#!/usr/bin/env python3 """ SciTechDaily Parallel Miner — Automated article scraping and unified-equation mapping. Goal: Mine scitechdaily.com articles and map findings to: Ω = Ψ [ B(θ) ⊗ C(n, α) ] ⊕ Δ(n, θ, α) Usage: python scitech_miner.py --max-articles 1000 --output findings.md """ import argparse import re import sys import time import random from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlparse from dataclasses import dataclass from typing import List, Optional import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup BASE_URL = "https://scitechdaily.com" USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ResearchBot/1.0; +mailto:research@example.com)" CATEGORIES = [ "physics", "quantum-physics", "astronomy", "astrophysics", "biology", "genetics", "evolutionary-biology", "dna", "neuroscience", "brain", "consciousness", "materials-science", "nanotechnology", "graphene", "climate-change", "environment", "ecology", "artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "energy", "fusion-energy", "battery-technology", "medicine", "cancer", "alzheimers-disease", "archaeology", "anthropology", "ancient-history", "chemistry", "mathematics", "computer-science", ] REQUEST_DELAY = 0.5 # seconds between requests to be polite @dataclass class Article: url: str title: str summary: str category: str mapped: dict = None def fetch(url: str, retries: int = 3) -> Optional[str]: headers = {"User-Agent": USER_AGENT} for attempt in range(retries): try: resp = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=15) resp.raise_for_status() time.sleep(REQUEST_DELAY + random.uniform(0, 0.3)) return resp.text except Exception as e: if attempt == retries - 1: print(f" ERROR fetching {url}: {e}", file=sys.stderr) return None time.sleep(2 ** attempt) return None def extract_article_links(category_url: str, max_pages: int = 3) -> List[str]: """Extract article URLs from a category page.""" links = [] for page in range(1, max_pages + 1): url = f"{category_url}page/{page}/" if page > 1 else category_url html = fetch(url) if not html: break soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") for a in soup.find_all("a", href=True): href = a["href"] if "/" in href and not any(x in href for x in ["/page/", "/tag/", "/author/", "#", ".jpg", ".png"]): full = urljoin(BASE_URL, href) if urlparse(full).netloc == "scitechdaily.com" and full not in links: links.append(full) if len(links) >= 50: break return links[:50] def extract_article_data(url: str) -> Optional[Article]: """Scrape title, summary, and key text from an article.""" html = fetch(url) if not html: return None soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") title_tag = soup.find("h1") or soup.find("title") title = title_tag.get_text(strip=True) if title_tag else "Unknown" # Extract article body text paragraphs = soup.find_all("p") text = " ".join(p.get_text(strip=True) for p in paragraphs[:30]) if len(text) > 3000: text = text[:3000] + "..." # Try to extract the OG description meta tag desc = "" meta = soup.find("meta", property="og:description") if meta: desc = meta.get("content", "") summary = desc if desc else text[:500] return Article(url=url, title=title, summary=summary, category="", mapped=None) def heuristic_map(article: Article) -> dict: """ Heuristic mapping to unified equation symbols. This is a best-effort NLP-lite approach using keyword matching. """ text = (article.title + " " + article.summary).lower() mapping = { "Ω": "observed phenomenon", "Ψ": "underlying mechanism", "B": "conserved basis / reusable component", "C": "dynamic context / adaptive state", "Δ": "residual / noise / uncertainty", } # Keyword-based refinement if any(w in text for w in ["gene", "dna", "rna", "protein", "genome"]): mapping["B"] = "gene / DNA sequence / protein structure" mapping["Ψ"] = "gene expression / regulation / evolution" mapping["C"] = "regulatory context / environmental pressure" mapping["Δ"] = "mutation / epigenetic noise / drift" mapping["Ω"] = "phenotype / trait / disease outcome" elif any(w in text for w in ["black hole", "gravity", "dark matter", "cosmic", "galaxy"]): mapping["B"] = "spacetime metric / mass distribution" mapping["Ψ"] = "general relativity / gravitational dynamics" mapping["C"] = "matter density / observer position" mapping["Δ"] = "quantum foam / measurement uncertainty" mapping["Ω"] = "gravitational signal / orbital dynamics" elif any(w in text for w in ["quantum", "electron", "photon", "wavefunction", "collapse"]): mapping["B"] = "quantum state / wavefunction basis" mapping["Ψ"] = "quantum evolution / measurement operator" mapping["C"] = "measurement apparatus / observer context" mapping["Δ"] = "uncertainty / decoherence / noise" mapping["Ω"] = "measured eigenvalue / probability" elif any(w in text for w in ["brain", "neuron", "cognitive", "memory", "consciousness", "intelligence"]): mapping["B"] = "neural network / brain region connectivity" mapping["Ψ"] = "network coordination / information integration" mapping["C"] = "task demands / sensory input" mapping["Δ"] = "neural noise / individual variation" mapping["Ω"] = "cognitive performance / behavior" elif any(w in text for w in ["ai", "artificial intelligence", "machine learning", "llm", "neural network"]): mapping["B"] = "model weights / training data distribution" mapping["Ψ"] = "optimization algorithm / inference operator" mapping["C"] = "prompt / input context / game structure" mapping["Δ"] = "generalization error / alignment gap" mapping["Ω"] = "model output / decision" elif any(w in text for w in ["fusion", "plasma", "tokamak", "stellarator", "magnetic confinement"]): mapping["B"] = "coil geometry / magnetic field structure" mapping["Ψ"] = "guiding center dynamics / symmetry operator" mapping["C"] = "plasma pressure / particle energy" mapping["Δ"] = "perturbation errors / field ripples" mapping["Ω"] = "confinement quality / alpha retention" elif any(w in text for w in ["battery", "solar", "energy", "supercapacitor"]): mapping["B"] = "material lattice / electrode structure" mapping["Ψ"] = "ion transport / charge transfer operator" mapping["C"] = "temperature / voltage / current" mapping["Δ"] = "degradation / thermal noise / resistance" mapping["Ω"] = "energy density / efficiency" elif any(w in text for w in ["ancient", "archaeology", "human evolution", "denisovan", "neanderthal"]): mapping["B"] = "genome sequence / archaeological artifact" mapping["Ψ"] = "phylogenetic inference / cultural transmission" mapping["C"] = "environment / climate / society" mapping["Δ"] = "contamination / decay / sampling bias" mapping["Ω"] = "evolutionary trajectory / historical inference" elif any(w in text for w in ["climate", "carbon", "warming", "soil", "ecosystem"]): mapping["B"] = "microbial community / carbon reservoir" mapping["Ψ"] = "ecosystem metabolism / biogeochemical cycle" mapping["C"] = "temperature / moisture / human activity" mapping["Δ"] = "stochastic variation / measurement error" mapping["Ω"] = "CO₂ flux / biodiversity" elif any(w in text for w in ["material", "graphene", "moiré", "superconductor", "nanotechnology"]): mapping["B"] = "crystal lattice / atomic arrangement" mapping["Ψ"] = "electronic band structure / phonon dynamics" mapping["C"] = "twist angle / doping / strain" mapping["Δ"] = "disorder / defects / thermal fluctuations" mapping["Ω"] = "conductivity / superconducting transition" return mapping def format_article_entry(number: int, article: Article, mapping: dict) -> str: """Format a single article as a markdown entry.""" lines = [ f"## {number}. {article.title}", "", f"**Source:** [{article.url}]({article.url})", f"**Summary:** {article.summary[:400]}", "", "| Symbol | Mapping |", "|--------|---------|", f"| Ω | {mapping['Ω']} |", f"| Ψ | {mapping['Ψ']} |", f"| B | {mapping['B']} |", f"| C | {mapping['C']} |", f"| Δ | {mapping['Δ']} |", "", "---", "", ] return "\n".join(lines) def mine_category(category: str, max_articles: int) -> List[Article]: """Mine articles from a single category.""" cat_url = f"{BASE_URL}/tag/{category}/" print(f"Mining category: {category}") links = extract_article_links(cat_url, max_pages=3) articles = [] for link in links[:max_articles]: art = extract_article_data(link) if art: art.category = category art.mapped = heuristic_map(art) articles.append(art) print(f" + {art.title[:60]}...") return articles def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Mine SciTechDaily and map to unified equation") parser.add_argument("--max-articles", type=int, default=100, help="Target number of articles") parser.add_argument("--output", type=str, default="/home/allaun/Documents/Research Stack/3-Mathematical-Models/auto_findings.md", help="Output markdown file") parser.add_argument("--workers", type=int, default=5, help="Parallel workers") args = parser.parse_args() target = args.max_articles per_category = max(1, target // len(CATEGORIES) + 1) all_articles: List[Article] = [] print(f"Starting parallel mining: {target} articles, {args.workers} workers, {len(CATEGORIES)} categories") print("=" * 60) with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=args.workers) as executor: futures = {executor.submit(mine_category, cat, per_category): cat for cat in CATEGORIES} for future in as_completed(futures): cat = futures[future] try: articles = future.result() all_articles.extend(articles) print(f" [{cat}] -> {len(articles)} articles (total: {len(all_articles)})") except Exception as e: print(f" ERROR in {cat}: {e}") if len(all_articles) >= target: print(f"Target reached ({len(all_articles)}). Shutting down...") executor.shutdown(wait=False, cancel_futures=True) break all_articles = all_articles[:target] print(f"\nTotal mined: {len(all_articles)} articles") # Write output lines = [ "# Auto-Mined Findings — Mapped to Unified Equation", "", f"**Generated:** {time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')}", f"**Articles:** {len(all_articles)}", f"**Equation:** Ω = Ψ [ B(θ) ⊗ C(n, α) ] ⊕ Δ(n, θ, α)", "", "---", "", ] for i, art in enumerate(all_articles, start=1): lines.append(format_article_entry(i, art, art.mapped)) with open(args.output, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f: f.write("\n".join(lines)) print(f"\nWrote {args.output}") print("Done.") if __name__ == "__main__": main()