If you need to study some functions but have limited tools you can go a long way assuming everything is linear except at minima/maxima where you assume everything is quadratic. Use this tool in physics and everything looks like a free field or a perturbation thereof. Use this in statistics and […]

Well, my YouTube recap is out and all of my top 5 except the number 1 are now on mastodon. How about it #veritasium - get on board already. Your videos have hit it out of the park this last year; why are you still clinging to toxic social media when there are […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

Grant Sanderson has something to say about category theory... https://youtube.com/shorts/vMHUkrMLM6E

I think it would be appropriate to share some of my pictures of Ayudha Pooja art for #tilingtuesday

18:14 PST: it is the last minute of the first quarter of the first hour of the last quarter of the last day of the first month of the last quarter of the last year of the first quarter of the 21st century.

Happy #internationalanimationday

Cocoa is just a

We are in the first month of the last quarter of the last year in the first quarter of the 21st century

Is good essays. You read. Why the current Artemis concept to go to the moon doesn't make sense: https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm Why going to Mars doesn't make much sense either: https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm How a real Mars mission would probably have to […]

#tilingtuesday again, huh?

Airline counter at the airport in Hyderabad. #tilingtuesday

Restaurant glass door in Hyderabad, Telengana. #tilingtuesday

Waiting in line at Heathrow airport (terminal 5) #tilingtuesday

Whenever I think we've hit rock bottom... https://futurism.com/white-house-orders-nasa-destroy-important-satellite

Heads up for the Haskell nerds: functional programming in Real Lifeᵀᴹ https://events.zoom.us/ev/ArYZWTHwHadF1z5rFGmggUTZiZcBn08S86TAk2t3vsjUSgYSY6Mt~AglGQ71j0a2GnjEYXo0S5S9Kwqezl26KKT5Tif00hENXAQMrQLF9fFjFaA

"You're not far left," a buddy says. In a world with fascists controlling every part of the federal government, I'm disinclined to argue with "far left" as a description. At least it clearly distinguishes me from the Nazis.

Same as last week, but with slightly tweaked parameters #tilingtuesday

I keep posting various things for #TilingTuesday that I tinkered with in 2015, so here's a super simple one: Make a regular checker board with the usual two kinds of coloring; but instead of "black" and "white" make each coloring its own checker boards with […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

A country is just an administrative division with a superiority complex

For some reason some people liked that last picture even though it's really not a tiling and shouldn't be tagged for #TilingTuesday , Is there a common tag for #genericfunpicturemadewithmaththatisnotatiling#tilingtuesday?

Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity, And little whirls have lesser whirls and so on to viscosity —Lewis F. Richardson, 1922

Am I imagining this or is arXiv having trouble containing AI slop?

Hey, @johncarlosbaez : Rob Miles is trying to put you out of a job...

Done in multiple layers, but not layers that are recognizably stacked on top of each other... #tilingtuesday

I got an email from academia.edu telling me that they turned one of my papers (from 2001) into an AI generated podcast. I don't think it's publicly accessible (because I didn't spring for their 'premium' offer) but it's here in case someone wants to try […]

Driveway in Highland Park, CA #tilingtuesday

Holy sh*t. This is a real xkcd, not funny, disturbing, and also one that must be shared https://xkcd.com/3081/

I thought it was kind-of reminiscent of the Voyager golden record pulsar map. However there's no real 1:1 correspondence. Though I do know that the Voyager maps are pretty badly wrong (as far as we know today) and maybe Newcastle's pavament is an attempt to […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

If a "polycule" is defined as P := a set of people such that the relation "is in an intimate relationship with" is a connected graph then the folowing are true: Two people in an exclusive relationship are a trivial polycule. Zero people are a degenerate polycule. A single person is not a […]

I'm upset with the trade deficit I have with my grocery store. I buy much more from them than they buy from me. So I'm putting a 5% tariff on everything I buy from them. That will teach them. I am a genius.