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This is a continuation of my conference coverage from last week. The same warnings apply: this is much more technical than my usual posts, readers beware! Last week I covered the talks from Monday through Wednesday, so I’ll jump right in here with Thursday morning, where the first speaker was...
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This week was Amplitudes, my old subfield’s big yearly conference. This year, it’s at Queen Mary University of London. I’m too busy to attend these days, now that nobody is paying me a salary to do that sort of thing. But it’s still a good chance to keep up with the field, which helps me...
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It’s been a while since I’ve said this: I’m at a conference this week! Specifically, I’m at Lancefest, which is not just any old conference, but a birthday conference for Lance Dixon. When a renowned academic turns 60 or so, their students and collaborators hold a birthday party-flavored...
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You ever read something and suddenly a whole classification scheme lights up in your head? A thread on X from “stringking42069” showed me a combination of opinions I hadn’t seen before. stringking42069 is a pro-string theory commentator with a macho gym bro memer gimmick. He’s openly...
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Figure: Dual Tomographic CompressionPerformance, Süzen, 2025.PreambleRandomness is elusive and its probably one of the outstanding concepts for human scientific endeavour, along with gravity. Kolmogorov complexity, appears to be so novel in trying to answering "what is randomness?". The idea that...
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Boltzmann (Wikipedia)Post covers the papers: H-theorem do-conjecture, M. Süzen, arxiv:2310.01458 (2023) PreambleProbably the most important achievement for humans is the ability to produce scientific discoveries, that helps us objectively understand how nature works and build artificial tools...
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Solar Eclipse of 1919 (wikipedia)Preamble Cool ideas in theoretical physics are ofter opaque for general reader whether if they are backed up with any experimental evidence in the real world. The success of LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) definitely proven the value...