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The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology(quantamagazine.org)
41 points by kerim-ca 4 days ago | 12 comments
  • readingnews44 minutes ago

    Not sure why you have to read 3/4 of the article to get to a _link_ to a pdf which _only_ has the _abstract_ of the actual paper:

    N. Benjamin Murphy and Kenneth M. Golden* (golden@math.utah.edu), University of Utah, Department of Mathematics, 155 S 1400 E, Rm. 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090. Random Matrices, Spectral Measures, and Composite Media.

  • FjordWarden5 minutes ago

    Maybe also heap fragmentation

  • Joel_Mckay11 minutes ago

    The Physics models tend to shake out of some fairly logical math assumptions, and can trivially be shown how they are related.

    "How Physicists Approximate (Almost) Anything" (Physics Explained)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGUMC19IISY

    If you are citing some crank with another theory of everything, than that dude had better prove it solves the thousands of problems traditional approaches already predict with 5 sigma precision. =3

    • nkrisc6 minutes ago |parent

      What does “5 sigma precision equals 3” mean?

      • Joel_Mckay3 minutes ago |parent

        lol =3

        • nkrisc2 minutes ago |parent

          It was a serious question but I see I should not expect an answer.

  • cosmic_ape2 hours ago

    2013 But still cool

  • dist-epochan hour ago

    There is the well known problem that "random" shuffling of songs doesn't sound "random" to people and is disliked.

    I wonder if the semi-random "universality" pattern they talk about in this article aligns more closely with what people want from song shuffling.

    • pegasus37 minutes ago |parent

      It's not that a random shuffling of songs doesn't sound random enough, it's that certain reasonable requirements besides randomness don't hold. For example, you'd not want hear the same track twice in a row, even though this is bound to happen in a strictly random shuffling.

      • nkrisc3 minutes ago |parent

        Random shuffling of songs usually refers to a randomized ordering of a given set of songs, so the same song can’t occur twice in a row if the set only contains unique items. People don’t usually mean an independent random selection from the set each time.

      • jonathanstrange28 minutes ago |parent

        If the list of songs is random shuffled, you can only hear the same song twice if there is a duplicate or if you've cycled through the whole list. That's why you shuffle lists instead of randomly selecting list elements.

  • anthk2 hours ago

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11109248/

    DNA as a perfect quantum computer based on the quantum physics principles.