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Glenn Facey @uottawanmr.bsky.social · 1d

Removing t1 noise from homonuclear 2D NMR data - video tutorial. youtu.be/XhmzjxkPouo?... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky

NMR - Removing t1 Noise from Homonuclear 2D NMR Data

YouTube video by Glenn Facey

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 1d

This weekend, I have been doing a bit of reading about Gaussian Process State Space Models (GP-SSMs). Aside from being interesting on the modelling and inference sides, they are a remarkably good exercise for what it really means to write down a joint distribution.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 3d

A tiktok for cellular automata rules!
This project was developed during the #ALife2025 hackathon (can you believe how fast people make things?) and won the hackathon prize!

rulehunt.org?rulesetHex=7...

RuleHunt

rulehunt.org

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Samuel W. Remedios @sremedios.bsky.social · 2d

This website is super cool. rulehunt.org?rulesetHex=c...

RuleHunt

rulehunt.org

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 3d

Can general artificial intelligence emerge by not following the evolution of complex brains? In this 2022 paper with @brigan.bsky.social we argued that embodiment, mind reading (mirror systems), mental time traveling... are necessary conditions
www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24... @anilseth.bsky.social

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Samuel W. Remedios @sremedios.bsky.social · 6d

Super cool. Reminds me of the NeuralODE paper that motivates them as infinite-depth ResNets.

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Samuel Vaiter @samuelvaiter.com · 15d

Now accepted at #NeurIPS2025 :)

Samuel Vaiter @samuelvaiter.com · Jun 2

📣 New preprint 📣

**Differentiable Generalized Sliced Wasserstein Plans**

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L. Chapel
@rtavenar.bsky.social

We propose a Generalized Sliced Wasserstein method that provides an approximated transport plan and which admits a differentiable approximation.

arxiv.org/abs/2505.22049 1/5

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 16d

My fellow #FourierTransform enthusiasts, here's a new entry in my collection ready for you, nr. 56! The real-space picture is an intersection of two tilings of squares, one tilted by 43°. Moiré pattern? Definitely related 💯

As always, you can find the high-res pair at behance.net/specialdefects

A collection of bright yellow spots starts from the centre of the picture, from the strongest, central one. Clearly not periodically arranged, they have a point-symmetry evident since 4 equally spaced lines of stronger spots irradiate from the centre of the image. Between them, additional smaller spots form geometrical patterns vaguely resembling the fourier transform of an aperiodic crystal. The background colour alternate dark blue and soft teal, whose calm feeling contrasts the energy present in the bright yellow spots, looking like tiny fireflies.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 15d

Cool.

"Solar-powered ‘artificial plant’ purifies radioactive soil by 95% in 20 days"

interestingengineering.com/innovation/a...

New ‘artificial plant’ uses solar power to clean radioactive soil

Researchers have created a game-changing device that purifies radioactive soil using nothing but sunlight.

interestingengineering.com

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 18d

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Roza G. Bayrak, Catie Chang, et al:

DeepPhysioRecon: Tracing peripheral physiology in low frequency fMRI dynamics

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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John Blanchard @blanchard-nmr.bsky.social · 28d

Hooray, an excuse to go on and on about spin noise! Predicted correctly by Bloch in 1946

$A clip of text: “Even in the absence of any orientation by an external magnetic field one can expect in a sample with N nuclei of magnetic moment u to find a resultant moment of the order sqrt(N)*\mu because of statistically incomplete cancellation. This moment, however, would naturally be very small and in samples of normal size will be greatly increased as soon as the nuclei have found their equilibrium distribution in a field of a few thousand Gauss which, at the same time, will bring their Larmor precession into the convenient radiofrequency range.”$

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Glenn Facey @uottawanmr.bsky.social · 28d

FT NMR spectra without RF pulses u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2011/04/ft-n... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · Sep 14

#ALife

Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · Sep 12

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers are working backward — starting with the result to learn the rules behind it. @georgemusser.com, SFI’s 2025 Journalism Fellow, explores how this could reshape computation and self-organization in Quanta:

Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’ | Quanta Magazine

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · Sep 11

In August, an SFI working group explored the challenges and opportunities of digital-twin technology—virtual representations of physical objects, designed not as simple models but as complex systems that use real-time data to mirror their real-world counterparts.

santafe.edu/news

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Sep 5

Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online:

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496

Johns Hopkins University, Physics and Astronomy

Job #AJO30496, Postdoctoral Fellow in Foundations of Physics, Complexity, and Emergence, Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, US

academicjobsonline.org

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Luca Ambrogioni @lucamb.bsky.social · Sep 2

I am very happy to finally share something I have been working on and off for the past year:

"The Information Dynamics of Generative Diffusion"

This paper connects entropy production, divergence of vector fields and spontaneous symmetry breaking

link: arxiv.org/abs/2508.19897

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David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · Aug 28

Extra nice paper giving an information theoretic perspective on diffusion models. Shows the generation process correspond to bifurcations with splits being decisions between different attractors.
I don't know if Luca Ambrogioni is on bsky to tell us more (I doubt it).

arxiv.org/html/2508.19...

The Information Dynamics of Generative Diffusion

arxiv.org

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · Aug 23

You have 2 days left to apply to become a member of the board of the International Society for Artificial Life!
If you have ideas/complaints about the interface between ISAL and the ALife community, this is the time to make yourself heard!

#ALife

docs.google.com/forms/d/14_K...

Nomination Form for ISAL Board Election 2025

Dear Members of the Artificial Life community, The International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL) is seeking nominations for our Board of Directors. The board is responsible for managing the socie...

docs.google.com

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Aug 17

What is emergence? This is one of the most central ingredients of complexity, and a challenging one to formalize. Here's a paper by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social & Achyth Parola that attempts to classify different forms of emergence. @manlius.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2410.15468

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Aug 11

Do ant colonies work like liquid brains? Check this great paper in @pnas.org led by @ceabcsic.bsky.social Pol Fernandez and F.Bartumeus that shows how to explain collective foraging by modelling ants as neural agents @jordipinero.bsky.social @frazambelli.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Aug 5

How to deal with the multiscale nature of evolution, which displays different time scales of change? We need to replace classic genotype spaces with multiscapes. Here's a great paper by my friend Susanna Manrubia and coworkers @mncn-csic.bsky.social rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royo... …

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · Aug 5

"One of my chefs mentioned that if they could cook the steak on the grill they could get it right the first time. This is not an acceptable attitude in the microwave era."

www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…

www.colincornaby.me

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Ryan Williams @rrwilliams.bsky.social · Aug 5

It's fun to publish something 20 years ago which refutes a recently published proof of P ≠ NP

Lance Fortnow @lance.fortnow.com · Aug 4

Springer publishes a P ≠ NP "proof" and Eric Allender has words to say.

blog.computationalco...

Some thoughts on journals, refereeing, and the P vs NP problem

A guest post by Eric Allender prompted by an (incorrect) P ≠ NP proof recently published in Springer Nature's Frontiers of Computer Scie...

blog.computationalcomplexity.org

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Lance Fortnow @lance.fortnow.com · Aug 4

Springer publishes a P ≠ NP "proof" and Eric Allender has words to say.

blog.computationalco...

Some thoughts on journals, refereeing, and the P vs NP problem

A guest post by Eric Allender prompted by an (incorrect) P ≠ NP proof recently published in Springer Nature's Frontiers of Computer Scie...

blog.computationalcomplexity.org

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Vanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT) @vandyvaliant.bsky.social · Jul 30

Vanderbilt’s 2025 AI Summer School is now accepting registrations!
Open to students, faculty, staff, and community partners, this program offers an interdisciplinary, hands-on experience in AI.

Deadline to register is tomorrow! — July 31
Sign up here:
www.vanderbilt.edu/valiant/2025...

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