A New Scientific Model of Mania and Depression, with Testable Predictions
by Breck Yunits
The model proposed here. Mania is too many mitochondria; depression too few. We predict it is possible to detect mood state from optical images of certain cells and counting stained mitochondria.
Are some intellectual environments better than others? Yes.
ETA! states that E, the evolution time of ideas, is the time T needed to test alterations of ideas, divided by the factorial of the number of ideas in the Assembly Pool A!.
Longer evolution times means worse ideas last longer before evolving into better ideas.
Continue reading...Can we quantify intelligence? Yes.
Program P is a bit vector that can make a bit vector (Predictions) that attempts to predict a bit vector of actual measurements (Nature).
Coverage(P) is the sum of the XNOR of the Predictions vector with the Nature vector.
Intelligence(P) is equal to Coverage(P) divided by Size(P).
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May 31, 2024 — Yesterday, on a plane, I found an equation I sought for a decade.
by Breck Yunits
All tabular knowledge can be stored in a single long plain text file.
The only syntax characters needed are spaces and newlines.
This has many advantages over existing binary storage formats.
Using the method below, a very long scroll could be made containing all tabular scientific knowledge in a computable form.
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I introduce the core idea of a new language for making languages.
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Note: I renamed Tree Notation to Particles. For the latest on this, start with Scroll.
This paper presents Tree Notation, a new simple, universal syntax. Language designers can invent new programming languages, called Tree Languages, on top of Tree Notation. Tree Languages have a number of advantages over traditional programming languages.
We include a Visual Abstract to succinctly display the problem and discovery. Then we describe the problem--the BNF to abstract syntax tree (AST) parse step--and introduce the novel solution we discovered: a new family of 2D programming languages that are written directly as geometric trees.
Continue reading...June 21, 2017 — Eureka! I wanted to announce something small, but slightly novel, and potentially useful.
What did I discover? That there might be useful general purpose programming languages that don't use any visible syntax characters at all.
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