#criticality — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #criticality, aggregated by home.social.
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US 10-MWe Nuclear Reactor Reaches Criticality for Commercial Data Center Power
https://1ban.news/us-nuclear-reactor-criticality-data-center-2026/
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Antares Achieves Criticality of Mark-0 Reactor
https://antaresindustries.com/updates/antares-achieves-criticality
#HackerNews #Antares #Mark0 #Reactor #Criticality #NuclearInnovation #EnergyTechnology #ReactorSafety
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Antares Achieves Criticality of Mark-0 Reactor
https://antaresindustries.com/updates/antares-achieves-criticality
#HackerNews #Antares #Mark0 #Reactor #Criticality #NuclearInnovation #EnergyTechnology #ReactorSafety
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When the switch is flipped – A new #physics of #consciousness
In his #guest post on #philosophies, Dr. #WolfgangStegemann proposes a radical reformulation.
Wolfgang describes #consciousness not as a mysterious addition to #matter, but as a #state of a #system that occurs when certain #structural conditions are met.
https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/02/28/neue-physik-des-bewusstseins/
#PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #Criticality #SelfOrganization #Autocatalysis #DynamicSystems
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When the switch is flipped – A new #physics of #consciousness
In his #guest post on #philosophies, Dr. #WolfgangStegemann proposes a radical reformulation.
Wolfgang describes #consciousness not as a mysterious addition to #matter, but as a #state of a #system that occurs when certain #structural conditions are met.
https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/02/28/neue-physik-des-bewusstseins/
#PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #Criticality #SelfOrganization #Autocatalysis #DynamicSystems
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When the switch is flipped – A new #physics of #consciousness
In his #guest post on #philosophies, Dr. #WolfgangStegemann proposes a radical reformulation.
Wolfgang describes #consciousness not as a mysterious addition to #matter, but as a #state of a #system that occurs when certain #structural conditions are met.
https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/02/28/neue-physik-des-bewusstseins/
#PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #Criticality #SelfOrganization #Autocatalysis #DynamicSystems
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When the switch is flipped – A new #physics of #consciousness
In his #guest post on #philosophies, Dr. #WolfgangStegemann proposes a radical reformulation.
Wolfgang describes #consciousness not as a mysterious addition to #matter, but as a #state of a #system that occurs when certain #structural conditions are met.
https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/02/28/neue-physik-des-bewusstseins/
#PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #Criticality #SelfOrganization #Autocatalysis #DynamicSystems
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When the switch is flipped – A new #physics of #consciousness
In his #guest post on #philosophies, Dr. #WolfgangStegemann proposes a radical reformulation.
Wolfgang describes #consciousness not as a mysterious addition to #matter, but as a #state of a #system that occurs when certain #structural conditions are met.
https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/02/28/neue-physik-des-bewusstseins/
#PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience #Criticality #SelfOrganization #Autocatalysis #DynamicSystems
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What are your plans for the second week of July? The correct answer is: to participate in the Sigma Phi Conference in Chania! From 6 July to 10 July, a huge event covering all topics of interest in Statistical Physics. And, there will be also a special workshop on Mathematical Ideas across Multiple Scales in Networks (or MAIMUN, for short), organized by yours truly and with an impressive lineup of speakers, including Ginestra Bianconi, Stefano Boccaletti, Sebastian Contreras, Piero De Lellis, Tiziana Di Matteo, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, Sarika Jalan, José Mendes, Osnat Mokryn and Punit Parmananda!
Please boost far and wide, and spread the news to students, colleagues, and anyone who may be interested!
http://www.sigmaphi.polito.it/index.php
#statisticalphysics #physics #mathematics #science #disorder #criticality #fluids #networks #graphs #biophysics #economics #sociology #complexity
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What are your plans for the second week of July? The correct answer is: to participate in the Sigma Phi Conference in Chania! From 6 July to 10 July, a huge event covering all topics of interest in Statistical Physics. And, there will be also a special workshop on Mathematical Ideas across Multiple Scales in Networks (or MAIMUN, for short), organized by yours truly and with an impressive lineup of speakers, including Ginestra Bianconi, Stefano Boccaletti, Sebastian Contreras, Piero De Lellis, Tiziana Di Matteo, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, Sarika Jalan, José Mendes, Osnat Mokryn and Punit Parmananda!
Please boost far and wide, and spread the news to students, colleagues, and anyone who may be interested!
http://www.sigmaphi.polito.it/index.php
#statisticalphysics #physics #mathematics #science #disorder #criticality #fluids #networks #graphs #biophysics #economics #sociology #complexity
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AI and digital can feel remote, and absolute. My chapter includes discussion of my ‘International Best Practice’ digital inclusion research project in Estonia and practical teaching assignments, with each centring on how to approach AI with criticality to help rehumanise our interactions with AI and empower.
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AI and digital can feel remote, and absolute. My chapter includes discussion of my ‘International Best Practice’ digital inclusion research project in Estonia and practical teaching assignments, with each centring on how to approach AI with criticality to help rehumanise our interactions with AI and empower.
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DMT-induced shifts in criticality correlate with self-dissolution
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/10/24/JNEUROSCI.0344-25.2025
#HackerNews #DMT #self-dissolution #criticality #neuroscience #consciousness
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DMT-induced shifts in criticality correlate with self-dissolution
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/10/24/JNEUROSCI.0344-25.2025
#HackerNews #DMT #self-dissolution #criticality #neuroscience #consciousness
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Intrigued by Barry O'Reilly's #ResidualityTheory that seems grounded on a shared experience in approaching solutions in new domains, applying random stressors for improving our approach to solution architecture, #criticality and thinking of some sort of variety engineering described by Kauffman Networks @ewolff https://software-architektur.tv/2025/09/19/episode279.html
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And while the use of this term is different in academia than in everyday life, it is not entirely academic. For example, the #SCQF describes Level-12 jobs requiring exactly this type of #criticality in multiple areas:
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing the anxiety.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/772…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #anxiety #criticality #fretfulness #importance #unimportance #urgency #worry
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One of the symptoms of approaching nervous break-down is the belief that one’s work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/338…
#quote #quotes #quotation #catastrophizing #collapse #criticality #ego #fatigue #grandiosity #importance #nerves #nervousbreakdown #priorities #work
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Is there an authoritative peer reviewed & referenced #OpenAccess dictionary of #tleap (Teaching English for Academic Purposes) with definitions/explanations of common yet slippery concepts eg #AcademicVoice #Criticality #Argument, etc?
#AppliedLinguistics #AcWri #AcademicWriting #AcademicLiteracies
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Is there an authoritative peer reviewed & referenced #OpenAccess dictionary of #tleap (Teaching English for Academic Purposes) with definitions/explanations of common yet slippery concepts eg #AcademicVoice #Criticality #Argument, etc?
#AppliedLinguistics #AcWri #AcademicWriting #AcademicLiteracies
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This is the suggestion of David Auerbach, inventor of the emoticon, in this radio 4 series:
Algorithmic and AI components are really shaping that discourses in ways we don’t actually have control over. I think this is only going to increase because we’re going to see that ChatGPT and other chatbots like it can inject themselves into the social discourse and be taken for human pretty easily … The more there is a sense that pen groups can’t be policed, that they are exposed to all sorts of abuse and chaos, there’s going to be great incentive to put back up the soft barriers to membership that have traditionally existed in human society.
Will the early-mid 2010s seem like an anomaly of connectivity in retrospect? A crescendo of publicness which drove a continual retreat into smaller and more private groups, now dispersed and mediated to an unprecedented degree?
#criticality #generativeAI #informationLiteracy #paranoia #propaganda #SocialMedia
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This is the suggestion of David Auerbach, inventor of the emoticon, in this radio 4 series:
Algorithmic and AI components are really shaping that discourses in ways we don’t actually have control over. I think this is only going to increase because we’re going to see that ChatGPT and other chatbots like it can inject themselves into the social discourse and be taken for human pretty easily … The more there is a sense that pen groups can’t be policed, that they are exposed to all sorts of abuse and chaos, there’s going to be great incentive to put back up the soft barriers to membership that have traditionally existed in human society.
Will the early-mid 2010s seem like an anomaly of connectivity in retrospect? A crescendo of publicness which drove a continual retreat into smaller and more private groups, now dispersed and mediated to an unprecedented degree?
#criticality #generativeAI #informationLiteracy #paranoia #propaganda #SocialMedia
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Updated 4th Chapter of my "#EvolutionarySystems and #BioInspiredComputing " 2024 Class. #SelfOrganization #Criticality #Robustness #Resilience #Evolvability
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@INCF has anyone used this to simulate #criticality or #quasicriticality?
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Some neuroscientists believe that our brains constantly sit at the edge of chaos. A new study shows that sleep might be an important part of keeping us there. Joe Stucynski breaks things down in this week's post:
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My MSc student Allison (graduated this summer) has had her first manuscript published as a preprint. https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.12.08.570818v1
Next step is to get it peer-reviewed and published in a reputable journal (suggestions?)
We looked at the Hurst Exponent in preterm babies shortly after birth and at term age, and compared to healthy terms. We found the HE started below 0.5 and then crossed the 0.5 line sometime around 39 weeks. Sensory and motor networks developed fastest. And finally, the younger you are born, the slower HE increasesLet me know what you think!
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"Musk threatens ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as X ad boycott gathers pace"
:catthinking:
There's only one way I can interpret this.
Elon Musk is going to bring a lawsuit showing such anger that he's going to go critical and engulf the court in a nuclear explosion.
#USNews #Nazi #EtronMuskrat #ElonMusk #GoingCritical #criticality #NuclearExplosion #nuclear #lawsuit #ads #advertisement #marketing
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New preprint!:
"Tracking the distance to criticality in systems with unknown noise"
By Brendan Harris, w/ Leonardo Gollo.
We identify new, noise-robust time-series features for tracking the distance to criticality.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.14791
Code: https://github.com/brendanjohnharris/Criticality -
New preprint!:
"Tracking the distance to criticality in systems with unknown noise"
By Brendan Harris, w/ Leonardo Gollo.
We identify new, noise-robust time-series features for tracking the distance to criticality.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.14791
Code: https://github.com/brendanjohnharris/Criticality -
Could One #Physics #Theory Unlock the #Mysteries of the #Brain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjGFp7lMi9A&ab_channel=QuantaMagazine
#PerBak #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Neuroscience #Biology #MolecularBiology #Thermodynamics #SellfSimilar #ScaleInvariance #Fractal #Fractals #CriticalPoint #Criticality #Ising #IsingModel #PhaseState #PhaseTransition #PhaseTransitions #Homeostasis #QuasiCrticality
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Could One #Physics #Theory Unlock the #Mysteries of the #Brain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjGFp7lMi9A&ab_channel=QuantaMagazine
#PerBak #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Neuroscience #Biology #MolecularBiology #Thermodynamics #SellfSimilar #ScaleInvariance #Fractal #Fractals #CriticalPoint #Criticality #Ising #IsingModel #PhaseState #PhaseTransition #PhaseTransitions #Homeostasis #QuasiCrticality
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Super happy to have participated on this special issue on the principle of dynamical #criticality. It was really fun to expand our work on effective connectivity, #canalization and #redundancy with Jordan Rozum, Felipe Costa, and Austin Marcus. An a bonus for publishing in #Entropy---makes me feel quite cybernetic! #complexsystems #BooleanNetworks #Dynamics #networkScience #ComputationalBiology
https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/2/374 -
Super happy to have participated on this special issue on the principle of dynamical #criticality. It was really fun to expand our work on effective connectivity, #canalization and #redundancy with Jordan Rozum, Felipe Costa, and Austin Marcus. An a bonus for publishing in #Entropy---makes me feel quite cybernetic! #complexsystems #BooleanNetworks #Dynamics #networkScience #ComputationalBiology
https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/2/374 -
We're super happy to have contributed the special issue of #Entropy on The Principle of Dynamical #Criticality in #biologicalsystems.
"Effective Connectivity and Bias Entropy Improve Prediction of Dynamical Regime in #Automata Networks"
#redundancy and canalization play major role in predicting #Dynamics, even after accounting for #heterogeneous #complexnetworks structure, in experimentally-validated biochemical regulation models and random networks. Emphasizing role of redundancy in #evolutionary.systems. #complexsystems
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@paulpeace @Andy_Scollick Great inputs by both of you, appreciate the conversation we've had.
Random loose ends:
How long until the ocean circulation crosses #criticality & flips in the direction of another mini ice age or such? Imagine having migrated to less hot areas, re-building for a couple generations, and then having to migrate south again, leaving most of it all behind again.
I've spent the last 5-10 years thinking there was still time to engineer 'soft landing' alternatives, but I'm no longer convinced there is time or resources to do this. Again, that doesn't mean stone age level before we rebound, but nothing like the Civ we have now.
Hard line attempts at structural & social civ change will likely also result in violent outcomes in the areas where that succeeds, and their neighbors took a more optimistic route. Same sort of competing our way to the bottom game theory results as now.
That said, I think local solutions are the best ROI in general. I think it is valid that the most advanced nations will suffer the most, measured in change/loss of norms, social disorder, etc. Also mostly coincides with the most dense areas, which are far from #equilibrium in the #sustainable sense.
There is also a great risk of mass #information loss if we cannot maintain the complex set of requirements needed for computer #memory storage device maintenance.
All this with scarce & unaffordable gasoline, as we watch militaries burn up the last of it.
Sadly, it will most likely take the occurrence of many of these things we're talking about before serious efforts are undertaken at the levels needed.
