Ryan Wisnesky

Make Fun Of Them Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?  Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long p...

respect is earned: www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...

Fibrations and Cofibrations We are used to thinking of a mapping as either being invertible or not. It’s a yes or no question. A mapping between sets is invertible if it’s both injective and surjective. It means t…

New blog post about homotopies, fibers and cofibers.
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"not yet fully rigid"

Kid Rock Reveals “Questions That Don’t Have Any Answers” Line From “Bawitaba” Is About the Unsolved Riemann Mathematical Conjecture Suggesting That Non-Trivial Zeros of the Zeta Function Lie on a Spec... Popular musician turned right-wing icon Kid Rock revealed a line from his 1999 hit “Bawitaba” referred to the infamous Riemann mathematical conjecture which has been unsolved since 1859.

category theory in the news thehardtimes.net/music/kid-ro...

Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side

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Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us. | Quanta Magazine The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

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Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex | Quanta Magazine A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

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It hasn't even got the meme right. The guy isn't looking at the woman to the left. That's the whole point of the meme.

Nice picture of the anti-universe www.thebrighterside.news/post/our-uni...

#phdchat #lotr

The Beginning and End of Philosophy
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‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability | Quanta Magazine In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ordinary physical systems put hard limits on wh...

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Graffiti beneath Calgary’ Centre Street bridge. #yyc

Caption "A scientist undertaking high-risk calculations in the Hazardous Mathematics Laboratory" Image A scientist wears an armoured hazmat suit. His face is intense and sweat drips from his brow. His hands are encased in heavy duty gloves which reach into a metal box. He peers into the box through heavy-duty perspex at a notebook in which he is making complex calculations with a biro.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com #science #mathematics

Applied category theorists are flocking to AI, because that’s where the money is. I avoid working on it, both because I have an instinctive dislike of ‘hot topics’, and because at present AI is mainly being used to make rich and powerful people richer and more powerful.

However, I like to pay […]

YouTube video by Whisper555 The Dictator (2012) - Imagine if America was a dictatorship?

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Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect WASHINGTON—Stressing that he was open to going far higher to close the deal, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday that he had made an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to acquire respect. “This is a ...

visionary business model theonion.com/musk-signals...

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep… The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

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YouTube video by Steve “Steve'n'Seagulls” Seagulls Thunderstruck by Steve'n'Seagulls (LIVE)

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pdf strikes again github.com/ading2210/do...

Breakfast Can Wait - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfa... is a song by American recording artist Prince. The accompanying artwork for the single features comedian Dave Chappelle of Chappelle's Show dressed as Purple Rain-era Prince and serving pancakes, a scene from the 2004 sketch "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories".

YouTube video by Numberphile The Hydra Game - Numberphile

Would you like to play a game? www.youtube.com/watch?v=prUR... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_g...

Time crystal - Wikipedia

Friendly reminder, time crystals are a thing now arxiv.org/abs/1910.10745 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_cr...

YouTube video by Rymdkraftverk Hitler reacts to functional programming

I even heard someone mention a "super monad" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADqL...

The anti-social century www.msn.com/en-us/societ...

Hilbert's paradox of the infinite hotel simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert...

Thought of the day: the points on the real line do not touch each other.

Is fundamental physics really experiencing a Great Stagnation? In this thread, let's look at the history of fundamental physics from the dawn of the 20th century to now.

Experimental discoveries that were later accounted for by theories will be shown in […]

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