Wasn't Eric Adams the one who brought trash bins to NYC?

Ok apparently some people thought I was talking about a movie. I meant the US foreign policy establishment in DC.

A friend who lives in Denver says that at least sorta soft vaccine skepticism is sadly popular there.

All-around fantastic work from Andres Perez Fadon and collaborators, and this shows how these calculations could be done for systems where we still don't know how to write down even qualitatively correct solutions.

This requires the calculation of multiple degenerate ground states. People have used neural networks to calculate *a* ground state for the FQHE, and have calculated fractional spin statistics in lattice models, but no one has done these calculations in the continuum before.

Rather than write down a solution through a stroke of genius, we trained a Transformer-like neural network to calculate these fractional spin statistics using "entanglement interferometry", and got answers more accurate than the Laughlin wavefunction.

This behavior was so weird and unexpected that it ended up being the subject of the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics. No one even knew how to write down a wavefunction that explained this phenomenon until Bob Laughlin just dreamed one up one day. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

The collective excitations of many electrons behave a lot like particles...but instead of particles with integer spin (bosons) or half-integer spins (fermions) they behave like they have weird fractional spins like 1/3, 1/5, etc. This is the *fractional quantum hall effect*.

Fundamental particles are either fermions or bosons. Fermions, like electrons, make up matter, while bosons, like photons, are force carriers. But in two dimensional materials in a magnetic field, things can start to get weird...

Doesn't matter, information geometry is eternal.

Ahhhhh you worked with Gavin Brown, he chimed in on the other site.

I was really sure that this was not a novel result when I wrote it.

People keep coming out of the woodwork (no pun intended) to tell me that this three-page note is behind the best work of their careers and I am blown away.

I will say, it is a very odd feeling to finally tick something off your to-do list after 12 years...satisfying, but odd.

Until one day recently, I dropped the notes into an LLM and...got the raw LaTeX right back out. In theory I could have done it myself in a few hours, but this was enough to get me over the "activation energy" to finally do it. So thank you, Frank and Gemini! (Please don't hate me, Bluesky)

So I reached out to Frank Nielsen, who helpfully pointed me to the relevant literature. I meant to set the record straight, but by this point I'd actually lost the original LaTeX for the notes, and just never had the time to rewrite them...

But then a weird thing happened...people found it anyway, and actually started citing it like it was a novel result! I guess I accidentally made the top Google result for "Bregman bias-variance" or something.