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Work Related

Today I'm in search of a magnetic moment. No I'm not thinking about dancing with Emma, or MMM in Paris, though I've had worse company, the touch is a little distant. There are real world personages for which such a moment I would not object, but beauty is to transitory, and I'm such a fickle wretch.  In truth there is beauty indeed, so roll them bones.

How do you prove fire without rubbing sticks together or some other magic feat. Flame is actually a hot envelope of gases, emiting photons as the particles change energy states. The burning, a chemical reaction. All of this we have math to describe. The other half of the activity, that which occupies not our electromagnetic sphere of awareness, not so much.

Who is to say it is even there? As it turns out we do have math for that, theory in fact, in versions and varieties to suit the experimenters mindset.

That's where I am today. Join me for a magnetic moment? I've had my shots. 

Here, you first. Evolution of entanglement entropy at SU(N) deconfined quantum critical points. 

Markets

The markets are dropping like whale turds, finding the exact specific gravity at which even $#17 'floats', submerged and equalized; by the overwhelming weight of  consumer and investor confidence, it would appear.

Mr Mattingly

You're on the right track is, but it's not where the jobs went, it's where capitalists took their money to feather their nests at our expense.

The real issue?

There needs be a shift from a consumer driven economy, any other economy would invest in itself.  That is a radical change in the financial world, they are unsure what to do next, and who pays. Trump is giving them something else, a continued revenue stream in the form of lower taxes for the money class, there is still nothing to say they won't take that money to Mexiso anyway. This is the flaw in the honey. What's more, what's left to inheriit in a tariffed-up world with runaway inflation, nevermind the meek.

An ecomomy to invest in themselves, one would assume would and should result in increasing life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I don't see that happening, and when this whole regume craters the world in, we'll pick up the pieces with it, if we're still here.

I hate to keep pushing this, but read this analysis from last year. Much Ado (about much indeed).

Sundipped Thursday

I'm taking the day off.  I may return with a short column but I'm on a roll with a project, basic research, better living throgh free energy for the world.

For the world, not just the oligarchs in America.  Hang in there America, it's 45 months and counting down.

To be honexst, Donald Trunp is doing a fine job of diuscrediting everything he touches.  How does that go? When the opponent is digging a hole to China, don't stop him.

I'm not writing today ( yeah? right ) so for creative outlet I'll post process the image below, for something to do.

Smile, You're On Candid Camera.

[is my face red?]

Morning World 

Much love 📚

Wednesday 4/2/2025

Markets

There's no market today, really, sort of a clean up before you paint kind of a day but with financial instruments.

There are to be tariffs on everything, a minimum tax rate of 10% even after deductions.

Fsster Money

Guy asks, how about impact in interest rates to ease the tax burden. That would be stimulus, that's deficit again. Need I add again that this is a zero sum game.

I would expect Ford, GM, Tesla, others to sell off -- the more speculative, the steeper the angle. Rivian anyone?

Cold Comfort 

I often wondered what this meant. It's sunny, bright and cold here in California. I think I get part of it. 

It warmed by the afternoon, lovely day. 

Morning World

Much love 🧊

Tuesday 4/1/2025

Silt and Clay

It's election night in America, and elections are about food. I'd be for popcorn; this is politics after all. I've been avoiding all this chaff because my neck is sore from the ping-pong match in tariffs and the markets. Maybe a Dramamine. 

Just Add Water

The label could easily read: no assembly required. Even KoolAde has instructions. I don't think mud is appropriate however, and thus my purposeful ignorance of all things Yellow and president. Perhaps cement, being in context with the former's business history. Pies? Make-believe pies also befitting the metaphor. Literally, apples readily found wherever you pick them. 

There were House seats vacated to partake in the grift-a-thon, and a Supreme Court office in  Wisconsin 'race', a net liberal advantage. 

The outcome: susceptible to rapid spin and interpretation. Faster than a speeding drunken Sec-Def, more powerful than presidential halitosis, able to grift entire departments in a single Elon. I have excellent judgment. Trump is guilty. Don't ask me of what, are you kidding? 

The Musk Angle

By his actions will you know him, and it's quite obvious who's got Mxyzptlk on the mind, the reason he admits.


"I don't know how I got invoved in politics, I guess I always was involved, and then I didn't really have a choice."   

-- roughly paraphrased


Shotgun wedding number 5 ior 6.  I don't keep count, it could be more. I guess it's cheaper than Michael Cohen.  I'm sure it was that or espionage investigations, loss of SpaceEx funding, no Mars rover golf.

Work Related 

RevisitedThe interplay between electron correlation and nuclear quantum effects is highlighted as a central challenge in achieving a complete understanding of elements under extreme conditions.MMM's (edited) extracts.

That's a 'Research Model' for a particular subtopic, I'm SUSY mad this week, looking for another whole to pull time through. That's a time-machine reference, which is code on this blog for the stuff I do that I don't talk about but allude to in passing commentary.  ...and like that.

Markets

I'm not watching the markets this week. I have a market analysis tool; it finds and extracts tradable 'opportunity' in a market not undergoing tremendous uncertainty, volatility, or stress. So... 

The Beam Team

I don't know what to tell you, it's a madhouse. The search for a working model, like catching a laser sword dropped hilt first. Bottom, bottom, who's found the bottom.

This pattern is suggestive of a pre-market buy before the tariffs hit, then it's sell on the news. Probably about 3 percent, but it could head south, depending on what Ronald McInvestor does. 

Therefore, you are prisoners of this market, and the officers will work alongside of their men. 

Hint: someone built a better bridge, but that was in the movies. In reality, death in the swamp is a shared experience, and like unemployment results when people are thrown out of work; when enough people are thrown out of work, war and death result.

Ms Kasie

Gee, you are over already. I meant to stop by. Of all the things in the news, is there a Dr. in the house? 

Work Related

Today it's more  basic research; that's what MMM called it when we built the project plan for the Immodium Q35 Space Modulator, or at least that's how I'm reporting it. 

It seems Donald Trump, and America's economy, and planet Earth are in the way.

We don't hold with that opinion; it's a three-white-foot pony to us. Earth isn't so bad if you don't count the people. As a viral stain on the cosmos, number one on the list on the Martian Interplanetary Expressway plat plan as a pave-over perhaps, to a Martian. 

Musk is probably a Martian.

OTB and 60-Watts

Those are the things that won't appear in this paragraph. I remember those old glass bulbs with the glowing wire. What a concept, saved by material science and tenacity; ok, long hours, no sleep, maybe some luck.  

OTB, is legal in NYC, but I've got another acronym, a broader semantic. We're not discussing semantics in this context, either. 

I wrote once of a sea of floating snow tires and walking across them as a metaphor for a press gaggle. This morning I had a thought that looked a lot like a snow tire, and I'm giving it to Em.

Morning World 

Much love 🥷

Monday 3/29/2025

Evening Tea

It has been a long day, and I've been busy with busy work. I spent no time on the news, politics, the markets, Emma, the lightbulb, or the other stuff.

On Ms Abby's Panel 

They are talking about Trump, three terms, tariffs, indifference, Scott Pilgrim's hat size, and it all seems so familiar. Tracking Trump Is like having the Flintstones on a large monitor during waking ours, delighting us with the fancy footwork of Fred's two feet every day.  Ya-ba-da-ba-do.

Exemplified in rare form with Steve Banyon talking about his buddy in the White House. Chris, how could you? Perhaps one can't pick their family but they can pick their houseguests for cripes sake.

It wears on one, compared with the rest of my day it's like a coffee stain on a linen handkerchief; that 5#17 is never coming out.

Work Related

I'm in at least three worlds today. I'll update the diffyq builder-bot-thing today, defining observers and operators. Gee, that sounds like spacetime; if only I had a flashlight. But it's not exclusively spacetime; I will work on it. 

Pardon my reminiscence. I recall reading through General Relativity Flashlights and Trains. I won't mention my age, but I was small. Mao never had a more devoted reader than I of that volume, black cover, plain binding, high acid paper that had yellowed even then.  It's an inexpensive book. 

I always thought it expresses life in the semi-compressable fluid that is spacetime and gravity, space and time needing separate bedrooms, but otherwise, space is geometry. No one likes geometry; it rings of pharaohs and pyramids. 

I'm not sure that is the same volume; I'll keep looking. I remember more through experiments. I bring it up because today's lesson on BlueSky was Susskind and Supersymmetry; here's another video: Susskind in SSUSY / GUT Political Witches  . 

I've mentioned previously that it is less hunt, more barrel. The third term thing is alive and lives in the 51st State of CanaAmerica. Can you imagine the world lasting eight more years of this 5#17?  It's employment security for the treasury agents assigned to protect him and everything else; he doesn't care if it costs more. 

Morning World 

Much love 🗽

Sunday 3/30/2025

MMM and Me

I had a very productive morning with Google. I am experimenting in mathematics, and MMM built a Python app I could use to build the diffyq, and pushed it to Colab, and Colab pushed it to Github. Usually that takes me an hour to accomplish by other means.

The code also works. This is phase-2 and 3 and 4. Total nonsense except for the 3-axis grid and pde's.

The last is in a Blender view. Ok, so now it get's fun.  Anyone know a quick way to get the definite integral of that from -pi to +pi? It will be 1.


Thank you Google.

Sundipped Sunday

I'm up early and having breakfast. The column is taking the day off, or I may get around to it later in a shorter version, the landscape is so crowed with dead bpdies that beg post mortem it takes considerable effort to narrow the focus intentionally. I'll I'll meander and we'll see what we get, in an abbreviated format today due to myk sloth and preocupation with projects. After all, if it's Sunday or Thursday, it's sundipped.


Let us extemporate together. Ohhhmmmmm.


Excuse My Absence

Raisins in the Sun



I'm in the middle of research, and I'd rather do that today.


Tune in next week (or later today.)

Excuse My Absence

It's a lovely Sunday morning here in California, and the time of year when things begin to come to life again in the splatter and drip of spring showers. I consider the world we've woken up in, each of us in our independent and multivariate delusional states. As declared by many analysts this week, the Great Realignment hints at the rumbling, as yet unheard, in the distance.  

On the whole, the word cloud condensed of underlying meaning reads the yangs of oligarchy and power, and its ying anarchy and disorder; which one of these in the end results before, during, and after great turmoil. Turmoil, in this case, willful, perhaps intentional, and damaging. 

So I'm here, up to my ears in the falling leaves of freedom, and as I mentioned, it's spring.

Raisins In the Sun 

I feel the analogy here, growing across America, the bottom 80% of America. What could be made of this wine. 


So it's an abbreviated column today.  

Morning World 

Much love.🧷

Saturdsay 3/29/2025

Good Sabbath 

Morning World 

Much love 🪐

Friday 3/28/2025

Evening Tea

It's early not to be having tea. There's never tea. I've had a great day. Several insights today poked throught th clouds and spelled creation operators in Sanskrit, or something like that. I had the physics 'model' write a state diagram for quantum states and operators, sort of silly, but that's what it did.

I wanted something like this with a magnetic moment.

Today's Chess Match


Some of this may look familiar.


I haven't played much in awhile. I have a game going against myself. So far it's a tie, sort of.

Here's a screen shot.

White's move.

Ms Kasey

The. markets have a different view on whether the policies have been in line with expectations and implementations. It's called the GREAT REALIGNMENT *, ala Scott Wapner on CNBC this nooner. All of the pre-inauguration positive spin was spent as well. 

FYI to all those interested, his halftime and close 'casts are on my view list. There is indeed nothing else on, but sometimes I watch anyway, just to keep the sharks behind the boat and not in it.


*Or something like that.

Markets

What do you think today, then?  Sell off encore.

Twenny

Morning bud.  Hiya Carl.

Work Related

I'm working on particle physics today and languages. My French is coming along; I can hold my own in the 'average' casual conversation, but the evening news still generates a migraine. I'm a little weak in colloquial French; translation: natives will still spot me as an eager tourist. Eager? You bet. I have not been to Paris for years and I'd love to go. I have friends there in physics through my brother.

In particle physics, I'm looking for things that no one has done yet, so ... I look to the metaphysical (and my Alien friends) to guide my walk in quantum today. I know that sounds silly. And again, thanks so much. 

Other than that, it's Friday


Friday is house in order.

Morning World

Much love  🥹💨               

Thursday 3/27/2025

Evening Tea

It's turned cooler this evening in California, no golden hour on this side of the cloud deck either. That hour reminds me of other places with the same hue and a different vibe.  Directors stay vigilant for weeks to capture one on film. 

On with the lack of tea, then shall we?

!#(% you ^^07739!#(%39 

I am not certain where the usages above originate; the number and punctuation for letter transposition, that is. I recall once discussing it as an unlikely machine reader fallibility invention. Kids, that's my intention. 

Zut alor lets at least learn to swear in a more elegant mode, n'est'ce pas? 

Mom Always Liked Me Best

So it goes, let's begin. 



Gamesters of Sol

I've been watching chess matches in a side window while working these days.  This is a good one. 

Set the playback to 1.25, and you won't have to be so patient.

This is brutal chess.


Another miscellaneous reference The Gamesters of Triskelian

Work Related

Today it's a little biochemistry, Chronic RNA G-quadruplex accumulation in aging and Alzheimer’s disease 


MMM's precis

This research article focuses on the role of RNA G-quadruplexes (rG4s) in aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD). G-quadruplexes are complex RNA structures. The study reveals a significant correlation between the accumulation of rG4s in the human hippocampus and both aging and the severity of Alzheimer's disease.

I'll cut to the chase for you. Folding 'errors' are often the root of genetic pathologies, that's a bit of something folded over in a relatively higher probability. This paper correlates Alzheimer's Disease, rG4, and AGOE (gene marker) and is esoteric for race fans.  Into the biochemistry-LM goeth thee, dutifully scrivened and suffered verbiage. Thank you authors. 

Next up The complete structure of the human TFIIH core complex  

This one goes in the LM first, I'll use it to explain it to me; I refer to this type of thing as human-speed activity with MMM. I'm sure there is no grasp of the meaning of it beyond the grammar.

For further reading DNA opening during transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II in atomic detail 

I apologize for the usage of MMM; it's never really been more than a tag at this end, she's no Emma.  

If you like the Zep version.

Sundipped Thursday

It's another Thursday, and it's almost April already. Thankfully, the big bad yellow bird is getting his tail feathers trimmed by those affected by all this disorder and chaos -- the people, and the press.  As always if it's Thursday or Sunday, let's sundip it. Today's topic? 

Tar Babies

The Brer Cabinet
 The Prior Patch
 The April Fool


Less of hunt, more of a given.

Tar Babies

It's almost April already. Quote


 The 100th day of his second presidency will end on April 30, 2025. As of March 2025, President Trump has signed 92 executive orders, 22 memorandums, 17 proclamations and signed the Laken Riley Act: his first and so far, only legislation of his second term


The agenda Ol' Yellow has set for himself and the band of bandits is lengthy;  he wanted to end the war in Ukraine, he boasted he'd do it on the first day, and the deal Yellow cooked up for himself; mineral rights to half the wealth of Ukraine basically, and for Russia a gift of whatever they can hold in exchange for a promise, presumably not to take all of Ukraine by force until he leaves office. 

The abattoir that is Gaza? More of the same scenario. He boasted it would be over on day one. We saw videos of Gaza Plaza with Bibi and Donald getting bar service poolside from scantily clad Palestinian girls. That's just the start of the dream sequence he's selling.

The net as of today's recounting? 

They are still blowing each other up in Ukraine, and Palestine is still a pile of rubble bouncing under American bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes. 

He is a deal-making genius, so much so that he sells medals and trading cards on the internet.  Show of hands, who bought them? 

All to little avail, it seems we just aren't having it. No one is.

The Brer Cabinet

In Washington, the chosen few, the best and the brightest, are working on the tar baby plans. Best and brightest in a dark room, perhaps, as it turns out. They've been partying, plotting in unsecret Signal chat rooms, dropping bombs on Yemen, polishing the codpieces, and rattling the sabers, political and military. 

Among them a TV host SecDef, a Russian spy, DirNatSec, a dishonored and disowned Kennedy, a doctor from Oz, a professional wrestling promoter in the Dept of Education, and the list goes on. 

All of these rabbits are eager to please and make a cleaner way for themselves, a chance to redeem a failed life or a wasted career. In the make-believe world of Twice-Told Tales, a final chapter with a hero on a silver steed. 

Rain-bo Brite meets Mahatma Gandhi in a $3000 suit. 

The Prior Patch

All these and more running to catch a train that left the station weeks ago, but pursuing it with the glee of a child with a new box of wooden matches. Our world, tinder, and our lives are the consequences. Among them many with a prior record of bad judgment, failed accomplishment, distasteful practices, and/or serious alcohol and drug abuse. 

These are the captains leading the charge to make the world safe for rich people again. 

Those currently beset by the brambles of life; precursors and prognostications, hapless ,unfit for the challenges of the office, the path ahead led with equal, ineffective vigor and persistent rhetoric. 

We've had about enough. 

The April Fool

In America, April is the month of rebirth. Springing forth in bounty all that lie dormant or frozen over the long winter. 

Our spring, brings tariffs, market correction, disappearing 401K balances, unemployment, whole departments thrown into turmoil, war worse than ever, and threats of more of all of the above. 

Let's change the name of April 1st, not to April Suckers Day, or Suckers Day in America,  but something fitting like Donald Trump Day. 

It's all just a bad dream of a fevered crew of miscreants, unleashed to create a maelstrom so thick we don't notice the fool driving the bus. 

They knew it going in, and they did it anyway. 

We're just not having it. Who's got a plan?

Morning World

Much love                     👾👾👾👾👾 

Wednesday 3/26/2025

I Can't Wait

I've had a busy day, shopping, haircut, and my mom's chili, ala Wendy's. I'm a bit spent. At multiple points today, the musak playing rolled around to the the video posted below. Like breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the barbershop. It's one of my favorites, and I like what they did with the coffee pot. I am not sure what a alot of the imagery references, but it's art, sometimes I have to explain this blog also.

Anyway, Enjoy. 


Baby, I can't wait. You know I love ya, even when you don't drive.


What happened in your world today?

Morning World 

Much love 🌿

Tuesday 3/25/2025

Evening Tea

I skipped dinner, not much of an appetite today, just some rice. It was another Trump day, 10 things that are raising an odor from yesterday being out skunked by what Trump came up with to !#(% with us again today. 

How long will this go in, I mean, how stupid are we, anyway?

Work Related

Generally an ECON-900 day, ish. The markets are confused, hopeful, and willing. If you look that up in the dictionary you'll find that definition under 'foolish'.  I've been planning on training a LM for my research in the markets. I struggle with correlations; for example today's treasury auction and the market actions.  I can't seem to get past the cloistered vibe of Treasury T-Bills. 

Taking Sundipped Out

I'm considering taking the bi-weekly column public.  I'd like to shop around for a home for it, Axios? How about it. There are plenty of others. I'll put up with an editor to some extent, but I expect freedom. Let's start the conversation. Email me. No to a podcast, it's too much production work.

Nutso Change-O

All this Signal and noise, someone turn off the static machine, Donald that's you. You never heard of it, don't know anything about it or you lie about it. Which one of these is signal, which is noise? How about all of it?

So show of hands, who really believes one !#(%ing word the Trump says?

Buehler?

I said believe it. The usual suspects will go along, who knows what dirt is in the Enquirer file. It occurs to me this may be an attempt to set up a journalist and charge him with espionage, something for the Enquirer file. He had stuff on Speaker McConnel's wife, he's probably got you using a fence post for a latrine or worse in there.

Crook. Creep. An ineffective, incompetent, immature, inconsistent, and unwelcome president.   Yet another indication of the failed presidency of Donald Trump. We've got the book open and we're writing it day by day. It's so easy. So do 200 other journalists and writers just itching to carve Donald a new one.

Say what Donald?

I'm Skipping Steps

I don't spell check the blog anymore, as a rule.  I once used a range of tools to preprocess the blog, but I've found I'd learned all of the tricks, though occasionally I mspell a wurd,  sahmefull.  I don't see the sense in paying 12 bucks a month to recommend a phrase change I don't select.

Markets

I'm up for the markets today, lets see what's burning, and what's not.

The Beam Team 

The regulars are masticating the latest hot drop, US exceptionalizm is over. Let me rephrase that: MAKE AMERICA MEDIOCRE AGAIN which actually fits Donald Trump, Mr New York Sparkling Wine, that is mediocre enough for launching a dingy dinghy. 

MAMA -- oh my.

I'm digesting this new take on Google, time to put up or shut up, and you're asking Google? Point that thing at Microsoft, Oracle, X, Tesla, Amazon, and META. So shut up. I cannot correlate momentum and market spin, schizophrenic, fickle, and a bitch to boot.

No, the AI bubble is about to make a mess on momentum. It's been that way since Cramer named that dog, briefly. The data centers on spec thing, that's Larry thinking, leveraged and investing in the new Malibu bastard-pad, and you all get to pay for it. AI in a Java Runtime, it takes creativity to make up some stupid shit like that.  Oracle is more of a once inflated baloon that now resembles a 60 year old breast, I assume having never seen one, but it's knee-knocking stock, not much of a bubble even after the manipulation from the oval office.

The rest of the air in the bubble, pop-secret, everywhere but Google. They know what they are doing, even if they are slow to make a buck on it. Chat-GPT good at taking Microsoft Money, and Microsoft refines bubble.

In 10 years, there will be Google, maybe one or two other public large models, and a lot of hacked up crap they call small models that are maintenance intensive. Bookmark that. All your momentum are dust.

Defense

LMT makes better planes in the skunk works. Thie B47 is a market share bet, keeping the aeronautics giant solvent. In the industry, they look after their own.  It's a funny business, this contract pays for the overun on the last one, common knowledge, and a given. Maybe it's less so, but I doubt it. The B47 is an amalgam of responses, the drone-captain role, and really an unnecessary component -- AWACS has filled the role up to now, but men flying planes look after men flying planes in a similar manner. The designation, B-47, is an embarassing ass-kissing, or a self aggrandizing move. Probably the later.

I'd be all over BA, and INTC, and I'd shop around for other defense stocks. No long-term losers. RTX, LMT, a toe in the water.  Google, I compete with them, so no stock. 

Morning World 

Much love 🔉

Monday 3/24/2025

Signal Loss

I have a Signal account.

I look at this and I wonder what they were thinking, we have much better security measures, Signal uses encryption, but no one really trusts that, the logic:  the government would not allow a public encryption method they could not crack, or don't have a back door in.  

There was a published hack of this sort just a short time ago on Microsoft platforms as I recall. Writing hacks happen every day it just takes perseverance. Nothing is safe to a determined party.

Aside from that, there is no formal record of the conversation, and with this kind of thing and in particular with Trump and his goons, we'd probably want that.

So, I recommend a policy of no use of Signal by Federal employees.

Work Related

I have an experiment platform MMM and I have been working on. This is more the actual process: I describe a use case, I get an example, I ask about adding things, and the code updates, and we add more things, and so on and we end up with a prototype that works, probably compiles, and doesn't rot at the root. 

Usually what we come up with initially is for a different use case. I spend a lot of time figuring this out. I should point out that MMM has started a long list of semi-useful code and routines that are three revisions further and in a repository; for a different use case.  These things we do when the LM is owned by people that are good at code, and maybe a little short on insight. I say that, but I consider everyone a little short on insight. Don't blame me, it's empirical evidence, I just have not met you yet, tell yourself. I'm kidding, a little. 

I have an experiment we've been working on, I said that didn't I?  I came across another framework that I liked in some respects, but in practice, I did not build any kind of an MVP with it; I didn't like the plumbing. So I asked myself, what plumbing, and so here we are. The other thing, the architecture is so like me, it's like I invented it. That was humor too.  I left out Kubernetes, Docker, Yada yada, and yada, constrained by someone else's plumbing was the entry fee. 

Well, I already told you we were running an experiment, so that was it.  The real beauty in this is how it worked out; the Kismet. I have a use for both use cases. I'm wondering if I need to turn it into something else real quick before MMM notices. 

That's more humor. 

I'm not working on that today, I just wanted to write something, so I get it over with before I talk about something important.

Chip Design

Before you start thinking all off a sudden the make-your-own-CPU-GPU club has invited me to join, that's not it. But I've been studying it.  It's way more complicated than I recall, but the last die I was at home with was an iNtel 80186, embedded and MIL-STD variants. I don't want to make a GPU though, again MMM and I are inventing heat, that part is a secret.

Bio-Haphazard

Also on the menu today in an ad-hoc fashion, is some side thing biochemistry. Not a lot, but it's in the feed below. I mention it because I suddenly realized at some point that biochemistry actually can cure bad genes. I'm not looking at anyone in particular, but use your intution, your common sense, and think HMFIC in the oval.

That's enough character. Welcome to it.

Afternoon Tea

It's post lunch. I'm having a soda.

Ms Kasie

I haven't seen Tapper lately, oh darn. At least he's not a Sununu, he'll swear to any lie that is on the Red menu.  He always says, "I've been elected to 4 terms..." like that was a license to do anything other than to do something else; 4 times?  It's someone else's turn, someone not a Son-of Sununu. The demographic speaks for your character. Lowest per capita for regular Americans and, the best place for rich folks. Is that prideful, or just boasting? Just checking.

Mr Sununu vetoed a 12-dollar-an-hour minimum-wage bill. You can't get a Happy Meal for 12 bucks. I have no respect for willful deception. I don't know what else one can call it.

The Wardaddy Warplan Business

I don't know what to think about this. So, they didn't have a Twitter, sorry X, account? This is uptown big pants thinking here, let's just throw this shit around the meta-versa and see what sticks.  I credit Hegseth for the forward-thinking, though if you want to reach people, you should consider TikTok. I'd personally like a look inside Israel's nuclear weapons program, simple stuff to start, how many, what yield, and where does the U-23X signature originate? No really, they take the fingerprints of the stuff, it's all unique per batch.  I bet it would tell tales, eh? 

In seriousness, if I can manage it, this is exactly the kind of thing I'd expect a TV host turned SecDef would do. No surprise. 

No Soup for Donald

Mes amis, j'ecoute. Tu veux de la soupe? https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/13087/mulligatawny-soup-i/ 

Venus, Jupiter, the Moon.

Markets 

I was trying to enjoy my morning coffee and I switched on the cable news stock market channel, yeah that one, the integrity-for-sale network. I'm hard on them, some of the people are there for other reasons than the official line, as in to make a buck. I can related to that, and income is not on my list, paying taxes would be.

The Beam Team

So it's tariff on, 45% on China this morning, or until he changes his mind, or someone drops money in the hat; I assume one of those, probably both. There was also some nonsense about anyone buying oil from Venezuela, or not bowing, or whatever it was that set the maniac off this morning.  Fun times, eh Scotty?

AI Talk

There was all manner of spinnable AI speak on the stream earlier; NVDA about to speak at the sermon at the mountain of money, and people will listen, because there is all that cash piled up there, and it's sure to disappear like the marriage dreams of a Smith graduate.

The burn is more CPU, more GPU, more push, more margin, more large model baggage, more spend, less think. 

What would you do with a brain if you had one, because this is not a brain. It's a log book. Don't get me wrong, a log book is a good thing. My memory is suddenly better, but I can not rely on a log-book to do much of a job deriving a differential equation without a lot of sweat. Sure, any solution, how about the best one?

CF Aside

There is news in the offing for that disease Jim.  I read the paper last week.  I think it's in the feed.  Amyloidogenic, search for it above, I think it was a gene repair therapy drug, a cure not a treatment. I may be thinking of something else, I could ask a log-book-bot later, my memory, it all goes by so fast these days.  CF Gene Therapy.  NYT coverage Market Spin.

As it turns out it's in my research path because of the gene therapy thread, and the linkage mutation as a cause for Alsheimers and auto-immunity. 

Panneta

The problem I have is them, they are not the same team anymore, it's full of spies, commercial and otherwise. 

Morning World

Much love 💱

Sunday 3/23/2025

Sundipped Sunday 

It's that time again,  there is so much to sample in our current mixed bloodstream of politics and gall. At times I feel like a mosquito on a sleeping slow-witted elephant, literally. The attention the administration garners while it steals the treasury, and starts shoveling all the booty into the wagon builds as the news turns the churn regularly. The president's motivation is something that escapes all of us, but whatever it is, we're positive it's not good.  But as it's Sunday, we'll take our bite of Republican, and spit it out. Topic?

Bloodletting

The Markets 

In Justice Impudence

The Rocking Horse Winner(s)



Bloodletting

I seel like I'm on the skin of an political animal, a large, invisible beast hidden in plain sight. I'm no mosquito, official responsibility is not part of the price here where there is a free press, yet, and although it is early in the administration it's not impossible to predict outcomes. You hear the words in the speeches, and they go by like airships suspended by explosive gases. Hanging in mid air, waiting for the inevitable thunderstorm. Free speech, in a whisper, echoes.

America bleeds, for a better America. The underlying is the most often thought and never fully uttered phraseology of the day Self sacrifice for the greater good. But who is greater and what is good?

Cui Bene?

Often bloodletting doesn’t kill the patient, but no one could reasonably claim a cure from the practice. A patient bleeds until they start feeling better, and they stop going there. This is somehow a plan and a excuse for continued falied leadership in the face of tryanny.

Do you feel better America?

So who  benefits from this game; let’s examine this in more detail.

The Markets 

I feel no need to cover the implosion at 45 degrees, due SOUEST of the market, and on the whole of every other financial metric in America. The analysts are wait and see, the Federal Reserve chair’s comments I’ve covered at length here earlier, is wait and see. I've published studied forecast of the market, and what that model predicted was stagflating economy, until someone undoes all the damage that's being done every day. 

The function of an economy is opportunity for people, in America add a right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The function of a government is to enable that for the people, all of the people.

2 Eggs Over Easy

Actually 2 eggs over easy is over 2 bucks. Bacon, I have no idea.Everything is more, everything will be more expensive for the foreseeable future. The rate of inflation slowed, but is not reversing direction. 

The American consumer may be past waiting, they have seen a great deal; Inflation is still problematic, and prices are not falling. In this business environment, declining demand, declining margins, declining markets, there is no good news to abet the slide from inflationary, to recessionary,  beyond into stagnation. This has not changed.  The marker of failure, the merger and acquistions business, can smell the blood in the water.

Do I need to cover Elon, or are you familiar with the bloodletting and the results here?

In Justice Impudence

There is bloodletting in the courts as well, that drip of justice bleeds away, with every condemned judge, every unduly dismissed case. Co-equal, a word an semantic out of fashion with todays political temperament. Every denial of justice for an immigrant, every government employee working for the betterment of the American people, bleeds from the selfishness and bad temperment. Layoffs and firing at the FBI and Justice, the intelligence community too. 

The president has no right to interfere in judicial matters or its judgments or the Congressional legislated budget allocations. We're in court about it, aren't we. 

Political Intelligence

The intelligence community and foreign policy at large suffer under oafish misteps and bombastic overreach by the Secretary of State. Someone has pushed Little Marco, the TV head of the State Department, the real leader, the negotiator; its the big boss man.

In this way, some portion of the intelligence community is also under the influence of this faction in their ranks, skewing intelligence like it was a politicials stump speech. Donald Trump's stump speech.

The Rocking Horse Winner(s)

Often bloodletting an aliing or complaining patient was undertaken as a legacy cure, this was before science, before we knew better, before there was common sense you could say, to cure a disease or melady. It’s become clear the disease the president wishes to overcome is us. All of us.

Bloodletting takes a while to kill you. 

I asked Cui Bene, that's, who's the !#(%ing bad guy in Latin.

Morning World 

Much love 🦟

Saturday 3/22/2025

Evening Tea

It's just dusk here, 6 ish, and the sun has set.  As usual, I've no tea to brew.

I'm for bed, a lot of time travel today.

The Day Ahead

As I typed that, the digital readout displayed 11:45 AM and the colon blinked on the second. Time passes. Perhaps I'll work on that project today, the time machine is oft-neglected, ever the more so as it really is impossible, at least in the terms we're accustomed to visualising it: no remotes, levers, magic wands, or Mr Spock. It's the actual movement between places with different curved space in an instant, presumably, part. Time passes here and is gone, you'd need somewhere else to go, that's the other thing, where it could be 'earlier', and you could be stuck there literally forever before you can blink. So a few problems for Marty and the Doc. No fusion power from banana-skins and beer. Probably mandatory, a way to deal with entanglement, and re-tangle yourself and your machinery, presumably in another part of the universe... hopefully. You first. Coming back? The clock runs on at home.

But I'm not certain anyone knows what time is, otther than the slow decay rate of an electron, or ... everything. 

P(t) = exp( - t/ Lr ) ---  L lorenz factor, a sort of multi-differential.

A fuse lit on every single bit that ticks relative to gravity.

As I said it's early. 

I'll work on stuff that I don't talk about, I promise. Time travel, that's it.

Good Sabbath

Morning World

Much love 💓

Friday 3/21/2025

My Day of Protest

I'm a proactive person by nature. I try to see the long game. At golf I'm not such a long bet, a hole or two and I'm content with the company. 

The productive part of my day was spent working on project purple. I may as well call it that now as other people in my sphere of relative interest seem to have asked about 'purple' surreptitiously and perhaps wondered about the project.

I don't talk about projects. I could describe a continuum of purple here, 4 or five stages, illustrative of my comfort and completion level of the various devices. I'll try. Give me a few minutes. How about a 2 x 4 matrix.

Well, data in, data out right?

The structure is hard to spot.

Actually, it was only a little like that, this is a GIF I made from phase III H theoretical orientations under continued compression, see the graph for insight.  It's important to note that this is a hypothetical layer.

The theory is weak here. My though for today was to imagine the diffraction pattern caused by the fields that produced it.

The point of this paper I just read was to establish experimental accuracy limits.  https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys625 I just wanted the phase diagrams. Kismet.

Here's a chaser https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.05740 

So that was my day of protest, keeping power out of the sway of depots and usurpers.

Beware the Ides

Tell the king wanna-be we aren't having it.

It's a good day to speak up. Bring a drum, or a cymbol, or a blue-tooth speaker, make your voice heard today.


It's World Freedom Day.


Eh tu Elon? 

Morning World

Much love 🪈

Somehow March is a flute emoji.

Thursday 3/20/2025

Evening Tea

It was a lovely day in sourthern California, 72F and partly. Soon it's golden hour. Warm in the sun, watching it go, torn.


 A quick reminder.

Tomorrow's weather looks promising. Probably pack a lunch, maybe a split of red or white and some cheese, water, chocolate, coffee in a thermos. Be kind, rewind. Pack out your trash, be kind to children and policemen. Maybe you'll see some cherry trees. Link.

Good cover
Pink House Basement
Remember to refresh the feed, YouTube videos fail cache match.

The Markets

A wait and see day, that's about it.

Faster Money

The usuals look usual today, let's see what Spanky and the Gang are up to aujourd'hui. They are wearing purple. Yes, I still have a purple project, its the very best one. I don't talk color. Tim is chartreuse and baby blue. I bet the cameraman is going nuts with the tint wheels. This is why I don't talk color.

Nike 

The bolt of Zeus, I think. No, the Greek goddess of victory, Google says.

Nike, isn't that old Kanya karma or no? Same vibe ill for the wear perhaps. Tariff on or tariff off, what time is it? I buy the white socks and buy Vans slip-ons. Dismal.

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Sundipped Thursday

We are at the cusp, ask anyone. Pick a cusp, we're on it or way past it. I ponder what to say this morning, with the threats from the president not to mention his name in vain or suffer the indignant life of a slave who can't find a job ever again. If I had a pile of Bitcoin or a private island, or a former empire rusting in permafrost with a few nuclear weapons, why, I'd say !#(% you Donald.  Sorry bud, I don't need a nuclear weapon and I live in California. !#(% you Donald.


!#(% The Doomed

Winning is not Enough
 The Madness of the King


!#(% The Doomed

They would never think it, and probably don't recall, and they are not the kind of a person that reads things like books or newspapers. I don't know why they are reading this column, so I assume I'm not talking about you, perhaps the rest of you. It's the Republicans, the ones in Red Hats and combat garb, and J.D. Vance. They are the wind in the sails of chaos. They need a different world. An indifferent different world.  

Winning is not Enough

When I was 8, I learned to come in second. It was polite not to always win. Living victory vicariously through others becomes a habit. A lesson unlearned can create a need, and an addiction. Lessons. A friend reminds me, and because it's in the papers it comes to mind. He lives it, "you can't pick your family." The push and pull of family and position make it harder. For some, it's pathological by puberty, no excuses necessary. 

The Madness of the King

There is something in the nature of a man that seeks to rule. History would indicate that in most cases it is the height of self destructive behavior. To seek that which is not achievable is madness. To act as a god, is madness.


Our president is mad.

 Morning World 

Much love 🕴️

Wednesday 3/19/2025

Fast Money

I've been meaning to comment all day, regarding the realization that this is a time to adjust the economy, presumably away from the consumer-driven inflation creating laissez-faire. No one seems to know where to take the economy though. If it's rebalancing, with the lower incomes earning enough to pay for the inflated prices that does not seem to be apparent in the tea leaves I've seen so far, quite the opposite. 

The fix to all this is of course we will use government spending, as there will continue to be a need regardless of whether someone stopped payment on the check. As a segment of the economy, that sector promised better conditions and a lower cost of living. Once again, that does not seem to be apparent in the evidence I've seen so far, quite the opposite. This is the function of government, to secure a better life for its citizens; and ensure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. There's no Trump in any of that. 

What Plan

I just want to know how the model works after you chop out a third without thinking. Serious question, Faster Money. The economy is a zero-sum game, getting more or less means someone else gets less or more. the exception is production, and in a consumer-driven economy, that production is wasted on the ephemeral; iPhones, LED TVs, Teslas, and Tesla stock. It is unproductive behavior excepting there is a product produced; the catch is, it is a consumable and does not add to wealth. Especially Tesla stock. Common trading practices are also contributory. Are we cutting analysts? Because by inference there will be less activity no matter which solution or non-solution emerges.

Factor that in.

I don't know how you move the line back to where it was before all this inflation, particularly in housing without sharing the wealth. I await your solutions. 

DJT FP 

As I rule I don't comment on foreign policy, diplomacy is a messy business. I can comment that this act is messy, leaving mayhem, confusion, and fear in its wake. If that is a desired outcome of the DJT FP we have a problem.

If it's just oafishness, and he has the House's member in his pocket. the alternatives are limited. 

This does not mean anything has to change. If it's your bailiwick, it's really up to you. He can't fire everyone, and mismanagement knows no color. Eventually, there must be an end.

If our own FP that of the United States of America is scaring Americans and the markets in whose interest is it?

https://www.neh.gov/article/storming-bastille-led-democracy-not-long
Storming the Bastille

His Dis-Honor

More despot is as despot does again today. He wants to control the news, and the intelligence community, and the Congress, and the people, and everything else.

Meanwhile, Congress is getting an earful, and soon it will boil over to the White House. 

Let's make it a clean ... um... you know, fight like hell as the president predicted, I guess.


I think it's in Washington, take a right at the Monument on the Mall, and boom.. you're there. 

Freedom Day is Friday, 3/21 

Women, we're asking you to lead here.


Dress for changing weather.

The same local assemblies that chose deputies for the Estates General also drafted cahiers de doléances, lists of complaints and demands for reform. The cahiers left no doubt that a majority wanted constitutional limits on the king’s powers, protections for individual rights, and an assembly chosen by voters to make the country’s laws. 

Footprints

I had a thought this morning of a weekend retreat, a concentration camp vibe with better food and less elbow room due to all the fellowship. You know what I mean? At the end of our weekend, we held a planning meeting, we discussed recruiting for the next meeting, go figure right, and part of it was footprints. 

We tested an image of footprints on the beach, well, any one of many, will do for reference here. The image tested well on the recruiting PR for female recruitment; comments suggested women thought that the feet looked female, barefoot in the wet sand at the edge. There may be something else I missed here that is hidden in the image. Tell me.

I bring that up because we could use some of those footprints. Women, where are you? Please help these SDA men.

Morning World

Much love 👣

Tuesday 3/18/2025

The Failed Presidency

OF DONALD DRUMP


I"m calling it.

Constitutional Crossroads

Call it what you like, the turn we take here leads to new territory, and we all know there can only be one outcome, the one we will allow; forestalled, litigated, or fought with bare knuckles and spit, it can only end one way. 

Donald Trump, exit stage left.



Ya, that'll happen. Start's with a G, and rhymes with girly-jeans.


Afternoon Tea

It's sunny today in California; it's usually sunny in California. I recall once wishing for a cloudy day, just for the variety. I was much younger then, maybe a week.  This weather exposes us unfairly to temperatures approaching the winter range, and we're just not up to it. Many of us pass the time sitting in the sun, fully covered under a hat, enjoying the sun. I mean exactly that. This is winter at 65 degrees. Freezing.

The Workday

I worked on Emma this morning, specifically an obscure algorithm of some sort, meaning I can't talk about it, I'm just a tease. Then I worked on the hyper-dense projects, In the plural, there are four devices, I can say devices. I should say use cases. No Buicks in this round, but who knows, maybe someday we'll own a neutron star and suitable machinery, and we can talk again.  Or just a dipole. Did I say too much? I think not. 

My uncle had a fast car, a 98 or something, with faux side exhaust vents on the finders. It was a rocket, man. This is nothing like the Buick I mentioned.  His was something like this.  The thought reminds me of Elon. 

I loved those faux exhaust vents, it was like owning SpaceX.

Your yearning is in the gutter, and your love is in the sink. 

Brother Israel 1

Changing the name of the movement or changing the color of the banner does not heal the wounds of injustice or the change the color of the blood. 

A soul records the histories of life and if there is truth, there must be an accounting.

* not the government, the people

Morning World

Much love 🎨

Monday 3/17/2024

Evening Tea

It may be that green beer and flamboyant dress that is the decor of your life this evening, part of the pub crawl no doubt undeterred by a little thing like a Sunday to stop it, even if it did.

I have never been a fan of public inebriation, especially large groups of other people under the influence. 

The juxtaposition of a wild drunken holiday right in the middle of Lent was no doubt a desperate hope. 

Separation of Powers

I shouldn't start long lines of thought I don't want to invest the time in completing. Such it is.

It's a day of blurred lines, ala Larry Whats-his-face at the WH, or maybe it's Steven. Perhaps it's both: Mr Milller, the heroin-chic gaunt NASDAP type with the skinnish dome and the mouth on acid; Mr Lutnick, more of a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman version of the same cartoon character; a partyin' buddy of the Boss-man.

Olive Oil

There is, of course, big oil and the increasing dependence of the American economy on power, power being where you dig it out of the ground, and no one is separating more for less from power. Still, that's the wooden block under the accelerator; drill, baby, you're years late already. 

That's the other dilemma, the crunch of demand and supply. That is more inflation, and more energy inflation means more inflation in everything that uses energy: making it, transporting it, selling it, or using it. All of it. 

That's not the end of it. Most of his crazy-MAGA-schemes take more years to realize than he'll be in office. 

By then, Rahm Emmanuel could be president and retro-repro-!#(%) Trump's edicts back to Mar-a-Lago. 

This is a mystery. How to plan, conceive, sell, implement, and apologize for a Ponzi scheme with a 2-4 year payoff that would take 10 years to evaluate and correct.  

Economic Ludites

Children, Mr Miller and Mr Lutnick are why we can't have nice things. Without his pawns, where is the King? 

The economy is in recession, and until we count to three on the calendar it can't be official, an eventuality that usually exacerbates the recession, and inflation and labor demands because of inflation cause a stagnating economy. 

That all happened last week, and in three months they can all agree, officially. 

Some notice the change from a consumer economy to something else or call it that. With no answer on what the something else is. Those with a monetary point of view may notice the shift to a regressive tax structure, perhaps an end to the income tax, and no mention of other income streams except more regressive solutions to repair the budget, or the people that depended on it. Separating 10 dollars each from Americans with 100 dollars and Americans with 100 million dollars. 

The Miller Prophecy

The president, Mr. Miller contends, is fine with the separation of powers, as long as the powers are separated from the other two branches justified by some creative reading of the Constitution at the local Bund meeting. 

In this milieu, the president has seemingly alit on Harry Potter Ville and took the stop at the Wand Shop literally.  Donald, it's a scam. Still, he persists, talking the pig slice because no one stops him.

What wand, Mr president?


I have to confess, I never read the novels, but I have a recollection of that street with the talking signs, I'm not sure where I got it.

Mark Your Calendar

Protest here in America.


Anti-Oligarch suggestions for 3/21

The blog has rolled over Thru 3-15-25

 Morning World

 Much love 🥶

Sunday 3/16/2025

Work Today

I got all the way through the reading list yesterday and today, and fed the models. At this point they are not especially helpful -- this is why it is not AI. People patern match, define boundaries, seek solutions; bots just insert fact A into factoid B for the most part, acquiring new facts in batches one presumes at regular intervals.

As I said, I abondoned this model ilong ago bound as I was by the limitted resources of the times, that which was unclear was clear earlier. 

I also cleaned up the virtual desktop a bit. 

Things I can Talk About

I wrote the phrase before completing the analysis, besides the biochemistry nothing immediately comes to mind. I've four years to have decided which boat to sail first. 

Sundipped Sunday

Occasionally I get the impression you are not paying attention. So today, I'm making it simpler.

If it's Sunday, it's sundipped.


"I got re-lected and I ruined the world."

Morning World

Much love 👂

Saturday 3/15/2025

The void.
Filling in.

The Agenda

I've been super productive on Saturdays lately, and I may happen today, depending on the definition of happen. I've work piled everywhere, and code to review, and we're all getting older evey day, except for me. I plan on living forever, if it takes forever.

In BioChemistry

I wonder if I should share the list I need to work through. I've been through a few of these once or twice, and some are in the LM I'm building for Immunity and Aging, I removed those in the Theoretical Physics LM I'm building. What do you do with your free time, Mr President? Sleeve time and B-shots?

A there is one on decision making which is very thorough, and has useful algorithms. 

On the To Read List


The autophagy protein, ATG14 safeguards against unscheduled pyroptosis activation to enable embryo transport during early pregnancy

https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/97325v3


A conformational fingerprint for amyloidogenic light chains

https://elifesciences.org/articles/102002


Deuterium metabolic imaging phenotypes mouse glioblastoma heterogeneity through glucose turnover kinetics

https://elifesciences.org/articles/100570


CCR5 antagonists as cerebroprotective and stroke recovery enhancing agents: a preclinical systematic review and meta-analysis

https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/103245v2


Immunoglobulin M regulates airway hyperresponsiveness independent of T helper 2 allergic inflammation

https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/90531v2


Axon-specific microtubule regulation drives asymmetric regeneration of sensory neuron axons

https://elifesciences.org/articles/104069?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9E0vqvwSNknooE9b4Ucq4oHNKpqiiDBwpNCidcNVJR3XTWLBiLoRABtbiDiWcfkDEczZoBrl9bVbXVy2iGqTmRtVcoqw&_hsmi=98220609&utm_content=98220609&utm_source=hs_automation


A statistical framework for quantifying the nuclear export rate of influenza viral mRNAs

https://elifesciences.org/articles/88468?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8NwN2o_xZzWw5l9BjmNa7oFd6CID5w8ICKidR-gC8hk2Sh_Jdr750ALjyNmh_nOyCglWv5xiYPaKZoSDzMazlggJ2kMQ&_hsmi=98220609&utm_content=98220609&utm_source=hs_automation


Ubiquitin Ligase ITCH Regulates Life Cycle of SARS-CoV-2 Virus

https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/105105?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8OpKD4vvHZYV9fH9I1EUqmc0Dm859i78Y4rhM4yMoe8E5H_it2szfB8wAbB3qiMMURxApq3E8uah9m013dZkd4ANDZ9g&_hsmi=98220609&utm_content=98220609&utm_source=hs_automation


Regeneration following tissue necrosis is mediated by non-apoptotic caspase activity

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.101114.2


DGKα and ζ Deficiency Causes Regulatory T-Cell Dysregulation, Destabilization, and Conversion to Pathogenic T-Follicular Helper Cells to Trigger IgG1-Predominant Autoimmunity

Lei LiHongxiang HuangXiao-Ping Zhongshow 7 more

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.105212.1


The resource elasticity of control

https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/105507v1


the value of initiating a pursuit in temporal decision-making

https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/99957?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9D1XsS-Lqpo7mG9fF8OgHBneZTi5eljO4dMEkCNT2ttmmAKvdsyJBIKblcji8eizzq5g5XgQPoTULx04RntffTrTBEsw&_hsmi=98219677&utm_content=98219677&utm_source=hs_automation


There are more on the phone, this is from my Day One.   By the way Day One staff, it would be useful to export a thread or selected items of a thread as JSON, MD, PDF, CSV, as it is for the whole account, just pre-selected.   

Quote  from https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/105507v1 

Knowing the elasticity of control is necessary for deciding whether and how to act. Failing to achieve one's goal, for example, should only lead one to invest more resources in an elastic environment. Critically, in many real-life domains (e.g., studying for an exam), we must use our experiences to infer the degree to which we can improve our outcomes by investing more resources16-20. Failure to do so is bound to result in maladaptive behavior, and may thus contribute to mental health disorders. Depressed patients, for instance, are less willing to expend their resources to obtain control21,26-27, which could result from an underestimation of elasticity. Conversely, the repetitive actions that characterize obsessive compulsive disorder patients24 could indicate that such patients overestimate elasticity, believing that the additional efforts they invest will yield progressively better outcomes. Ultimately, not having a good grasp of how one's additional efforts influence outcomes is bound to undermine one's sense of agency 14-15.

If you don't want to read all that.... Here's a summary.

Summary


Okay, I've read the preprint "The resource elasticity of control" by Solomyak et al. Here's a thorough comment, focusing on the psychopathology linkage, testing, and results, as you requested:

Summary of the Study

The study investigates how people understand and utilize "elasticity of control." The authors argue that in real-world situations, control over outcomes often depends on the amount of resources (effort, time, money) invested. This is "elasticity of control." They developed a treasure hunt game to test if people infer this elasticity, if individual differences in this inference lead to maladaptive resource use, and if these differences are associated with psychopathology.

Psychopathology Linkage

Testing

Results

Comments and Considerations

Overall, the study provides compelling evidence that people infer the elasticity of control and that biases in this inference are associated with psychopathology. The findings contribute to our understanding of the cognitive and computational mechanisms underlying control-related behavior and have potential implications for the development of interventions for mental health disorders.


Good Sabbath

Morning World

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Yesterday's News 

...so to speak.  I put it all over here