MIT Solve Challenge Semifinalist 2025
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Just found incredible work!
With adjacency!
In quantum foundations!
For the first time in my research!!! 🧐 🤯 💥
Woohoo! 🥳 🙌🏽
The rule and principle of adjacency
In 1982, Teuvo Kohonen, an engineer in Helsinki, was puzzled by our brains:
Neighbouring patches of the cortex handle neighbouring things, like your thumb sitting next to your index finger, yet nobody ever draws that map.
He found a tiny rule where every new example pulls the closest neuron and its neighbours a little toward it, and a tangled mess of neurons smooths itself into an orderly map all on its own.
Within a few years his "self-organising maps" were powering a typewriter that wrote down spoken Finnish.
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Oh yes! I am glad you’ve brought up Kaufman’s “adjacent possible”! Because I had been working with adjacency for several months, getting these kind of wild results out of it when I heard his talk on @TOEwithCurt and he mentioned the “adjacent possible”!
I had also heard a few other biologists talk about cellular communication etc. and they all kept dropping the term “adjacent” “adjacently”. Cells communicate to adjacent cells, cells communicate adjacently.
And I immediately realized that these same research findings applied to biology as well. So I immediately applied adjacency to defining the state space. It works. It also works in computation. Because there really isn’t another way to do computation except for the states to updated adjacently.
Whoa 🤯
Just extracted the particle content and forces of the Standard Model from the spectrum of the adjacency-derived Dirac operator! 💥
Physics is so fun
“Chains” are built from “links” “joins”.
Aka adjacency 🤝🏼
We are both tracking the exact same primitive relation.
Recommended reading:
“Forgotten Fires” by Omer Stewart
About the usage of fire as a technology (pre-colonial) on the North American continent.
It’s common to think that burning off the fields is a common farming practice.
It was never a European farming practice. It was an adopted practice, from our Indigenous stewardship of these lands.
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Massive. New Harvard study finds that AI-written paper reviews now beat the best human peer reviews on every measure the authors tested.
Peer review is slow and often misses errors. Earlier studies concluded AI should only assist human reviewers, not replace them.
They used 134 reviews from rapidPeer, a Harvard service that pays expert reviewers well. Claude Opus 4.8 reviewed the same 1124 papers, and GPT-5.5 plus 3 former journal editors judged the pairs blind.
GPT-5.5 picked the AI review in all 132 decided pairs, and the editors picked it 87% of the time. Only 5.5% of the AI's claims about the paper were wrong, versus 15.9% for the human reviews.
Teams that depend on expert critique can now let AI do the first full review pass, and keep a human for the final decision.
And guess what?!!!
Google’s PageRank is one of the initial research hits that always comes up of the impact and reach of the adjacency matrix!
The adjacency matrix underpins stochastic matrices and Markov chains.
It underpins this entire algorithm!
And notice, in the write up about the matrix… it’s not even mentioned!!! 🤦🏽♂️
This is what I’m talking about 🤣 far reaching, transforming, breakthrough results, underpinning many algorithms, and yet… never named outright and given the kind of theoretical credit it deserves in all of the heavy lifting it does!!!
Leveraged as a tool! And then named something else so someone else can take the credit.
"The Linear Algebra Behind Google" is a short paper that explains the mathematics behind Google's original PageRank algorithm.
The paper covers eigenvalues and eigenvectors, stochastic matrices, Markov chains, and iterative methods, using numerical examples and graphs to illustrate how PageRank works.
Beyond the algorithm itself and the original paper by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, this is an interesting read for anyone curious about how linear algebra applies to one of the most influential algorithms in the history of the web.
sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~gilbert/c…
Adjacency! Ftw! 🙌🏼
And yes, adjacency does function very well with both photonics and spintronics and natural leads to adiabatic quantum computing systems. 🧮 👨🏽💻 ⚛️
I just sent Grok bot 🤖 on its first task, unsubscribe me from unwanted emails and spam messages haha 😆 👌🏼
Probably one of my favorite physicists.
There wasn’t a quantum phenomena that surprised me until I read about his AB effect and then his Cheshire Cat! 😼
That was the first time ever reading about quantum physics, where I finally sat up and said out loud, “wait, WHAT?!” 😹
A Personal History in Quantum Foundations: an Oral History Interview
Guy Hetzroni, Yakir Aharonov
arxiv.org/abs/2610.30998
If I had one suggestion for this Anton Kapustin, I would take it one step further and take it into Boolean or RelU in category theory language.
5 out of 7 QM postulates are found in Boolean among relations before Hilbert, complex numbers, or Born rule.
15 out of 20 audited “quantum phenomena” are found in Boolean among relations, before Hilbert.
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BREAKING: SpaceX is reportedly seeking access to at least 80,000 U.S. cell tower sites as it prepares to launch a nationwide wireless carrier.
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Elon Musk has reportedly invested a MASSIVE $1 BILLION into the Ellison family’s Skydance media empire, just weeks after the company acquired CNN.
How many CNN employees will quit after this?
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🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk's SpaceX is reportedly in talks to access at least 80,000 THOUSAND U.S. cell tower sites as it gears up to launch its own nationwide wireless carrier — Bloomberg
Elon is about to send SHOCKWAVES around the nation! 🇺🇸
Starlink Mobile's next-gen satellites start launching in 2027
SpaceX could take "quite a few" customers from AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. Those three bring in about $600 billion a year combined
THIS IS HUGE.
Don't bet against @ElonMusk.
This is kind of wild how my work with adjacency has now taken me into;
SUSY QM
Connes’ Spectral Triples
Relativistic quantum mechanics
And now…
Supergravity!
It’s marvelous to work with something of such simplicity and see it stretch its reach this far into theoretical physics.
🧮 👨🏽💻 ⚛️
This has inspired me to put a pot on myself.
I do use a scoop and sometimes I fill halfway up and sometimes I fill it all the way up. And sometimes, I too heap it up! 😏
