world models – John Rector

Closed Form and Distributed Form

August 16, 2026August 16, 2026 jsrector

Newton’s law fits on a postage stamp. A frontier model fits on nothing. Both are compressions, both are mathematical, and the difference between them is the most consequential fact about the present moment in this subject. … Continue readingClosed Form and Distributed Form

Artificial Intelligence, Papers

A Thousand Dots and One Line

August 16, 2026August 16, 2026 jsrector

Give an entity a thousand observations and it can answer perfectly about all thousand. Ask it about point 3,000 and everything changes. That question is the exact boundary where compression stops being storage and starts being intelligence. … Continue readingA Thousand Dots and One Line