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The now viral, incorrect meme that LLMs are just next token predictors is causing so much confusion

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

The fact that people like this exist is an insult to anyone anywhere who's ever bothered to learn anything. She has a degree from the University of South Dakota. I can't imagine what kind of institution this is that can produce such ignorance and stupidity.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

My daughter just sent me this meme about induction stoves and proof by induction. My work is done.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

It’s still hard for me to believe that after so many years of deranged posts like this, we’ve still never had a serious national conversation about this man’s mental health.

submitted 3 days ago • 3258 comments

Exploring the roots of 177,147 polynomials with coefficients in {-1, 0, 1} Each dot represents a root of a degree-10 polynomial, w/ brightness revealing its frequency across all polynomials constrained to [-1.6, 1.6] × [-1.6, 1.6]. #p5js #MathArt #VisualMath #SciArt #CreativeCoding #Mathematics

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

n-category theorists can think in ways that we mortal mathematicians cannot. 😔

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Photographed from the driveway yesterday. Cute faces, both of them.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Did you know that there is a shortage of American movies and so now we have to tax foreign movies to ensure American movies get made? Or Republicans are the stupidest people who have ever stumbled across the face of the Earth. One of the two anyway. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The country that locks up more people than anywhere else in the world (because the US loves freedom apparently) can't find enough space to lock people up so it's having to commandeer tourist attractions. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Each point represents one eigenvalue from the spectrum of a random 5×5 matrix with entries from {-1,0,1}. Warmer colors show regions where eigenvalues cluster more densely. #MathArt #LinearAlgebra #CreativeCoding #Mathematics #VisualMath #ComplexAnalysis #math

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

As I've said numerous times: lawyers, journalists, politicians, few of these people have any clue what numbers are and what they represent. Especially numbers bigger than about 3. They're just a thing you put in sentences to give the impression of authority.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Huge news on Patreon! Because of the Apple v. Epic ruling, they are not only dropping the 30% Apple Store charge on the iOS app, they are also halting the move to subscription billing for all creators - which would have affected creators like me, who use a "per video" structure than monthly.

submitted 20 days ago • 50 comments

Apple "Intelligence" ought to apply for a job at the White House.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

the best thing America is doing for the world right now is "serving as a warning"

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submitted 24 days ago • 134 comments

_This is Free Trader Beowulf_, my history of the Traveller RPG, was a true labor of love. (I loved writing it!) And @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social and @bundleofholding.com are offering it at a real deal this week! bundleofholding.com/presents/Fre...

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: The USDA will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella in their products, halting a Biden administration effort to reduce food poisoning from contaminated meat. What could possibly go wrong?

submitted 24 days ago • 132 comments

If he waited until October it would have come back anyway. Unless he's proposing we have it every month now.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote some code to do this a while back (because of Tabby's star) but I've no doubt this paper presents better. A simulator so you can predict the light curves from megastructures orbiting distant stars. arxiv.org/abs/2406.17259

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Oh another thing is American political media is that they have permitted a key national figure to have flat earth level delusions on how international trade and tariffs without mentioning every single time

submitted 27 days ago • 15 comments

“Whoa. Tesla is doing really bad. It must be because I’m not there enough.” - A deluded megalomaniac

submitted 29 days ago • 721 comments

My god. He’s gone after the Civil Rights Act!!!! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 28 days ago • 445 comments

Marin Headlands nr Sausalito

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I simply do not understand how a NEWS ORGANIZATION is basically existing in a stage of siege but very rarely conveys in its political coverage that we are in a state of emergency

submitted 31 days ago • 31 comments

Word of the day: Papicide. The killing of a pope.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

"The mystery as well as the glory of mathematics lies not so much in the fact that abstract theories turn out to be useful in solving problems but in the fact that – wonder of wonders – a theory meant for one type of problem [...]" – Gian-Carlo Rota (1932-1999) #quote #mathematics #math #maths

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

One of my favourite logos though I was always a bit mystified by the show as a kid.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments