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Programming the Universe

Seth Lloyd · 2007

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Rakhim Davletkaliyev read it
It’s a very interesting book, and you should try it. But… I can’t recommend it to someone who doesn’t know a little bit about quantum mechanics or computing or programming already. It covers a lot of topics and never goes into real explanation. And those time that it does, the metaphors and analogies are the same that other authors and even journalists use. In an attempt to make an approac…

on rakhim.org · 16 Aug 2026

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It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.