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Published monographs · 研究专著与公开方案
Simon's Scarcity Law, Power-Law Networks and Conversion Funnels in Creator Commerce
Simon's scarcity law and a daily attention budget, preferential attachment and power-law audiences, information cascades and tipping points, the conversion funnel as an absorbing Markov chain, two-sided platforms and stacked commissions, machine-readable reputation and the merchants of the Shiji, with a four-week attention ledger and a pre-registered trial.
从西蒙的稀缺定律、优先连接与幂律、信息级联与阈值相变，到马尔可夫转化漏斗、双边市场与《货殖列传》，附四周注意力账本与预注册随机试验。
Disclosure: this site and 5D Library are run by the same group, founded by the author. 说明：本站与 5D Library 同属作者创办的集团。
Self-Attention Geometry, Ashby's Requisite Variety and Cognitive Projection in Information Theory and East Asian Philosophy of Mind
Why two people who ask the same language model the same question come away with opposite impressions: conditional entropy and what a prompt adds, the geometry of self-attention, Ashby's law of requisite variety and the limits of verification, projection and confirmation bias, model collapse and how real data prevents it, and what the evidence on human–AI teams actually shows, read beside Zhuangzi's mirror and Yogācāra thought, with a four-step prompt audit and a pre-registered double-blind trial.
为什么两个人问同一个语言模型会得到截然不同的印象：条件熵与提示带来的信息、自注意力几何、阿什比必要多样性与核查的上限、投射与确认偏误、模型崩溃与真实数据，以及人机团队的真实证据，与庄子之镜、唯识学并读，附四步提示审计与预注册双盲试验。
Disclosure: this site and 5D Library are run by the same group, founded by the author, which uses AI tools in influencer marketing, digital marketing and content production. 说明：本站与 5D Library 同属作者创办的集团，集团在网红营销、数字营销和内容制作中使用 AI 工具。
Psychological Inertia, Static Friction Thresholds, Kramers Escape Rate in Double-Well Potentials and Habit Phase Transitions, Read Beside East Asian Philosophy of Practice
Why starting is harder than continuing, modelled as cross-disciplinary analogies: status quo bias and defaults, static against kinetic friction and why moving forward needs grip rather than resistance, Kramers' escape rate from a double well and why lowering a barrier alone also speeds relapse, hysteresis and tipping points, learning by teaching and complex contagion, and the failed replications of ego depletion, read beside the Book of Changes, Wang Yangming and a Chan case, with a four-step barrier audit and a pre-registered trial of peer tutoring.
为什么开始比继续难（跨学科类比与简化模型）：维持原状偏差与默认选项、静摩擦与动摩擦以及「前进需要抓地力而不是阻力」、双势阱克莱默斯逃逸率与「只降势垒也会加速复发」、滞后与临界点、为教而学与复杂传染、自我损耗的重复失败，与《周易》、王阳明《传习录》和禅宗公案并读，附四步势垒核查表与同伴辅导的预注册随机试验。
Disclosure: this site and 5D Library are run by the same group, founded by the author, who uses these books as the basis of his community courses, the 5D Ascension Cards (Dimensional Shift Card Decks) and the Yafu AI knowledge base. 说明：本站与 5D Library 同属作者创办的集团，作者以这些书作为其社群认知课程、升维牌卡（5D Ascension Cards）与 Yafu AI 知识库的方法论基础。
Markov Blankets, Variational Free-Energy Minimisation, Exploration-Exploitation Trade-offs and East Asian Causality in Computational Neuroscience
How a mind that predicts the world can keep acting out the same script: the free-energy principle and active inference, a small agent whose pessimistic prior drives it back into the same trap, Markov blankets and their critics, bandits and the value of exploration, low-stakes sandboxes, and chaos without free will, read beside Yuan Huang's Four Lessons and Yogācāra thought, with a four-step Bayesian audit and a pre-registered trial of a structured sandbox workshop.
一个预测世界的大脑为什么会反复演出同一个剧本：自由能原理与主动推理、悲观先验驱动智能体反复落入同一陷阱的模型、马尔可夫毯及其批评、多臂老虎机与探索的价值、低风险沙盘，以及混沌不等于自由意志，与袁黄《了凡四训》和唯识学并读，附四步贝叶斯审计与结构化沙盘工作坊的预注册随机试验。
Not psychotherapy. Disclosure: this site and 5D Library are run by the same group, founded by the author, who uses these books as the basis of his community courses, the 5D Ascension Cards (Dimensional Shift Card Decks) and the Yafu AI knowledge base. 本书不是心理治疗。说明：本站与 5D Library 同属作者创办的集团，作者以这些书作为其社群认知课程、升维牌卡（5D Ascension Cards）与 Yafu AI 知识库的方法论基础。
From Anxious-Avoidant Coupled Oscillators and Gottman's Nonlinear Difference Equations to Updating Early Relational Priors
Attachment anxiety and avoidance as priors about other people's availability; the pursue–withdraw loop as a coupled dynamical system in which lowering either partner's sensitivity breaks the cycle; the Gottman–Murray marriage equations, and why Gottman's roughly 5:1 observation must be kept apart from the withdrawn Losada ratio; physiological co-regulation; what longitudinal studies really show about early experience (r ≈ .39, about 15% of the variance); and repair attempts as damping, read beside the Book of Changes, the Book of Songs, the Great Learning and Mencius, with a four-step interaction-loop checklist and a pre-registered randomised trial.
依恋焦虑与回避作为关于「他人是否可得」的先验；追–逃循环作为耦合动力系统，降低任一方的敏感度都能打破循环；戈特曼–默里婚姻方程，以及为什么必须把戈特曼约 5:1 的观察与已被撤回的洛萨达比例分开；生理共调；纵向研究对早期经验的真实结论（r ≈ .39，约 15% 方差）；修复尝试作为阻尼，与《周易·咸》《诗经·击鼓》《大学》《孟子》并读，附四步互动回路核查表与预注册随机对照试验。
Not couples therapy or counselling; anyone facing violence, abuse or coercive control should seek professional or legal help at once. Disclosure: this site and 5D Library are run by the same group, founded by the author, who uses these books as a methodological reference for his community courses, the 5D Ascension Cards (Dimensional Shift Card Decks) and the Yafu AI knowledge base. 不是婚姻家庭治疗或心理咨询；如遭遇暴力、虐待或胁迫控制，请立即寻求专业机构或法律保护。说明：本站与 5D Library 同属作者创办的集团，作者以这些书作为其社群课程、升维牌卡（5D Ascension Cards）与 Yafu AI 知识库的方法论参考。
From Glucocorticoid-Receptor Programming and Twin Variance Decomposition to Social-Learning Channels, Read Beside Classical Chinese Family Instruction
Is family trauma really 'written into DNA'? The maternal-care and glucocorticoid-receptor methylation studies, and why cross-fostering shows care styles following the rearing mother; the Dutch famine and Holocaust-offspring studies, and the strict difference between intergenerational and transgenerational effects; twin variance decomposition (heritability about 49%, shared environment about 0.17); how gene–environment correlation inflates estimates of family influence; social-learning channels in dual-inheritance theory; differential susceptibility; and what buffers negative cycles, read beside the Yan Family Instructions, the Kongzi Jiayu and the Lienü zhuan, with a four-step checklist and a pre-registered randomised trial.
「原生家庭创伤写进 DNA」是真的吗：母鼠照料与糖皮质激素受体甲基化研究，以及交叉抚养显示照料风格跟随抚养者；荷兰饥荒与大屠杀后代研究，「代际」与「跨代」的严格区分；双生子方差分解（遗传力约 49%、共享环境约 0.17）；基因—环境相关如何高估家庭作用；双重继承理论的社会学习信道；差异易感性；以及缓冲负向循环的因素，与《颜氏家训·慕贤》《孔子家语·六本》《列女传》并读，附四步核查表与预注册随机对照试验。
Not psychotherapy, parenting diagnosis or medical advice; where a child may be at risk of abuse, contact local child-protection or emergency services. Disclosure: this site and 5D Library are run by the same group, founded by the author, who uses these books as a methodological reference for his community courses, the 5D Ascension Cards (Dimensional Shift Card Decks) and the Yafu AI knowledge base. 不是心理治疗、育儿诊断或医疗建议；如儿童可能遭受虐待，请联系当地儿童保护机构或紧急服务。说明：本站与 5D Library 同属作者创办的集团，作者以这些书作为其社群课程、升维牌卡（5D Ascension Cards）与 Yafu AI 知识库的方法论参考。
From Stochastic Gradient Descent and the Zone of Proximal Development to Spaced Repetition, Read Beside Classical Chinese Learning Theory
Where 'just hard enough' lies: the Eighty Five Percent Rule (an optimal training error of ½ erfc(1/√2) ≈ 15.87% for gradient-descent learners under Gaussian noise, and why it is not a universal constant); what deliberate practice really explains (about 12% of the variance on average); activity-dependent myelination and cable theory; forgetting, spacing, retrieval practice and an SM-2 scheduler; interleaving and desirable difficulties; and the timing of feedback, read beside the Analects, the Record of Learning and Zhu Xi, with a four-step deliberate-practice checklist and a pre-registered randomised trial.
「刚好够难」在哪里：85% 法则（高斯噪声下梯度下降学习者的最优训练错误率为 ½ erfc(1/√2) ≈ 15.87%，并非普适常数）；刻意练习的真实解释力（平均约 12% 方差）；活动依赖性髓鞘化与电缆理论；遗忘、间隔、检索练习与 SM-2 调度器；交错练习与必要难度；反馈的时机，与《论语》《礼记·学记》、朱熹《读书之要》并读，附四步刻意练习核查表与预注册随机对照试验。
Not a diagnosis of, or treatment for, learning difficulties; 85% is the optimum of a specific model, not a universal constant. Disclosure: this site and 5D Library are run by the same group, founded by the author, who uses these books as a methodological reference for his community courses, the 5D Ascension Cards (Dimensional Shift Card Decks) and the Yafu AI knowledge base. 不是学习障碍的诊断或治疗建议；85% 是特定模型下的最优值，不是普适常数。说明：本站与 5D Library 同属作者创办的集团，作者以这些书作为其社群课程、升维牌卡（5D Ascension Cards）与 Yafu AI 知识库的方法论参考。
From Posner's Tripartite Network and Motivation Crowding-Out to the Information Theory of Flow, Read Beside Neo-Confucian Reverence (Jìng)
Posner's alerting, orienting and executive networks and the limits of the Attention Network Test; working memory of about four chunks and cognitive load; task-switching costs, attention residue and what the interruption studies really found; when extrinsic rewards crowd out intrinsic motivation and when they do not; autonomy, competence and relatedness; and flow, read beside Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi on reverence, Xunzi's 'empty, unified and still' and Zhuangzi's cicada-catcher, with a four-step attention-and-motivation checklist and a pre-registered crossover trial on phone proximity.
波斯纳的警觉、定向与执行三网络及注意网络测验的局限；约 4 个组块的工作记忆与认知负荷；任务切换代价、注意力残留与打断研究的真实结论；外在奖励何时挤出、何时不挤出内在动机；自主、胜任与归属；心流，与程颐、朱熹论敬、《荀子·解蔽》「虚壹而静」与《庄子·达生》承蜩并读，附四步注意力与动机核查表与关于手机距离的预注册交叉试验。
Not a diagnosis of, or treatment for, ADHD, anxiety or any other condition; the book recommends no medication. Disclosure: this site and 5D Library are run by the same group, founded by the author, who uses these books as a methodological reference for his community courses, the 5D Ascension Cards (Dimensional Shift Card Decks) and the Yafu AI knowledge base. 不是 ADHD、焦虑或任何病症的诊断或治疗建议；本书不推荐任何药物。说明：本站与 5D Library 同属作者创办的集团，作者以这些书作为其社群课程、升维牌卡（5D Ascension Cards）与 Yafu AI 知识库的方法论参考。
From the Strength of Weak Ties and Preferential Attachment to Information Cascades, Read Beside Classical Chinese Diplomacy
How the shape of a network decides what a person sees, how far a behaviour travels and why a group goes wrong together: Granovetter's weak ties and what the Facebook and LinkedIn tests really found, small-world shortcuts, Burt's network constraint and brokerage (and where its returns reverse), simple against complex contagion and wide bridges, the dispute over scale-free networks, robustness under failure and attack, PageRank, and Bayesian information cascades and how independent judgement breaks them, read beside the Strategies of the Warring States, the Analects and the Guoyu, with a four-step network checklist and a pre-registered team experiment on anchoring.
网络结构如何决定一个人能看到什么、一种行为能传多远、一个群体为什么会一起走错：格兰诺维特弱连带与脸书、领英的大规模检验，小世界捷径，伯特的网络约束与经纪收益（及其反转），简单与复杂传染和宽桥，无标度网络之争，随机失效与定向攻击下的鲁棒性，PageRank，以及贝叶斯信息级联与独立判断如何打破它，与《战国策》《论语·季氏》《国语·齐语》并读，附四步网络核查表与关于锚定的预注册团队实验。
Disclosure: this site and 5D Library are run by the same group, founded by the author, who uses these books as a methodological reference for his community courses, the 5D Ascension Cards (Dimensional Shift Card Decks) and the Yafu AI knowledge base. The author founded and runs Asia Influencer X and Yafu Global (influencer marketing, digital marketing and consulting), so he has a direct commercial interest in this subject; the book uses no client data and its experiment does not recruit from their clients. 说明：本站与 5D Library 同属作者创办的集团，作者以这些书作为其社群课程、升维牌卡（5D Ascension Cards）与 Yafu AI 知识库的方法论参考。作者创办并经营 Asia Influencer X 与 Yafu Global（网红营销、数字营销与咨询），与本书主题有直接商业利益；书中不使用其客户数据，试验不从其客户中招募。
From Base-Rate Neglect and Signal Detection Theory to Superforecasting, Read Beside Classical Chinese Strategic Calculation
How to measure whether 'probably' is right: Tetlock's expert-forecasting studies and superforecasters, the Brier score and its Murphy decomposition (always forecasting the base rate is perfectly calibrated but has no resolution), base-rate neglect and natural frequencies, signal detection theory and the optimal threshold when costs are unequal, reference-class forecasting and the planning fallacy, and the diversity prediction theorem and when a crowd beats an expert, read beside the Art of War, the Guiguzi and Han Feizi, with a four-step calibration checklist and a pre-registered randomised trial.
「大概会成」到底有多准：泰洛克的专家预测研究与超级预测者，布莱尔分数与墨菲分解（总是报基础率者校准完美但区分度为零），基础率忽略与自然频率，信号检测论与代价不对称下的最优门槛，参考类别预测与计划谬误，多样性预测定理与群体何时胜过专家，与《孙子兵法·计篇》《鬼谷子·揣篇》《韩非子·显学》并读，附四步概率校准核查表与预注册随机对照试验。
Not investment or financial advice; the book makes no market forecast. Disclosure: this site and 5D Library are run by the same group, founded by the author, who uses these books as a methodological reference for his community courses, the 5D Ascension Cards (Dimensional Shift Card Decks) and the Yafu AI knowledge base. He holds no financial-services licence and provides no investment advice, account management or trading-signal service. 非投资或财务建议；本书不作任何市场预测。说明：本站与 5D Library 同属作者创办的集团，作者以这些书作为其社群课程、升维牌卡（5D Ascension Cards）与 Yafu AI 知识库的方法论参考。作者不持有任何金融服务牌照，不提供任何投资顾问、代客理财或交易信号服务。
From Vickrey Auctions and the Myerson-Satterthwaite Theorem to Nash Bargaining, Read Beside Classical Chinese Legalist and Confucian Institutional Thought
How rules shape behaviour, and where good rules must fall short: mechanism design and the revelation principle, Vickrey and first-price auctions and revenue equivalence, the Myerson–Satterthwaite theorem (the best mechanism captures 84.375% of the gains from trade in the uniform case), Nash and Rubinstein bargaining and why a BATNA matters differently in each, lemons and costly signals, and Goodhart's law and audits, read beside Han Feizi, Guanzi, the Analects and Mencius, with a four-step negotiation and incentive checklist and a pre-registered dyadic negotiation experiment.
规则如何塑造行为，好的规则又在哪里必然受限：机制设计与显示原理，维克里与一价拍卖及收益等价，迈尔森—萨特思韦特定理（均匀分布下最好的机制只能实现 84.375% 的交易收益），纳什与鲁宾斯坦议价以及 BATNA 在两者中的不同作用，柠檬市场与高成本信号，古德哈特定律与审计，与《韩非子·定法》《二柄》《管子·明法》《论语》《孟子》并读，附四步机制与议价核查表与预注册双人谈判实验。
Not legal, financial or investment advice. Disclosure: this site and 5D Library are run by the same group, founded by the author, who uses these books as a methodological reference for his community courses, the 5D Ascension Cards (Dimensional Shift Card Decks) and the Yafu AI knowledge base. The author founded and runs Asia Influencer X and Yafu Global (influencer marketing, digital marketing and consulting), so he has a direct commercial interest in this subject; the book uses no client data and its experiment does not recruit from their clients. 非法律、财务或投资建议。说明：本站与 5D Library 同属作者创办的集团，作者以这些书作为其社群课程、升维牌卡（5D Ascension Cards）与 Yafu AI 知识库的方法论参考。作者创办并经营 Asia Influencer X 与 Yafu Global（网红营销、数字营销与咨询），与本书主题有直接商业利益；书中不使用其客户数据，试验不从其客户中招募。
From Saddle-Node Bifurcations and Early-Warning Signals to Cascading Failures, Read Beside Classical Chinese Thought on Incipient Change
Why lakes, reefs, power grids and companies can flip suddenly and find it hard to come back: saddle-node bifurcations and hysteresis, the evidence for alternative stable states (and the dispute over coral reefs), critical slowing down and how reliable its early-warning signals are in finite data, engineering against ecological resilience, cascading failures in networks and why modularity is a firewall with a price, read beside the Book of Changes, the Laozi and Han Feizi, with a four-step resilience checklist and a pre-registered experiment on early-warning dashboards.
湖泊、珊瑚礁、电网与企业为什么会突然翻转、难以回头：鞍结分岔与滞后，可替代稳态的证据（及珊瑚礁之争），临界慢化及其早期预警信号在有限数据中有多可靠，工程韧性与生态韧性，网络中的级联失效与模块化防火墙的代价，与《周易》「履霜，坚冰至」、《老子》「其未兆易谋」、《韩非子·喻老》并读，附四步韧性核查表与关于预警仪表盘的预注册实验。
Disclosure: this site and 5D Library are run by the same group, founded by the author, who uses these books as a methodological reference for his community courses, the 5D Ascension Cards (Dimensional Shift Card Decks) and the Yafu AI knowledge base. 说明：本站与 5D Library 同属作者创办的集团，作者以这些书作为其社群课程、升维牌卡（5D Ascension Cards）与 Yafu AI 知识库的方法论参考。
From Kleiber's Three-Quarter Power Law and Fractal Supply Networks to the Mortality of Firms, Read Beside Classical Chinese Organisational Thought
What size does to the metabolism of organisms, cities and firms, and how far the analogy holds: Kleiber's law and the 2/3 versus 3/4 dispute, the West–Brown–Enquist network model and its finite-size corrections, the ontogenetic growth equation, sublinear infrastructure and superlinear output in cities, the survival curves of firms, Ringelmann's table and the optimal size of teams, communication channels, spans of control and Dunbar's number (with its wide uncertainty), read beside Sunzi, the Hanfeizi and the Lüshi chunqiu, with a four-step checklist and a pre-registered cluster-randomised trial of modular teams with interface documents in a programming task.
体量对生物、城市与企业的新陈代谢意味着什么，这种类比能走多远：克莱伯定律与 2/3 对 3/4 之争，韦斯特-布朗-恩奎斯特管网模型及其有限尺寸修正，个体生长方程，城市基础设施的亚线性与产出的超线性，企业的生存曲线，林格曼表与团队的最优规模，沟通通道、管理幅度与邓巴数（及其很宽的不确定性），与《孙子·势篇》《韩非子·八经》《吕氏春秋·君守》并读，附四步核查表与模块化编程任务中「分队＋接口文档」的预注册整群随机试验。
Not investment advice or a management promise. Disclosure: this site and 5D Library are run by the same group, founded by the author, who uses these books as a methodological reference for his community courses, the 5D Ascension Cards (Dimensional Shift Card Decks) and the Yafu AI knowledge base. The author also founded and runs Yafu Global and Asia Influencer X, whose business involves the organisational growth and management of firms and teams, so he has a direct commercial interest in this subject; the book uses no client or employee data and its trial does not recruit from them. 非投资建议，也不是管理承诺。说明：本站与 5D Library 同属作者创办的集团，作者以这些书作为其社群课程、升维牌卡（5D Ascension Cards）与 Yafu AI 知识库的方法论参考。作者还创办并经营 Yafu Global 与 Asia Influencer X（企业与团队的组织扩张与管理），与本书主题有直接商业利益；书中不使用其客户或员工数据，试验不从其中招募。
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