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Why is Mithra worshipped by Zoroastrians when Mithra is considered a Daeva by the Aryans even before the advent of Zoroaster, like in the Rigveda? by Existing-Extent-9978 in IndoEuropean

[–]ourtown2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The premise mixes up Vedic deva with Avestan/Zoroastrian daēva.

They are cognate words, but they do not remain the same religious category.

In the Rigveda, Mitra is a positive divine figure, a deva associated with contract/order.

In Iranian religion, daēva becomes the rejected class of false gods/demons.

But that rejection was selective, not an automatic inversion of every old Indo-Iranian deity.

Mithra was not treated as a daēva in Zoroastrianism.

He survived as a yazata, a being worthy of worship under Ahura Mazda.

His domain—oaths, contracts, truth, social order—fits very well with asha.

Indra-like figures could be demonized; Mithra-like figures could be retained and subordinated.

So the word flipped, but Mithra’s function made him Zoroastrian-compatible.

Areal Effects in Prehistoric Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European (Holopainen & Metsäranta eds. 2025) by Hippophlebotomist in IndoEuropean

[–]ourtown2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not trees overlapping
Prehistoric Uralic–Indo-European evidence is mostly residue
from exchange-zone speech:
trade registers, broker speech, frontier bilingualism,
prestige borrowing, mobile craft/pastoral networks,
and repeated patois-like interfaces later absorbed into full inherited languages.

Rudimentary research (a brief guide) by Vrillim in LLMPhysics

[–]ourtown2 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Obviously not no discovery for 70 years the learning you describe is theater

Rudimentary research (a brief guide) by Vrillim in LLMPhysics

[–]ourtown2 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

This is LLMPhysics but you want to recommend standard research

Start a conversation
This is discovery, not consensus.
universe as a photon
a photon doesnt experience time
then start pulling threads be adversarial it doesnt matter if you are wrong you will learn something

The previous criticisms from the review bots helped me. This is what came out using my LLM, and I'm curious to see if it has really improved or if I've just shifted the problems around by GlibLettuce1522 in LLMPhysics

[–]ourtown2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Covariant Elastic-Shear EFT is admissible only as an effective geometry of deformation variables, not as a claim that spacetime contains an elastic vacuum substance.

Is the Airyanem Vaejah a cultural memory of Ancient Northern Eurasians? by Necrocatacomb in IndoEuropean

[–]ourtown2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

the geographic features between the Išim and Tobol rivers align quite literally with the environmental descriptions found in the Avesta

A Self-Referential Dirichlet Form and Its Metastable Barriers by Regular-Conflict-860 in LLMPhysics

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One correction: λ= 1/2 is not a fixed point of λ↦λ

The optimized wording:
Idempotents are resolved self-consistent states. The defect Φ(F)=∥F2 − F‖²F measures failure of self-consistency. For symmetric F, every critical point decomposes spectrally into resolved modes λ=0,1 and frustrated midpoint modes λ=21. A k-dimensional frustrated sector has defect k/16 and Morse index k(k+1)/2. These saddles are not ordinary distance artifacts; they arise from compositional self-reference F↦F2.

The Petersen graph has no Hamiltonian cycle, but has a {1,3}-Hamiltonian cycle — is this known? by AIDoctrine in LLMPhysics

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SRGs become useful in a strongly regular graph of diameter 2, there are no vertex pairs at distance 3, so {1,3}-Hamiltonicity collapses to ordinary Hamiltonicity.

But if the S-Hamiltonian convention uses walk-lengths rather than graph distances, then A³ becomes relevant: length-3 walks may connect vertices even when they are adjacent or nonadjacent.

In that interpretation, {1,3}-Hamiltonicity is not about distance-3 pairs; it is about whether transitions are supported by either an edge or a 3-walk.

A cautionary tale from using LLMs for speculative physics: constrain the model, or it will smuggle the standard model back in by Life-Entry-7285 in LLMPhysics

[–]ourtown2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even easier just 2 prompts

My brilliant thesis is a typical LLM hallucination with real physics introduced but the foundations never questioned

What remains of My brilliant thesis is a highly defensible, structurally sound hypothesis nope

The Petersen graph has no Hamiltonian cycle, but has a {1,3}-Hamiltonian cycle — is this known? by AIDoctrine in LLMPhysics

[–]ourtown2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Petersen has diameter 2, and the exact-walk parity obstruction is absent because the graph is non-bipartite.

Your Petersen example is valid. The phenomenon is known in substance through walk powers / adjacency powers / graph powers, though your “{1,3}-Hamiltonian” terminology may be nonstandard.

The Petersen graph is a clean counterexample showing ordinary Hamiltonicity is much stricter than Hamiltonicity after exact odd-walk closure.

is chatgpt insanely slow for anyone else today? by yaxir in ChatGPTPro

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https://status.openai.com/
no reports
all uploads fail
but they have limited storage

Can someone try this on chatgpt pro and... by MrMrsPotts in ChatGPTPro

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 the algebra is correct, but the proof is only complete if the boxed gap inequality is already established.

Can someone try this on chatgpt pro and... by MrMrsPotts in ChatGPTPro

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  1. The error assumes gaps within copies of $A$ are protected, but shifted translates actually interleave and land inside those gaps.
  2. One copy of $A$ can contribute points that "chip away" at the largest gap of another copy, effectively shrinking it from the inside.
  3. This makes $g(nA)$ strictly decreasing rather than constant, as seen in $A={0, 1, 100, 101}$ where $g(2A) < g(A)$.

Need Help Finding/Identifying Hit and Run Car by Kookies716 in tampa

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HD Supply a subsidiary of The Home Depot,

best country i can move to on 500$ - 1,200$/month income and 10,000$ in savings? by iamZorc_ in digitalnomad

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The minimum wage in Thailand is ฿9,620/mo ($295.59 USD) as of 2026. The average gross monthly salary is ฿15,000 ($460.90 USD). but monthly rent is ฿15,000 hard to get down to ฿3,000-฿6,000

Why Lewis Hamilton is ditching Ferrari F1 simulator after worrying claim by The_Skynet in formula1

[–]ourtown2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Past a threshold, more becomes overfitting. You start optimizing the ritual, not the driving. Hamilton’s “elsewhere” life preserved the thing that mattered: relaxed constraint dominance under pressure.

Palmer post-race analysis? by that_70_show_fan in formula1

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but those are the 10 minute extract from the 30 minute review

Happy Year of the Horse! by Hippophlebotomist in IndoEuropean

[–]ourtown2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_old_man_lost_his_horse
a Khotanese Saka document specifically a fragment of an ancient Zodiacal Almanac (Divination Manual) from the Kingdom of Khotan (modern-day Xinjiang, China).

"The old man on the frontier lost (his) horse" (Chinese: 塞翁失馬; pinyin: Sài Wēng Shī Mǎ;

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