Models and Engineering · II | How Models Refer to the World: Representation, Measurement, and Empirical Validity
2026-09-30
Follow a tank from physical balances and measurement to identifiability, state, sampling populations, and intervention, then trace prediction errors into threshold times and decisions.
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Models and Engineering · I | How Mathematics Forms Problems: Objects, Structure, and Language
2026-09-30
How mathematical objects and languages develop together: from scheduling proofs to observation, history, policies, quotients, enhanced paths, and three views of models and engineering.
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Models and Engineering · IV | How Models Change: Large Neural Networks, Transformers, and Scale
2026-09-30
Develop the spaces, kernels, geometry, and scales of neural learning, then derive attention's particle and measure dynamics, finite errors, clustering, and limits that depend on their order.
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As Though Bearing a Hidden Sorrow: Anxiety, Desire, and Symptoms
2026-09-17
Beginning with repeated checking, an inquiry into anxiety, obsession, hysteria, melancholia, and mania through Freud and Lacan, and into the social demands and practical conditions of self-scrutiny.
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The Exemplary Person Is No Mere Instrument: Scientific Discourse, Academic Communities, and the Making of Researchers
2026-09-17
How research produces knowledge, organizes labour, and forms researchers—from professional trust and assessment to desire, care, exit, and the conditions of collective change.
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Grain Falls from Heaven—Who Answers? The Power of Writing and Self-Formation in the Age of AI
2026-09-08
From Cangjie’s invention of writing to computer agents and embodied robots: how language-mediated human–AI practices take shape, differentiate, and transform our grasp of objects, our norms, and ourselves.
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Models and Engineering · Companion Essay | How a Disturbance Travels Through a Traffic System: From Frequency Response to Localized Propagation
2026-08-31
Starting with small disturbances on two merging branches, this essay asks when transfer functions are enough, when generators, localized wave packets, and multiscale propagation geometry become necessary, and what a traffic problem must establish before invoking Kakeya theory.
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《WA2》(12) - Let Us Share the Joy of This Cup: What Can We Do Together Without Reconciliation?
2026-08-29
Recording a song together cannot answer every question of love, but it can make three people collaborators again. WHITE ALBUM 2, The Sting of Death, My Old Home and What Happens After Nora Leaves reveal how people can create new substance for life without first achieving reconciliation.
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