Essays – Yuxi on the Wired
Structure and Interpretation of the Chinese Economy| Yuxi on the Wired
My basic framework for understanding the modern Chinese economy and its growth. Includes brief histories of Chinese, Soviet, and Japanese economy. Framework applied to two case studies on the stock market and the housing market.| Yuxi on the Wired - Essays
An application of computational complexity theory to diffusion language models. Unlikely to be useful for anything, but it is cute!| Yuxi on the Wired - Essays
How to think like a classical statistical-mechanic, with many examples from gas theory, biology, probability, and information theory. Prerequisites: thermodynamics, calculus, probability, and mathematical maturity.| Yuxi on the Wired - Essays
The hole argument in general relativity is formally analogous to the inverted qualia problem in philosophy. Like how spacetime points have no existence beyond gauge freedom, qualias have no existence beyond their geometric-functional roles, thus dissolving the hard problem of consciousness.| Yuxi on the Wired - Essays
How to think like a classical thermodynamic-economist, delivered with many illustrations and some sci-fi metaphors. Particular emphasis on what traditional pedagogy gets wrong. Prerequisites: multivariate calculus and mathematical maturity.| Yuxi on the Wired - Essays
What every graduate student should know about analytical mechanics, delivered with economic style and many illustrations. Particular focus on particle-wave duality and old quantum theory. Prerequisites: multivariate calculus and mathematical maturity.| Yuxi on the Wired - Essays
Survival guide for renormalization (RN) theory. How to do it in real space and frequency space. What it all means. Should have something for everyone, from mathematicians to physicists to outsiders, from serious series to pretty pictures. Intended audience: those with two years of undergrad mathematics.| Yuxi on the Wired - Essays
How MoE works, its history, and what it is good for.| Yuxi on the Wired - Essays
After 40 years, 30 million rules, 200 million dollars, 2000 person-years, and many promises, Cyc has failed to reach intellectual maturity, and may never will. Exacerbated by the secrecy and insularity of Cycorp, there remains no evidence of its general intelligence.| Yuxi on the Wired
