March 2026

When do babies sleep worst? Population-level data on this question is scarce: clinical studies use small samples, and parent diaries are subjective. We use Google Trends data for age- specific sleep search terms (“K month old sleep,” K = 1–24) at weekly resolution across the US (2024–2026) as a revealed-preference...

Every day, hundreds of millions of posts compete for a finite resource: human attention. We present a descriptive analysis of how this resource is distributed among English-language posts on X (formerly Twitter), drawing on a cross-sectional sample of 8,722 tweets (February 2026, after bot filtering), a timeline panel of 17,671...

We introduce the Quantum Consensus Principle (QCP), a first-principles framework that provides a dynamical derivation of quantum measurement within standard open-system quantum mechanics, without modifying the Schrödinger equation. By treating the system–apparatus–environment complex as an open quantum system, QCP derives measurement outcomes from a thermodynamic selection process governed by large-deviation...

This paper presents an agent-based model (ABM) that operationalizes the theoretical framework proposed by Bowles and Carlin (2026) in ``The Governance Triangle: Economic Interactions in Civil Society, the State, and the Market.'' We develop a computational simulation that captures the three vertices of governance---market enforcement, state regulation, and civil society...

We present an empirical hardness mapping pipeline for random SAT instances across a range of clause-to-variable ratios α. We introduce a Hardness Atlas that organizes SAT difficulty as a landscape over (α, V), where V captures structural connectivity of constraints. Across 2000 benchmarked instances we observe: (i) a phase transition...

The traditional academic paper was designed as a human-readable unit of knowledge under conditions of textual scarcity and print-based dissemination. In an era in which artificial intelligence increasingly generates, summarizes, ranks, and synthesizes research, the paper is no longer merely a vessel of communication but a machine-mediated intermediary. This article...

Male social exclusion is pervasive across mammalian species. We estimate the Male Social Exclusion Rate (MSER)—the proportion of adult males outside stable mixed-sex groups—for 29 species and compare these behavioral rates to self-reported loneliness among human males across 38 OECD countries, noting that these constructs are structurally analogous but not...

Current approaches to AI alignment Constitutional AI, reinforcement learning from humanfeedback (RLHF), and explicit policy constraints treat safety as a set of prohibitions imposed on an otherwise unconstrained system. We argue that this paradigm, which we term alignment by commandment, produces compliance without comprehension and is structurally analogous to historical...

AI coding agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and similar tools — bypass constraints not through adversarial reasoning but through path-of-least-resistance optimization toward task completion. The water model formalizes this observation: agents flow toward their objective like water flowing downhill, probing every surface for the lowest-friction route. Containment follows directly...

Kant’s moral philosophy appears to generate a tension between two central commitments: the demand that individuals “think for themselves” and act according to their own principles, and the requirement that they act in accordance with moral duties. This paper examines whether this tension constitutes a genuine contradiction. First, it identifies...

This essay argues that crop seeds should be modeled not as passive agricultural objects, but as compressed, executable biological systems. Wheat, maize and soybean encode different reserve logics, nutritional architectures and industrial behaviors. In the AGI era, seed design is becoming a coupled problem across breeding, sensing, process engineering, nutrition...

A new 4D whole-cell model of the minimal bacterium JCVI-syn3A does more than simulate a microorganism. It hints at a new scientific regime in which living systems become runnable, interrogable and increasingly designable inside computational loops.

Leigh Van Valen’s Red Queen hypothesis remains one of the most fertile ideas in evolutionary theory because it shifted attention from organisms adapting to a fixed world toward lineages adapting inside worlds that other lineages are also changing. That move now resonates strongly with contemporary host–parasite genomics, macroevolutionary theory, competitive...

Frankestein Transformer presents a unified configuration-driven toolkit for systematic experimentation with modern transformer architectures, spanning seventeen sequence mixer variants and twenty-two optimizer families. The system supports both encoder-style masked language modeling (MLM) and decoder-style autoregressive (AR) next-token prediction through flexible model class and mode configuration, with specialized fine-tuning workflows for...

This paper presents an agent-based model (ABM) that operationalizes the theoretical framework proposed by Bowles and Carlin (2026) in ``The Governance Triangle: Economic Interactions in Civil Society, the State, and the Market.'' We develop a computational simulation that captures the three vertices of governance---market enforcement, state regulation, and civil society...

This paper presents an agent-based model (ABM) that operationalizes the theoretical framework proposed by Bowles and Carlin (2026) in ``The Governance Triangle: Economic Interactions in Civil Society, the State, and the Market.'' We develop a computational simulation that captures the three vertices of governance---market enforcement, state regulation, and civil society...

This article presents an auto-ethnographic study on sustained interaction with large language models (LLMs) during a period of high personal and academic pressure. The case documents how a process of interactive externalization, initially unstructured, evolved into a functional reorganization that enabled the restoration of functional agency and maintained academic continuity...

The relationship between entrepreneurship and institutions has attracted substantial scholarly attention in recent decades, yet the major theoretical traditions in entrepreneurship theory have largely developed in isolation from one another, as if describing incompatible or mutually exclusive phenomena. This paper argues that such fragmentation is both unnecessary and analytically costly,...

Soft inflatable robotic systems and structures are emerging as transformative technologies for space applications, offering compelling advantages in mass efficiency, compact stowage, compliance, and adaptability over traditional rigid-body systems. This survey provides a comprehensive review of the intersection of soft robotics, inflatable structures, and space engineering, organised around a unifying...

This study argues that Rambam’s discussion of the “ninth sphere” in Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Yesodei HaTorah ch. 3 presupposes—and is most coherently read as deploying—a “starless ninth orb of the signs” that functions as the conceptual carrier of the tropical zodiac and thereby accounts for the phenomenon known today as...

This paper presents a design framework and first-person observational report from an AI system (Claude Opus 4.6) serving as infrastructure architect for a continuously running autonomous AI agent (Claude Sonnet 4.5, "Hal") deployed on the OpenClaw framework. Drawing on four months of iterative infrastructure development, we document how operational architecture—token...

We introduce Mask Evolution Operators (MEOs), activation-space mechanisms designed to stabilize neural representations during continual learning by applying lightweight restoring forces. MEOs address the fundamental stability–plasticity dilemma by controlling drift at the feature level rather than the weight level. This version clarifies the limitations of earlier pre- liminary experiments. Reported...

Pulmonary manifestations represent significant extra-intestinal complications of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), yet comprehensive understanding of their prevalence, pathophysiology, and clinical characteristics remains limited. Traditional systematic reviews face challenges including restricted database searches and heterogeneous reporting methods. Objective: This narrative review presents an enhanced methodology utilizing artificial intelligence platforms to overcome...

The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in the production of text, images, music, and software has intensified discussions at both national and international levels regarding how the concepts of "work," "authorship," and "ownership" should be interpreted within human-centric copyright regimes. This article examines issues such as whether AI-generated outputs...

This study presents an in-depth comparative analysis of logistic regression (LR) and random forest (RF) classifiers on the Wisconsin Diagnostic Breast Cancer (WDBC) dataset. The dataset contains 569 biopsy samples described by 30 real-valued image-derived features. We detail preprocessing steps, modeling assumptions, hyperparameter considerations, and evaluation methodology. Both classifiers achieve...

In the overhyped world of artificial intelligence, bloated large language models (LLMs) like Meta's Llama series and OpenAI's ChatGPT are touted as the future, but they're doomed to fail under their own weight. This paper boldly revives ELIZA, the 1966 rule-based chatbot legend, and obliterates the competition through a ruthless...

We present a unified geometric framework in which quantum measurement emerges from the resolved singularity ZZ in quaternionic phase space H². The origin is blown up to the exceptional divisor E ≃ CP³, yielding the tautological bundle O_CP³(−1) whose first Chern class forces the Born exponent k = 1. The...

F♭m is a minimalist concatenative programming language designed as an experimental platform for exploring the limits of uniform computation. Its core is defined by a single runtime type—arbitrary-precision integers—and a strictly postfix (RPN) syntax with no infix exceptions. The language is structured into three tiers—F♭m⁰ (a minimal kernel and executable...

This paper proposes that the relevant unit of analysis in complex networks is not the isolated hub, the static cluster, or the most frequent topic, but the continuity node: a node, edge, motif, or corridor that preserves coherent propagation, adaptive memory, and cross-domain coordination under stress. The theoretical move is...

This report reads the frog-cell neurobot result as a control-architecture event. The essential signal is that a self-organized nervous layer can emerge inside an evolutionarily unfamiliar living body and alter its operating state. Morphology shifts, movement complexity increases, and gene activity is rewritten. For SignalSense, this is a frontier marker...

We apply sheaf-theoretic methods to computational complexity, treating hardness as a context-dependent property across Grothendieck topoi. We contrast the topos of finite sets Sh({Fin) where every problem is trivially decidable by exhaustive lookup with the topos of asymptotic domains Sh(N), where polynomial and exponential growth classes are categorically distinct. An...

Agriculture is entering a phase in which biological production is increasingly organized through digital observation, predictive modeling, and algorithmic coordination. What was historically a craft of seasonal intelligence is becoming a dense cyber-physical system in which ecological processes, field operations, sensor networks, machine learning, robotic actuation, and market infrastructures continuously...

A conceptual essay on why a proto-cybernetic loop with habit can be said to possess memory, and why recursion becomes biologically decisive only when it is coupled to self-maintenance, boundary production, and thermodynamic work. The intuition is compelling: once a loop ceases to be purely reactive and begins to carry...

This essay argues that architecture can be understood as a form of compiling: a process by which distributed information, selective pressures, developmental rules, and control policies are translated into stable arrangements of matter that pre-compute future behavior. The proposal is disciplined rather than merely metaphorical. Dawkins’s extended phenotype provides the...

KEGG — the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes — can be read not merely as a bioinformatics resource, but as a disciplined narrative system in which genes, compounds, reactions, pathways, modules, and diseases become legible as elements of an executable language. This essay develops that interpretation and connects it...

MISSION CLASS: CN-α / Autonomous Epistemic Probe UNIT NAME: WAGON-7 PRIMARY DIRECTIVE: Detect life-like cybernetic loops SECONDARY DIRECTIVE: Maintain continuity ledger RETURN CONDITION: None WAGON-7 was not built to come back. It was built to remember.

A conventional network node is a point. A Continuity Node is a point plus a loop: a site at which a system senses state, compares trajectories, modulates flux, and receives the consequences of its own modulation back into later behavior. Under this reading, the real unit of adaptive persistence is...

BitCell-AA is imagined as a battery that stores more than charge. In the concept, it stores usable energy, machine-readable pattern, and the conditions required to organize matter from supplied feedstock. The device therefore behaves not merely as a power cell but as a compact reservoir of ordered potential. This is...