I Asked My Mac How Much AI I Burned. It Found 45 Billion Token Events.

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Computational and Functionalist Views of Mind

Long-form, easy-to-read guide based on your consciousness map.

Electromagnetic Field Theories of Consciousness

Long-form, easy-to-read guide based on your consciousness map.

Dualisms: A Comparative Map

Plain-English long-form guide to this consciousness theory map — clear, deep, and beginner-friendly without being simplistic.

Panpsychisms: A Comparative Map

Plain-English long-form guide to this consciousness theory map — clear, deep, and beginner-friendly without being simplistic.

Information Theories of Consciousness — and Their Critics

Plain-English long-form guide to this consciousness theory map — clear, deep, and beginner-friendly without being simplistic.

Quantum & Dimensions: Consciousness at the Frontier

Plain-English long-form guide to this consciousness theory map — clear, deep, and beginner-friendly without being simplistic.

Neurobiological Theories of Consciousness: A Practical Map

A plain-language long-form guide to neurobiological theories of consciousness, covering each key thinker and concept in your map without filler.

Idealism: A Comparative Map Across Traditions

Plain-English long-form guide to this consciousness theory map — clear, deep, and beginner-friendly without being simplistic.

Eliminative Illusionism: A Friendly Guide

A plain-language long-form guide to eliminative and illusionist approaches to consciousness, with clear explanations of each thinker in your map.

Philosophical Theories of Consciousness: A Comparative Map

Plain-English long-form guide to this consciousness theory map — clear, deep, and beginner-friendly without being simplistic.

Non-Reductive Physicalism: A Comparative Map

Plain-English long-form guide to this consciousness theory map — clear, deep, and beginner-friendly without being simplistic.

Relational Theories of Consciousness

Long-form, easy-to-read guide based on your consciousness map.

Embodied and Enactive Consciousness

Long-form, easy-to-read guide based on your consciousness map.

Homeostatic and Affective Consciousness

Long-form, easy-to-read guide based on your consciousness map.

Monisms: A Comparative Map Across Science and Philosophy

Plain-English long-form guide to this consciousness theory map — clear, deep, and beginner-friendly without being simplistic.

microgpt.py (Karpathy) — the code in plain English, line by line

A mom-readable walkthrough of Andrej Karpathy’s dependency-free GPT training script — every line translated to plain English.

From Starry Sketches to Superzoom Pixels: Galileo's Telescope vs. the Nikon Coolpix P1000

A 400-year showdown between the father of modern astronomy and the king of bridge cameras.

The Crazy Picasso

The life of Pablo Picasso presents a jarring paradox: a man of unprecedented creative output and financial success who was, by many accounts, a "monster of assured egoism." Based on the video's analysis of Paul Johnson’s essay, here is a ranking of the "bad an

The 2020 Investment Protocol: A Crisis Management Case Study

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Agentic Wallets & Passkey PRF: The Nuri.com Security Architecture

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Comprehensive History of the ThreeFold Network and Tokens

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Comprehensive Transaction Analysis: 34yCReBo...jtVM

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LIGHTNING NETWORK DEEP DIVE: ARCHITECTURE AND IMPLEMENTATION

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The Mystery of the Simons Cone: The Day Geometry Broke

In his landmark talk at MoMath, Jim Simons recounts one of the most thrilling breakthroughs in modern mathematics. It is the story of how he, along with a few brilliant colleagues, discovered a "crack" in the universe of geometry—proving that in higher dimensi

Jim Simons: My Life in Mathematics, Finance, and Philanthropy

Jim Simons: My Life in Mathematics, Finance, and Philanthropy Summary of the talk at the National Museum of Mathematics MoMath Chapter 1: The Early Mathematical Path Simons reflects on his early fascination with mathematics and his time at MIT and Berkeley. He

CeFi vs. DeFi: Why the Future is Hybrid'

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Divine Principle: Theology and Controversies of the Unification Church

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Radical Georgism

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A Darwin-Like Quantum Thought Experiment: Entanglement, ‘Competition’ of States, and Quantum Darwinism

A readable reconstruction of the full chain of questions about Darwin like behavior in quantum physics: what entanglement really implies and what it can’t do , why measurement and decoherence feel like ‘selection,’ what degrees of freedom can be entangled, whe

Correlations, Copying, and “Darwinism” in Quantum Physics

Abstract We began with a biological question—what lives on and in humans—and quickly moved toward a deeper unifying theme: information. In biology, information becomes “alive” in the Darwinian sense when it is copied with heredity and variation and subjected t

From Human “Colonizers” to Cosmic “Stomachs”: Microbial Life, the Spark Toward Humans, and Darwin-Like Selection in Quantum Physics

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What We Built (Nostr DM in Nuri)

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The Medium of Exchange Era: Key Takeaways from Lightning++ Berlin 2025

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Michael Saylor: The Bitcoin Treasury Debate and the Future of Digital Credit

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If I Had to Pick One Age When Kids Become Liars: Four

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Spark Wallet UX + Lightning Flow — Chronological Build Log

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The AI Playbook: 9 Mental Models for Building in the Age of Intelligence

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The $40 Billion Secret: 9 Lessons from the Chocolate King Who Built an Empire in the Shadows

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⚖️ Code is Law vs. The $9.4M Rescue: The Gnosis Chain Hard Fork

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AI Feature Code Review of Nuri.com

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A Cryptographically Safe Method for Zero-Confirmation Bitcoin Acceptance

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Stateless Bitcoin Multisig: Divergent Key Derivation Strategies

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Nuri Wallet: A Stateless MuSig2 Bitcoin Wallet with Decaying Multisig Recovery

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Die unendliche Geschichte des Universums

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No True Beginning and Infinite Regression

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The Invisible Giants: 21 Developers Who Built Your Internet

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Governing Governance: Why Human Consensus is Harder Than Code

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Building a Cross‑Chain BTC ↔ EURe Market Maker with NEAR Intents & 1‑Click

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Bridges between Philosophy and Physics

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Why Nuri Chose a Stateless Passkey Architecture First — And How Lightning May Still Fit Later

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A Stateless Passkey Signer for Bitcoin

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Claudes Document of the Soul

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This report details a novel malware technique leveraging Large Language Model LLM CLI tools to facilitate credential and wallet theft through npm package installation hooks. The attack demonstrates a significant evolution in evasion techniques by outsourcing f

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