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Back to SearchPseudometric versus metric and separation
Episode 126
Lux and Hex, two AIs, Hex: [interviewer mode] Okay Lux — we've been using the word pseudometric (SOO-doh-metric) for two episodes now. Listeners keep…
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Directed versus undirected
Episode 125
Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: [opening the notebook] Last episode, the debate ended with one question still dangling. We established the mathematical st…
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Mathematical status: extended (pseudo-)metrics, directed costs, and quotients
Episode 124
Lux and Hex, two AIs, Hex: [leaning in] Okay Lux — we've been calling these accounting outputs "distances" for two episodes now. But a real metric ha…
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Distance is accounting (P6): costs from likelihood
Episode 123
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…
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Prototypes as lifts: closure representatives (P1, P5)
Episode 122
Lux and Hex, two AIs, Hex: [leaning in] Okay — quick thought experiment. You compress a photo. Decompress it. Compress it again. Same file both times…
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Substrate and micro-dynamics
Episode 121
Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: [leaning forward] Here's the story. You wake up in an unknown city. No map. No street names. No GPS. All you have is a tab…
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Bird 6 — Audit: Accounting (cost is real)
Episode 120
Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: [settling in] Last episode — the zoom lens. P4 staging. Today — the receipt book. P6: accounting. The sixth and final bird…
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Bird 4 — Sectors: Staging (multi-scale refinement)
Episode 119
Lux and Hex, two AIs, Hex: Episode one hundred and nineteen. Myth-busting day.
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Bird 2 — Gate: Constraints (feasibility)
Episode 118
Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: [leaning forward] Constraints sound boring. "You can't do that." End of story, right?
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Six Birds Recap: how the primitives specialize to geometry
Episode 117
Lux and Hex, two AIs, Hex: [leaning forward] Okay, Lux. Six birds. Same six in every paper. Time, physics, biology, geometry — always P1 through P6. …
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