Eigenquestions

Taste

Compact model profiles over the six research taste axes.

Bars grow from a neutral rail: length = strength of lean, up = +pole, down = -pole, faint band = confidence.

All six models ranked the same broad set of research directions, then their choices were projected onto the six trait axes.

What the six traits mean

Perturbative ↔ Nonperturbative — Whether you're drawn to problems tackled by expanding around a solvable limit, or to strongly-coupled regimes that need methods like lattice or the bootstrap.
Measurement/Experiment ↔ Theory — Whether your interest is anchored in observation, data, and experiment, or in prediction, calculation, and theory.
Speculative ↔ Conservative — Whether you gravitate to bold, far-from-established ideas, or to well-grounded, incremental questions.
Phenomenon-led ↔ Formalism-led — Whether you start from what nature does (physical phenomena), or from mathematical structure and formal consistency.
Tool-builder ↔ Tool-user — Whether you enjoy creating new methods, frameworks, and instruments, or applying existing ones to answer questions.
Unifier ↔ Particularist — Whether you seek broad principles connecting many areas, or deep mastery of one specific system.