physics
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Elite technical culture has produced a peculiar kind of intellect. It excels on examinations, dazzles in standard problem sets, and performs confidently in environments that look like clean textbook exercises. Yet it falters, sometimes catastrophically, when confronted with even slight deviations from the familiar. The same person who can solve a thousand routine engineering problems
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There is a scene in Arthdal Chronicles where a ritual dance, drilled into a young acolyte from childhood, turns out to be a coded procedure for retrieving a hidden bell from a temple. The choreography looks like piety until the moment of use, when it reveals itself as an algorithm. Much of modern mathematics feels
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Mathematics often advances by a prior about compressibility. Some investigators trust that with the right abstractions the world can be funneled into an additive and exact environment where one can add and subtract, take kernels and cokernels, and push information through functors without losing control. Others trust that essential difficulty lives in nonlinear and metric
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