halloween is eternal

A geek for all seasons. [

[halloween is eternal @mavant]

This is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me @ronnierivs

[pedram.md @pdrmnvd]

((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3xy), y + 3 x (1+xy)^2 z + 3 x y^2 (4+3xy), 2 x - 3 x^2 y - x^3 z) isn’t even that impressive of a polynomial all of those numbers and letters are in the training data

[halloween is eternal @mavant]

Eventually it succeeded but in Su(95) which really doesn't have the same snappiness as the Jacobian counterexample

[halloween is eternal @mavant]

I asked fable to construct a concrete counterexample for the Mathieu conjecture but ran out of tokens :(

[halloween is eternal @mavant]

I asked fable to construct a concrete counterexample for the Mathieu conjecture but ran out of tokens :(

[halloween is eternal @mavant]

@vega_holdings This is the most Bay Area tweet ever full stop

[Roko 🐉 @RokoMijic]

Thinking that Fahrenheit is natural and intuitive because *you* grew up with it is just a "breakfast test" failure.

Strike one

Fahrenheit has its zero point in a completely random place at -17.778°C. What is the point of that? 0° Celsius is the freezing point of water and determines whether roads and bodies of freshwater will freeze, rain vs snow of hail, etc.

Strike two

100°F is at least somewhat sensible at 37.78°C, because that's roughly human body temp. But actually there are two problems with this

(a) the outer surface of your body is at about 33°C, not 37°C.

(b) we don't actually feel air temperature, we feel a mixture of humidity and temperature (see:humidex)

So setting the 100 point on the temperature scale to body core temperature isn't even that helpful...

Furthermore, the air temperature often goes above 100°F. In fact at any given time there's usually somewhere on Earth where this is the case. So 100°F isn't even really a good maximum temperature.

Strike there

Bonus problem: the metric system is great and doing anything at all with imperial is a nightmare. People have died because of the silly imperial system.

Fahrenheit sucks

[halloween is eternal @mavant]

If Trump is distracted interfering with FIFA and not doing anything else, isn't that kind of a net social good?

[halloween is eternal @mavant]

And frankly I think that, even if ancestry DID matter, it would be a bit morally absurd to crow about one's ancestors having been here a long time if they didn't walk across the Bering Strait. We're all Johny-come-latelies! And we're all in this together.

[halloween is eternal @mavant]

My family has been in North America since the 1600s and I still sincerely feel that my "birthright" to citizenship is no more valid than someone whose parents got here yesterday. Immigration is good!

[Joe @JoePostingg]

Printers never work because they are an affront to God. Man was not meant to pull objects from the digital realm into the real world. Icarus is flying too close to the sun.

[halloween is eternal @mavant]

@matterasmachine @Charlie157874 I remain agnostic re panpsychism

[pikuma.com @pikuma]

It's interesting how AI is constantly providing false information and incorrect statements about my area of expertise. Fortunately, it's very useful and always right about topics I know very little about.

[Mikhail Samin @Mihonarium]

No one is immune, not even Gemini

[halloween is eternal @mavant]

@Math_files @Deepneuron Give Abel some isoniazid

[halloween is eternal @mavant]

@tenobrus God that is devastating

[halloween is eternal @mavant]

This is 4o-level transparent flattery

[Tenobrus @tenobrus]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

[XY Han @XYHan_]

Imagine if Erdos were still alive with a GPT-5.5 Pro subscription and amped up on amphetamines.

[halloween is eternal @mavant]

@ihteshamali @DStrachman Then why do I remember so many details about computer programming?