energyscholar

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by energyscholar 5mo ago
Nicely said. I had to laugh when I saw the bit about how one should maybe make a plan for making changes. I'd suggest 95% of effort on the plan and 5% on implementation. To Gregor and Jeff: What's your plan for AI governance? T
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by energyscholar 5mo ago
Sounds like your two AI developers are BOTH CORRECT. One figured out how to use AI tools and the other ... not so much. That said, "AI as tool" is already an outdated paradigm. Part of the new paradigm is "AI as research a
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by energyscholar 5mo ago
Yes, those sure are big red flags! If you're not seeing demos, at a minimim, within HOURS then that's a warning sign. Eval metrics should be the first step, before you build anything.For example, when I rebuilt my AI's memor
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by energyscholar 5mo ago
Greg, I feel your pain. That said, there ARE solutions to the problems you describe. You say, "I’ll give you an example. I’m trying to get the Dez codebase to properly use SBP with MVC. The model doesn’t get it, even with examples of
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by energyscholar 5mo ago
Please, fellow cypherpunks and hackers, evaluate this Magnetospheric Physics tutorial I built. What works well? What needs improvement? I value your feedback.
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by energyscholar 5mo ago
I built myself a persistent research assistant. It's been so helpful I wanted to share with others. I took a couple hours out to write a white paper to explain to other power users how to roll your own. Actually, I had the AI in questi
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by energyscholar 5mo ago
Are you sure about that? Is that a considered and well-researched opinion or a hot take? For example, One, can you list some prospective substrates that ought to be considered? Or not thought about it enough ...
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by energyscholar 5mo ago
Well, downboots, a Turing machine computes. That's a step in the right direction. What are some requirements of life: * Sustained energy throughput, aka thermodynamic disequilibrium - depends upon the substrate in which our Turing ma
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How many biological substrates of life?
2 points by energyscholar 5mo ago|5 comments
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by energyscholar 8mo ago
I agree that's a good parallel. I had not seen it before. Thanks for the link.
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by energyscholar 8mo ago
Good question. It's closest to dynamical systems, which usually lives in applied math or physics departments. But that's kind of the problem — it gets taught as theory in one department and never reaches the engineers and clinicia
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by energyscholar 8mo ago
Good correction! Ermentrout is a fair example. You're right that a lot of neuroscience criticality work came from retrained physicists. The paper distinguishes between independent derivation and cross-trained import. The title for this
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by energyscholar 8mo ago
Dude, I'm sorry to offend you. And sharp of you to notice. I failed to get substantive engagement the first two times (1 point and 4 points) so I tried again. This time I got some engagement. Re. the title, I started with a boring co
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by energyscholar 8mo ago
No, the goal is documenting the convergence pattern itself. We did use LLMs as research tools — acknowledged in the paper — but the cross-domain analysis and citation mapping are human work. I'll explain how we got to this point. I had
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by energyscholar 8mo ago
Fair call on the website — we built it fast and it shows. The paper itself is a traditional literature review and citation analysis. I am one of two human authors. We use standard methodology. Didier Sornette endorsed it for arXiv. Thanks
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by energyscholar 8mo ago
You're raising the right question, and the paper addresses it directly. The transfer wasn't as clean as "physicists applied their tools to other fields." Some specific cases: Wissel (1984) derived critical slowing down f
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by energyscholar 8mo ago
Exactly right. The phase transition analogy is powerful precisely because it's not just analogy — the same mathematical operators that describe water at criticality also describe markets approaching crashes, ecosystems approaching coll
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by energyscholar 8mo ago
The propagation time is the interesting part. Critical slowing down was in physics textbooks by the 1970s. Ecology didn't import it until 2003 — via a chance conversation at a conference bar. Cardiology took until the 1990s. The FDA ap
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Five disciplines discovered the same math independently(freethemath.org)
87 points by energyscholar 8mo ago|67 comments
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by energyscholar 8mo ago
You've actually described the exact mechanism we found. Each field needed math for tipping-point detection, couldn't find it translated into their domain language, and rebuilt it from scratch. Five times over, independently. The p
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by energyscholar 8mo ago
Author here. This started as a literature review and turned into something stranger. We found the same mathematical structure — operator kernels with specific symmetry properties — appearing independently in physics (phase transitions), fin
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Five disciplines discovered the same math independently – none of them knew(freethemath.org)
10 points by energyscholar 8mo ago|3 comments
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Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines(arxiv.org)
4 points by energyscholar 8mo ago|3 comments
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by energyscholar 8mo ago
Author here. We documented how researchers in 6+ fields independently derived equivalent math for detecting tipping points — power grids, markets, cardiac rhythms, neural networks, traffic — mostly without knowing about each other's wo