# gst: when a continuous attractor could survive seemingly destructive bifurcations

<< Continuous attractors offer a unique class of solutions for storing continuous-valued variables in recurrent system states for indefinitely long time intervals. Unfortunately, continuous attractors suffer from severe structural instability in general--they are destroyed by most infinitesimal changes of the dynamical law that defines them. >>️

AA << build on the persistent manifold theory to explain the commonalities between bifurcations from and approximations of continuous attractors. Fast-slow decomposition analysis uncovers the persistent manifold that survives the seemingly destructive bifurcation. Moreover, recurrent neural networks trained on analog memory tasks display approximate continuous attractors with predicted slow manifold structures. >>️

<< continuous attractors are functionally robust and remain useful as a universal analogy for understanding analog memory. >>

Ábel Ságodi, Guillermo Martín-Sánchez, Piotr Sokół, Il Memming Park. Back to the Continuous Attractor. arXiv: 2408.00109v1 [q-bio.NC]. Jul 31, 2024. 

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00109

Also: attractor, analogy, brain, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, attractor, continuous attractor, analogy, brain

# gst: approaching 'size doppelgangers'

<< NASA visualization scientist Kimberly Arcand has constructed a photo essay comparing microscopic images of biological phenomena, such as this mouse retina, to macroscopic images from celestial phenomena such as Saturn’s north pole. These “size doppelgangers”, she writes, allow people to “begin to explore the true scale of science”. >>

Sara Reardon. Nature Briefing: Translational Research. May 22, 2024. 

https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?e=f87c45d7b6&u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=c09c87d1c6

Bryan William Jones, Robert E. Marc. Micro Macro blog. Univ of Utah / NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Hampton University

https://chandra.si.edu/micro/

img (left): Mouse Eye

https://images.nigms.nih.gov/Pages/DetailPage.aspx?imageID2=3641 

img (right): Saturn's North Pole

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/saturn/hexagon-in-motion

Also: keywords 'analogy", 'similarity', in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=analogy

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=similarity  

Keywords: gst, analogy, similarity, ai (artificial intell), size doppelgangers

# life: oops! AI - artificial intelligence - now beats humans at basic tasks.

<< Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the chatbot ChatGPT, have become so advanced that they now very nearly match or exceed human performance in tasks including reading comprehension, image classification and competition-level mathematics, according to a new report. >>️

Nicola Jones. AI now beats humans at basic tasks — new benchmarks are needed, says major report. Stanford University’s 2024 AI Index charts the meteoric rise of artificial-intelligence tools. Nature. doi: 10.1038/ d41586-024-01087-4. Apr 15, 2024. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01087-4

<< Welcome to the seventh edition of the AI Index report. The 2024 Index is our most comprehensive to date and arrives at an important moment when AI’s influence on society has never been more pronounced. >>

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THE AI INDEX REPORT. Measuring trends in AI. 

https://aiindex.stanford.edu/report/

Also:  "qui non e' impossibile immaginare ..." (here it is not impossible to imagine ... ). In: FonT. Dec 31, 2015. 

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2015/12/rmx-s-gst-anomalous-formation-of.html

Also:  artificial intell, analogy, nfulaw,  oops, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, ai, artificial intelligence, analogy, nfulaw

# gst: an analogy between geometrical frustrations and nonreciprocal systems

<< A system is geometrically frustrated when its members cannot find a configuration that simultaneously minimizes all their interaction energies, (..). A nonreciprocal system is one whose members have conflicting, asymmetric goals, as exemplified by an ecosystem of predators and prey. >>️

<< Ryo Hanai (..) has identified a powerful mathematical analogy between those two types of dynamical systems. >>️

Peter Littlewood. Nonreciprocal Frustration Meets Geometrical Frustration. Physics 17, 32. Feb 26, 2024. 

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/32

Ryo Hanai. Nonreciprocal Frustration: Time Crystalline Order-by-Disorder Phenomenon and a Spin-Glass-like State. Phys. Rev. X 14, 011029. Feb 26, 2024. 

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.011029

Also: order, disorder, disorder & fluctuations, noise, analogy, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: gst, analogy, order, disorder, noise

# gst: analogy between quasi-2D and 3D liquid drops.

<< Liquid drops are everywhere around us and important in numerous technological applications. Here, (AA) demonstrate a quasi-two-dimensional (Q2D) analogy to the regular, often close to axisymmetric, three-dimensional (3D) drops. >>️

<< The Q2D drops are created by confining liquids between vertical walls, leading to formation of low aspect ratio capillary bridges that are deformed by gravity. When stationary, the Q2D drops adopt projected shapes that are analogous to 3D sessile drops, ranging from circular drops to puddles. >>️

<< When moving, the Q2D drops exhibit capillary and fluid mechanical behaviours analogous to 3D drops, including impacts and sliding on pseudo-surfaces. The Q2D drops also exhibit considerably more complex phenomena such as levitation, instabilities and pattern formation when subjected to external electric, magnetic and flow fields -- all seen also in regular 3D drops. >>️

<< 3D-Q2D analogy suggests that the diverse and often complicated phenomena observed in 3D drops can be studied in the Q2D geometry, >>

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Tytti Kärki, Into Pääkkönen, et al. Quasi-Two-Dimensional Drops. arXiv: 2401.11845v1 [physics.flu-dyn]. Jan 22, 2024.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11845

Also: drop, analogy, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: gst, drop, droplet, droploid, analogy

# life: exponential post-Donald (without Donald), how AI could interfere (drive) next political elections.

<< Recent news that the Republican National Committee (RNC) has used an AI-generated video to criticize Joe Biden shows how likely AI is to transform our upcoming elections. >>️

<< Through templates that are easy and inexpensive to use, we are going to face a Wild West of campaign claims and counter-claims, with limited ability to distinguish fake from real material and uncertainty regarding how these appeals will affect the election. >>️

<< In the coming year, response times may drop to minutes, not hours or days. AI can scan the internet, think about strategy, and come up with a hard-hitting appeal. >>️

<< AI provides an inexpensive way to generate instant responses without having to rely on highly-paid consultants or expert videographers. >>️

<< AI enables very precise audience targeting, which is crucial in political campaigns. >>️

<< AI likely will democratize disinformation by bringing sophisticated tools to the average person interested in promoting their preferred candidates as well. People no longer must be coding experts or video wizards to generate text, images, video, or programs. They don’t necessarily have to work for a troll farm to create havoc with the opposition. They can simply use advanced technologies to spread the messages they want. In that sense, anyone can become a political content creator and seek to sway voters or the media. >>️

Darrell M. West. How AI will transform the 2024 elections. May 3, 2023.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2023/05/03/how-ai-will-transform-the-2024-elections/

Also: 'ai', 'analogy', 'Potus', 'RAG-time', 'CTZ', 'Donald' in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: life, ai, analogy, potus, RAG, CTZ, Donald

# ai.bot: a mechanism of analogy could be the master key to achieving an abstract artificial intelligence

<< It’s understanding the essence of a situation by mapping it to another situation that is already understood, (..) If you tell me a story and I say, ‘Oh, the same thing happened to me,’ literally the same thing did not happen to me that happened to you, but I can make a mapping that makes it seem very analogous. It’s something that we humans do all the time without even realizing we’re doing it. We’re swimming in this sea of analogies constantly. >> Melanie Mitchell.

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John Pavlus. The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think With Analogies. QuantaMag. Jul 14, 2021.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/melanie-mitchell-trains-ai-to-think-with-analogies-20210714/

https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/1416798420669509635

Also

here a fuzzy example:  "qui non e' impossibile immaginare ..." (here it is not impossible to imagine ... )

in: Notes. Dec 31, 2015 (quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2015/12/rmx-s-gst-anomalous-formation-of.html

keyword 'gst' (general system theory) in FonT 

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=gst

keyword 'organoids' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=organoids

keyword 'ai' | 'bot' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=ai

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=bot

keyword 'ia' | 'ai' | 'robota' in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=ia

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=ai

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=robota