Just discovered the motherlode of wildly incomprehensible unhinged mathematical diagrams. - ThreadSky

motivickyle.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Just discovered the motherlode of wildly incomprehensible unhinged mathematical diagrams.

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ioletsgo.gay•3 days ago

This reminded me of that one book Jordan Peterson made that contains almost equally incomprehensible graphs, but they're for shit like "The Holy Spirit"

motivickyle.bsky.social•4 days ago

What is happening?!?!?! These are from a 424-page arXiv post that purports to be the third chapter in a "long saga dedicated to Riemann, Ahlfors and Rohlin".

rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social•4 days ago

those seem like some great drugs. I'm yeti

davidkbutler.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think I might be falcon (akin to yeti).

skeet.best•4 days ago

ehh... what's up, doc

danpiker.bsky.social•4 days ago

There's also an extended edition https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3680

isohedral.ca•4 days ago

OK, but: (a) you looked this up after seeing the one posted above; (b) you happened to have seen it previously and wanted to share, or (c) you've read it and believe we would benefit from the additional context it provides.

giziti.bsky.social•4 days ago

the math has been traced back further than i had imagined -- Cro-Magnon man!

giziti.bsky.social•4 days ago

seriously though the people labeled that were discovered in 1868, I don't know what we're doing here.

davidkbutler.bsky.social•4 days ago

I just keep coming back to them. They have a certain horrible fascination.

scgriffith.bsky.social•4 days ago

suspect this is some kind of mental breakdown

motivickyle.bsky.social•4 days ago

Sadly, that seems likely.

romeoavoid.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hoogle be like:

reidac.bsky.social•4 days ago

This sent me on a wild goose chase to find a "metabolic pathways" chart that I was sure I had bookmarked, which also has strong "bewildering complexity" vibes, except it's real.

I found the site, the chart is gone.

Please accept this SMBC comic in its stead:
https://smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-10-22

reidac.bsky.social•4 days ago

But also just now found a PDF archive of them.
https://blogs.cornell.edu/collinslab/2010/04/08/electronic-version-of-the-biochemical-pathways-chart/

Not as mathy as the arxiv thing, but feels adjacent, at least to me.

tobybartels.bsky.social•4 days ago

Using the empty space in a triangular table to write additional comments, but being sure to keep the horizontal and vertical lines because who cares about legibility?