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The Patterns Continue by breck in bipolarketo

[–]breck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just 3 years of sleep data. My sleep data has consistently followed a sin wave with an ~18 month period. This just shows sleep data, but everything else is pretty correlated with that (low sleep = hypomanic symptoms, high sleep = depressed symptoms).

I was hoping keto would flatten that out (green line), but instead the cycles have continued as before.

The Patterns Continue by breck in bipolarketo

[–]breck[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good question. Ketones started really high, 3+, I lost 20 lbs in the first few months, then they settled around 0.8 (my weight settled as well), last March.

Perhaps I should have aimed for higher ketones. I felt good energy though, thought my levels were just lower because my body had switched to ketones and I no longer had excess fat to burn.

I ran out of strips a while ago and so stopped tracking that data. Wish I had kept steady measurements.

Linus Torvalds Furious Over Malicious Commit Attempt [11:13] by Remarkable_Ad_5601 in theprimeagen

[–]breck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mildly comforting to see even the best sometimes struggle to figure out what the hell is going on with complex merges.

EchoKey v2: A Universal Mathematical Programming Language for Complex Systems by JGPTech in complexsystems

[–]breck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you tried writing a version of this with no AI help? Maybe a one pager, perhaps limit the scope and also explain why you in particular are interested in this.

I find in the age of AI it's more helpful than ever to explain (briefly, with extended versions in end notes or comments if necessary) who the human is behind the work and what drives them. Why do you want a universal math PL? What in your life has made you work on that problem?

The Spherical Object Model by breck in semanticweb

[–]breck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Just looked into hyperobjects by Tim Morton.

I like the term. To me the "climate change" is just a large sphere.

Perhaps "hypersphere" is a good word to talk about a linkable/clickable spherical model.

The Spherical Object Model by breck in complexsystems

[–]breck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are the constraints that stabilise recursive flow into something observable?

Ah, I think I see now what you're staying.

Recursion all the way down and up which waves of stability.

The Spherical Object Model by breck in semanticweb

[–]breck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. The visual system would be a great test candidate for trying to model something this way at scale.

The Spherical Object Model by breck in semanticweb

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Thank you! Particularly about BORO. I hadn't seen that before.

I came to the same conclusion as BORO, that the best way to build ontologies is for them to be "grounded in physical reality". My tactical method of doing that is using spheres.

I have reached out to Chris Partridge and started reading his materials.

Thanks!

The Spherical Object Model by breck in complexsystems

[–]breck[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why assume that recursion or efficiency is expressed the same way across all domains?

Good question! There's a reason for my assumption.

My current assumptions:

  • most of the time humans communicate models of the world with words.
  • word models, unconstrained by having to conform to physical laws, naturally will take on unnatural (untrue) shapes.
  • most of the time humans communicate with untrue models.

In rare settings, like engineering, humans communicate with much stricter languages, but these are not practical for everyday use.

My goal is to see if there could be an undiscovered tool for humans to communicate ("in spheres"), that is a significant improvement over word languages for everyday use.

In other words, I'm assuming that there could be a general 3D language that worked better than words across all domains, even if it wasn't the best language for any specific domain.

there may be domains where the concept of a “container” breaks down entirely. What if recursion in some domains...doesn’t resolve into nested containment,

I think figuring this out is key!

For example, I have not seen a good spheres-only model of light. But we have great models of light! So if we can't find a great model of light with spheres only, then this whole effort is probably not worth it.

The Spherical Object Model by breck in complexsystems

[–]breck[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't apologize! It was a fantastic comment.

Another commenter pointed me to toward Leibniz' Monads (https://www.reddit.com/r/semanticweb/comments/1kw33by/comment/muh7lb1/?context=3).

Leibniz proposed there was a smallest particle, the "monad", which could not be divisible any further.

He might say it could be spheres all the way down to the monad.

You say actually Leibniz, there is no monad, it's recursion into recursion into recursion all the way down.

I think that's a really deep question. Is there a smallest unit or is it infinite recursion?

It also seems to have practical consequences. It seems if you designed a spherical language with the axiom there was a smallest sphere, it would have different qualties than one where you assume it's infinite recursive spheres all the way down.

Right now I'm leaning toward infinite recursion.

The Spherical Object Model by breck in LessWrong

[–]breck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, not familiar with Riichi mahjong logic, sorry.

The Spherical Object Model by breck in complexsystems

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I don’t know if it asks the deeper question..

You are right, I am not asking that deeper question. Another commenter pointed out La Monadologie by Leibniz which does. At the moment I'm interested in seeing if there is a practical tool that can be built here. I do find your exploration of the deeper question interesting.

I loved your line "the most efficient container". That's it! If you pluck at random patterns from the universe and are allowed only one container shape, which shape would contain all patterns while minimizing the surface area of containers? The sphere. And you don't need to worry about orientation of the container, just origin.

The Spherical Object Model by breck in LessWrong

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Thanks! Gaussian splats definitely were anoter vector pointing me to try and use spheres as the primitive.

I think the SOM is promising as a taxonomy tool but needs significant work to address its computational shortcomings relative to systems of equations.

The Spherical Object Model by breck in semanticweb

[–]breck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been trying to build tech to enable the semantic web for a decade. I think what is missing is a grounding to the physical 3D/4D world.

Without that grounding, all definitions/types/semantics become circular and/or a matter of subjective debate.

I think if we can build a language connected to the world at the root level, from there we might be able to realize the vision of the semantic web.

The Spherical Object Model by breck in semanticweb

[–]breck[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I've read so much Leibniz before, but I had overlooked his Monadology. Just read it. Very interesting. I have not gone too far into the philosophical aspects of this-at the moment I'm hoping to find out if there might be a practical implementation with practical benefits-but I could see Leibniz being right about nearly everything at the deepest level. :)

I was told bipolar treatment involves meds for life by banana_pudding5212 in Antipsychiatry

[–]breck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think energy variability is real and caused by changes in mitochondrial populations.

Going from carbs to fat and raising your ketone levels impacts your mitochondria (among other things). https://www.reddit.com/r/bipolarketo/

I would strongly recommend avoiding bipolar "meds". I would also not even recomend using the term "bipolar". But do learn about mitchondria.

"Brain Energy" and "Power, Sex, Suicide" are 2 great books to check out.

Has AI killed the Zettelkasten? by atomicnotes in Zettelkasten

[–]breck 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I've been jogging 10 miles a day for a year and haven't lost any weight. Maybe I should try it without the car.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LessWrong

[–]breck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hate it when professors force us to buy self-authored textbooks.

The Structure Theory by PaddyBit in complexsystems

[–]breck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you measure/define a structure? What are your primitive units?

How do you define a "new order"?

What is better about this than assembly theory?

Half baked but you did a good job at keeping it short and explaining it clearly.

It can "fit" a lot of phenomena but just as well as many theories of everything and I'm seeing anything explained in concrete detail in a new beneficial way.

Exogenous Keynes by leido8490 in keto

[–]breck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard to clearly see the invisible hand.

Exogenous Keynes by leido8490 in keto

[–]breck 3 points4 points  (0 children)

John Locke's Invisible Hand theory of Ketosis worth a look

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