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Essays – Yuxi on the Wired

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My basic framework for understanding the modern Chinese economy and its growth. Includes brief histories of Chinese, Soviet, and Japanese economy. Framework applied to two case studies on the stock market and the housing market. An application of computational complexity theory to diffusion language models. Unlikely to be useful for anything, but it is cute! After 40 years, 30 million rules, 200 million dollars, 2000 person-years, and many promises, Cyc has failed to reach intellectual maturity, and may never will. Exacerbated by the secrecy and insularity of Cycorp, there remains no evidence of its general intelligence. How to think like a classical statistical-mechanic, with many examples from gas theory, biology, probability, and information theory. Prerequisites: thermodynamics, calculus, probability, and mathematical maturity. The hole argument in general relativity is formally analogous to the inverted qualia problem in philosophy. Like how spacetime points have no existence beyo

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