Visualizing the Collatz Conjecture as a Phase Transition

[foltik]

Reads like one of those typical sycophantic feedback loops where AI convinced itself and the prompter they were uncovering something profound.

Galois factory, matter protocol... all just technical jargon slop that sounds fancy but carries basically no semantic meaning. The repo’s readme is even worse [0].

As the cherry on top it even closes out with an “it’s not just X, it’s Y.”

[0]: https://github.com/calhoun137/Base-1

[ktpsns]

I also assume AI here. There is no visible scientific connection, no references and it all sounds nonsense. I have a PHD in fluid dynamics but cannot relate.

[karmakurtisaani]

> The Collatz Conjecture isn't just a math problem. It's a fluid dynamics problem.

I guess Grok didn't get the memo that fluid dynamics is math.

[calhoun137]

OP here, you completely caught me. I used ai to generate that blog post and lightly edited it. lesson learned! moving forward i will type up from scratch any blog post i post on here. sorry about that.

there is more to this post than just ai slop. there is a real experimental result here.

if you or anyone would like to see the non ai slop version i posted over on math stack exchange without any ai at all

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/5121753/why-does-th...

[pixelpoet]

> Hmm... looks like it's taking longer than normal. Check back in a minute or two!

Some simple wasm would work a treat here, no idea why this would be doing server side stuff.

Ended up not waiting several minutes despite being pretty interested :/

[calhoun137]

You can find the live demo here:

https://base-1-srrnmbhh3rkmnk8ygcxhvb.streamlit.app/

It seems that waking up the demo from the iframe doesn't always work, but directly visiting the embed url can wake it up.

By the way I just finished completely rewriting the entire blog post.