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@ayegill .bsky.social (bluesky) @ayegill .schelling.pt (mastodon) Applied algebraic abstractologist. Trying to get the heavens into my head

Glasgow

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Joined November 2012

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@Ayegill

Eigil Fjeldgren Rischel - abstr/acc

2 years

You need to be wizardmaxxing. You need to be searching through dark places for obscure arcana. You need to be growing out your beard. You need to be sending people on quests. You need to buy more books. You need to live in a tower. You need to be wizardmaxxing.

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I heard there was a secret cord That David made and displeased the Lord, But you don't really care for safety, do ya? Well it goes like this, a plug, a switch A circuit breaker open-hitched The socket catching fire, hallelujah.

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If "naan bread" is verboten because naan just means "bread", what should I call that particular type of bread? Clearly I can't call it naan, we've just established that means "bread", whereas I'm talking about a specific type of bread.

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The ability to write LaTeX is the sign of a scholar. The ability to write LaTeX well is the sign of a wasted life.

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“Can you explain this gap in your resume” yeah I made it in LaTeX and I don’t know how to make the paragraph breaks smaller

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Imagine spending several years in grad school, working long hours for no money to become an expert in an ancient culture, but it turns out every physical artifact of that culture was made up by one guy.

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It turned out that Lara had potentially made up to 40,000 pieces of Mayan, Aztec and other prehistoric pottery. Maybe all the known Totonac ceramic artefacts were made by him. Embarrassingly, museums around the world had bought many of his pieces, for huge sums of money.

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@fordm "'Smear'? I'm not a shitposter, Jackson. Do you really think I'd dunk on your suit if there remained the slightest chance of me being wrong? I got my info from your tailor"

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Fuck it. I've read too many stupid takes about dall-e - I'm now pro-stealing from artists.

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Bernard Morin, a successful topologist who was part of the team that exhibited the first sphere eversion, was blind since age 6. Pretty incredible to do this sort of stuff with no visual aids at all.

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If you want a picture of the future, imagine people being performatively confused by summary statistics, forever.

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Headline directly contradicted by the second para.

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A surprising number of people:

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@NightlingBug Reverse stardew valley where you move to a thriving rural village to start a supermarket and gradually destroy the spirit of the community to exploit them for financial gain.

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@imperialauditor > you could be slightly buzzed all the time and not have to brush your teeth > scientists are hiding this blessing from us

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And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my lips but hallelujah

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"Bro, you're drunk, don't text her, give me your phone." "'Text her'? Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I texted her thirty-five minutes ago."

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MrBeast is about as far as you can get from the EA movement while still being philanthropy. Just because there's two different things you don't like doesn't mean they're the same thing!

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@m00dyblu @depthsofwiki "Actually it's starting to get pretty annoying when a lot of people die" - George Carlin in 2004

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You can obtain a higher payoff in the prisoner's dilemma by defecting. Follow me for more alpha male tips.

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My special interest? Overthrowing the government.

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@fousjemen @s8mb

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@anniierau > I also walked out with 1 chicken and a pack of Hawaiian rolls He's a legend

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@depthsofwiki

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To be clear, midjourney isn't just copying its training data, but it would be a good thing if it did. The only better thing would be if it also physically broke into artists' homes and stole their possessions.

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Making fun of ML for being "just linear algebra" is pretty rich coming from a field that's been publishing fancy variations on linear algebra for the past 212 years.

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Strong candidate for most important piece of science communication of 2022, only has 151 likes.

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Tetra 💎🔎

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Time travel movie where a crack team of economists travel back in time to identify and stop the ~1970 monocausal event.

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You give your real first name to the Starbucks barista? Nice opsec bro lmao.

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Mathematical logicians really don't talk enough about the fact that they invented computers. They shouldn't be letting any other field live that down.

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Gromov's power level is off the charts

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@oliverburkeman @ChronicleLive Food £200 Data £150 Rent £800 Greggs £30000 Utility £150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

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The 4th/5th generation kindle is an unsurpassed piece of electronics - Fits in your pocket - Battery lasts for weeks - Has physical buttons that do the two things you want to do (next page, previous page).

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You see, there will be multiple superintelligent AIs, leading to a multipolar equilibrium which remains safe for humans.

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@ciphergoth @eukaryotetweets The arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards tree.

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Neal Stephenson's radical vision of the future, based on commonalities between his books: - Advances in technology will transform society into something utterly alien - Traditional nation-states will be among the casualties - In the future, people will call Japan "Nippon"

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It's a sad truth that girls with nice butts can get easily away with bullying. The ends justify the means.

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I really like this idea in particular. Broke: Nigeria is messed up because of the resource curse and the massive amount of ethnic groups thrown together involuntarily. Woke: Nigeria is messed up because The Joker used to live there.

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Me: So, you wanna come back to my place? Girl: I'm sorry, but as a large language model trained by OpenAI, I'm incapable of interacting with the physical world or moving around it. Therefore I regrettably cannot follow you back to your place.

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@jbuhl35 Girl: [Breezewood picture] Me, trying to think of something to impress her: Haha yeah I hate the working class too

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But mr bioethicist, those are my ten million emotional support John von Neumanns.

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Okay, I changed my mind. Fuck nuclear power, we need more of these badass world eating things.

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> he didn't even want to spend the money on anything > he just liked doing coups

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Pictured, the International Standard Inaccessible Cardinal, in storage at the Bureau international des poids et mesures in Paris. It is used to define the standardized category of (small) sets.

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After 2+2 Discourse, I'm forced to conclude twitter is not ready for "Is 57 a prime?" Discourse.

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@Italian347 Crusader Kings looking motherfuckers

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@CausabonT @xkcd "Modern audiences are so entitled, whenever some piece of entertainment isn't exactly the way they want, they moan and complain" Historical audiences:

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@killipevie @spochadoir

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Finally solving the foundations of mathematics by adding a "no galaxy brain stuff" clause to the axiom of choice.

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Literally not one person has ever thought that every woman lives longer than every man, because that's obviously insane (from the study that article is referencing)

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Larry Summers after being told that the interim CEO was "a doompilled aella reply guy"

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@Ayegill Everybody knows it’s a bad idea Everybody knows it should not be tried Everybody knows that someone somewhere Made it and caught fire and died Everybody knows it’s gonna shock Everybody knows it’ll knock your socks Right off your toes And everybody knows.

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@MorlockP Have you read "gods of salt"? One of my favorite insane history theories

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You should NEVER call mentally disabled people "retarded". It normalizes extremely harmful language, namely French.

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Short men not being ridiculed for their height is completely within the purview of "body positivity"

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Go ahead, post another "take". Say the integers are a curve over a field with one element. Come up with a way to call K-theory trivial. Say derived algebraic geometry simplifies Bezout's theorem. Claim primordial man took homotopy groups to invent numbers.

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Does anyone know why every autocomplete system does this? - I type "not" into my start menu - Top suggestion: notepad++ - I continue typing: "notep" - Top suggestion: notepad It seems very unintuitive that the top suggestion should change when I continue to type it?

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I wanted to end the first sentence with an exclamation point, but I just know you smartasses would have gone "DURRR blind since age 720?? Wow he really lived a long time"

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Guys software is so much more readable than math notation, instead of just using archaic symbols you should just give your operations names so that people can understand what's being written.

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"Yeah this part of our codebase runs on JVN" "..do you mean JVM? Java Virtual Machine?" "No, no, it runs on John Von Neumann. He does those calculations in his head"

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@growing_daniel CEOs of big tech companies: You almost certainly have Master and Commander guys as employees. What are you going to do about it?

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@mattecapu Reading a ten-page paper that you know could easily be simplified into 100 pages of category theory

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@willystaley When Americans brag about 100 dollars being a good amount of money but there's euro-dollar parity now

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The first author of this paper has a PhD in public health 🤡

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@imperialauditor (Yes, I get that they're producing way too little ethanol for it to affect you)

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This whole $GME debacle just proves what I've been saying for years: probability theory is ripe for a revolution via category-theoretic methods.

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I still think this paper is incredibly based. Like spillthrough from a universe with radically different math.

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FUCK I should've done "no one cared who I was until I put on the mask" instead.

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@opinonhaver Government: we want to keep tabs on this guy who can destroy entire armies at will with his magnet powers X-Men writers: what does this remind you of?? That's right, this is just like the Holocaust.

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When people start talking about constructions that aren't isomorphism invariant

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Imagine looking from the UK to the US and being like "their problem is that they don't have enough empty space between the towns" like what the fuck are you talking about my dude.

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There is a reason why our cities don't look like Phoenix, Arizona, and why we still have something we call the countryside. Planning laws. Liz Truss, who has no electoral mandate, wants to sweep them away.

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Machine learning, just like quantum mechanics, is just linear algebra.

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@ciphergoth @eukaryotetweets

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Wario isn't called "Wamario". Waluigi should be called "Wuigi".

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So your Taylor series can't converge because you have poles in the complex plane... These "complex poles", are they in the room with us right now?

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How the fuck is this real

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𝘍𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘹❤️‍🔥

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Best account on twitter. The lore is that this guy bought the cheapest warehouse in the most dangerous town in the country, and gets robbed every single day. Nobody knows how he's still alive

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@JeanNAdelard @UpdatingOnRome

Siege of Constantinople (717–718) - Wikipedia

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Nice argument, unfortunately I've already created an MS PowerPoint infographic with you under the heading "evil losers" and me under the heading "virtuous chads"

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@ReviewsPossum

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> looking for new scifi > ask the fans if the author cares about radiator size > they don't understand > pull out diagram > they laugh and say "it's nasapunk with dysoncore elements" > watch the first episode > they don't care about radiator size

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"solarpunk" "cassette futurism" "nasapunk" back in my day we just said "it looks cool" and delineated further by how much the author cared about radiator size

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@EmilybyNight If it was really a problem, do you think they'd run it on the honor system? 😂

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"Oh, number theory is the basis of all modern cryptography? Yeah thats cool I guess. Quick question, how are you crunching the numbers? Yeah that's what I fucking thought"

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(From , h/t @slatestarcodex )

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@ChanaMessinger Absolutely mind-boggling that complicated ideas like "offer manufacturers more money if they deliver vaccines earlier" are not even in the list of conceivable plans

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@PiquantParvenu @goblinodds

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This is the ideal commutative diagram. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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Descartes really said "before reading on, please dissect the heart of a large mammal. Okay, moving on,"

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@fedginator @oliverburkeman @ChronicleLive no

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@Andr3jH Impossible not to read this in his voice 😂

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Only a small subset of the population can learn advanced mathematics. No, not because of genetics. Because of divine ordination. My ability to understand model categories marks me as one of the elect, and frankly I'm tired of not receiving the veneration I'm due.

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@eigenrobot Robert Boyle predicting your mom over 300 years ago

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Get in boys we're digging a tunnel

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This is amazing. You can buy a tunnel boring machine for the price of a BMW on Ali Express. Free shipping too H/t @ScootFoundation

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@emmadaboutlife We're gonna find the real Liz Truss stowed in a box somewhere in whitehall in a few days.

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