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From physics to software — models and tools that reshape capability and constraint.

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Introducing VocaSync: A Voice Platform for Creators and Developers

VocaSync by Valeon is now live: a scalable voice platform for speech synthesis and forced alignment, designed for creators, developers, and automation-first workflows.

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Making ASR Accessible: Introducing WhisperX Studio

WhisperX Studio is a simple, bring-your-own-key web UI that makes high-quality ASR practical without the CLI tax—powered by Replicate and designed to fit real creator workflows.

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The Interface of Reality

Contact feels like the simplest fact of life, yet physics suggests it’s an emergent interface: a boundary rendered by fields, constraints, and collective behavior. What we call touch is reality, compressed.

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Making Text to Speech Usable: Introducing Valeon TTS Studio

A local-first, bring-your-own-key wrapper around the OpenAI TTS API that turns a script-based pipeline into a daily-usable studio—open source, auditable, and easy to self-host.

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The Illusion of Reality

A philosophical walk through the holographic principle—how black holes hint that information scales with surface area, and what that might imply about emergence, time, and causality.

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Life at the Edge

From melanized fungi growing in Chernobyl’s radioactive ruins to bacteria learning to break down plastics and microbes thriving in scorching vents and subzero ice, this essay explores how life keeps finding a way—by adapting, specializing, and rewriting the boundaries of “habitable.”

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The Logistics of Civilisation

A meditation on how water, trade routes, and the physics of movement shaped where cities formed—and how the human body itself quietly authored the logic of streets, corridors, and built space.

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The Prime Effect

Modern businesses don’t just sell products—they build systems. From cross-subsidy and loss leaders to subscriptions like Prime, profitability is increasingly engineered across an ecosystem, over time, by shaping habit and default choice.

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The Human in the Equation

A reflection on how human experience—memory, agency, language, and narrative—shapes the frameworks we build, and what that means for time, causality, and the limits of physics as a “mirror” of reality.

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The Symmetry Compulsion

An essay on why symmetry comforts the mind, how science and mathematics chase invariance, and why asymmetry—through breaking, chirality, primes, and time’s arrow—is the texture that makes life and meaning possible.

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