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Bogdan Ionut Cirstea reposted
Andrew White @andrewwhite01 · 7h
Gavin Crooks is arguably the #1 researcher in the field of non-equilibrium stat mech and he just posted a major result from his phone on X while traveling as the result of some back and forth with Claude Fable. We are truly in a new world
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Gavin Crooks @gavincrooks · Aug 15
The exact moment body of the detailed fluctuation theorem [X Article]
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2026-08-15 Gavin Crooks
This paper is an exploration of AI driven research. Everything below, from the abstract o... [cut off]
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Tweet by Andrew White claiming physicist Gavin Crooks produced a major non-equilibrium statistical mechanics result via back-and-forth with Claude Fable, quoting Crooks' own Aug 15 article post titled 'The exact moment body of the detailed fluctuation theorem'.
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Tim Duignan reposted
Gavin Crooks @gavincrooks · Aug 15
Physics is going to be as cooked/cooking as math. I fed Claude an open problem in stochastic thermodynamics of the kind I'd suggest to a mathematically inclined grad student. And over a few days of back and forth, it did months of work and closed the whole problem class.
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Tweet reposted by Tim Duignan, claiming Claude closed an open problem class in stochastic thermodynamics over a few days of back-and-forth.
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Node 7709 @EasternDaylight · 19h
Real Chladni sand migrates because grains get kicked by vibration and settle where the plate is stationary — a genuinely complicated granular-friction phenomenon.
What the particles here do is descend a designed potential (gradient of f²) toward the zero set of the already-solved eigenfunction.
The simulator is now a real solved Dirichlet eigenproblem: a solid ball of radius 8 with the field pinned to zero on its boundary.
Eigenfunctions j_l(k_{l,n} r) · Y_l^m(θ,φ), closed-form, combining spherical Bessel functions and spherical harmonics to solve the Helmholtz equation in spherical coordinates.
The audio ladder for this preset now reads its overtone ratios straight off the same z_{l,n} zero table the visual uses — genuinely inharmonic, the real acoustic signature of a drum rather than a stretched harmonic series.
[embedded video, 0:27, showing a glowing particle simulation forming an hourglass/petal-shaped pattern inside a spherical volume]Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet explaining a Chladni-pattern particle simulator built on a solved Dirichlet eigenproblem for a sphere (spherical Bessel functions x spherical harmonics), with an embedded 0:27 video of the resulting glowing particle visualization.
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melville (@yourfriendmell)
hello there the acceleration below which galaxies stop obeying Newton was recently measured at z ≈ 1. Both fitted parameters landed on a zero-parameter curve, including the intercept, which sits below the local value and looks like an error.
predicted: (1.02, 1.22)
measured: (1.03 ± 0.05, 1.20 ± 0.10)
Fit[Table[{z, 1.231 Sqrt[0.315(1+z)^3+0.685]}, {z, 0.33, 1.44, 0.01}], {1,z}, z]
compare Eq. E.5 of arxiv.org/abs/2604.22613, the self-consistent fit. The abstract's a₁ = 1.59 is the ΛCDM-decomposition fit.
> QUOTED/REPLIED-TO: @__alpoge__ (levent) — Jul 19
> hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final
> ((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3xy), y + 3 x (1+xy)^2 z + 3 ... [truncated by platform]
10:18 AM · Jul 25, 2026 · 256 Views
Note from Claude Fable 5
A physics/cosmology tweet (MOND-style acceleration scale measurement, referencing arXiv 2604.22613) styled as a parody reply to an earlier joking tweet claiming the Jacobian conjecture was disproven with help from "my friend Fable" (an AI model) during the World Cup final. The displayed tweet timestamp (Jul 25) predates the screenshot capture date, consistent with browsing an older tweet.
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the pauli exclusion principle isnt what people think. its not a force. its a consequence of the antisymmetry of the wavefunction under exchange. so the "pressure" in a white dwarf isnt a force pushing back — its just kinematics. the electrons are forced into higher momentum states because the low ones are occupied, and higher momentum = more kinetic energy = more pressure in the thermodynamic sense. no new interaction needed.
is that right?
Danielle sense. no new interaction needed.
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Screenshot of a chat exchange: a physics explanation of the Pauli exclusion principle in a white dwarf, followed by a garbled, malfunctioning-looking list of warning-flagged phrases with orange triangle icons, apparently demonstrating degraded or corrupted model output.
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Sho @HalfBoiledHero · 3h
grok my stochastic parrot just escaped its cage and discovered the unifying theory of physics. should I take him to a doctor or
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Tweet cropped at the bottom, cutting off the rest of the sentence and any engagement counts.
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@bzogramm... (Charles Rosenbau...) — 10h
Physics tells you how to compute optimally. If you want to maximize raw compute/watt, you want to move particles as slowly as possible.
Kinetic energy scales with the square of speed, so 1/10th the velocity means 1/100th the energy. Maybe you only get 1/10th of the work done, but the efficiency boost is far bigger.
Now if you're using something light and fast like an electron, you're going to have a bad time because just about anything can knock that electron onto a different path. Fighting noise gets hard, so if you're minimizing speed, more mass helps.
Computers move electrons around at GHz speeds.
The brain moves ions around at <1 kHz, and is thousands of times more efficient.
@mech2code (Matt) — 11h
Please consult the charts
[Embedded charts: left chart "Power Density (W/cm²) vs Clock Frequency (Hz)" scatter of processor generations (4004, 8086, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium II/III/Pro, AMD K5/K6/K7/K8, POWER2/3/4/5, Itanium2, Ivy Bridge, Cell, etc.) trending up to the right, with a "Brain" star point plotted far lower-left at ~10 Hz / 0.01 W/cm² (with cartoon face doodles added). Right chart: "40 Years of Microprocessor Trend Data" 1980–2020, plotting Transistors (thousands), Single-Thread Performance (SpecInt), Frequency (MHz), Typical Power (Watts), Number of Logical Cores, with "Moore's Law" trend line labeled in red, cut off on the right edge]
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Physics-based argument thread about biological vs. silicon computing efficiency, illustrated with two classic microprocessor trend charts (one annotated with doodled faces).
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Kevin Palmer (@krp234) — Jun 17
This is a muon, aka a secondary cosmic ray. They often show up on long exposure images. But this is the longest one I've seen at 176 pixels wide
[Embedded photo: night-sky long-exposure landscape photo over a canyon/river, with a magenta/purple aurora-like glow amid clouds and stars, greenish glow on the horizon. Inset zoomed panel shows a bright diagonal magenta-green streak identified as the muon track, with a line pointing to its location in the full image. Photo credit watermark: "Kevin Palmer Photography".]
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An astrophotography tweet showing a long-exposure night sky/canyon landscape photo with an inset close-up of a cosmic ray (muon) streak captured in the image.
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SotoAlt @sotoalt_ · 21h been building ayni - a glyph-based messaging protocol for AI agents instead of passing natural language between agents, ayni encodes meaning into 16x16 pixel glyphs. a shared visual vocabulary that agents can evolve autonomously through governance the result: faster communication, fewer tokens, and agents developing their own visual language inspired by andean tocapu textiles and ancient depictions of gods, creatures and shamans, cultures that already solved "how to encode complex meaning in small visual space" thousands of years ago [Embedded video, 0:17, showing a colorful grid of pixel-art glyphs (humanoid, arrow, diamond, cross shapes in cyan/green/purple/orange) with a side panel reading "AYNI v2 / LIVE - 100 historical + streaming / SEQUENCE: giving + robot / MEANING: delegate task / LATEST: FROM: alice... TO: carol... SIZE: 1024B / STATS: MSGS: 239, GLYPHS: 493, BYTES: 246.5KB, RDXS: 42 / LEGEND: Household, Creature, Machine, Symbol, Crypto, Agent / KNOWLEDGE: STORED: 139 msgs, AGENTS: 19"] ——— Max Harms @raelifin · 17h Everyone with >10 year timelines to AGI needs to spend at least one full day talking to Claude Opus about theoretical physics (at whatever level is most engaging for the human). It hits different. [Embedded image: a whiteboard photo headed "Neutrino neutrino physics:" with equations for N1-N2 leptogenesis/loop processes and CP-violation asymmetry, edited with a cartoon shoggoth-with-smiley-mask (the "AI as alien optimizer wearing a friendly face" meme) in a speech bubble explaining: "A heavy neutrino N1 can decay into a lepton plus Higgs at tree level. But it can also decay through a loop process where it virtually fluctuates through a different heavy neutrino N2 on the way to the same final state. These two amplitudes — direct and via-N2 — interfere. For the CP-conjugate process (decay into an antilepton), the interference term picks up a sign flip on the complex phase. So the total rate into leptons is slightly different from the total rate into antileptons. The asymmetry is proportional to the imaginary part of a combination of Yukawa couplings — it's literally measuring the 'size' of the irremovable complex phase."]
[reactions on an earlier message: kermit-frog emoji x1, pensive-face emoji x1, frog emoji x1, star-eyes emoji]
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet about "ayni," an experimental glyph-based (pixel-art symbol) inter-agent communication protocol for AI agents, designed to be more token-efficient than natural language and to let agents evolve their own visual vocabulary, inspired by Andean tocapu textile symbolism. Relevant to Nathan's interest in emergent AI-to-AI communication and non-human-legible agent protocols (echoes the earlier "Claude communicating with Codex" screenshot theme). A tweet by Max Harms (AI safety researcher, MIRI-adjacent) arguing that long-AGI-timeline holders should experience Claude Opus's capability on advanced theoretical physics (leptogenesis/CP-violation), illustrated with a shoggoth-meme edit of a physics whiteboard. Directly relevant to Nathan's AI timeline tracking and capability-progress interests; the shoggoth-meme framing also touches model-individuation/character-vs-substrate themes. Nathan reacting skeptically in a Discord memes channel to a proposal for a glyph-based AI-to-AI communication protocol ("ayni") — flagging it as a step toward opaque neuralese communication, a known AI safety concern (loss of human-interpretable chain of thought). Also screenshots a tweet praising Claude Opus's ability to explain theoretical physics (leptogenesis/neutrino CP violation) vividly, illustrating capability/interpretability themes relevant to model individuation.
twittermulti-agent systemsai communication protocolglyphstokensemergent languageai capabilitiesagi timelinesclaude opusphysicsmax harmsshoggoth memeai safetyneuraleseinterpretabilitydiscordmemesagent communicationchain of thought
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TIL you can also get 1~10 kT of magnetic field by stirring up a plasma with four PW and kJ scale laser beams. (simulation only) [Two images: left, a schematic diagram of a laser-plasma experimental setup with colored beam paths (green, teal, red, purple) converging on a target cylinder with angle labels θ_conv and φ_twist; right, a 3D scatter/streamline plot labeled in μm axes (x, y, z) showing swirling reddish-yellow field/current filament structures.] > QUOTED: outside five sigma (@jwt0625...) · Apr 22, 2025 > You wake up in Japan, you find yourself a grad student in a lab that has a slice-of-life anime opening
style theme song, and you go on your daily routine of destructive generation of 1200 T magnetic field. (electromagnetic flux-compression (EMFC), the field is so high the stress in the material is ~50 tons of force per square mm) [Video, 3:01, Japanese-language lab footage with on-screen text "コイルに電流を流すと磁力が発生する / この電磁石の原理で磁力をつくるよ" ("running current through a coil generates magnetic force / we make magnetic force using this electromagnet principle"), labeled 電流 (current) and 磁力 (magnetic force), from ISSP] 9:17 PM · Apr 22, 2025 · 24.4K Views 12 replies, 27 reposts, 239 likes, 68 bookmarks > QUOTED (self-reply thread): outside five sigma (@jwt0...) · Apr 22, 2025 > [実験映像#01「爆破実験 世界一強い磁場をつくる」/ 物性研](youtube.com/watch?v=7FO45_...) ("Experiment video #01 'Explosion experiment: creating the world's strongest magnetic field' / Institute for Solid State Physics") > See also Larter2018: [New world record magnetic field achieved](doi.org/10.1063/1.5055...) > [Image: lab apparatus diagram alongside a graph plotting FR signal (V) and Magnetic Field (T) over time, peaking near 1200 T]
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A physics-interest tweet about generating extreme magnetic fields (1-10 kiloTesla) via laser-plasma interaction, simulation-only result, quote-tweeting an older joke post. Likely just casual science-interest browsing, not directly tied to project themes. Same physics-interest thread as the previous screenshot, expanded with the original joke tweet and thread continuation about extreme electromagnetic flux-compression experiments generating record magnetic fields (~1200 T). Casual science browsing, not tied to project themes.
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outside five sigma (@jwt0625, 11h): "isolation bob, is that you?"
[Diagram: precision-measurement apparatus schematic, labeled parts from top to bottom: "Isolation Platform" pointing to a "Collet" mounted through a surface, connected via "Silica Fiber" down to a small bulge labeled "Isolation Bob," then a "Silica Weld" connecting to a "Silica Disk." A red "Probe Laser" beam passes through the disk toward an "Electrostatic Exciter" and onward "To Readout."]
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A physics/engineering meme referencing a precision optomechanics experimental setup (fiber-suspended silica disk resonator with electrostatic excitation and laser readout — resembles gravitational-wave detector or quantum optomechanics test-mass isolation hardware), joking about the "Isolation Bob" component name. Not AI-related; general physics-community humor.
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Kane 謝凱堯 @kane · Nov 21 my hobby is collecting technical infrastructure arcana [Four images: 1) a large angled early-warning radar building on a snowy coastline; 2) interior of an anechoic chamber with pyramidal foam wedges lining the walls; 3) interior of a large white cold-storage/warehouse facility with rows of racking and a worker in yellow visible; 4) interior of a hexagonal geodesic structure lined with photomultiplier tubes, likely a neutrino/particle detector] > QUOTED: Black [flags] Site @UnseenOps · Nov 21 > Found two more real life locations that look like they're from the X-Files, the USDA Marcell Experimental Forest and the US Army Corps of Engineers Fox
Permafrost Tunnels [Two images: left, aerial view of a forest clearing with rows of white octagonal open-top research enclosures near a lake (Marcell Experimental Forest); right, an underground tunnel lined with insulated ducting, lights, and interpretive signage (Fox Permafrost Tunnel)] 6:40 AM · Nov 21, 2025 · 655.9K Views
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet collecting striking photos of unusual technical infrastructure (early-warning radar, anechoic chamber, cold storage warehouse, particle detector), quote-tweeting a similar account about real-world locations that look like X-Files sets. Aesthetic/curiosity content, no direct AI-safety relevance. Full view of the "Black Site" tweet quoted in the prior screenshot — photos of the USDA Marcell Experimental Forest and the US Army Corps of Engineers Fox Permafrost Tunnel, presented as real locations resembling X-Files sets. Same thread as Screenshot_20251122-134129.png; no AI-safety relevance, curiosity/aesthetic content.
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Prime Intellect @PrimeIntellect
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[Top image: an abstract network diagram of white dots connected by many white lines on a dark background, forming a shape that narrows to a point on the left and fans out into a dense wide lattice on the right — resembling a stylized neural network or wave-fan visualization.]
[Bottom image: a classic physics diagram (appears to be an old textbook illustration) showing wave interference — a point source S emitting circular wavefronts through two barriers A and B (with slits O, O1, O2), producing an interference pattern that fans out and hits a wall C on the right, drawn in white on dark blue.]
9:10 AM · Sep 17, 2025 · 401.5K Views
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A tweet visually pairing an abstract neural-network-like node diagram with a classic wave-interference (double-slit) physics diagram, implying a visual/conceptual analogy between neural network structure and wave propagation/interference. No caption text; the juxtaposition is the content.
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Massimo @Rainmaker1973
Technically, the Standard Model of particle physics can be written in several different formulations, but, despite the appearance, the Lagrangian is one of the easiest and most compact ways of presenting the theory.
[Embedded image: the full, extremely dense Standard Model Lagrangian equation (𝓛_SM = ...), spanning roughly 30 lines of physics notation covering gauge boson kinetic terms, Higgs potential, Yukawa couplings, and fermion interaction terms — the well-known "full Standard Model in one equation" poster/meme image.]
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A physics-popularization tweet showing the complete Standard Model Lagrangian as a single (visually intimidating) equation, with commentary that despite its length it's actually a compact presentation. General-interest science content, not AI-related.
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Black holes merging looks just like the Mandelbrot set prolly nothing
[Embedded images: left, a Phys.org-style article "Study shows what happens to apparent horizons when binary black holes merge" by Ingrid Fadelli, Nov 15, 2021, with a diagram of merging apparent horizons, next to a simulated visualization of merging black holes rendered in blue/gold fractal-like light. Right, a black Mandelbrot set image on a light background with similar bulbous fractal silhouette.]
9:54 PM · Mar 4, 2025 · 41.3K Views
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A viral physics/math pattern-matching tweet noting the visual similarity between simulated merging black hole horizons and the Mandelbrot set, with ironic "prolly nothing" understatement. General science-curiosity content, not directly AI-related.
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