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• More Sums Than Differences

  Published:Nov 6, 2026 |  at 12:21 AM

  Addition commutes and subtraction does not, so a set of numbers should never have more sums than differences. About one random set in 2,200 does, however large the sets get. I ran tens of billions of simulated sets to watch how that fraction reaches its limit, and it overshoots.

• Wrong on Purpose

  Published:Oct 24, 2026 |  at 04:35 PM

  Random strings find bugs no designer imagined. Why structureless input is the only honest question you can ask a system, four decades of evidence for it, and where noise stops working.

• The Plastic Timeline

  Published:Oct 4, 2026 |  at 03:17 PM

  Persistence archives the past; retroactivity edits it. What the algorithms say about changing history, why one operation inserted at the start can rewrite every answer after it, and the two conditions that decide the price of time travel.