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This is part 2. Part 1 covered how I ended up here — two surveys, a suspicious sentence about time-inconsistency, and the moment I finally proved the gap I was chasing was real, not just a hunch. If you haven’t read that one, this will still mostly make sense, but...

Heads up before you start: this is long, and it’s part one of two. What began as “let me write a research proposal” turned into weeks of proofs, broken code, and one afternoon where I found out something I’d already written down was flat wrong. If you’re just here for...

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

In 2005, the smartphone industry was completely obsessed with plastic. If you look back at a BlackBerry or a Palm Treo from that era, the screen was almost an afterthought. The entire bottom half of the device was dominated by a fixed, cramped grid of little plastic chiclets. To the...