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Record W4362578997 · doi:10.3390/e25040598

Tales of Tails

2023· article· en· W4362578997 on OpenAlexaff
Christopher Essex, Bjarne Andresen

Bibliographic record

VenueEntropy · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicStatistical Mechanics and Entropy
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStatistical physicsGaussianProbability density functionGranularityConvolution (computer science)Statistical mechanicsPhysicsThermodynamic equilibriumFunction (biology)MathematicsComputer scienceThermodynamicsStatisticsQuantum mechanicsBiology

Abstract

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Typical human-scaled considerations of thermodynamic states depend primarily on the core of associated speed or other relevant distributions, because the wings of those distributions are so improbable that they cannot contribute significantly to averages. However, for long timescale regimes (slow time), previous papers have shown otherwise. Fluctuating local equilibrium systems have been proven to have distributions with non-Gaussian tails demanding more careful treatment. That has not been needed in traditional statistical mechanics. The resulting non-Gaussian distributions do not admit notions such as temperature; that is, a global temperature is not defined even if local regimes have meaningful temperatures. A fluctuating local thermodynamic equilibrium implies that any local detector is exposed to sequences of local states which collectively induce the non-Gaussian forms. This paper shows why tail behavior is observationally challenging, how the convolutions that produce non-Gaussian behavior are directly linked to time-coarse graining, how a fluctuating local equilibrium system does not need to have a collective temperature, and how truncating the tails in the convolution probability density function (PDF) produces even more non-Gaussian behaviors.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.044

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.007
Scholarly communication0.0030.007
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.263
Teacher spread0.251 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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