time, math, and memory

Thursday, September 10, 2026

Apollo threw a discus and it struck me dead.

1. What do Visa and Mastercard actually do? Somehow nobody explains this clearly, and this piece does
2. One year of human math vs. 88 hours and $15M of OpenAI — who gets the credit?
3. The Greek water clock that held the accuracy record for 1,800 years
4. Cave art suggests Ireland’s first humans walked over from Wales
5. Can AI rediscover relativity from scratch?
6. Workers secretly faking AI use to satisfy employer mandates