Brian Crabtree

Curiosity driven AI expert
No possessions, no agenda.
Just exploring math, systems, and strange ideas.

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

@APearlBird @Vijesti11111 the role mixes propaganda/education, discipline enforcement, welfare administration, and monitoring of personnel attitudes.

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

he had had affairs with Valerie Harkess, the wife of a South African barrister, and her daughters, Josephine and Alison.

After sensationalist tabloid headlines, Clark's wife Jane remarked upon what Clark had called "the coven" with the line: "Quite frankly, if you bed people that I call 'below-stairs class', they go to the papers, don't they?".

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

@0xpwnie the classification of what is known can itself depend on uncontrolled interleaving among competing epistemic updates.

That is where “race condition” actually earns its name.

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

The magneto-optic interaction is linear in B, but the measured speckle decorrelation scales approximately as B².
That is not a contradiction.
The mode-pair amplitudes acquire phases with varying mismatch, so the mean rotation tends toward zero while the phase variance grows.
The intensity correlation measures that variance, not the first moment.
The paper states this explicitly: polarimetry sees the mode-summed first moment, which averages to zero, while the speckle retains the spatial phase structure.

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

@AlexCarten_ https://t.co/oFsNGWNehY
An atomic clock applies microwave radiation, scans/interrogates the atoms, measures the transition probability, and locks a local oscillator to the resonance.
There is no little electron continuously flipping back and forth like a metronome.

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

The article actually contains evidence of the transition but keeps forcing it back into its existing variables.

Anthropic researchers report being “no longer bottlenecked on code”; experiments increasingly collapse into agent-scaffold threads; experimentation overhead is heading toward zero.

The authors then discover that their model cannot explain the observed acceleration unless near-automated coding produces much more leverage than expected, other activities such as data generation matter, or their diminishing-return model is wrong.

They are signals that the decomposition itself may be obsolete.

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

@kimmonismus https://t.co/C7GZ9o7w7m

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

@physorg_com @AandA_journal https://t.co/J99Gkce4Ji

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

@aakashgupta

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

there are hybrid edge cases that create ecology

TristanTube is not AI. Tristan supplies the distinction, TristanTube instantiates that distinction as an executable environment, and the LLM amplifies the utility of that environment.

So the causal sequence is not AI → TristanTube. It is Tristan’s judgment → TristanTube → AI-mediated amplification.

The LLM helps here because it separates source, domain, capability, and return interface.

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

@SamaHoole https://t.co/14T95aKyKM
self-organization-of-foraging-behaviour-from-simplicity-to-complexity-without-goals

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

the critical audit is triadic consistency:

stretching construction + pressure reconstruction + viscous evolution must all belong to the same exact Navier–Stokes trajectory.

If one leg is imposed externally, reduced away by symmetry, or reconstructed from a different carrier, then the construction has not closed the native triadic mechanism.

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

@FrnkNlsn ordinary centroid → minimize distance cost on a curved space
allow that distance itself to depend on direction
That last step is what changes the location of the mean/median, the convexity conditions, and the convergence behavior of the algorithms.

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

@sambendett These four responses expose the central weakness in Posch–Raz much better than another robustness regression. They show that an outward-looking position can be generated by completely different source mechanisms.

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

@kimmonismus Google Carbon (high) costs about $7.76 per Intelligence Index task, while GPT-6.1 Sol (max) scores 55 at roughly $1.27 per task. Fable 5.2 (max) reaches 65, but at an extreme $26.54 per task.

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

@AlexCarten_ 235 U is not on the verge of spontaneous disintegration; its half-life is about 7 * 10 ^ 8 years.
Little Boy contained about 64 kg of highly enriched uranium for the imploding critical mass to operate
0.70g is the nuclear binding energy released

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

@msnrhu @NewMentalities do not wait for perfection. get to acceptable quality, enter the market, observe what fails, copy what works, and improve.

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

@physorg_com @CommsBio

[Brian Crabtree @ourtown2]

The paper is stronger as empirical narrative than as theory.

Its central claim market integration broadens social orientation is too coarse. Silk Road, lapis, hawala, merchant diasporas, caravan trade, and long-distance credit all show that very large economic radius can coexist with highly local or kin-based trust.

The paper itself admits that exchange existed in essentially all societies and that its nineteenth-century U.S. case is really about livelihoods becoming organized around impersonal exchange and distant dependence.