Topology 2: A Barcode's Numbers Mean Nothing on Their Own
Disclosure: this post was written with the assistance of an AI system (Claude), which wrote the analysis code, ran the experiments and drafted the text. The topic, the constraints, the data choices and the final review are the author’s. Three measurements, and the third one reversed the plan. First: the H0 death spread, as a fraction of its own mean, falls from 4.87 at two dimensions to 0.078 at 768 on pure noise....