Has anyone else noticed this parallel? LLM: Let's ask some AI. The response may be wrong or utter nonsense, but it's probably okay, so whatever. US Administration: Let's elect some rando. The resulting government actions may be wrong or utter nonsense, but it's probably okay, so whatever. #uspol

Yanno, we have this whole obsession with sending off calculations to GPUs for speed. That's just vector processing from the 1970's. I don't want that. I want machinery where I can wrap up part of a problem and program it onto an FPGA *on the fly*. Say, I've got 200-bit floating point numbers […]

"European leaders have spent years warning that the continent risked falling behind the U.S., China and Russia in the global contest for economic, technological and military dominance" Has anybody told Europe that the entire Russian economy is the same size as Italy's?

Happy "Day After Thanksgiving (California Regional Holiday)" for those who celebrate. #landoffruitsandnuts #calexit #republicofcalifornia

There are over 1000 names on this physics paper. Everyone should check to see if their name is on it. For example, just the start of the Chen's is "Chao Chen, Guoming Chen, Haitao Chen, Haotian Chen, Jiahui Chen, Jian Chen, Jing Chen, Junyou Chen, Lihao Chen, Mali Chen, Mingming Chen..." "First […]

Worked with acetone and contact cement today. I was outside and wore gloves, but I still have that funny taste in my mouth that I sometimes get after chemical exposure. PPE for the tie!

What is randomness? That's a rather philosophical question. Randomness is some mysterious gremlin of chaos. A demonic entity that defies certainly in the future. What is it, mathematically? If you read this article, I hope to leave you without a satisfying answer. #mathematics #probability#mathematics[…]

"Amazon Cut Thousands of Engineers in Its Record Layoffs, Despite Saying It Needs To Innovate Faster" Some jokes just write themselves.

My wife just purchased an iPhone 17. When she is in the house and I am listening to music with my desktop and headphones, I can hear her iPhone microphone in the right headphone channel. Even if she isn't using her iPhone for anything. Creepy as hell.

Cloudflare: "The software had a built-in limit of 200 bot detection features." Clowns

"ICE and CBP Officers Face Unprecedented Surge in Vehicle Ramming Attacks" Sadly, my wife has the car today.

Every single time I upgrade to the latest Ubuntu, my dual monitor setup stops working (one monitor goes black). Last time (25.04), I could only get both working by uninstalling the nvidia drivers and using nouveau instead. This time (25.10), I had to install the nvidia drivers back. At least […]

P(P=NP) = pᴺ (p∊[0,1],N∊ℕ) Glad I could settle this controversy.

"AI's $5 Trillion Cost Needs Every Debt Market, JPMorgan Says" What was that quote again about financial weapons of mass destruction? If AI is a bubble, there's going to be a financial nuclear winter.

Looking at the C language, it is pretty obvious from the syntax that stdio.h, string.h and stdlib.h were first attempts at something functional for io & memory allocation. That's why they are libraries, not built-ins. That we still use these libraries is stupid - they suck. malloc/free and […]

After being jet-lagged by approximately 12 hours from returning after two weeks in Japan & China, I decided to turn out the lights and hide for Halloween. Wife felt differently, so she went to CVS and purchased five bags of candy at inflated Halloween-day prices. She then forgot to put on the […]

Breaking news! Physicists discover that Godel's incompleteness theorems apply to reality! And get it published! Who knew mathematics could be, yanno, used for something? https://phys.org/news/2025-10-mathematical-proof-debunks-idea-universe.html

"Jet Engine Shortages Threaten AI Data Center Expansion As Wait Times Stretch Into 2030" That corporations are directly causing global warming by burning top-quality fossil fuel in order to generate misinformation, job loss, and copyright theft is some seriously dystopian shit. #💩

This month, OpenAI crawlers, despite being banned in robots.txt, scarfed up almost 2000 pages of random noise from my website's tarpit. I am glad to have contributed in a positive way to this important repository of human knowledge.

NASA proposal submitted! Whew! Direct detection of dark matter, assuming WIMPs. The neutrino floor is passé.

And in other news, stock in Russian mail-order-bride companies has soared this week... https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/29/putin-orders-highest-fall-conscription-target-in-9-years-a90658

Breaking News: The Epstein Files are in Portland now. We smuggled them out of DC. #uspol

Although the link between autism and Tylenol is extremely tenuous (both are correlated with infections during pregnancy), what is far more convincing is that autism is tightly correlated with pregnancy itself. In fact, studies have shown that virtually 100% of children with autism had mothers […]

If there are an infinite number of true mathematical propositions, and each proposition has a set of corresponding proofs, do I need the Axiom of Choice to pick a minimal but complete set of proofs by choosing one proof for each proposition? If yes, but the AoC does not hold, what does that imply?

Some lesser-known Greek letters and their names: ζ - "squiggle" ξ - "squiggle" ς - "squiggle" ϖ - "squiggle" υ - "squiggle"

House had bedroom with no central air flow. Called local company. Technician came, got estimate: US$6,000, plus US$2,300 more if we wanted it adjustable. Called second company. Two techs showed up. Said they didn't have proper tools with them and needed to make estimate. Never heard back […]

"Charlie Kirk shooting suspect not cooperating with authorities" Remember the 5th amendment? Pepperidge Farm may remember, but our government doesn't. #uspol

The recent hot-mike event regarding immortally through organ transplant is comically off the road...because math. I outline the argument: Buddha (that's Mr. Buddha to you) said that people are essentially machines made up of parts. If that is true, then each part of those bazillion bits has a […]

"Microsoft 365 Personal is Now Free For US College Students For a Year" Rumor is, the subscription will also come with a dose of live polio virus. (Meanwhile, I recently purchased a legal version of Office 2019 for US$6.)

"Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev Says Investing For a Living Could Replace Labor in a Post-AI World" This is Vlad's 'Let them eat cake' moment. Dude is utterly divorced from reality. If a person needs US$1000/month to survive and stocks grow 5% over inflation, then each person in the world needs […]

"Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains" Oh shit, boys, the Ponzi scheme is about to collapse. Where will we find more suckers?

I recently dumped by notes on modulus of convergence for hypergeometric functions on my website. I also had some thoughts on numerical accuracy. Not very valuable thoughts, but thoughts nonetheless. For those who are wondering why anyone would care, many math libraries such as GSL, boost, and […]

"US Tourism Suffers 8.2% Decline" Who are these other foolhardy 91.8%? #uspol

Apparently I am now "<Employee Name>".

"We know that intimacy can be scary. But there is now no longer a reason to be nervous - all of our new condoms have integrated Microsoft Copilot AI! Our product will guide you through every step of the process. Not only that, but the condom will continuously learn from real life experiences and […]

Trump said, "I am not a dictator" because "I am not a crook" was taken already. #uspol

A few years ago (mid 2023), I wrote up some notes regarding the modulus of convergence of the generalized hypergeometric functions. This month I wrote up and posted a series of articles that are those notes, cleaned up a bit, and this article is the wrap-up of the series. #Math #realanalysis#math[…]

We all get the feeling that, day by day, the world is converging towards disaster. But what tells us how fast? The Modulus of Convergence does! #Math #RealAnalysis #numericalcomputing#realanalysis#mathhttps://www.skewray.com/articles/modulus-of-convergence

We all get the feeling that, day by day, the world is converging towards disaster. But what tells us how fast? The Modulus of Convergence does! #Math #RealAnalysis #numericalcomputing#realanalysis#mathhttps://www.skewray.com/articles/modulus-of-convergence

I am starting a new, exciting start-up business and am looking for angel investors! Since it is obvious where America is heading, I will be manufacturing Stalin Tunics! Soon, all supporters of Truth and the American Way will be wearing these. Get in early for this once in a lifetime, guaranteed […]

In mathematics, we say that a function is bounded if can restrict its image. Oddly, we never seem to 'bind' a function, though. I can find bounds on the the remainder of generalized hypergeometric functions, and I never used the word 'bind' either. Maybe 'bound' refers to bunnies and deer? […]

I have an concept for a startup that absolutely cannot fail. I welcome you all to become angel investors. It is an idea whose time has come: AI-augmented Japanese toilet bidets.

The generalized hypergeometric series are ubiquitous in the world of computing special functions, for certain amounts of ubiquity. Turns out the speed of convergence is related to the obscure Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distribution, which no one has ever heard of - pretty much the opposite of […]

"Gerrymandering erodes confidence in democracy" What a joke. At this point, only the delusional have any confidence in American democracy. #uspol

Accurately computing generalized hypergeometric functions is hard. How many terms do we need? Guess we need a general expression for the size of the terms in the series. Oh, wait, I've got one right here! #math #RealAnalysis #numericalcomputing#realanalysis#math…]

I have a recent project to stop (LLM training) crawlers from copyright-thefting my website. I find these bots with either a hidden-link tarpit or by looking for single access events (no css), which I then ban if they come from a cloud server. So far I have learned: • Amazon AWS, Google Cloud […]

"Volkswagen Wants You To Pay Monthly To Unlock More Horsepower" But the seat heater is free, so it's a good deal.

Leonhard Euler came up with a cool limit formula that he needed in order to derive an expression for the gamma function. Turns out I need bounds on the same expression. Thanks, Lenny! #math #realanalysis#math https://www.skewray.com/articles/a-limit-formula-from-lenny-euler

@gilesgardam About 25 years ago, there was some sort of mass hallucination in California and chalk became a Deadly Chemical. All the chalkboards disappeared, kindergarten, university, industry, replaced by whiteboards. I went to a lecture once during the replacement period and the professor was […]

"Be not afraid of math. Some are born to math, some achieve math, and some have math thrust upon ’em." - dude who wrote English in pentameter