Hi, I'm the author of these articles. I'm a physicist, and it always bugged me that we use Hamiltonians/energy/interactions to define spin glasses. I wondered

Hi, I'm the author of these articles. I'm a physicist, and it always bugged me that we use Hamiltonians/energy/interactions to define spin glasses. I wondered if it'd be possible to just use raw probabilities on a grid and get the same/similar behaviour (eg. phase transitions, long-range correlations, etc). So I played around with this idea for quite a while by running MC simulations, and ended up writing these articles (on my blog) about it. But beware (i) none of this is peer-reviewed and (ii) I'm not a practicing academic physicist [so I may have missed things that would be obvious to a practicing academic physicist]. If anybody is interested in this, hit me up, happy to speak and/or play with the topic again.