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Back to EpisodesDistance is accounting (P6): costs from likelihood
Episode 123
Published 1 month ago
Description
Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: [leaning in] Here's a question. You want the distance between two cities. But you don't have a map. No roads. No ruler. No GPS. All you have is a ledger — a table of ticket prices between every pair of stops. Can you reconstruct distance from that alone?
Episode at a glance
- Series: Space & geometry
- Theme: Space, geometry & emergence of metrics
- Format: Tool spotlight
- Complexity: Intermediate
- Paper: PL