Stuart Presnell

Sure, if there's another rule for turning amplitudes into probabilities that's self-consistent and self-advocating then you have a dilemma. But is there such a rule?

They'll have to build a whole new prison for all the too-online incel-culture troll-bros that this government's infected with

Call it Stockade Channing

Over in the real eternal steady-state universe someone's posting on their social media: "Imagine if anyone lived in one of these temporary cosmic bubbles that sometimes arise. They'd think that was the entire universe! That everything that exists had an origin and was expanding! Those poor losers"

This seems analogous to the position of a civilisation that arises in the late universe with no other visible galaxies around, who therefore conclude that they're alone in a steady-state universe. Sometimes the truth is inaccessible and there's nothing you can do about it

"It's too late, I've already depicted you as the cruel violent self-interested bully and myself as the tender kind open-hearted intellectual"

tired: do audiobooks count as reading?

wired: does observing a cut-out photonegative of a book placed on a black background count as reading?

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The painting "Night in the Steppe" shows a vast plain under a bright full moon, the light being distributed over the landscape and the water in an almost magical way.

This work is made by the renowned Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, who invented the unique painting style called "plyontanism" (from the Ukrainian word plyontaty, meaning "to braid"). This technique consists of hundreds of fine, intertwined lines that create depth and an almost textile-like texture.

Chotiner takes out his notepad. “So I’d like to start by…”

I raise a finger. “Just a moment, please, Isaac. I think Serena’s ready to serve”

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform You advocate a ( ) solar ( ) lunar ( ) atomic approach to calendar reform. Your idea will not work. Here is why: ( ) solar years are real and the calendar year needs to sync with them ( ) solar ...

(x) "7am" is a social construct
(x) social constructs are actually very important

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I’m just sending a brief note to everyone in Stuart’s contact list to say that tragically [Read more]

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Hi, I know you disagree but I don’t think we need to wait for another round of testing on the submarine

One of those grids where the thought “I should have a notebook beside me” occurs to you too late

"In this paper we consider an issue that has been thoroughly and comprehensively explored in the literature. Has it received sufficient attention? If anything, more than sufficient. Nevertheless..."

Is this "flying through" as in just traversing the airspace or changing at an airport there? Either way I would definitely be looking for an alternative

Person A: knows lots about the country but somehow got the impression that it's *this* island rather than *that* island

Person B: can find the country on a map but doesn't know that it controls 98% of the world's vital hepnium supplies

Fortunately both do all their war fighting on Bluesky

Remember when that politician released that statement about a current event (more than a week ago)? Remember the words they chose? How important the order of their paragraphs were and the future that could've been if only it had been different?

The "Apollo's Gift Of Prophecy Dodgeball" meme template, the girls about to be hit with the dodgeball are labelled "John Horton Conway"

Never understood before today why Conway called the last day of February "Doomsday"

The algorithm for mental calculation was devised by John Conway in 1973, drawing inspiration from Lewis Carroll's perpetual calendar algorithm. It takes advantage of each year having a certain day of the week upon which certain easy-to-remember dates, called the doomsdays, fall; for example, the last day of February, April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), and December 12 (12/12) all occur on the same day of the week in the year.

It's March 0th, so happy Conway Doomsday to all who celebrate

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Maybe it's just me, but if you hype up a video as "the most incredibly hilarious thing ever" then I'm automatically going into it like Statler and Waldorf, it's facing a 300 mph headwind, my arms are crossed tighter than the Gordian Knot

I don't know why people feel the need to raise expectations to such impossible levels. "This is the funniest thing I have ever seen, I was literally rolling on the floor in tears of laughter, they administered last rites to me just in case" and then you watch it and it's at best faintly amusing

Just seeing the start and end of this thread, I assume the chimpanzees are disagreeing about whether a try should be worth 4 points or 5

I've just noticed that you can make a joke on the losing candidate's name, a little wordplay:

More like MATTHematically got too fEW votes Goodwin

PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this:

Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item […]

Yeah, physics is just the stack of (n,k)-irreps of a stably k-tuply boromoidal n-twistoid. Unfortunately we don't know what any of those words mean

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It's a tile-matching game and is pretty challenging, but once you get into it it's pretty fun too (in our entirely non-biased opinion)!

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Darmok and Jalad, apparently at Tanagra for some reason

Mathematics in the Library of Babel — Daniel Litt Mathematics isn't only about saying true things. It's about asking the right questions, being confused, stumbling about, getting distracted, being wrong, recognizing when you're wrong, being stuck. Mo...

Some thoughts on AI and math, inspired by “First Proof”: www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/2/...

Haven't you seen, the latest release of documents has a note in crayon "Dear CIA, mihgt be fun to shot psrident Kenendy this wekend, I found a spot were you can hide, yours Jeffy E aged 10"