Cryptographic Censorship by Netta Engelhardt, Åsmund Folkestad, Adam Levine, Evita Verheijden, Lisa Yang

“…Abstract We formulate and take two large strides towards proving a quantum version of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture. We first prove “Cryptographic Censorship”: a theorem showing that when the time evolution operator of a holographic CFT is approximately pseudorandom (or Haar random) on some code subspace, then there must be an event horizon in the corresponding bulk dual. …”
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Language writ large: LLMs, ChatGPT, meaning, and understanding by Stevan Harnad

“…These convergent biases are related to (1) the parasitism of indirect verbal grounding on direct sensorimotor grounding, (2) the circularity of verbal definition, (3) the “mirroring” of language production and comprehension, (4) iconicity in propositions at LLM scale, (5) computational counterparts of human “categorical perception” in category learning by neural nets, and perhaps also (6) a conjecture by Chomsky about the laws of thought. The exposition will be in the form of a dialogue with ChatGPT-4.…”
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An efficient asymmetric removal lemma and its limitations by Lior Gishboliner, Asaf Shapira, Yuval Wigderson

“…Our second result is that assuming a well-known conjecture of Ruzsa in additive number theory, the answer to this question is negative. …”
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Matrix theory reloaded: a BPS road to holography by Chris D. A. Blair, Johannes Lahnsteiner, Niels A. Obers, Ziqi Yan

“…Uplifted to M-theory, we are led to a unified framework where each BPS decoupling limit corresponds to a Discrete Light Cone Quantisation (DLCQ). We conjecture that a DLCQ n /DLCQ m correspondence, with m > n, captures the notion of holography in string theory. …”
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Efficient recovery of rare metal lanthanum from water by MOF-modified biochar: DFT calculation and dynamic adsorption by Qilan Huang, Qianru Zhang, Shuwen Zhao, Chuchen Zhang, Huixin Guan, Jianqiao Liu

“…Accompanying batch tests with the theoretical conjecture's verification demonstrated that the pseudo-second-order model and the Langmuir model, respectively, provided a good fit for the adsorption kinetics and isotherms. …”
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