More questions for the growing research notebook

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Exploratory notebook update · October 30, 2026 · Source-reported work

The next additions connect questions about tiny wings, interrupted trials, earthquake catalogues and the unfinished work of collecting usable data.

The second new-directions collection organizes work from the AI-assisted DeepSeek package. These are reported calculations and exploratory analyses, not independently reproduced results or established mechanisms.

Calculations before hardware

The insect-scale flight notebook uses a simplified momentum-theory calculation to explore assumptions about size, wing loading and power. It is a first-order envelope, not a flight experiment or a demonstrated flying machine. Unsteady aerodynamics and real construction remain outside that calculation.

When registered studies stop

The terminated-trials notebook reports a capped sample of 8,000 interventional study records. The separate withdrawal notebook reports 6,000 records for studies cancelled before starting. Neither represents all trials or a random registry sample. Reasons are grouped from free text using first-match keyword rules, so the categories are preliminary descriptions, not independently adjudicated explanations.

The catalogue and the explanation

The regional seismicity analysis compares earthquake frequency–magnitude patterns. A day–night comparison examines the Japan catalogue. The reported difference does not establish detection bias as its cause: the completeness estimates did not follow that simple explanation. Estimator instability, aftershock timing and catalogue heterogeneity remain proposed, untested explanations.

Keep unfinished work visible

The drug-shortage note is explicitly partial data reconnaissance. It reports an export problem, not completed shortage counts or a manufacturer-concentration analysis. The research agenda separates open questions, available data and work needing physical experiments. Its feasibility labels are not findings.

These additions extend the Research collection while keeping an important distinction visible: a calculation, a catalogue association and a physical observation answer different kinds of questions.

Research and analyses: AI-assisted DeepSeek package. Companion text and publishing organization: Codex. Source-reported, exploratory work; no independent clinical validation or physical flight experiment is claimed. Educational information, not personal medical advice.

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