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The difference between Deepak Chopra's abuse of Quantum Physics terminology and WFC's is that WFC actually works and is useful for something, and its coiner publishes his results for free as open source software and papers, so he deserves more poetic license than a pretentious new-age shill hawking books and promises of immortality for cash like Deepak.

Here are some notes I wrote and links I found when researching WFC (which is admittedly a catchier name than "Variable State Independent Decaying Sum (VSIDS) branching heuristics in conflict-driven clause-learning (CDCL) Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solvers"):

https://donhopkins.com/home/wfc-notes.txt

    Here are some notes I wrote and links I found when researching Wave
    Function Collapse (WFC). -Don Hopkins

    Wave Function Collapse

    Maxim Gumin

    Paul Merrell

    https://paulmerrell.org/research/

    https://paulmerrell.org/model-synthesis/

    Liang et al

    Jia Hui Liang, Vijay Ganesh, Ed Zulkoski, Atulan Zaman, and
    Krzysztof Czarnecki. 2015. Understanding VSIDS branching heuristics
    in conflict-driven clauselearning SAT solvers. In Haifa Verification
    Conference. Springer, 225–241.

    WaveFunctionCollapse is constraint solving in the wild

    https://escholarship.org/content/qt1f29235t/qt1f29235t.pdf?t=qwp94i

    Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP)
    Machine Learning (ML)
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