I started working on what I suppose you could call Foundations of Mathematics when I was in Sweden back in 2019, but I m reluctant to call it that, because I didn t produce any meaningful axiomatic systems, or results, though it looks like I did solve the Continuum Hypothesis (but I didn t realize it at the Continue reading On Existence and Mathematics
I was looking at pictures of Frank Sinatra s home in Palm Springs, and I noticed that the kitchen looked very similar to a kitchen that I described in a book I wrote, VeGa. You can just take my word for it since it s a long book, but the similarities are a bit tough to accept Continue reading The Biological Role of Art and Aesthetics
I wrote previously that at least two Neanderthal mtDNA genomes in my dataset appear to have been misclassified by the authors of the articles that analyzed the genomes in question. Specifically, it looks like the two genomes in question, are actually Denisovans, not Neanderthals. I have since been working on assembling a history of the Continue reading An Additional Misclassified Neanderthal…
Introduction I m building up to a formal paper on human history that uses Machine Learning applied to mtDNA. You can find an informal but fairly rigorous summary that I wrote here [1], that includes the dataset in question and the code. In this note, I m going to treat the topic at the individual genome level, Continue reading The Heidelbergensis Maternal Line
Introduction I ve written about the symmetry of gravity in the past, but at the time, I had a much more convoluted theory of physics. I now no longer believe in Quantum Mechanics (at all), and no longer believe in time as anything other than a measurement of change, but you can still of course have Continue reading Symmetry of Gravity, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy
Introduction My work on mtDNA has led to a thesis that human life begins in Africa, spreads to Asia, and then spreads (1) back West to Europe and Africa and (2) further East into East Asia and the Pacific. I call this the Migration-Back Hypothesis, and you can read all about it here [1], and Continue reading African Denisovans and Potential Misclassification
Genetic Alignment Because of relatively recent advances in genetic sequencing, we can now read entire mtDNA genomes. However, because mtDNA is circular, it s not clear where you should start reading the genome. As a consequence, when comparing two genomes, you have no common starting point, and the selection of that starting point will impact the Continue reading Human Migration and mtDNA
The vast majority of my work in mtDNA has focused on global alignments, because of the unbelievable efficiency this creates, even when working on consumer devices. However, I ve basically exhausted the topic of global alignments, so I ve started to focus on local alignments to further support my research. That is, I m going to second guess Continue reading Local Alignment Algorithm for mtDNA
I noticed a while back that the purported Quantum Mechanical explanations for the Double-Slit Experiment, don t make any sense for a very simple reason: generally, people assume the velocity of light is fixed at c. In contrast, if we assume self-interference for a photon, then the photon must (i) change direction or (ii) change velocity, Continue reading A Fundamental Problem with the Double-Slit…
I don t remember the first time I heard about the Liar s Paradox, but it was definitely in college, because it came up in my computer theory classes in discussions on formal grammars. As such, I ve been thinking about it on and off, for about 20 years. Wikipedia says that the first correct articulation of the Continue reading Solution to the Liar s Paradox