Why is this worth posting? Simulating a 1D Ising model is a homework exercise for undergrads.
See above comment regarding ergodicity.
Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo
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#42Re: Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo
#43Does anybody have a reason this particular repo might be of special interest today? It appears to be the methods from something published a decade ago, and has had a handful of commits since then, including yesterday. There's not a ton of stars on the github, but certainly more stars than most scientific methods get.
No idea. But curious- why would something that was published a decad or longer ago not be of interest today?
> No idea. But curious- why would something that was published a decad or longer ago not be of interest today?
Because if it isn’t in the “hype” it’s worthless, obsolete, trash…
Welcome to the new world of tech, that warms its hands by burning the old world.
Enjoy the vibes…
Re: Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo
#44Does anybody have a reason this particular repo might be of special interest today? It appears to be the methods from something published a decade ago, and has had a handful of commits since then, including yesterday. There's not a ton of stars on the github, but certainly more stars than most scientific methods get.
No idea. But curious- why would something that was published a decad or longer ago not be of interest today?
The commit yesterday, on a very quiet repo, made me think there might be something more going on, that might be obvious to those who study the topic but not so obvious to a broader audience.
Also, older papers can be of interest but don't usually make it to the front page of a general audience news site unless there's something bigger going on that gave it renewed general interest.
Re: Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo
#45Does anybody have a reason this particular repo might be of special interest today? It appears to be the methods from something published a decade ago, and has had a handful of commits since then, including yesterday. There's not a ton of stars on the github, but certainly more stars than most scientific methods get.
Edit Nvm I was being a grump. I'm glad people like this sort of work
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
No idea. But curious- why would something that was published a decad or longer ago not be of interest today?
> No idea. But curious- why would something that was published a decad or longer ago not be of interest today? Because if it isn’t in the “hype” it’s worthless, obsolete, trash… Welcome to the new world of tech, that warms its hands by burning the old world. Enjoy the vibes…
Just wanted to stop by and say: cool writing.
I don't quite agree, rather melodramatic, but it really paints a picture.
Re: Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo
#47Does anybody have a reason this particular repo might be of special interest today? It appears to be the methods from something published a decade ago, and has had a handful of commits since then, including yesterday. There's not a ton of stars on the github, but certainly more stars than most scientific methods get.
Edit Nvm I was being a grump. I'm glad people like this sort of work
HN is highly stochastic, and honestly I don't think there's any way around it.
The upvoting scheme can not distinguish between a hot topic of interest to 10% of readers, that deliver 10 upvotes in the first 10 minutes, from a more niche topic of interest to 5% of readers, that gets 10 upvotes in 10 minutes.
At least it can't distinguish at that time. So things go to the front page, and future votes determine what happens!
But that initial "on the front page" boost is a nonlinearity that many good posts do not get through.
Personally, I really liked this post, and was merely asking because I was very surprised others liked it too!
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#48Does anybody have a reason this particular repo might be of special interest today? It appears to be the methods from something published a decade ago, and has had a handful of commits since then, including yesterday. There's not a ton of stars on the github, but certainly more stars than most scientific methods get.
Great point. Hope the following add a context that was missing: Apart from intellectual appeal, (1) there was a new paper from Google about quantum ergodicity, see https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.10191 . So in general tech community can benefit a lot from understanding ergodicity via this package and see hands on how it is implemented, see Vignette as well, https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/isingLenzMC/vign…
Thanks! This is a bit beyond my depth, and I wouldn't have figured anything out without this helpful comment. But some spin glass modeling ideas were very useful for a paper during my grad school days, so I think it's time to revisit it to see if I can steal any more great methods.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are synonyms.
Physics and Mechanics are not synonyms. The latter is a small subset of the former.
Yes, but this relation does but apply to statistical mechanics and statistical physics, they mean the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_mechanics
What is included in "statistical physics" that is not included in "statistical mechanics"?