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A small story about the density of honey at airports. There I was standing in front of a stainless steel table, belongings strewn about, a sweater spilling out of my half-unzipped duffel bag. A stranger was rummaging through my stuff. I had no shoes on. I had arrived three hours early — probably too early — mostly out of anxiety surrounding the unpredictability of moments like this. Then the airport security agent pulled a small jar of honey from my bag, as if it were an emerald excavated from an ancient tomb in some long-forgotten jungle. ...

A new theory for why the Machines kept humans alive in The Matrix —inspired by recent discoveries in scaling large language models. One measure of a film’s quality is the diversity of fan theories it inspires. When a story has the right blend of depth, ambiguity, and cultural timing, the entertainment value extends past the credits—it compels audiences to dissect and reinterpret decades later. The Matrix is a great example of this: 25 years on, people are still following the white rabbit down Reddit threads. A quick internet search reveals a myriad of fan theories about the true nature of its characters and storylines. One even claims John Wick is actually a sequel to The Matrix. ...

A fully open architecture implementation of modern multi-agent coordination techniques. All agents make individual decisions based on local information only. There is no global plan. This is an open project I use to explore new ideas, validate theoretical results, and produce data for my academic research. ...