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Condensed concepts

Ruminations on emergent phenomena in condensed phases of matter.

  • By Ross H. McKenzie
  • Based in Australia
  • Roughly one post per week
  • First post on

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Sep 2024 6
Oct 2024 2

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2024 Nobel Prize in Physics
I was happy to see John Hopfield was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on neural networks. The award is based on this paper from 1982Neural networks and physical systems with emergent …
On , by Ross H. McKenzie, 467 words
Mental Health for Academics
Tomorrow I am giving a talk "Mental health for academics" for the ARC Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems as part of Mental Health Week.Here is a video recording of my planned talk. As an experiment, …
On , by Ross H. McKenzie, 84 words
The multi-faceted character of emergence (part 2)
In the previous post, I considered five different characteristics that are often associated with emergence and classified them as being associated with ontology (what is real and observable) rather than epistemology (what we believe to …
On , by Ross H. McKenzie, 1,816 words