SpaceX announced the launch date for the SNAPPY neutrino-detecting satellite: https://www.skewray.com/articles/snappy-neutrino-detecting-satellite

At last, some GOOD news! https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/millionaire-trophy-hunter-75-trampled-37063872

"Exclude the rationals and what is left, however improbable, must be the irrationals." - A. Conan Doyle

University of Michigan CS is teaching a search engine course, and the students are pounding my website with their assignments. I've had to block a bunch of them. Why me?

"Airplane mode" is actually "privacy mode". https://apnews.com/article/nevada-police-fog-data-cellphone-location-tracking-ab6f7d75864cf0bfb949f0c6770f3b44

That oil prices plunged after Iran and Trump announced the Straight was open is proof that the price is not set by supply and demand. Neither of these announcements created or consumed oil.

After over a year of comical delays, our solar panels passed their final inspection are all that's left is to file the Permission To Operate (PTO) with the power company. Also, our installation company just went bankrupt. Fun!

While we are minting new words for what LLMs do, I propose "copywrong" for scarfing up the creativity of humans and repackaging it as slop.

So, what was Fermat's penultimate theorem?

For any of you sad sacks of shite sorry enough to live in California or New Jersey, doing taxes, and have an HSA... Pretty sure no HSA companies track capital gains and losses, since they are not needed for federal. Since the HSA company isn't choosing specific shares to sell, you have to cost […]

Rumor is that Linux version 7.1 will be dropping support for the abacus.

Happy Destroy Persian Civilization Day for those who celebrate.

"Rising prices for fertilizer and diesel are driving up costs for farmers" This is why there are futures and options markets on commodities, you dipshits. Options contract on brent at planting and options contract on crop at harvest. What are they teaching in ag schools?

Given this amazing, utterly cool new way to use AI to remove copyright, I've taken all my code private.

TIL - Cyrano de Bergerac and D'Artagnan were both real people may have known each other.

The upcoming IPO of the merger of SpaceX and xAI (Grok), thus enabling space porn, is very exciting. I can't wait to invest.

Have zero interest in Artemis (even though I worked on it), but I did see a Launch from Vandenberg on Monday - CASS500; I think it's Korean. When you are close, the light is all orange, but from far away (Los Angeles), the light looks white. Odd, that.

Now that Bluesky has AI choosing timelines, seems like a good point to drop the Bluesky bridge....done!

Posted a blog entry on my current work, which is looking at how similar the stable distributions are to each other. The upshot is that translating a stable distribution along the axis has the minimal effect for α=1 (e.g.,the Cauchy distribution), and the maximal effect for very small α. #math […]

I got a NASA neutrino-detecting space satellite delivered yesterday. Pretty cool! Taking it up to Vandenberg Space Force Base in a few days. #physics #neutrinos #space#neutrinos#physicshttps://www.skewray.com/articles/snappy-neutrino-detecting-satellite

As an antifa anarchist, I have many reasons to reject LLMs, and none of them have anything to do with politics. LLMs waste resources, make people stupid, and generate trash. There are no upsides. But I don't see any right-left here for me.

The most eminent threat to human civilization is global warming. Anything that damages the petrodollar system, thus increasing use of alternate forms of energy and weaning us all off of petroleum, must be lauded. Trump and Netanyahu are the true heroes here. Hulk Smash More! Save Earth! #irony

"ChatGPT, Other Chatbots Approved For Official Use In the Senate" The US Senate was a joke before, but now the jokes really do write themselves. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/politics/us-senate-chatgpt-ai-chatbots.html

According to Wikipedia, the only modern processor with 128-bit IEEE floating point is the IBM POWER9. Out of curiosity, I did a floating point speed test in C (gcc no optimization) with a zillion [multiply and 2 adds] operations. These are the results, normalized to float: 1 float 1 double 85 […]

I've been tinkering with SVG animation, ancient Chinese instruments, and harmonics. What are those weird dots? Why not mash these three subjects all up together into a pile of blog? https://www.skewray.com/articles/animated-guqin-harmonics #mathematics #music #guqin #animation #svg

My website has experienced a large drop in bot crawlers over the last three days. The volume is down by more than 3x. Odd, but good.

Work in progress. Too bad Mastodon can't deal with SVG...

For many years I thought Keynesian Economics was eponymous for a dude name Milton Keynes. I suppose because of Milton Friedman. Does this make me an AI?

"OpenAI Claims DeepSeek Distilled US Models To Gain an Edge" You mean, the same OpenAI that hit my website 18 times so far this month because OpenAI isn't honoring robots.txt? That OpenAI? Intellectual property thefting OpenAI? Pardon me while I get a bucket for my crocodile tears. And their […]

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If anyone wants to contact me on Discord, I just deleted my account.

The "Axiom Schema of Contempt" is when a mathematician asserts the existence of an apparently intuitive construction, even when doing so breaks everyone else's shit. #math #mathematics#math https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_schema

Defunding of NOAA has had a decided impact on my local weather forecasting. Forecasts the evening before are often 5C° off, cloud cover off 2×, and predict small chance of precipitation for days with heavy rain. #uspol

It is a fact, known by all and incontestable, that squirrels hide nuts for the winter. Winter which Los Angeles utterly lacks. So, some neighbor puts out peanuts, in shell, for the squirrels. The squirrels safely store this munificent bounty in my rain gutters. This weekend I cleaned out the […]

December month-end LLM training crawler summary for my website: • 961 - Tencent crawlers, coming in at #1! Go China! • 845 - Huawei crawlers, coming in at #2! China really is leading the pack here. • 807 - OVH crawlers, coming in at #3! Go France! Who says the EU is falling behind in copyright […]

The Axiom of Choice can lead to some very weird wackiness in measure theory. The Banach-Tarski paradox is the famous example of cutting up a pea to make a ball the size of the sun. However, it is possible to break measure theory in only one dimension using the Axiom of Choice, and the example […]

John Baez talk in Claremont @johncarlosbaez

The recent news out of Tesla implies that the wave of the future is humanoid robots. This is why I am creating a new startup to manufacture homunculus-shaped dildos. Get in on the ground floor and invest now. Guaranteed profit - ka-ching!

The latest official Trump portrait is out:

"DOT Plans To Use Google Gemini AI To Write Regulations" Meaning diesel trucks won't be able to fly below 500 ft?

The only kind of AI prompt I want to read about is using a cattle prod on a server farm.

If a super-sleazy effort to get free training data: "McKinsey Asks Graduates To Use AI Chatbot in Recruitment Process"

"EU Nuclear Weapons Are Now ESG Compliant" Customs Officer: Do you have any nuclear weapons? Me: As an American citizen, I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of nuclear weapons on my person. Officer: If you had any nuclear weapons, would they be ESG compliant? Me: Yes Officer. Officer […]

"I often get asked, 'How big is McKinsey? How many people do you employ?' I now update this almost every month, but my latest answer to you would be 60,000, but it's 40,000 humans and 20,000 agents." Skewray Research, LLC has just become virtually the largest employer on earth, with over 20 […]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says AI Doomerism Has 'Done a Lot of Damage' Keep up the good work, folks! Proof we are having an effect!

My website was down for half an hour today, but came up just when I tried to check it with an iPad. Figuring Firefox had finally flaked, I got KeePassXC and Dark Reader (closet goth here) to both work in Mullvad. Works rather well. And the project is headquartered in a non-fascist state (Sweden) […]

"China Hacked Email Systems of US Congressional Committee Staff" Joke is on them. Congress stopped doing anything meaningful long ago. #uspol

I changed my website late last year to send crawlers to a tarpit, rather than rejection them. This was because rejection often resulted in getting 10 follow-up attempts from all over the world. Since I have not yet been murdered by ICE this year, I thought I would post a summary of the first […]

@AmenZwa @dougmerritt I hereby officially propose the following esolang. Is it Turing Complete? The "Stochastic" Esolang, V1: > 50% chance to either increment or decrement the data pointer by one + 50% chance to either flip the bit at the data pointer or not . Output the bit at the data […]

"So this constitution, is it in the room with us now?" #uspol