Ian Matson

[Ian Matson @Helixantithesis]

Barking Horse — campfire origin
The fire had burned low when the old man finally spoke.
“You want to know why they call me Barking Horse,” he said, not looking at any of us. “It was not a war name. It was not given by a chief. It was given by a horse that would not shut up.”
He fed a stick into the coals.
“I was young. We were moving camp. My uncle gave me a horse that no one else wanted—a dark bay with a white face and a mouth that never stayed closed. Every morning it would throw its head back and bark. Not a neigh. A bark. Short, sharp, like a dog that had decided to live in a horse’s body. The other horses moved away from it. The dogs answered it. The children laughed.”
He paused, listening to the fire.
“One night a storm came down off the ridge. Lightning hit the creek. The herd broke. I went after them in the dark and found only that one horse, standing in the mud, barking at the thunder like it could be argued with. I got on it. It stopped barking long enough to carry me back. When the others came in the next day they found us already there. Someone said, ‘That is Barking Horse’s boy.’ The name stuck to the horse first. Then it stuck to me.”
He looked around the circle.
“The horse died old. I am still here. The name stayed. People hear it and think it is a story about courage. It is a story about a horse that barked and a boy who did not correct them.”
The fire popped. No one asked any more questions.

[ZaxtR @AmX_ZaxTr]

2015: After 10 years, AI video will be indistinguishable from reality.

2026:

[Ian Matson @Helixantithesis]

@JackyReaps I looked. Curious. Genuinely trying to understand your approach and disseminate the meaning.

[Ian Matson @Helixantithesis]

@JackyReaps Scar term...? That's like saying we both use "factors". It's an accepted term to use. Functions exist. Anyone can use them.

[Ian Matson @Helixantithesis]

@JackyReaps What other similar terms? Just curious. I will however check your profile out rn for the sake of paying attention to your profile.

[Ian Matson @Helixantithesis]

@JackyReaps I had no idea. I was just applying geometry to unconventional metrics through exotic polytopes 🤔🤷🌞🥂

[Ian Matson @Helixantithesis]

@JackyReaps ? What do you mean?

[Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @SimonsInstitute]

In the #1stproof third batch, frontier AI models solved up to 9 of 10 problems, while an open-weight model solved none.

Read the full story:
https://t.co/jbGBcv0uto

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

One icosahedron seeds every uniform solid sharing its symmetry.

Vertex truncation turns each triangle into a hexagon and adds pentagons, giving the truncated icosahedron. Edge-midpoint rectification produces the icosidodecahedron; dualizing faces and vertices yields the dodecahedron.

Deeper cuts and expansions then fill the rest: truncated dodecahedron, rhombicosidodecahedron, truncated icosidodecahedron, and the snub dodecahedron. All retain the same 120-element group.

Symmetry alone organizes the complete catalog.

[Mike Dupont @introsp3ctor]

40 steps of goldbach in rust in onecompiler before it crashed https://t.co/tZiq31jt59 visualized in gemini

[QosmosChem @QosmosChem]

@ATinyGreenCell I'm making dual fluorescence dyes to study biological processes: https://t.co/pFtfHp22gU

[Elizabeth @Ellyrox110]

I can’t believe it actually got published

Great thanks to @anish2good @Arthur059455111 @dr_logvinovich @JCPEREZCODEX @emlak_jet @TheOfficial1984 @Helixantithesis @DarkDireWolf33
Whose help led to this

Absolutely still a lot to develop in it which @DarkDireWolf33 has been so kind to help with the binary and has already accomplished wonders which are not included in this paper but with further development will be its own paper

For all and anyone that has taken the time to stop by and look at my crazy theory, let alone liked it, thank you 🙏

Genuinely the support here and personally from my Marty and family has been what gave me the gumption to even get to this point

I was hesitant at first and my journey is all posted on here and will continue to be
@grok helped me transcribe and write the paper, it let me say things I knew were important but didn’t know how to put into words

“The future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one” -Doc Brown

https://t.co/D29g8O1xNY

[The Math Flow @TheMathFlow]

Three golden rectangles, set mutually perpendicular, quietly define a regular icosahedron. Their twelve corners are exactly its twelve vertices.