# gst: natural invariant measures for chaotic game dynamics; finding order in chaos.

<< ️(AA) study the long-term behavior of the Multiplicative Weights Update (MWU) algorithm in game settings where learning dynamics frequently fail to converge to Nash equilibria and instead exhibit Li-Yorke chaos. While such chaos precludes the prediction of specific long-term strategy profiles, it does not imply a lack of statistical structure. >>

<< ️(AA) demonstrate that natural invariant measures — a fundamental concept from ergodic theory — provide the rigorous framework necessary to find order within this chaos. Focusing on a two-strategy congestion game, (They) prove that these measures allow for a comprehensive statistical characterization of the dynamics. Crucially, (They) show that this framework extends beyond simple strategy frequencies to general observables, enabling the precise calculation of long-term time averages for broad classes of economic metrics — including payoffs, social cost, and regret — despite chaos. >>

<< ️(They) results reveal that this simple learning algorithm captures the full spectrum of behaviors found in one-dimensional dynamical systems, from unique or multiple absolutely continuous invariant measures to complex periodic attractors as well as coexisting chaotic and stable (periodic) behaviors. By bridging game theory and dynamical systems, (AA) show that statistical predictability is attainable even in the absence of pointwise convergence. >>

<< ️The intersection of game theory, dynamical systems, computer science, and statistics is rich with open questions, particularly when considering learning dynamics in games. >>

Jakub Bielawski, Thiparat Chotibut, Fryderyk Falniowski, et al. Natural Invariant Measures for Chaotic Game Dynamics: Finding Order in Chaos. arXiv: 2607.21805v1 [math.DS]. Jul 23, 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21805

Also: game, chaos, order, disorder,  in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, game, chaos, Multiplicative Weights Update (MWU) algorithm, statistical structure, statistical predictability, two-strategy congestion game, complex periodic attractors, coexisting chaotic and stable (periodic) behaviors.

# life: apropos of trick-shot artists, one shot, twenty-one balls; existence and rarity of a total clearance in a single stroke of snooker.

<< ️Snooker folklore holds that no single stroke can pocket all twenty-one object balls. (AA) examine the claim in an idealized but fully specified model of billiard dynamics. Within the model (They) exhibit an admissible configuration of the twenty-two balls and a stroke of the cue ball that pockets all twenty-one object balls, and (They) show that the set of such strokes has positive Lebesgue measure in the natural shot space: total clearances are not flukes of measure zero but open events. >>

<< ️For the regulation opening configuration (AA) conjecture the same and explain both why a simulation cannot settle the conjecture by brute force and what kind of computation could settle it in principle. Monte Carlo experiments in the same model estimate the probability P(k) that a uniformly random stroke pockets exactly k balls; the observed decay of P(k), extrapolated conditionally on the conjecture, places the probability of a total clearance from the break far beyond anything observable. The folk claim is thus right in practice and wrong in principle, and the gap between the two is exactly the distance between measure zero and unobservably small. >>

Avner Kantor. One Shot, Twenty-One Balls: Existence and Rarity of a Total Clearance in a Single Stroke of Snooker.  arXiv: 2607.12995v1 [cs.CG]. Jul 14. 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12995

Also: billiard, game, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, billiard, snooker, single stroke, games. 

# life: epistemic horizon minority games: when abundance reduces strategic value.

<< ️In ordinary language, abundance suggests value. In strategic systems this intuition often fails. >> 

<< ️Strategic value can fall when an option becomes visible. A route, signal, bet, or opportunity may be attractive because few agents see it; public attention can erase the advantage it reveals. >>

<< ️(AA) formalize this mechanism as an epistemic-horizon minority game (EHMG), where agents have bounded observation horizons, action-specific awareness, desire-biased utilities, and payoffs that decline with crowding, and where the object is not a fixed congestion game with omitted actions but an awareness-transition game on a finite lattice. (They) prove fixed-awareness potential-game reduction, finite monotone awareness convergence, logit mean-field uniqueness under an explicit norm condition, non-reducibility from static count-based congestion games, and sensitivity bounds for nonlinear revelation. >>

<< ️(AA) separate the target price of information from aggregate welfare loss, showing that they can coincide, diverge, or recommend opposite disclosure policies, while modeling private revelation, public common revelation, and correlated group disclosure as distinct signal structures with different equilibrium effects. Experiments regenerate awareness sweeps, public visibility shocks, horizon-desire grids, information-constrained Braess examples, disclosure optimization, minimum harmful revelation, and counterfactual baselines isolating the epistemic mechanism from ordinary full-awareness congestion. >>

<< ️Strategic trace encodings are evaluated as a controlled regime-recognition benchmark using raw trajectories, Fourier summaries, recurrence and Gramian images, image bundles, local-filter features, leakage probes, phase-scrambled controls, resolution and recurrence-threshold sweeps, spectral carriers, and IAAFT-matched null parameter-shift controls to test whether trace encodings recover strategic structure under robust nulls. >>

Faruk Alpay, Levent Sarioglu. Epistemic Horizon Minority Games: When Abundance Reduces Strategic Value. arXiv: 2607.02765v1 [cs.GT]. Jul 2, 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02765

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

Keywords: game, life, strategic values, epistemic-horizon minority game (EHMG), awareness-transition game, awareness sweeps, disclosure optimization, aggregate welfare loss, minimum harmful revelation, leakage probes, full-awareness congestion, recurrence-threshold sweeps, robust nulls. 

# life: apropos of anomalous (meta)mechanical responses, from active to odd to smart matter.

<< ️The study of active matter has reshaped our understanding of collective states of matter far from equilibrium by proving that energy pumped into the microscopic scale leads to order on the macroscopic scale, collective motion, and anomalous mechanical responses. >>

<< More recently, the discovery of odd elasticity and nonreciprocal mechanical couplings has extended these ideas to solid-like active systems, revealing materials with nonconservative elastic response. >>

<< ️Simultaneously, innovative developments in swarm robotics, programmable metamaterials, and learning algorithms have led to the emergence of a new frontier in which collective behavior and mechanical response are no longer fixed by design, but adapted, optimized, and learned toward functional goals. >>

<< ️This perspective proposes a unifying trajectory, from active to odd to smart matter, organized along two intertwined axes: the traditional gas-liquid-solid progression of condensed matter, and the more recent paradigm shift from spontaneous collective dynamics to task-driven functionality. >> 

<< ️(AA) try to highlight emerging principles, conceptual shifts, and open challenges that come along this trajectory, and argue that learning may play the role of a specific form of emergence, which could advantageously replace the more traditional view of control, at least in the realm of physics. >>

Olivier Dauchot. From active to odd to smart matter. Phys. Rev. E 114, 011001. Jul 8, 2026.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/tzyr-t47w

arXiv: 2607.06051v1 [cond-mat.soft]. Jul 7, 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06051

Also: 'a sciogliere nella metaciotola l' eccessivo rigido neurodistico ...', in: Voli in codice quasistocastico. Notes (quasistochastic poetry). Dec 09, 2004.

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2004/12/1798-voli-in-codice-quasistocastico.html

Also: Anagrammanti neurali. Notes (quasistochastic poetry). Sep 09, 2006.

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2006/09/2056-anagrammanti-neurali.html

Also: self-assembly, elastic, disorder, swarm, swarmalators, ai (artificial intell) (bot), brain, game, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, self-assembly, elasticity, disorder, swarm, swarmalators, ai,  artificial intelligence, bot, brain, games, active matter, collective states, anomalous responses, odd elasticity, nonreciprocal couplings, nonconservative elastic response, spontaneous collective dynamics, task-driven functionality, learning as a specific form of emergence, learning & adaptation without a brain.

# life: continual learning against data poisoning attacks.

<< ️Continual learning (CL), where a model is trained on a sequence of data tasks, is increasingly being adopted across key fields such as large language models and image recognition, yet it remains highly vulnerable to data poisoning that triggers learning divergence or severe excess risk. Despite these threats, a principled theoretical foundation in CL for understanding attack and defense remains lacking. >>

<< ️In this paper, (AA) develop a theoretical framework to analyze strategic attacks and defenses in regularization-based CL, a cornerstone of recent CL theory. By framing the adversary-defender interaction as an online zero-sum game, (They) first establish a fundamental performance limit: no defense succeeds when an adversary poisons a linear proportion of tasks by injecting unbounded noise or pattern shifts in regularization-based CL. >>

<< ️(AA) then analyze two possibly defensible scenarios: infrequent attacks and bounded noise per attack. For the former regime, (They) propose a task-to-task verification mechanism to detect data poisoning and reduce cumulative bias for learning convergence. For the latter regime, (They) derive a robust defense that minimizes the model's sensitivity to poisoned features, provably accelerating the convergence rate. Extensive experiments on realistic tasks further validate our theoretical results. >>

Yiting Hu, Lingjie Duan. Theory of Continual Learning Against Data Poisoning Attacks. Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Seoul, South Korea. PMLR 306, 2026. arXiv: 2606.29841v1 [cs.LG]. Jun 29, 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29841

Also: ai (artificial intell) (bot), nfulaw, noise, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI), bot, nfulaw, war, life, machine learning (ML), continual learning (CL), large language models (LLM), image recognition, vulnerability, data poisoning, robust defense, adversarial dynamics, adversarial manipulation, adversary-defender interaction, noise, unbounded noise. 

# brain: apropos of persistent exploratory predisposition, chaotic pigeons are helping redefine what we know about learning.

<< ️Pigeons seem to defy a century-old psychology law about how rewards and consequences help us learn. >>

<< ️New research suggests the birds themselves avoid stability in their decision-making, instead choosing to live “at the edge of chaos.” As model species for learning and behavior, these birds are helping researchers test a century-old law about how humans and other creatures learn. >>

<< ️When learning something new, people and animals alike tend to repeat behaviors that are rewarded. First proposed by Edward Thorndike in 1898, this principle is so well established in psychology that it's become known as the law of effect. But the law implies that beyond making a behavior more frequent, rewards also make it more consistent: reducing variability in the specific way behaviors are performed over time. >>

<< ️Edward A. Wasserman and his colleagues decided to put it to the test in pigeons—a species that has been integral to the study of learning at the university’s Comparative Cognition Laboratory for more than 50 years. And the study’s results, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, suggest these birds experience variability as the spice of life. >>

<< ️You could argue the birds are just utterly resistant to locking into anything stable. >> Edward A. Wasserman.

<< ️this paper leaves open many questions about the [neurological] mechanisms for future scientists to explore. >> Aaron Blaisdell.

K. R. Callaway, Sarah Lewin Frasier. Chaotic pigeons are helping redefine what we know about learning. SciAm. Jun 30, 2026. 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chaotic-pigeons-are-helping-redefine-what-we-know-about-learning

Wasserman E.A., Orr O.R.P., Li S. Variability, stability, and the law of effect. J. of Exp. Psychol: Animal Learning and Cognition, 52(3), 129–138. Jul 2026. 

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-47688-001

Also: brain, neuro, behav, curiosity, game, Nomads, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: brain, behavior, curiosity, games, Nomads.

# life: apropos of singular, bizarre, un.expected convergences, here an asymptotic, extreme, double 'quasistochastic tit-for-tat' exploit (within the same time window).

(A1)

<< “There were no moments of friction or disagreement,” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said at a press conference Wednesday. “I found that, overall, there was a desire to work together, and that’s not something to be taken for granted.” >>. 

Myah Ward, Clea Caulcutt, Giorgio Leali. Trump clears low bar for G7 summit in France. Jun 17, 2026.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/17/trump-and-allies-keep-the-peace-at-the-g7-summit-after-months-of-tumult-00966117

(A2)

<< However, Trump has since given a phone interview with Italy's La7 TV channel in which he alleged: "She begged me to take a photo with her; I felt sorry for her." >>. 

Paul Kirby, Europe digital editor, Davide Ghiglione, Rome, James Landale, Diplomatic correspondent. Italy's Meloni says Trump 'made up' story that she 'begged' him for photo at G7. BBC. Jun 19, 2026. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20y1ygn707o

(B) 

<< Donald Trump arrived in France yesterday for this morning’s G7

summit and promptly confirmed America’s capitulation to Iran. >>

Tom Nichols. Trump Does Not Understand the War He Lost. The Atlantic Daily. Jun 16, 2026.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/06/trump-g7-comments-misunderstsand-middle-east/687569/

(A&B)

<< qui i due estremi: era modicamente non cooperatore e ha ricevuto come reazione una "bastonata"; era assolutamente ostile e ha ricevuto la classica "pacca sulla spalla" ... >>

Donald, what he can do (with less than four lines ...). FonT. May 23, 2016.

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2016/05/p-usa-potus-race-donald-what-he-can-do.html 

FonT

Ultimately, here too one could hypothesize another case of historic, singular checkmate of 'one against all'. Anzicheforse?

Also: Mr. Donald, tit-for-tat, game, dance, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Also: here's another checkmate (FonT. Dec 4, 2024)

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2024/12/life-apropos-of-saliva-healers-herd.html 

Keywords: Mr. Donald, tit-for-tat, game, dance 

# aibot: parasitic masquerade; societal scale human-machine interaction.

<< This (AA) work extends recent developments in studying human--machine interaction by scaling from individual game-theoretic models to a societal-level model. (They) adopt a Graphon Mean-Field Game (GMFG) that models the interaction among four groups of internally-homogeneous but externally-heterogeneous agents in a shared environment. >>

<< (AA) results show that parasitism can masquerade as productive learning, with knowledge distribution and actions appearing healthy while being driven by machine coupling rather than independent investigation. To detect this, (They) measure the direction of information flow and belief entropy of the environment, revealing that human to machine channel dominates across all scenarios, with the asymmetry intensifying under parasitism. >>

<< (They) further demonstrate that the system exhibits coexisting mutualistic and parasitic equilibria, where environmental noise can induce a tipping point that shifts agents past the cognitive cost barrier. These emergent phenomena are not designed into any individual agent but arise from the collective interaction structure, underscoring the need to study the sociology of humans and machines holistically as a complex system. >>

Jiejun Hu-Bolz, James Stovold. Parasitic Masquerade: Societal Scale Human-Machine Interaction. arXiv: 2606.17925v1 [cs.GT]. Jun 16, 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17925

Also: ai, bot, artificial intelligence, analogy, noise, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: ai, aibot, artificial intelligence, human--machine interaction, Graphon Mean-Field Game (GMFG), parasitism, masking, masquerade as productive learning, mutualistic and parasitic equilibria, environmental noise, sociology of humans and machines.

# game: apropos of “tit-for-tat” approach, the evolution of lying in a spatially-explicit prisoner's dilemma model.

<< ️(AA) present the results from a spatial model of the prisoner’s dilemma, played on a toroidal lattice. Each individual has a default strategy of either cooperating (C) or defecting (D). Two strategies were tested, including “tit-for-tat” (TFT), in which individuals play their opponent’s last play, or simply playing their default play. Each individual also has a probability of telling the truth (0 ≤ P_(truth) ≤ 1) about their last play. >>

<< ️This parameter, which can evolve over time, allows individuals to be, for instance, a defector but present as a cooperator regarding their last play. >>

<< ️This leads to interesting dynamics where mixed populations of defectors and cooperators with P_(truth) ≥ 0.75 move toward populations of truth-telling cooperators. >>

<< ️Likewise, mixed populations with P_(truth) < 0.7 become populations of lying defectors. >>

<< ️Both such populations are stable because they each have higher average scores than populations with intermediate values of P_(truth). Applications of this model are discussed with regards to both humans and animals. >> 

Gregg Hartvigsen. The Evolution of Lying in a Spatially-Explicit Prisoner's Dilemma Model. arXiv: 2602.02587v1 [physics.soc-ph]. Jan 31, 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02587

Also: tit-for-tat, game, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: game, tit-for-tat, prisoner's dilemma, toroidal lattice, cooperating- defecting- strategies, truth-telling cooperators, lying defectors.

# gst: a journey into billiard systems

<< ️Have you ever played or watched a game of pool? If so, you have already seen a billiard system in action. In mathematics and physics, a billiard system describes a ball that moves in straight lines and bounces off walls. Despite these simple rules, billiard systems can produce remarkably rich behaviors: some table shapes generate regular, periodic patterns, while others give rise to complete chaos. >>

<< Scientists also study what happens when (They) shrink the ball down to the size of an electron to a world where quantum effects take over and the familiar reflection rules no longer apply. >>

<< ️In this article, (AA) discuss billiard systems in their many forms and show how such a simple setup can reveal fundamental insights into the behavior of nature at both classical and quantum scales. >>

Weiqi Chu, Matthew Dobson. What Do Bouncing Balls Tell Us About the Universe? A Journey into Billiard Systems. arXiv: 2508.18519v1 [math.DS]. Aug 25, 2025.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18519

Also: billiard, transition, chaos, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, billiard, transition, chaos.

# drugs: Parrondo's paradox in tumor ecosystems; adaptive therapy strategies to delay the development of drug resistance.

<< ️Maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and low-dose metronomic (LDM) schedules are widely used clinical strategies in cancer chemotherapy despite the fact that both approaches have inherent limitations. MTD often leads to drug resistance in tumors, whereas LDM usually results in the predominance of drug-sensitive or drug-resistant cancer cells, depending on the specific dose applied. >>

<< ️To circumvent these unfavorable outcomes, (AA) propose in (Their) work a promising adaptive therapy strategy that alternates MTD and LDM schemes across the treatment cycles. By studying a three-component tumor system with replicator equations, (They) find that alternate administration of MTD and LDM at different lengths of the treatment cycle can significantly delay the development of drug-resistant phenotypes compared to when the two schemes are operated separately. >>

<< ️This outcome recapitulates the weak form of the Parrondo's paradox, where appropriate combinations of two individually suboptimal strategies can produce an even more superior outcome (a more favorable therapeutic effect in (this) case). (AA) also validate the feasibility of the proposed adaptive therapy strategy in spatially distributed tumor ecosystems by implementing agent-based simulations. (Their) findings offer potential clues to the challenges in state-of-the-art adaptive therapy methods, which often require precise regulation of drug dose and timing based on the proportions of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant cancer cells within a tumor. >>

De-Ming Liu, Yi-Yang Liu, et al. Parrondo's paradox in tumor ecosystems: Adaptive therapy strategies to delay the development of drug resistance. Phys. Rev. E 112, 024404. Aug 6, 2025.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/xjh4-mfvx

Also: Parrondo, game, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: drugs, pharma, Parrondo's paradox, game, cancer, tumors, cancer chemotherapy, maximum tolerated dose (MTD), low-dose metronomic (LDM), drug resistance, drug sensitivity, adaptive therapy strategy.

# game: Parrondo's paradox in space-inhomogeneous quantum walks.

<< The term Parrondo's paradox refers to the apparently paradoxical effect whereby two or more dynamics in which a given quantity decreases are combined in such a way that the same quantity increases in the resulting dynamics. >>

AA << show that Parrondo's paradox can occur not only in the case of homogeneous but also in space-inhomogeneous one-dimensional discrete-time quantum walks. >>

<< Moreover, (They) demonstrate that for such quantum walks Parrondo's paradox can affect the time evolution of quantum entanglement differently than it does in the case of homogeneous ones. >>

Zbigniew Walczak, Jarosław H. Bauer. Parrondo's paradox in space-inhomogeneous quantum walks. Phys. Rev. E 111, 064218. Jun 25, 2025.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/k6nn-n6c4

Also: Parrondo, game, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: Parrondo, games

# life: apropos of Trump-Musk dipole, an immediate MJQ apoptotic rift

<< In the last two days, the once powerful relationship between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk has unraveled as they took jabs at each other from their respective social media sites, X and Truth Social. Musk left his official role in the administration late last month. See how the digital confrontation devolved from complaints over the president’s tax bill to Musk alleging Trump was “in the Epstein files.” . >>

Rachel Lerman. A timeline of Musk and Trump’s devolving relationship. washingtonpost.com. Jun 6, 2025.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/trump-musk-x-truth-social-timeline/

FonT: an Ivy League Academic (e.g. a Harvard academic) could, as a funny hypothesis (and just to check if and how it works), to try to restore this form of sadic intermittent acyclic pseudo MJQ dipole; in this regard He/She/? could be immediately operational as a catalytic fractal epizeusis entity (obviously without ideological prejudices) to play Parrondo game to drive a quasi-stochastic tit-for-tat cooperative strategy. 

Soloperosservarecosasuccedeanzicheforse ...

Also: tit-for-tat, game, Parrondo, 

game, apoptosis, Mr. Donald, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Also: MJQ, in FonT https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=mjq. in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry) Attrattore cooperativo bipolare (nell' elastici spigoli), Mar 5, 2007. https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2007/03/2124-attrattore-cooperativo-bipolare.html

Also: Trump-Musk, in FonT https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=trump-musk

Also: sadico, in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry) https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=sadico

Keywords: life, Parrondo, Tit-for-Tat, MJQ, epizeusis, POTUS, Mr.Donald, Trump-Musk, sadistic, apoptosis, billiards, dance.

# life: to protect freedoms, not just funding.

<< At Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Columbia University in New York City, cuts to previously granted federal research funds have been accompanied by demands from the government. If enacted, the changes to departmental oversight, disciplinary procedures, campus police and governance structures would allow the government to dictate hiring, student admissions and disciplinary decisions. >>

<< So far, the US science community has been outspoken about the threats that funding cuts pose to health, innovation and the economy. Yet, few researchers have decried the devastation wreaked on science by attacks on civil liberties and the rule of law. >>

Andrew M. Leifer, Andrea J. Liu, Sidney R. Nagel. US researchers must stand up to protect freedoms, not just funding. Nature 641, 592-593. May 13, 2025.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01466-5

Also: people who turn career into a game playing ... FonT. May 31, 2017.

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2017/05/s-game-people-who-turn-career-into-game.html

Also: minimal risk, in FonT 

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=minimal+risk

Also: acad, in Font https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=acad.  acad, in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry) https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=acad

Also:  dance, game, transition, sars* covid* (aka 1or2achoos), forms of power, Mr. Donald, are you ready, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Also: nefst (e.g. not embedded, freestyle thinker) 

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED20173/track

Keywords: life, acad, game, dance, transitions, nefst, 1or2achoos, minimal risk, turn career, forms of power, Mr. Donald, are you ready.

# qubit: communication power of a noisy qubit.

<< A fundamental limitation of quantum communication is that a single qubit can carry at most one bit of classical information. For an important class of quantum communication channels, known as entanglement breaking, this limitation holds even if the sender and receiver share entangled particles. But does this mean that, for the purpose of communicating classical messages, a noisy entanglement-breaking qubit channel can be replaced by a noisy bit channel? >>

Here AA << answer the question in the negative. (They) introduce a game, similar to the Monty Hall problem in classical statistics, where a sender assists a receiver in finding a valuable item (the “prize”) hidden in one of four possible boxes, while avoiding a hazardous item (the “bomb”) hidden in one of the remaining three boxes. (AA) show that no classical strategy using a noisy bit channel can ensure that the bomb is avoided, even if the sender and receiver share arbitrary amounts of randomness. >>

<< In contrast, communication of a qubit through a class of noisy entanglement-breaking channels, which (They) call quantum not channels, allows the players to deterministically avoid the bomb and to find the prize with a guaranteed nonzero probability. >>

AA << findings show that the communication of classical messages through a noisy entanglement-breaking qubit channel assisted by quantum entanglement cannot, in general, be simulated by communication through a noisy bit channel assisted by classical correlations. >>️

Giulio Chiribella, Saptarshi Roy, et al. Communication Power of a Noisy Qubit. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 080803. Feb 28, 2025. 

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.080803     arXiv: 2405.17946v2 [quant-ph]. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17946  

Also: qubit, in https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=qubit  game, in  https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=game  noise, in  https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=noise 

Keywords: qubit, games, noise

# game: strategic decision making in biological and artificial brains.

Figure 4: Cooperation rates across different learning scenarios in Agent vs. Agent experiments. 

(a) Constrained learning using cooperation (high initial variability) 

(b) Constrained learning using defection (high initial variability) 

(c) Constrained learning using cooperation (low variability) 

(d) Constrained learning using defection (low variability) 

(e) Unconstrained learning.

(...)

<< The aim of (AA) paper is twofold. First, it seeks to uncover the algorithms that humans and other animals employ for learning in decision-making strategies within non-zero-sum games, specifically focusing on fully observable iterated prisoner’s dilemma scenarios. Second, it aims to develop a new model to explain strategic decision-making which reflects previous neurobiological findings showing that different brain circuits are responsible for self-referential processing and understanding others. The model stems from the actor-critic framework and incorporates multiple critics to allow for distinct processing of both self and others’ state. >>

AA << validate the biological plausibility and transferability of (Their) algorithm through comparisons with experimental data from human on the iterated prisoner’s dilemma game. >>️

Anushka Deshpande. Strategic Decision Making in Biological and Artificial Brains. biorxiv. doi: 10.1101/ 2025.02.17.638746. Feb 24, 2025.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.17.638746v1

Also: behav, game, tit-for-tat, brain, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: behavior, games, tit-for-tat, brain 

# life: chameleon machines

<< Large language model-based (LLM-based) agents have become common in settings that include non-cooperative parties. In such settings, agents' decision-making needs to conceal information from their adversaries, reveal information to their cooperators, and infer information to identify the other agents' characteristics. To investigate whether LLMs have these information control and decision-making capabilities, (AA) make LLM agents play the language-based hidden-identity game, The Chameleon. >>️

<< Based on the empirical results and theoretical analysis of different strategies, (AA) deduce that LLM-based non-chameleon agents reveal excessive information to agents of unknown identities. (Their) results point to a weakness of contemporary LLMs, including GPT-4, GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, in strategic interactions. >>

️

Mustafa O. Karabag, Ufuk Topcu. Do LLMs Strategically Reveal, Conceal, and Infer Information? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis in The Chameleon Game. arXiv: 2501.19398v1 [cs.AI]. Jan 31, 2025.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19398

Also: games, ai (artificial intell), nfulaw, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, games, chameleon game, ai, artificial intelligence, LLMs, privacy, nfulaw

# game: balance exploration and exploitation, making decisions cooperatively without sharing information.

<< Multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) studies crucial principles that are applicable to a variety of fields, including wireless networking and autonomous driving. (AA) propose a photonic-based decision-making algorithm to address one of the most fundamental problems in MARL, called the competitive multiarmed bandit (CMAB) problem. >>

AA << demonstrate that chaotic oscillations and cluster synchronization of optically coupled lasers, along with (their) proposed decentralized coupling adjustment, efficiently balance exploration and exploitation while facilitating cooperative decision making without explicitly sharing information among agents. >>

AA << study demonstrates how decentralized reinforcement learning can be achieved by exploiting complex physical processes controlled by simple algorithms. >>

Shun Kotoku, Takatomo Mihana, et al. Decentralized multiagent reinforcement learning algorithm using a cluster-synchronized laser network. Phys. Rev. E 110, 064212. Dec 11, 2024.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.064212

Img: https://x.com/PhysRevE/status/1866889144657465632

Also: game, chaos, ai (artificial intell), in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: game, cooperation, chaos, exploration, exploitation, ai, artificial intelligence, MARL, CMAB.

# life: apropos of saliva healers, herd immunity revisited and now hypothetically approachable even within NIH

<< President-elect Donald Trump is tapping Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University health researcher, to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). >>

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<< Bhattacharya was one of three authors of the document (#1). The declaration called for speeding herd immunity by allowing people at low risk to get infected while protecting those most vulnerable, like the elderly. >>

Rob Stein. Trump turns to critic of COVID mandates to run NIH. npr.org. 

Nov 26, 2024. 

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/11/26/nx-s1-5195168/nih-bhattacharya-trump-election-2024

<< The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection. >>

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(#1) - Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, Jay Bhattacharya. Great Barrington Declaration. Oct 4, 2020. https://gbdeclaration.org/

FonT

From my point of view 'herd immunity'  can be engineered if and only if, even in the case of sars-covid-19 or flu, simultaneous protection is used with an effective, easy available, antiviral drug.

In this regard, a non-compassionate but logical easy approach could be the indirect inhalation of alcohol ~70% already at the first signs of rhinorrhea, as follows:

(-) start self-treatment (spray plus cotton mask):

Mar 20, 2020  https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2020/03/life-funky-immediate-approach-of.html  

(-) outcomes

Jul 13, 2022  https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2022/07/life-aproposito-di-1or2achoos-da-wuhan.html  

Oct 4, 2023 https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2023/10/life-proposito-di-1or2achoos-da-wuhan.html  

Ultimately, here it could hypothesize a case of historic, singular checkmate of 'one against all'. Anzicheforse?

Also: drop, saliva, sars* covid* (aka 1or2achoos), virus, ethno, Mr. Donald, POTUS, tit-for-tat, game, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, drop, saliva, saliva healers, herd immunity, sars, mers, 2019ncov, sarscov2, covid19, coronavirus, 1or2achoos, virus, ethno, ethnomedicine, Donald, POTUS, tit-for-tat, game

PS: I couldn't say why, but in certain contexts, the incipit of an answer that the physicist Enrico Fermi https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi  gave to a journalist always comes back to my mind: 'the physics that is done in our laboratory ...' . 

An example of exceptional, clear, even poetic analysis and synthesis skills (in only 8 words).

# game: Parrondo's paradox reveals counterintuitive wins in biology and decision making in society.

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• Parrondo's paradox illustrates how combining two losing strategies can result in a winning outcome.

• Its applications extend across various disciplines, particularly in understanding ecosystems at different scales.

• The paradox is explored in multiple fields, highlighting adaptability as a key factor in evolutionary survival.

• Future directions are outlined, emphasizing the potential to enhance our understanding of the natural world and society.

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Tao Wen, Kang Hao Cheong. Parrondo's paradox reveals counterintuitive wins in biology and decision making in society. Physics of Life Reviews. 51, 33-59. Dec 19, 2024. 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1571064524000940 

Also: Parrondo, game, tit-for-tat, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Also: 'Parrondo paradox', in Pubmed  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=parrondo+paradox&sort=date&size=50

Keywords: gst, Parrondo, game, tit-for-tat

FonT: as mentioned elsewhere in this blog, from my point of view, if well modulated, the two paired strategies "Stochastic Tit-For-Tat" and "Parrondo" are deadly, regardless of the aims of the objectives (cooperative purposes, parasitism, resurfacing of hypothetical clusters of failed entities, ... )