A note before reading: everything here is a product of its time. What I think today is where my understanding stands today, and I expect to disagree with some of it later. If you know a subject better than I do and spot an error or a falsifiable statement, I would welcome the correction. Any friendly criticism in pursuit of truth is the most useful kind.
The original draft writing is my own unless it is clearly marked as a quotation or reference. I do use LLMs to smooth the prose, but the thinking underneath it, including the ideas, the analogies, the metaphors, the choice of words, is mine.
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