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March 28, 2026
P vs NP as Emergent Growth
One way to think about P vs NP is to ask how quickly relational complexity emerges as simple constraints begin to merge.
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March 28, 2026
Cognitive Dissonance Is Intelligence
Cognitive dissonance is not just a psychological discomfort. It is the recursive tension between competing idea-structures that gives intelligence its shape.
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March 28, 2026
Emergence Is Recursive
The same logical forms that appear in formal systems can reappear inside daily life, cognition, and symbolic thought as higher-order recursions of the same structure.
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March 14, 2026
OMSCS
Placeholder for future writing on the program.
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March 14, 2026
The Model Doesn't End at the Weights
We keep pretending the model ends at its parameters, but an LLM that can write, maintain, and reload its own external memory is already more like a system with a second brain.
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Rodrigo Pombo • November 13, 2019
Build your own React
A step-by-step walkthrough of reimplementing the core ideas behind React.