Iterative Intelligence
The same law, from the primes and from traffic.
Seven instruments that run real mathematics in front of you — every number on screen computed live or measured, none faked — with shader work and the writing that led here.
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Background: Tide Tables, live WebGL.
The instruments
Seven phenomena, seven pages. Each one computes what it claims — the spacing statistics, the frozen circle, the jam — while you watch.
Repulsion
Do the Riemann zeros and random matrices really share a law?
25,000 real zeros of the zeta function beside live random-matrix spectra — the same spacing statistics, and nobody knows why.
Phantom
Traffic jams with no cause.
A ring-road exclusion process whose jam edge fluctuates by the Tracy–Widom law — the primes’ symmetry class, met again at the edge.
The primes and a traffic jam land in the same random-matrix symmetry class — the bulk law from one, the edge law from the other. Hence the shared blue.
25,000 zeros of ζ(½ + it) computed for Repulsion; Phantom’s jam edge converging on the exact Tracy–Widom mean −1.7711 in front of you.
Shaders
Real-time WebGL, full-screen, silent. One of them is already running behind the headline above.
Writing
- 2026-08-26 The instrument, not the illustration essay
- 2026-08-24 Eight Papers, Seven Threads map
- 2026-08-21 Instruments — the shortlist process
Every number on these pages carries one of four marks — computed live in your browser, exact by construction, measured from the run in front of you, or stored from a verified longer computation — never invented.