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Thirty generations back you have a billion slots in your family tree and about two thousand pieces of DNA to fill them with. Everyone of European descent is descended from Charlemagne; almost no one carries anything of his. Ancestry runs on two clocks, one exponential and one linear, and the gap between them is where genealogy and genetics...
Quantum mechanics was not discovered. It was assembled, over twenty-seven years, by two dozen people who mostly disagreed with one another and several of whom disliked what they had made. It began with a formula fitted to a furnace in Berlin, passed through a young man’s hay fever on a North Sea island, and was finished in a hotel in Bruss...
General relativity is the one great theory of physics made by a single person, and the making took eight years of wrong turns, a borrowed geometry, a race to the finish and a calculation that gave its author palpitations. It was then confirmed by an eclipse, ignored for forty years, and revived by radio astronomers, pulsars and a generatio...
Enshittification is a word for a mechanism, not a mood. Cory Doctorow named the sequence in which a platform is good to its users, then good to its business customers at the users’ expense, then good only to itself. The sequence was in the economics literature under a duller name thirty years earlier. A small optimal-control model reprod...
The genetic code is famously “one in a million”. Recomputing that result from scratch confirms it and then keeps going: the code is extraordinary against chance, ordinary against directed search, not itself a local optimum, and — once a second axis is scored — not on the Pareto frontier either. What the number measures, what it does not, a...