Eleventh Hour Enthusiast·Aug 20Attention Is an OptimizerThe weights produced by softmax in standard attention have the form of a distribution from physics, and that fact organizes several…
Kiran Channayanamath·Jul 26Deriving the Boltzmann factorOn a higher level the Boltzmann factor and distribution gives an estimate about energy probabilities of a gas distribution at a certain…
InMASb LabsbyJoseph E. Julian·Feb 10Existence Has No AlibiWhy a quiet mathematical proof reveals that nature didn’t choose its laws — it was cornered.A response icon13A response icon13
QuarkAndCode·Dec 1, 2025Statistical Mechanics & Softmax: Entropy, Ensembles, and Machine LearningHow entropy, ensembles, and partition functions link classical statistical mechanics with softmax and modern machine learning.
shashank Jain·Oct 30, 2025When Physics Starts Thinking: How Energy-Based Models Lead Us to Thermodynamic AIThis is Inspired by Extropic’s “Thermodynamic Computing: From Zero to One,” Extropic.ai, 2025)
Renee LIN·Jan 25, 2023The Basic Idea of How Boltzmann Distribution is Used in Inverse Reinforcement LearningI am learning Inverse Reinforcement Learning(IRL), and trying to figure out the equation it is used.
Aditya Prakash·Nov 21, 2021Simulating Gas MoleculesGiving Gas molecules Boltzmann Velocities and then asking them to collide.
Brad Roth·Apr 2, 2021The Boltzmann Distribution Applied to a Harmonic OscillatorIn Chapter 3 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology, Russ Hobbie and I discuss the Boltzmann distribution. If you have a system…
Vidushi Shukla·Nov 22, 2020Bridging the gap: The Boltzmann Distribution, traditional science and machine learningA story of entropy as told through a probability distribution
