Welcome to my work
Hi, I'm Joshua Kyan Aalampour, a 24-year-old classical composer. Outside of music, I spend a lot of my time studying. I think there's so much beauty in the world, and I want to understand as much of it as I can while I'm here. This is where I keep my original papers, projects, and other work.
Explore by Discipline
Mathematics
Symbolic regression, cross-impact kernels, model reduction, spectral methods
Biology
Epitranscriptomics, synaptic plasticity, RNA modification, allosteric pharmacology
Philosophy
Aesthetics, paradox, theology, meaning-making
Astronomy
Stargazing, constellation mapping, multi-wavelength sky imaging
Recent Activity
The Eraser Hypothesis: Epitranscriptomic Modulation of Synaptic Plasticity Under Metabolic Stress
Memory requires building new proteins at the synapses that fire during learning. A chemical tag on messenger RNA controls which proteins get built, and the enzyme FTO erases the tag. Metabolic stress makes FTO too aggressive, so fewer proteins are built and memory suffers. This paper proposes a way to slow FTO without shutting it off.
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Plate-Solving an iPhone Photograph
Recovering the celestial coordinates of a smartphone photograph via EXIF-assisted plate-solving, Hipparcos catalog matching, and WISE/GALEX cross-archive imaging.
Memories from Normandy
A cinematic short from the Normandy coast.
Passivity-Preserving Model Reduction for Transient Cross-Impact
When you trade one stock, it ripples through the prices of other stocks, and that ripple fades over time. This paper finds a way to compress that complex, high-dimensional ripple effect into a small, tractable model that is guaranteed to never create fake arbitrage.
Rider on Horseback
A study of motion and balance in the horse and its rider.
Laocoön Gripping a Serpent
A graphite study after the Hellenistic marble.
On the Beauty of Contradiction in Christ
Even if Christianity were only a legend, it still inspired Bach's St Matthew Passion, Europe's cathedrals, and Kepler's laws. This essay explores the strange beauty of a facade that produces real masterpieces, and asks whether that paradox itself is meaningful.
The Cross-Universe Symbolic Regression Tournament: Survival of the Fittest Laws
Imagine letting a computer guess equations that fit your data, then making those guesses fight for survival across totally different datasets. Like natural selection, but for math formulas. The last equation standing is your best bet at the real underlying law.