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There’s a random curve that is perfectly continuous in time, never jumps, models smooth noise in physics and finance… and yet with probability 1 it has no derivative at any point. If you zoom in anywhere, it never straightens out. Brownian motion started as a physics headache long before...

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Once you swallow the fact that Brownian motion is continuous everywhere and differentiable nowhere, Itô’s quadratic variation is the next quiet shock waiting for you: Ordinary smooth curves have zero quadratic variation...if you chop time into tiny pieces and add up (increment)² over the interval, that sum goes to zero as your partition gets finer. But for Brownian motion that same sum doesn’t vanish, it locks onto the length of the time interval.😲 So, you have this path with no velocity anywhere, but its squared wiggles accumulate in a completely rigid, deterministic way. Over time T, the total quadratic variation is exactly T. 🫡 That’s the trade the universe makes here...you lose the classical derivative, but you gain a new calculus where the “dB times dB” term behaves like dt, and suddenly integrals against Brownian motion make sense and you can do stochastic calculus. 📝 Brownian motion refuses to be smooth, but its roughness is so structured that when you look at it through the lens of quadratic variation, the randomness averages out and you’re left with a clean clock ticking underneath the noise. #BrownianMotion #ProbabilityTheory #StochasticCalculus #RandomWalks #Ito #QuadraticVariation

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AI Evolution

162,335 views • 1 month ago

In 1906, the world-renowned Russian mathematician Andrey A. Markov asked a heretic question of that time: if randomness has memory, do averages still behave or does probability theory collapse? His answer was a new kind of dependence where the next step only remembers the present, P(X_{n+1}=j | X_n=i, X_{n-1}, …) = P_ij, and yet the law of large numbers survives. The path stays noisy, while long-run state frequencies converge to a fixed profile pi = pi P. Markov’s idea is now the workhorse behind estimates by random-walks. MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo) builds a chain whose stationary distribution is the target (posteriors, partition functions, constrained geometries), then uses time-averages as estimates. The same Markov structure shows up in hidden Markov models for time series, in biophysics as channels switching between states, and in control/RL as Markov decision processes. #ProbabilityTheory #Markov #MCMC
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In 1906, the world-renowned Russian mathematician Andrey A. Markov asked a heretic question of that time: if randomness has memory, do averages still behave or does probability theory collapse? His answer was a new kind of dependence where the next step only remembers the present, P(X_{n+1}=j | X_n=i, X_{n-1}, …) = P_ij, and yet the law of large numbers survives. The path stays noisy, while long-run state frequencies converge to a fixed profile pi = pi P. Markov’s idea is now the workhorse behind estimates by random-walks. MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo) builds a chain whose stationary distribution is the target (posteriors, partition functions, constrained geometries), then uses time-averages as estimates. The same Markov structure shows up in hidden Markov models for time series, in biophysics as channels switching between states, and in control/RL as Markov decision processes. #ProbabilityTheory #Markov #MCMC

Mathelirium

288,693 views • 9 months ago

Atomic Truth Before Atoms Had a Name. ⚛️ Long before modern physics, Rishi Kanada described the universe as being made of indivisible particles, anu and paramanu. Matter, motion, time, space, all explained through logic, observation, and natural laws. This wasn’t mythology. This was science that was born in ancient India. ⚛️🇮🇳
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Atomic Truth Before Atoms Had a Name. ⚛️ Long before modern physics, Rishi Kanada described the universe as being made of indivisible particles, anu and paramanu. Matter, motion, time, space, all explained through logic, observation, and natural laws. This wasn’t mythology. This was science that was born in ancient India. ⚛️🇮🇳

JIX5A

14,006 views • 8 months ago

Why the character movement in my custom game engine felt janky and how I fixed it. In a game engine, most often, a character moves using the physics engine. Meaning, the player is not just a coordinate in space but a physical body. It has velocity, it handles collisions, and it interacts with the world. Now, as you might know, physics engines need stability. If you run them at variable framerates, things start breaking. Objects phase through walls or fly off into space because the math becomes unpredictable. This is why most game engines lock their physics loop to a 60Hz fixed rate. But here’s the problem: If you have a high-end system, you don't want to limit it at 60 FPS. That's a waste of good hardware. Now, that said, if the GPU is rendering at 144 FPS but the player's position (physics driven) only updates 60 times a second, it creates a micro-stutter that ruins the "smooth" feel of the game. A good way to fix this is to treat the character as two separate things: 1. The Physics Body (Invisible part): This is the "real" character. It lives in the 60Hz physics world, it moves the player and handles collisions. 2. The Visual Model and Camera (Visible part): This is what the player actually sees. It doesn't care about collisions, its only job is to look nice and smooth at whatever framerate the GPU is pushing. Once you have this separation, you can use interpolation to keep them in sync. Every time the physics clock ticks, you save the previous position of the invisible body before moving it to the new one. Between those ticks, calculate how far we are between the last physics update and the next one. By using this to drive the visible parts of the game, the stutters disappear. The physics loop stays fixed behind the scenes, while the visuals slide smoothly between the snapshots. Example: - Right after a tick: blend_weight= 0.0 (The visual model stays at the old physics position). - Halfway to the next: blend_weight= 0.5 (The visual model slides to the middle point). - Just before the next: blend_weight= 0.9 (The visual model is almost at the new physics position). Pro-Tip A critical mistake I made initially, and one many devs make, is parenting the camera and visible parts directly to the player body. If you do this, the camera inherits the discrete 60Hz physics movement by default. In that setup, interpolation won't work because the camera is "stuck" to the physics clock. For this fix to work you must decouple the camera and visuals from the body and move them separately. Player movement processing in Detis Engine: - fixed_process: Physics runs at 60Hz. Handles collisions and raw movement. - process: Variable rate. Mainly used for player input caching in the player case. - late_process: Variable rate. Handles interpolated camera movement after physics and everything else is done being processed. - render. Submits the final interpolated transforms to the GPU. The test environment in the video is running on an old 2070-based laptop. Hopefully the video compression won't introduce any stutter... I’m sharing this in hopes it helps a fellow dev. Cheers.
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Why the character movement in my custom game engine felt janky and how I fixed it. In a game engine, most often, a character moves using the physics engine. Meaning, the player is not just a coordinate in space but a physical body. It has velocity, it handles collisions, and it interacts with the world. Now, as you might know, physics engines need stability. If you run them at variable framerates, things start breaking. Objects phase through walls or fly off into space because the math becomes unpredictable. This is why most game engines lock their physics loop to a 60Hz fixed rate. But here’s the problem: If you have a high-end system, you don't want to limit it at 60 FPS. That's a waste of good hardware. Now, that said, if the GPU is rendering at 144 FPS but the player's position (physics driven) only updates 60 times a second, it creates a micro-stutter that ruins the "smooth" feel of the game. A good way to fix this is to treat the character as two separate things: 1. The Physics Body (Invisible part): This is the "real" character. It lives in the 60Hz physics world, it moves the player and handles collisions. 2. The Visual Model and Camera (Visible part): This is what the player actually sees. It doesn't care about collisions, its only job is to look nice and smooth at whatever framerate the GPU is pushing. Once you have this separation, you can use interpolation to keep them in sync. Every time the physics clock ticks, you save the previous position of the invisible body before moving it to the new one. Between those ticks, calculate how far we are between the last physics update and the next one. By using this to drive the visible parts of the game, the stutters disappear. The physics loop stays fixed behind the scenes, while the visuals slide smoothly between the snapshots. Example: - Right after a tick: blend_weight= 0.0 (The visual model stays at the old physics position). - Halfway to the next: blend_weight= 0.5 (The visual model slides to the middle point). - Just before the next: blend_weight= 0.9 (The visual model is almost at the new physics position). Pro-Tip A critical mistake I made initially, and one many devs make, is parenting the camera and visible parts directly to the player body. If you do this, the camera inherits the discrete 60Hz physics movement by default. In that setup, interpolation won't work because the camera is "stuck" to the physics clock. For this fix to work you must decouple the camera and visuals from the body and move them separately. Player movement processing in Detis Engine: - fixed_process: Physics runs at 60Hz. Handles collisions and raw movement. - process: Variable rate. Mainly used for player input caching in the player case. - late_process: Variable rate. Handles interpolated camera movement after physics and everything else is done being processed. - render. Submits the final interpolated transforms to the GPU. The test environment in the video is running on an old 2070-based laptop. Hopefully the video compression won't introduce any stutter... I’m sharing this in hopes it helps a fellow dev. Cheers.

Ioannis Koukourakis

48,703 views • 9 months ago