Category: Human complex systems

  • Stock prices and the shape of randomness

    I remember an illustration in an article by Heinz von Foerster in the 1960s. In the first picture, a set of tiny cubes were represented, piled up in a random manner. The reader was told that these were steel cubes magnetized on one of their sides. The second picture showed what had happened after the…

  • “Combinatorial Magic” Logic – Proof of Concept

    Loss-less 4-scalar encoding × 175 memory reduction × 1-cycle decode

    Claim: Any simple sentence can be loss-lessly encoded into 4 scalars
    (3 UTF-8 strings ≤ 16 bytes each + 1 uint8) while preserving
    agent / patient / possessor roles and 10 categories + 4 causes.

    1. 4-D Vector Definition

    Dim