Yesterday met with graphics artist/multimedia specialist, the gorgeous Katerina Merezhinsky, who is completing the cover art for my soon-to-be-released latest book, Unveiling: The Inner Journey. What a big transition point! One book will be available shortly, and I'm already feeling drawn to starting the next - this time going back to my earlier interests in nonequilibrium systems as a means for modeling complex and emergent behaviors.
My new motto is "Physics first," and am starting the day with reviewing Pelizzola's excellent article on
Cluster Variation Method in Statistical Physics and Probabilistic Graphical
Meodels,. (I've just created a link to this article from my Nonlinear Forecasting Resources webpage.) This paper is important because it overviews the Cluster Variation Method (CVM) in context of its relation with other approaches, specifically with belief propagation networks and graph theory. The connection between these two is exciting, because CVM is a powerful computational method, with roots in statistical thermodynamics, and graph theory - as an organizing principle - links many domains of interest and potential applications.
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