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Algorithmic Causal Sets and the Wolfram Model
Jonathan Gorard
This study links causal set theory and the Wolfram model, showing hypergraph rewriting facilitates causal set evolution, infers conformal invariance, and derives the Benincasa-Dowker action from discrete Einstein-Hilbert action.
The Problem of Distributed Consensus
Stephen Wolfram
In any decentralized system with computers, people, databases, measuring devices or anything else one can end up with different values or results at different “nodes”. But for all sorts of reasons one often wants to agree on a single “consensus” value, that one can for example use to “make a decision and go on to the next step”.