Stochastic Path
Thoughts and feelings as we are making a virtual universe that mimics the natural selection.
I write about artificial intelligence, evolution, and the messy business of building things with other people. Some of it is research; some of it is argument; some of it is fiction. Everything here exists in both English and Chinese.
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From Stage Gates to Belief Flow: Continuous Decisions and Dynamic Pricing for R&D in the Age of AI
Biopharma R&D has long made its decisions at a handful of stage gates. This piece proposes belief-flow pricing: describing a project's state by its posterior beliefs as well as its stage, so that v...
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After Seven Hundred Manuscripts: A Meta-Analysis of OpenAI's Mathematical Results, and Seventy Years of Machine Proof
On 6 October 2026, OpenAI released in one go 722 mathematical manuscripts in 372 result families, generated by an internal model. This piece sets out what the release actually contains, works throu...
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Is Consciousness a Product of Reality, or Its Ground? From Laszlo's Akashic Field to Glattfelder's Information Ontology
The systems philosopher Ervin Laszlo and the complex-systems scholar James Glattfelder both reject physicalism and place consciousness at a more fundamental level of reality. This piece traces thei...
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Does Biology Have Its Own Conservation Laws? A Test from the Central Dogma to Metabolic Scaling
The central dogma describes the mechanism of information flow; it doesn't draw the boundary of the states life can reach. Biology still lacks universal constraints of the conservation-law kind, met...