Ideas
Research questions as they develop
Questions put to the QNFO research assistant and the answers it wrote from the corpus, published as they happen. Personal, operational and quarantined conversations never appear here. When a question holds up, it becomes a paper; the papers are the record.
The latest 20
- Does the presence of Efimov-like log-periodic oscillations in the CMB power spectrum residuals imply a non-Archimedean geometric structure, potentially related to the Bruhat-Tits tree, which could be…
- Re-entry from [redacted]: What can we know with what we don't know?
- Re-entry from [redacted]: The day began with six seed questions: What don't we know?
- Re-entry from [redacted]: This transformation raises a question that the academic literature on AI and research integrity has only begun to address: what happens to the *epistemic hygiene* of a…
- Re-entry from qwav-gtm-strategy: It is: how does a single independent researcher turn a metric into a standard?
- Re-entry from [redacted]: > Does there exist a non-trivial valuation invariant of a stabilizer code — one not equal to $v_2(\dim H)$ or $v_2(\dim H_L)$ — that carries classification or predictive…
- Re-entry from [redacted]: The question this paper asks is: what does it buy us?
- Re-entry from [redacted]: Only C4/FQ1 (non-trivial valuation invariant) remains open.
- Re-entry from [redacted]: Can we not truly see ourselves?
- Re-entry from [redacted]: > Why are our formal quantitative systems uncomfortable with self-reference when they are also inherently anthropocentric, from base-10 pentadactylity to length of time…
- Re-entry from [redacted]: This paper answers the seed question: *why are our formal quantitative systems uncomfortable with self-reference when they are also inherently anthropocentric — from base-10…
- Re-entry from jpcub-llm-energy: ENERGY lineage [@chung2026where], energy-to-token advocacy [@liu2026position], energy-per-token metrics [@wilhelm2026beyond] — measures the *wrong denominator* for the…
- Re-entry from jpcub-llm-energy: data (TokenPowerBench; Where Do the Joules Go?
- Re-entry from [redacted]: As AI pipelines make it possible to generate silo-fodder at arbitrary scale, the question "should this research be advanced?
- Re-entry from [redacted]: Would we perceive the same thing, and what would that actually mean ontologically?
- Re-entry from [redacted]: md`, 2026-08-16): *"Things that are farther away appear smaller, and 2 point linear perspective is thought to approximate our eyes — but what if instead of an Archimedean…
- Re-entry from [redacted]: This paper asks what changes if the metric of physical space were instead non-Archimedean and ultrametric — would we perceive the same thing, and what would that mean…
- Re-entry from [redacted]: What is the territory, ontologically?
- Re-entry from [redacted]: A buyer, investor, or engineer who encounters any of the eight claims can ask: *which locale is being assumed, and does the current state of the art support it?
- Re-entry from zx-diagram-fault-lines: compatible, in the sense that the semantics they assign to the same diagram agree?