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The $40 Toy and a Mind Matter Mystery

Can your mind move plasma? A 2023 study says the streams inside an ordinary plasma ball shift when someone aims intention at it, from inside a sealed chamber, at 1-in-17-million odds. I'm replicating it in my basement. Here's why it's worth a serious look.

Brian Decker
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Building the Symbolic Hieronymus Machine

The nice thing about a device without mechanical parts is the simplicity in building one.

Brian Decker
Building the Symbolic Hieronymus Machine
Symbolic Hieronymus Machine
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Lessons Learned Building a UFO Classifier

My first approach to analyzing 152,000 UFO sightings had a 34% accuracy rate. I almost published it anyway. Here's what went wrong with semantic embeddings, why I pivoted to LLM extraction, and the methodology that actually worked.

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