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Crystalline Information: Information as Ontological Structure

Information is ordinarily said to be in things: contained in books, carried by signals, stored in memories. This paper argues that the metaphor conceals a substantive error. In the ontological register — concerned not with how messages travel but with how a domain becomes articul...

Distributed Mechanistic Interpretability at Scale: Activation Streaming, Split-Layer Inference, and Distributed Sparse Autoencoder Training

ActStream: a two-node system that splits inference and analysis, streams intermediate activations over a binary wire protocol, and trains sparse autoencoders without staging activations to disk. Thunderbolt measured at 2.150 GB/s, 86% of negotiated rate and 26x the LAN path, with...

Efficient Mechanistic Circuit Analysis of Open-Weight LLMs on Apple Silicon

Replication and extension of the GPT-2 Small IOI circuit analysis on Llama-3.2-3B and Pythia-1.4B using an MLX activation-patching harness on a single Apple Silicon machine. Circuits are faithful on the standard single-template dataset (F=0.663 and 0.854) but collapse on a 15-tem...

TopK Sparse Autoencoders Across Three Model Architectures: Dictionary Collapse, Dense-Feature Degeneracy, and the Limits of Activation-Pattern Feature Matching

TopK SAEs trained at matched sparsity and dictionary size on Llama-3.2-3B, Mistral-7B-v0.3 and Qwen2.5-3B. Reports abrupt dictionary collapse with partial recovery, dense-feature degeneracy invalidating frequency-based feature selection, and a null cross-architecture matching res...

Sweet products, subtle residues: neonicotinoid contaminations in commercial honey from Thailand

Abstract Environmental pollution with pesticides, including neonicotinoid insecticides, is a major driver of biodiversity loss and raises concerns for both pollinators and human health. As a product of nectar foraging, honey integrates environmental contamination across large spa...

THE GEOMETRY OF PRIME GAPS: A TOPOLOGICAL BLUEPRINT FOR THE LEGENDRE SCALE

We sketch a structural framework for primes at the critical short-interval exponent $\theta=1/2$ (the Legendre scale), strictly focusing on conditional topological transfers. By leveraging Liquid and Solid modules alongside Clausen's recent Weil-Moore anima, and incorporating S.\...

Integration vs State Update: Architectural Conditions for Consciousness-Relevant Re-Entry

Integration² (I²) proposes that phenomenal consciousness is identical with the recursive loop formed when an integration process takes its own output as input, producing a recursive loop. This raises an immediate question: what distinguishes genuine integration-bearing re-entry f...

From Imperial Communication to Autonomous Script: Two Hypotheses on the Emergence and Social Transformation of West Semitic Writing

What if the first alphabet was not simply invented — but commissioned?This paper explores whether the emergence of early alphabetic writing in the Egyptian sphere may have been connected to the practical needs of imperial administration, military coordination, and control over mu...

A Game-Theoretic Assessment of Optimal Strategies in Artificial Intelligence Competition Between the United States and China

Semiquantitative analysis was done to ascertain the extent of the difference between the United States and China. This paper analyzes the competition between the United States(US) and China in artificial intelligence(AI) and uses game theory to examine its impact on US-China econ...

Universal Birkhoff Method for Computing Extremals in the Elliptic Restricted Three-Body Problem

The computation of finite-thrust extremal arcs in the elliptic restricted three-body trajectory optimization problem is considered. Libration-point orbits are approximated to near-machine precision using a fast Fourier transform of the sampled values of the state vector at Chebys...

Toward Interethnic Peace

General conditions conducive to interethnic peace are examined through the successful experiencesof the post-slavery, multiethnic societies of Réunion and Mauritius. Intimacy, openness to others,and solidarity are identified as key characteristics of Creole societies that facilit...

Exploring the Impact of Maternal Sleep Disruption on Fetal Neurodevelopment

Jolie Wu was a semi-finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Jolie presented the research titled “Exploring the Impact of Maternal Sleep Disruption on Fetal Neurodevelopment.” About 1 in 10 Canadians are affected by neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), yet...

The Pharmacist Will See You Now

Priya Samuel was a semi-finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Priya presented the research titled “The Pharmacist Will See You Now.” In June 2023, pharmacists in British Columbia gained the authority to prescribe independently for 21 medical conditions,...

Myelin Alterations in Fragile X Syndrome : Insights into the Leading Inherited Form of Autism

Shaima Hourani was a finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Shaima presented the research titled “Myelin Alterations in Fragile X Syndrome: Insights into the Leading Inherited Form of Autism.” Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common inherited cause of...

Probing Dark Matter with Nature’s Magnifying Glass

Hrishabh Srivastava was a finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Hrishabh presented the research titled “Probing Dark Matter with Nature’s Magnifying Glass.” Gravitational lensing occurs when a massive foreground galaxy bends the light from a more distant...

Tackling Privacy Concerns in Contact Tracing Apps

Angela DeMarco was a semi-finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Angela presented the research titled “Tackling Privacy Concerns in Contact Tracing Apps.” Contact tracing apps can slow the spread of infectious diseases when widely adopted, but in practice...

Landscape-Level Detection of Gwininitxw Archaeological sites using Airbonre Laser Scanning

Mara McLaughlin was a finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Mara presented the research titled “Landscape-Level Detection of Gwininitxw Archaeological sites using Airborne Laser Scanning.” Identifying archaeological sites in the remote, dense forests of...

Forever Chemicals : Foam, Flash, Finish

Sepideh Saghafifar was a semi-finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Sepideh presented the research titled “Forever Chemicals: Foam, Flash, Finish.” What if the water you drink contained chemicals designed to resist breakdown for decades? Per- and polyflu...

Seeing ALS in High Definition : Revealing the Biology Behind MRI Changes

Jacqueline Palik was a semi-finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Jacqueline presented the research titled “Seeing ALS in High Definition: Revealing the Biology Behind MRI Changes.” Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease...

Breathing Better : Understanding Oxygen Delivery

Parker Sutherland was a semi-finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Parker presented the research titled “Breathing Better: Understanding Oxygen Delivery.” Teleost fish are among the most widespread and diverse groups of animals on Earth. Their incredible...