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Computing Free Energies
In my last post, I discussed phase transitions, and how computing the free energy for a model would let you work out the phase diagram. Today, I want to discuss in more detail some methods for computi… more →
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Ergodic Means...
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telescoper wrote 1 month ago: The topic of this post is something I’ve been wondering about for quite a while. This afternoo … more →
An application of disc packing to statistical mechanics
matthewkahle wrote 3 months ago: I recently posted an article to the arXiv, on a problem suggested by Persi Diaconis. “Hard dis … more →
Making combinations
Hevel Löwen wrote 4 months ago: Combinatorics is namely a branch of pure mathematics. In this sense it deals with the study of discr … more →
Information, Physics and Computation
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Rod Carvalho wrote 4 months ago: Andrea Montanari and Marc Mézard have written a book: Information, Physics and Computation. It is a … more →
Hard discs, configuration spaces, kissing spheres, the 15 puzzle
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JSE wrote 7 months ago: Persi Diaconis has a lovely article in this month’s Bulletin of the AMS about the “Marko … more →
Ted Jacobson and quantum gravity
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mfrasca wrote 10 months ago: There are some days when concepts are there running round and round in my head. I have taken a look … more →
Moldy, a Molecular Dynamics Program
ayubu wrote 1 year ago: These days I have tested some molecular dynamics simulation programs, well GNU and similar licensed … more →
To Be or Not to Be The Wave
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Nombre Invicto wrote 1 year ago: How uncanny did it feel in the final stages of your 12th grade when you found that all the basics of … more →
Computing Free Energies
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Jonathan Yedidia wrote 2 years ago: In my last post, I discussed phase transitions, and how computing the free energy for a model would … more →
Phase Transitions and Free Energies
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Jonathan Yedidia wrote 2 years ago: Much of condensed matter and statistical physics is concerned with the explanation of phase transiti … more →
The ultimate limits of computing - a computer the size of earth
Roger Costello wrote 2 years ago: H. Bremermann proved in 1962 that “No data processing system, whether artificial or living, ca … more →
Two Draft Books
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Jonathan Yedidia wrote 2 years ago: If you’re interested in learning about statistical mechanics, graphical models, information th … more →
Simulating the Ising Model Using NetLogo
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Jonathan Yedidia wrote 2 years ago: I’ve already posted about NetLogo, but I want to return to it, because I’ve been very im … more →
The Hubbard Model: a Tutorial
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Jonathan Yedidia wrote 2 years ago: Today, I will introduce a new kind of post at Nerd Wisdom, that I hope to do more of in the future: … more →
NetLogo
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Jonathan Yedidia wrote 2 years ago: After he saw my post about SimPy, Luis Lafuente pointed me to NetLogo, a very nice cross-platform mu … more →
Algorithms for Physics
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Jonathan Yedidia wrote 2 years ago: Much of my own work is at the intersection of statistical mechanics and algorithms, in particular un … more →
Lectures on Disordered Systems
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Jonathan Yedidia wrote 2 years ago: Many physicists study “disordered systems,” such as materials like glasses where the mol … more →
Generalized Belief Propagation
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Jonathan Yedidia wrote 2 years ago: In 2002, I gave a lecture at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute on the work I did, togethe … more →
David MacKay's "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms"
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Jonathan Yedidia wrote 2 years ago: This is an easy book for me to recommend. David J.C. MacKay is a professor in the physics department … more →
