Creamy Corn Soup with Chicken and Poblano Chile

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Statistics

Statistics don't dictate specifics.

Which patterns satisfy

Because of our nature, patterns are satisfying, and discovering which patterns satisfy best is perhaps the best use of our bequest.

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Everything can be seen

Everything can be seen where nothing exists.

Unconditional

Nothing in existence is unconditional. In non-existence, either.

Most useful

The most useful thing is one who dares what you don't.

Division by zero (Gemini & ChatGPT)

It’s like a machine that calculates so far it eventually encounters a division by zero. That "error" isn't a sign that the machine is a god; it's a sign that the machine has reached the edge of what "calculation" can mean.

A division-by-zero error is not a mystical event. Nothing transcendent happens. The machine hasn’t glimpsed truth; it has revealed a boundary condition. The system is functioning correctly all the way up to the moment it encounters an operation its own rules cannot stabilize. The “error” is not noise, and it’s not insight either. It’s a disclosure of scope.

There’s also an implicit ethical dimension. Once you know a system has division-by-zero points, you stop demanding infinite outputs from finite structures. You stop pretending clarity can be total. You stop mistaking fluency for adequacy. That restraint, not transcendence, is the moral achievement.

Gemini & ChatGPT

Connected

The idea that everything is connected is connected to nothing.

It is a mistake to conclude

It is a mistake to conclude that because the inflation precedes the reduction the inflation causes the reduction.

My fate

My fate is to miss my destiny.

There are times

There are times when a violation is an emancipation.

To survive (not escape!)

To survive (not escape!) a love denied, love something else, more fiercely, if not more desperately.

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Be free of the need

Be free of the need to worship either the presence or the lack.

Is it divine

Is it divine to divide?

How many poems

How many poems must I write before I become unassailable?

Forever relevant

Why does everyone I meet stay forever relevant? In this I may be most different from the contingent.

(And pity)

View with suspicion (and pity) the one who has not been lonely in a crowd or spent considerable time contented with his own company.

Gesturing

Go not where I have gone, but in the direction I am gesturing toward.