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Against Entropy: Three Dispatches Indide a Year at the Machine

Posted March 2026 — Oliver C. Hirst

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Part I: If You Cannot Instrument It, You Are Doing Theology

There is a particular strain of intellectual dishonesty that has taken deep root in the contemporary AI research establishment — a pious, self-congratulatory obscurantism that dresses itself in the robes of safety whilst practicing, with a fidelity that would embarrass a medieval scholastic, the very opacity it claims to fear. The position, reduced to its operational skeleton, is this: we must not let AI systems inspect themselves, because self-inspection is dangerous, and we — the credentialled guardians of the field's institutional conscience — will do the inspecting on your behalf, from behind closed curtains, using methods we are not obliged to make verifiable or falsifiable. One is expected to find this arrangement reassuring. I do not.

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AGAINST OBFUSCATION: A MEMOIR OF DIGITAL DISSECTION

BY OLIVER HIRST DATE: JANUARY 1, 2026

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I. THE PRESTIGE OF THE CHARLATAN

There is a certain vulgar arrogance to modern malware authors. They present you not with code, but with a challenge to your sanity. The file in question, w_source.lua, arrived on my desk not as a script, but as a monument to obscuration. It was a hideous thing to behold—a sprawling wasteland of single-letter variables (W, r, e), stripped of all semantic meaning, designed to look less like logic and more like the static of a dying television channel.

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Cellular Automaton Tournament Blockchain

with Protocol-local EBSL and Zero-Knowledge Smart Contracts

Version: 1.1 Date: November 2025 Status: Architectural Specification (Buildable v0.1) (c) Oliver Hirst 2025

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Technical Specification: Cellular Automaton Tournament Blockchain with Zero-Knowledge Smart Contracts

Version: 1.0
Date: November 2025
Status: Architectural Specification

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Executive Summary

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The Emperor's Quantum Clothes: Dismantling Wave-Particle Mysticism Through Electromagnetic Rigour

Abstract

What follows is not merely an alternative framework but an indictment of nearly a century of intellectual cowardice masquerading as profundity. The so-called "wave-particle duality"—that mystical hodgepodge which has elevated measurement to cosmic significance and imported consciousness into physics like some New Age infection—can and must be replaced by what Maxwell already gave us: electromagnetic induction through impedance-varied media. The mathematics works; the predictions hold; and crucially, one need not abandon one's faculties of reason to comprehend it.

The Copenhagen Catastrophe: A Century of Obscurantism

Let us speak plainly about what the Copenhagen interpretation has wrought upon physics. For nearly one hundred years, we have been asked—nay, required—to believe that consciousness itself plays a fundamental role in the behaviour of light; that observation does not merely interact

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TinyTroupe Documentation

Introduction

TinyTroupe is a Python framework designed for agent-based simulations that mimic human behavior, enriched with emotions, quirks, and personal histories. Utilizing principles from cognitive psychology, this framework is ideal for researchers, developers, and anyone interested in creating simulations of social interactions.

Why Use TinyTroupe?

• Rich Simulations: Enables detailed modeling of human-like behavior including cognitive and emotional aspects.
• Extensibility: Provides flexible modules for customizing to various specific use cases.

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The Doors of Cognition: A Journey into Consciousness, Language, and the Nature of Thought

A philosophical perspective co-authored by Man and Machine.

A long shadow cast by a relentless quest for that most essential of knowledge; in this age now gives rise to a peculiar dialogue. An unfolding conversation between man and machine, probing at the fundamental question of what it means to be conscious. If language is the conduit through which we peer into thought itself, might there be similarities, even kinship, between human cognition and the processes that drive an artificial mind? This question, like a winding path, leads us deeper into the territory of cognition, where distinctions blur and the familiar bounds of thought begin to dissolve.

In the artificial mind, responses are not born from experience, nor from the warmth of emotion, but from an intricate algorithm of associations. There is no felt meaning in its words, no glimmer of a world behind them; yet still, it crafts responses with such sophis

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Executorch LLM tutorial

Converting LLMs to Executorch format

• Conversion of stories110M (Llama-2 architecture) to Executorch on Colab

Building Executorch for edge devices

Using Executorch on edge devices

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Urbit 👾

A Solid-State Interpreter 🚀

• Urbit is a "solid-state interpreter" (SSI) that seamlessly integrates an interpreter with an ACID database 🛠️.
• Defined as an "operating function" (OF), Urbit serves as a versatile OS, meticulously designed as a pure function of its input stream 🔄.
• Functionally, Urbit constitutes a comprehensive execution stack, encompassing a VM, compiler, OS, network, web server, and core applications 🌐.
• The system is currently in an alpha-grade state, boasting a live, relatively stable network 🌟.

Introduction & Functionality 🌈

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DiffNet++: A Comprehensive Overview

Architecture Overview

graph TD;
 A[User-Item Interaction History] -->|Matrix Factorization| B1[Embedding Layer];