#percolation
THIS! I have been trying to write a story for four years. Wait, maybe longer. Yes, longer cuz I need to count the original percolation period where I get an idea and let my subconscious noodle with it before I write word one. I don't plot because my brain doesn't work that way. But I do think.
The act of writing is *thinking*. If you do not allow yourself to think thoughts that feel wrong, you will never get a feel for what feels *right*.
December 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Note, this is not depression, it’s more “I was barely around, mate.”

To be honest I find the whole ‘Best of—‘ situation to be a FOMO-attracting danger zone for many.

Plus, just because you’re not on a list doesn’t mean you haven’t affected someone. Sometimes it just takes percolation.
December 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I don’t know how to fix that. Except running, or refusing to support anyone not willing to do the hard thing when it’s the right thing.

But it’s easy to soapbox preach from here - even though I see a percolation of some of the same things here on a smaller scale that I haven’t fixed myself.
December 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Arthur Blanc-Renaudie, Asaf Nachmias: Critical percolation on the discrete torus in high dimensions https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19672 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.19672 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.19672
December 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Tillmann B\"uhler, Anna Gusakova, Konstantin Recke: Critical Poisson hyperplane percolation in hyperbolic space has no unbounded cells https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19425 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.19425 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.19425
December 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Joost Jorritsma, Pascal Maillard, Peter M\"orters: The critical percolation window in growing random graphs https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18937 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.18937 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.18937
December 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Thx for the reference!

Lotsa cool stuff about network density + percolation thresholds in that article. Too bad that @kevinsimler.bsky.social didn't hang around + keep posting here (especially now that the blog has gone offline)
December 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The serenity of Nairobi University's Chiromo campus. Sunshine percolation through the continous mature trees canopies.
December 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Coffee brewer, it's got a little steel ball in the middle and a toggle so you can have it open or closed, so you can do immersion (coffee grounds sit in water and infuse), percolation (pour water directly through grounds), or both.
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
omg did the runaway train percolation bug survive
December 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Kaito Kobayashi: Maximum Cluster Diameter in Non-Critical Bond Percolation https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16174 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.16174 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.16174
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Paul Duncan, Benjamin Schweinhart, David Sivakoff: Disks, Surfaces, and Entanglement Percolation https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16015 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.16015 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.16015
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
A Century-Old Calculation For Pi Might Help Explain the Secrets of the Universe

Indian mathematician Ramanujan’s formula for Pi can help with calculating black holes, studying percolation, or investigating turbulence.

www.popularmechanics.com/science/math...

journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1...
December 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
`In 1914, Ramanujan unveiled 17 extraordinary infinite series for 1/𝜋. In this Letter, we uncover their physics origin by relating them to 2D logarithmic conformal field theories (LCFTs), which emerge in diverse settings such as the fractional quantum Hall effect, percolation, polymers, and even […]
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December 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
scitechdaily.com/ramanujans-1... #Ramanujan #pi #physics “Ramanujan’s motivation might have been very mathematical, but without his knowledge, he was also studying black holes, turbulence, percolation, all sorts of things.”
Ramanujan’s 100-Year-Old Pi Formula That Hides the Secrets of the Universe
A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of...
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December 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I love your wording! Percolation time is exactly the secret sauce!
(Often what is harmfully labeled procrastination is simply necessary percolation time.)

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December 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I feel if I can make like a bear and hibernate/nap until spring, I will be restored. No such luck, though!

I am, however, building more down time/percolation time into my week.

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December 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Functional Percolation: Criticality of Form and Function
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09317
December 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
EPL: How universal is the mean-field universality class for percolation in complex networks?
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/ae1322
December 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
December 18, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Sayan Banerjee, Shankar Bhamidi, Remco van der Hofstad, Rounak Ray: Non-equilibrium coagulation processes and subcritical percolation on evolving networks https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15561 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.15561 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.15561
December 18, 2025 at 6:40 AM
stores underground moisture percolation

acronymy.net/define/sump
—submitted by septie
December 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Finley Devlin, Jaron Sanders: Dropout Neural Network Training Viewed from a Percolation Perspective https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13853 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.13853 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.13853
December 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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