Recursion Computing, LLC

s2022

Recursion Computing, LLC

https://recursion.is

https://recursion.is/youtube
https://notes.recursion.is

Stage 1. Make educational videos

Stage 2. Use the principles of these videos to design products, sharing product progress during videos.
Stage 3. Exploration stage - we will use the products designed in Stage 2 to explore all fields of science
The fourth stage will likely be clear as soon as we ramp up progress.

High Point, North Carolina, USA / Yes, Everywhere. I anticipate rapid expansion beyond this atmosphere.

    Nick Maleki (nmaleki)

    All things I've built other than this startup are by definition a subset of my startup; a subset of Recursion (the concept, not the company). The coolest thing? I guess my PearlPlotter has the most behind it to look impressive. But the code is abysmal. Lazy people wait until the last minute to do things and I used 24-ish hours to complete the PearlPlotter codebase and this YC application (writing this on 3/22/2022 @ 5PM EST, the application is due in less than 2 days; we still haven't started the video interview yet .-.; but isn't that the point? we aren't supposed to drop everything that matters or even change who we are for this application) The countless hours spent after were likely wasted breaking what I already wrote and relearning what I already knew. Perhaps the one thing we should learn from SpaceX, is that fast iteration, truly owning a project, and ***consistent restarts*** are harmonious with constant improvement. It is almost as if Corecursion is as fundamental as Recursion. Who woulda guessed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30708458#30760620

    I hacked together the collective knowledge of YouTubers to solve the next layer to the theory of everything. This accomplishment is not special, beings do it all the time, throughout all of Time, in an Infinite Well of ways across the Universe and will continue to. It is simply the perspective you view from that makes this particular instance so profound. I hack reality to understand the Cosmos, so I can help/hack others to understand.

    I will be attending a wedding in July. Congratulations!

    I've considered finishing a PHD, just for that last ounce of respect, so I figured I'd solve *it* before going back to school, so I don't have to spend so much time relearning other peoples' frameworks. Stats, for example, was so difficult in High School and College. If only I understood it was like an 8-bit abstraction of what was really going on. Sorry to the professors that I hassled, I'm sure I was looking through an 8-bit abstraction of what was really going on. Nick Maleki shouldn't trust that Nick Maleki guy, whatever he said yesterday probably won't make sense once he understands what he actually said yesterday. And it will make sense once he holds you voluntarily hostage to explain it.

    Regarding physical "Y Combinator Management, LLC" events, I have not attended in person. However, I watched many https://youtube.com videos surrounding the topic of https://ycombinator.com and further expanding and collapsing topics. So, I guess I was in the audience all along. More seriously, in this application I decided to swap between talking to the company (Y Combinator Management, LLC) and the equation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator#Y_combinator). Here I am talking to the equation: So, if you ask "Have you been to any YC events? If so, which ones?" I can't help but reply: It should make sense that YouTube videos https://recursion.is/youtube are in part "YC events". You enabled their creation within some perspective. I am Nick Maleki. I am a YC event. I stem from Recursion and Corecursion. I am Infinity. I am Zero. ***I, We, and Everything is the result of Infinite Recursion and Corecursion.***

      Kaci (kaci)

      https://youtu.be/-3ad3E22wok

      I've known Kaci for a long time, but we originally met online. We were quite close in proximity and went to the same University, where I invited her to a few parties I threw, of course after asking her on a date at the best spot I could find at any expense.

      I wouldn't have completed my work without you, no matter who you are. My personal ideas stem from yours and your ancestors, no matter how seemingly small the contribution. Therefore, we are all founders (even hypothetical aliens), so no, I haven't met all the founders.

      2, soon to be an unbounded quantity

      Other

      US

      I am in the process of completing 13 videos. These videos will be released weekly starting in the next couple months. I have collected 765 links from the internet that I am attempting to relate under a single theory, https://notes.recursion.is

      I started the incompletely named "Quantum Recursion Theory" on January of 2020. I started working on the company full-time in August of 2021. Interestingly, I have not released any videos since announcing going full-time despite working the entire time. This speaks volumes about my process. Additionally, the new name of The Theory should also speak volumes about the process.

      Yes

      There is this guy named Nick Maleki and he keeps watching my videos over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over (Did you get it yet?!!? NO?! Well, think "self-application") and over, I think he is fucking with the stats. Oh and like all the amazing people who commented and subbed, don't forget my friends which stuck with me. Even the ones with thin contact - I'm talking to you Noah, you inspired this all when I wanted to disprove you, clown. I think you said something along the lines of "you either will do nothing or something great", well heck you, bud. I did both.

      No

      What is an infinitesimal (me, https://recursion.is/youtube) times a googol (https://youtube.com)? Turns out, an infinitesimal (my subscription count from the perspective of most on youtube). Oh wait, my subscribers are people; not infinitesimals. Wait, people are zero? Wait, I am zero? Huh, it's almost as if I am meaningless to almost literally everyone and everything - especially outside this atmosphere. Pale_Blue_Dot.png

      No.

      We all have had amazing ideas, your products bolstered me (← here I am talking to the equation again). Why not pivot? Art sucks, money sucks, agendas get between friends. I think we can both agree this is a much better solution.

      No.

      I can not see a world where I wouldn't try to solve every problem in one go. I've got nothing to lose. Yes, I have spent my entire life preparing for this company:
      https://nickmaleki.com/resume
      I would call myself the Master Jack of All/No Trades Master of None/All as I'm subscribed to over 1000 educational YouTube channels and I really like to understand things. More importantly, I like to actually apply the shit I learn (monkey see, monkey do). But, I know my worth - I strive to be a ∞x Engineer and a 0x Engineer. You get to choose which you view me as.
      I know people need what I am making because of Conway's Law. We need "glue, but with perspective" (A fundamental concept driving the Absorb framework) to bring all of our theories back together without losing information or progress as described in the Recursion Corecursion Conjecture and Postulate.

      The secret of light you don't know. Not just the secret of light https://github.com/nickmaleki/secret-of-light

      In the beginning, we can start with money from donations, we could launch CreatorCoin, we could do some advertising🤮...like this application! We could make it a giant ad and put our PayPal link in a clever spot so I can pay my mortgage next month without me liquidating my * and/or stock investments, ha ha ha hh hh hhttps://paypal.me/RecursionIs - look what money has done to me (me, being the concept of Recursion)... or from the products I plan on making with it, or a combination of all of that, I think Absorb will be a great product to start with.

      I don't really see a limit on the amount possible. But, I also see infinite limits in the way-Yeah, I know.

      *Guerrilla advertising.* Friends. Potential propagation. Natural YT traffic. YC traffic. A few small websites. Discord, surprisingly had quite a bit of traffic from me being on so many servers with a name that starts with "a" and a link https://recursion.is right in front of your smiling face.

      Yes

      Recursion Computing, LLC
      North Carolina

      No

      No

      Co-Founders (Presently, 50% Kaci + 50% Nick) / Σ*%

      You can be a Co-Founder if you want to be. A goal of Recursion is a universe-scale system for basic needs and jobs. No individual owns the concept of "Recursion", because we all do. Until the company can support all as Co-Founders, Kaci and Nick will remain the sole Co-Founders. We are working to make the aforementioned dream a reality.

      No

      During the foundation of Recursion, I invited some friends to come read the original draft of the poorly named "Quantum Recursion Postulate". I refer to these people as Co-Founders, as I refer to all of you as such. This hasn't led much of anywhere beyond the Discord, but it will. I intend to offer these people, and as many beings as needed, jobs once the company is able to support their roles. https://youtu.be/fN27bbabrN8?t=179

      What happens when you "apply" Recursion (https://recursion.is) into a function that encodes Recursion (https://apply.ycombinator.com/)? Well, Stack Overflow! I strive to represent Recursion. I have spent my entire life working towards this one idea. All of my work can be described as self-application. I ensure all my analyses are subject to the same analysis. So, when you take me, the very embodiment of Recursion (from my perspective), and you "apply" me into the equation "the Y Combinator", a function that encodes Recursion, you encounter a very interesting paradox. This is a paradox because it is clearly something done in theory that cannot be done in code. I internally dealt with this paradox by literally laughing my way through every single prompt in the original application. Laughing > Stack Overflowing. The extremely difficult part is convincing you that I am going after a paradox, and not joking. So, I did my very best to show you how serious my work is. Even through sheer quantity. Sorry to the YC team, our original application was a stream of Jokes that only Nick understood. Hopefully, by explaining these jokes in this open-source application we can attempt to show you how impactful this all is and will be. I sincerely hope the YC Team will understand me during this batch, however they may never understand until they speak to us at length.

      Absorb - A program that visualizes data in all spatial dimensions using generators and allows for easy overlaying of said data to identify patterns. Technically realized using the principles of rendered values defined in an upcoming video on https://recursion.is/youtube
      Adren - A space video game optimizing for adrenaline, built on the Absorb framework
      CreatorCoin - A cryptocurrency that grows as a creator's social media presence grows

      Nick convinced Kaci and himself to apply. To build up the courage to apply with an idea as potentially grandiose as this was no easy feat for Nick. The world and everyone in it encouraged us, thank you. Now, we just want to see you smile: Make something people want!

      Nick's closing remarks:
      As a scientist, I just want to say, in the small chance that I am correct, this is going to be absolutely amazing. As a worker, heck money. I am thankful for my Mother and late Great Aunt for financially supporting me this far. I am thankful for my Father for encouraging me through great Iranian parabole, metaphor, inductively, and physically being with me and/in beautiful organizations like the First Robotics Competition. Thank you TechLead for your early content guiding me and for instructing me to invest in your crpyto project when it came out. Please, someone, help my guy soon (3/22/2022 3ish am), lol

      And to those on the other end of this application doubting: Don't be afraid, we are ready for this.

      This application might initially look like a joke, but seriously, look how many flippin' dominoes I set up. ¡13 Videos Coming Soon™! Please, take me seriously :P AND Take nothing seriously (Thank you for supporting this idea so far, you Amazing Comedian. Yeah, I'm talking to you... Who? You? Me!? Us! Steve!? Sam? Bahahahahaa-Give yourselves some more credit, you're all absolutely amazing, especially you, reader!!!) You may not see it, but you, everyone that ever exists and will exist, inspired me: While Shakespeare's universe is a stage, you may have forgotten that the person on the stage can choose to help others on the stage, or even *everyone: which, by definition, includes me*. Sorry. It took me so long to show you that(reader, YC Team, people in my life). I can be quite bad at communication - quite fat and inflexible if you ask me.

      A friend named Jack Krause. I met him during my work at Aquisense Technologies. I owe a debt to the entire team