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Secondhand Scars
Published: at 03:11 PMA corpus is a record of other people's scars, and that is why pretraining works so well and stalls at the frontier, where nobody has been hurt yet. A hypothesis about why the world only writes into a system through damage.
The Past Is Only Mixed
Published: at 04:22 AMPhysics has no delete key. Stir a drop of ink into water and the ink is not gone, only spread past reading. What the equations actually say about loss, and why the past is entropied rather than destroyed.
The Art of Forgetting
Published: at 04:17 PMEvery layer of computing secretly runs on what it throws away. Caches, garbage collection, log rotation. The interesting design decision in a memory is not what it keeps. It is the policy for what it drops.