@artemyte

Researcher studying nonequilibrium thermodynamics, info theory, origin of life, complexity. Currently at U Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. @artemyte.bsky.social

Joined July 2014
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Zekun
@ZekunnnnnOct 14
Anthropic’s internal research roadmap from July 2021 came out through the Bartz copyright case. Jared Kaplan wrote it, with comments from Dario, Tom Brown, Amanda Askell, Chris Olah and others. The long-term goal: an AI assistant that writes functions, finds bugs, designs APIs, and eventually works like a software engineer colleague. This was over a year before ChatGPT, and the whole roadmap is built around that goal: 1T+ models, RL, TPUs and Trainium, data from code, diffs and PRs, scaling laws, test-time compute, long context, memory, and RL for tool use (in 2021!). Five years later the goal is basically here, but what the comments worried about (sandbox safety, alignment keeping up with capabilities) still isn’t fully solved in 2026.
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Come and study technical AI alignment, with an emphasis on applied mathematics: New fully funded cohorts! We just announced 3 new Fellowship cohorts taking place in the Bay Area starting October, November, and December. And just 10 days left to apply to our October Intensive in London. One application takes 10 minutes and covers both programs: iliad.ac/apply?r=X
October 2026 Iliad Intensive A 4-week taught introduction to technical AI alignment, emphasizing applied math and broad coverage of the alignment field Location: Mox, SF, USA Duration: Oct 5–30 inclusive Financial Support: $5,000 (USD) travel-and-housing allowance Application Deadline: Aug 24 EoD AoE, apply here: https://iliad.ac/apply?r=direct ~~~ Iliad is now also running Fellowship cohorts in monthly (overlapping) windows: October 2026 Iliad Fellowship A 3-month mentored, fully funded AI safety research fellowship, with a focus on applied math Location: LISA, London, UK Duration: Oct 5—Dec 18 inclusive Financial Support: $6,000 (USD) monthly travel-and-housing allowance Application Deadline: Aug 31 EoD AoE, apply here: https://iliad.ac/apply?r=direct

ALT October 2026 Iliad Intensive A 4-week taught introduction to technical AI alignment, emphasizing applied math and broad coverage of the alignment field Location: Mox, SF, USA Duration: Oct 5–30 inclusive Financial Support: $5,000 (USD) travel-and-housing allowance Application Deadline: Aug 24 EoD AoE, apply here: https://iliad.ac/apply?r=direct ~~~ Iliad is now also running Fellowship cohorts in monthly (overlapping) windows: October 2026 Iliad Fellowship A 3-month mentored, fully funded AI safety research fellowship, with a focus on applied math Location: LISA, London, UK Duration: Oct 5—Dec 18 inclusive Financial Support: $6,000 (USD) monthly travel-and-housing allowance Application Deadline: Aug 31 EoD AoE, apply here: https://iliad.ac/apply?r=direct

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Matt Leighton@MattLeighton5Jul 30
How do living organisms use information to navigate up sensory gradients? New preprint from @kevinschen13, with Damon Clark and @EmonetLab, shows that navigation works best with a feedback loop: information flows both forward from signal to action, and back from action to signal.
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What is the fundamental cost of stochastic oscillators? In a recent PRE, I provide an elementary derivation of a fundamental "dissipation-coherence bound". Builds on work on thermodynamics of limit-cycle oscillators by Santolin-Falasco and Nagayama-Ito journals.aps.org/pre/abstrac…
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See also: Santolin and Falasco, Dissipation Bounds the Coherence of Stochastic Limit Cycles, PRL journals.aps.org/prl/abstrac… Nagayama [ @ryu7ga8ma ] and @ito_sosuke, Duality between dissipation-coherence trade-off and thermodynamic speed limit arxiv.org/abs/2509.06421

Dissipation Bounds the Coherence of Stochastic Limit Cycles

Overdamped stochastic systems maintained far from equilibrium can display sustained oscillations with fluctuations that decrease with the system size. The correlation time of such noisy limit cycles...

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Iliad
@Iliad_researchJul 23
Only 4 days remaining to apply! Takes 5-10 minutes and one application covers both programs. September 2026 Iliad Intensive A 4-week taught introduction to technical AI alignment, emphasizing applied mathematics and broad coverage of the field Location: LISA, London, UK Duration: Sept 7—Oct 2 inclusive Financial Support: $5,000 (USD) travel-and-housing allowance Application Deadline: July 27 EoD AoE, apply here: iliad.ac/apply?r=direct) Fall 2026 Iliad Fellowship A 3-month mentored AI safety research fellowship, with a focus on applied mathematics Location: LISA, London, UK Duration: Sept 7—Dec 4 inclusive Financial Support: $6,000 (USD) monthly travel-and-housing allowance Application Deadline: July 27 EoD AoE, apply here: iliad.ac/apply?r=direct
Iliad
@Iliad_researchJul 16
The hardest problems in AI safety are mathematical. Come work on them. Fully funded. Application link in the comments.
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Iliad
@Iliad_researchJul 23
Request for Proposals — we're soliciting work in two directions: raising the epistemic bar of AI safety, and theory-driven research on ReLU networks. Mathematicians especially welcome. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

Iliad 2026 RFP

Iliad is interested in funding new incubated research organizations. To that end, we are running a request for proposals for specific research directions that we consider to be promising.

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@Iliad_researchJul 16
The hardest problems in AI safety are mathematical. Come work on them. Fully funded. Application link in the comments.
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Open postdoc position. Interested in complex systems, dynamical systems, and computational mechanics? With Alexandra Jurgens at INRIA (Bordeaux) recrutement.inria.fr/public/…
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I just learned Peter Schuster passed away recently. Peter Schuster was a theoretician who did incredible work on the origin of life, evolutionary dynamics, genotype-phenotype maps, and other topics in theoretical biology. A huge loss.
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Wandering Wim@WanderingWimJun 24
R.I.P. Peter Schuster 🪦 Your wonderful contributions to science will live on... 🧬 chemie.univie.ac.at/wissensa…
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Crémieux
@cremieuxrecueilJun 9
You're not even allowed to ask Fable about basic biology questions, let alone anything that could potentially be dangerous.
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Tim Taylor@drtimtJun 9
I'm so very sad to hear of the passing of Inman Harvey. He was my PhD examiner in 1999 (he passed it!), and a mentor, inspiration and friend not just to me but to a whole generation (and more) of Artificial Life researchers. He will be very sorely missed, but his legacy lives on.
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Sosuke Ito (伊藤 創祐)@ito_sosukeJun 8
D3の永山くんの新作です。Artemyさんとの共著です。 Ornstein–Uhlenbeck過程における、散逸と振動の(dissipation-coherence)トレードオフおよび、行列の非正規性に基づいた緩和の加速の双方を一度に表現可能な、振動-非正規性に基づく定常エントロピー生成率の新分解法です。 arxiv.org/abs/2606.07263

Oscillatory-nonnormal decomposition of dissipation in...

We provide a decomposition of the steady-state entropy production rate associated with an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process into two contributions: one associated with oscillatory behavior and one...

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Tan Van Vu@tanvvuMay 1
Our new work on arXiv🔥 We introduce the geometric complexity for reset maps and uncover a dynamics-independent trade-off relation between complexity and error, which can be regarded as a generalized geometric third law of thermodynamics. arxiv.org/abs/2604.27858

Geometric complexity in thermodynamics

The third law of thermodynamics forbids cooling a physical system to absolute zero in a finite number of operational steps. Although this unattainability principle has been quantified for specific...

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How does phase separation, a key mechanism of equilibrium self-organization, interact with nonlinear nonequilibrium dynamics? In our paper with Jonathan Bauermann and Giacomo Bartolucci, we look at phase separation in chemical oscillators journals.aps.org/prl/abstrac…
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We find that phase separation can slow down, speed up, damped or amplify oscillations, depending on alignment b/w interaction energies & nonlinear kinetics. In spatial systems with phase separation + reaction + diffusion, rich traveling patterns of concentration & phase emerge
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This was a very fun collaboration with Giacomo and Jonathan, and my first chance to dive deep into the thermodynamics and dynamics of phase separation.
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Open postdoc with the amazing Sarah Marzen (Scripps College, Claremont, California). Intersection of information theory, biophysics, neuroscience, and machine learning. Please RT theclaremontcolleges.wd1.myw…
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