RobJLow

@chrisoliver@indieweb.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr That 'play has no limits' tag is just a wee bit ironic, eh?

@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz I remember our undergrad analysis lecturer showing us how to sum 1/n^2 using Fourier series then, in a fit of absent-mindedness, setting 1/n^3 as an exercise. He did apologize later, though.

@icecolbeveridge @brianbilston Definitely one of your best!

@pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz @dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz @regehr@mastodon.social Once upon a time I could do 100m at that pace. I'd probably strain something trying to go that fast now. (In fact, I'm pretty sure I'd struggle to do his marathon time on a bicycle.)

@davidsuculum@mathstodon.xyz coincidentally, I'm at the Pendulum Hotel in Manchester for #oggCamp2026

@pozorvlak @peterrowlett @OscarCunningham Yes, ordering by divisibility is kind of neat - as you almost say, 0 is maximal. There are some fun games to play there (the non-negative numbers form a complete lattice), but maybe not in primary school.

@christianp Looking forward to the lone and level sands stretching far away, but now imprinted with a non-periodic tiling :-)

@MartinEscardo@mathstodon.xyz I suspect that there are at least some people who think that when they find the 'right' axioms, the scales will fall from everybody's eyes and those axioms will define the right mathematics.

@gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz And I thought the taped messages for your survivors in 'Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead' was distasteful...

@SylviaFysica@scholar.social Can't help wondering how people can be so sure about whether LLMs (or whatever form of AI) can be conscious when we're still arguing about what 'conscious' means in the first place.

@mcnees@mastodon.social Premium subscribers will also receive oxygen when not on-shift.

@lo@framapiaf.org Lovely!

@peterrowlett Awkward, isn't it? If you allow 0, the lcm of any two non-negative integers is 0, which isn't ideal. I don't know if there's a clean way to set up the terminology if you want to work with non-negative rather than strictly positive integers.

@Danpiker@mathstodon.xyz @robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz Ooh, I'd definitely like to see that. I've only worked out how to do a baby version of this kind of thing that's 'flat' (so to speak), where the centres of all the squares are fixed on a square grid.

@robinhouston No idea about that, alas, I just happened to know about the thesis.

@robinhouston That article also claims Penrose's doctoral thesis was on theoretical physics, but it was on algebraic geometry. 🤷

@lo@framapiaf.org Beautiful!

@duanegran I remember seeing the medical school students when I was an undergrad. I swore then never to fall ill. (And that was, if it needs saying, long before chatGPT.)

@nixCraft@mastodon.social "seems to work"

@kagihq Mumble mumble 'could' mumble mumble 'should'.

@johncarlosbaez @robinhouston @k9ox Grumble. I did take a look at a visualization somebody'd uploaded, but after it zoomed out a few times all I could see was a line. (But since I could see it, it must have been quite think really, I suspect.)

@robinhouston @k9ox @johncarlosbaez Any idea how 'fat' it gets during the process?

@ColinTheMathmo I think I might be at the barycentre of that limited group. :-)

@optozorax@mathstodon.xyz Can't help feeling that even a relatively slight curvature difference between the entrance and exit would rupture chemical bonds and play hob with things like brain and other organ structure.

@robinhouston 🤯

@simontatham@hachyderm.io I don't know if this goes anywhere, but in linear algebra, linear (in)dependence is a general notion, while orthogonality requires the additional structure of an inner product. Is there maybe some way of using an inner product to give some kind of quantitative notion of 'desirability'? I don't know if this can be made sane in the software world, but it would be interesting if it could.

@gregeganSF @johncarlosbaez @robinhouston @k9ox Ah, thanks!

@j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz @SylviaFysica@scholar.social There's a bit of space between that and 'nothing sunning on hardware instead of wetware can be conscious', though.

@robinhouston A relief, because it would have been very worrying if the biographer got that wrong. But then you worry about how reliable the review is in other respects. (Which wouldn't be a problem if it couldn't affect the livelihood/reputation of the biographer....)

@samw@hacksrus.xyz Up with this sort of thing.

@admiralwonderboat@mastodon.social I know it's stupid to take a joke seriously, but we remember stuff we keep rehearsing and we rehearse stuff we're anxious about whether or not we want to. (Pretty much part of what being anxious means...)