvery Trap Is Near the Floor
Tag: geometry
John Rector’s Math Lab
Eleven experiments and an epilogue in the order that breaks things properly, starting with the diagonal that broke the only numbers anyone believed in. Every crack ever found in mathematics has ended as a theorem. … readJohn Rector’s Math Lab
What Is Ambivalence
On a line, wanting two things at full strength and wanting nothing at all produce the same number. Conditions do not sit on a line, and the angle between two of them separates a conflict with a price from a conflict with no solution. … readWhat Is Ambivalence
The Line Cannot Do Its Own Arithmetic
Confined to a single line, straightedge and compass reach exactly the integers — not one-half, not √2. Every other number on the number line is a souvenir brought back from a dimension the line does not have. … readThe Line Cannot Do Its Own Arithmetic