Reposted by Alyssa Vancescanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 20/07/2026holy shit jacobian conjecture down with a hand checkable counterexample 821221
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 09/05/2026"Well, yes, AI can prove novel mathematical theorems, but that's not *real* reasoning because......" epoch.ai/frontiermath...epoch.aiA Ramsey-style Problem on HypergraphsConstruct hypergraphs as large as possible that do not have a certain easy-to-check, difficult-to-find property. 250
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Behind the Scenes: Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behi...hacks.mozilla.orgBehind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blogNew details about what we found, and how agentic harnesses are now able to reproduce real bugs and dismiss false positives. 040
Reposted by Alyssa VanceAndy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Corn ethanol serves no purpose and is purely a handout to farmers. It costs more and emits more than normal petroleum. And it takes up half as much land area as all urban and suburban land in the US. If we replaced the land with solar, we'd get 3x as much power as the US uses. 932140664
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Reddit thinks that people say "AI is a super big deal" because they work for Anthropic. But the reverse is true; people started or joined Anthropic *because* they thought AI was a super big deal, often for many years before Anthropic was founded. 0431
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I now have access to OpenAI's new o1-pro model, send me math or stats problems you'd like to test 9252
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 01/12/2024"Oh, my dear Kepler," says Galileo, "how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal Professor of Philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, which he pertinaciously refuses to do..." 260
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 27/11/2024- With vacancies, the US House will now be 217 R - 215 D, so bills can only pass with unanimous Republican agreement (zero defections), or with Dem support - Current bill to fund the US government expires on Dec 20 - Debt ceiling suspension expires on Jan 1 - Good Luck, Have Fun 0120
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 25/11/2024There are reasons to support this but it would help Republicans a lot 140
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Three years out, before I joined Blue Rose, I successfully predicted 48/50 states and 1/2 candidates :) (NM remained blue despite the Dem collapse with Latinos and Rs winning the popular vote, which is interesting! NM is 50% Latino) 1160
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 24/11/2024"Biological sex is real" is 100% true - if it weren't real, it wouldn't need to be reverse engineered! But ~80% of people who say this follow it with an implicit (or explicit) "and therefore, trans people all need to be sent to the camps" 0160
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Worth noticing that the Biden admin tried really, really hard to appoint non-white judges, but non-white voters cared more about inflation, immigration, and crime, and swung massively to the right en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...en.m.wikipedia.orgList of federal judges appointed by Joe Biden - Wikipedia 1110
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Musk Twitter doesn't represent public opinion any more than Woke Twitter did. Searching for fairly neutral terms on "Latest", to get a random sample, the ratio of right-wing to left-wing posts is like 5-10:1. Trump won the popular vote by ~1.03:1. 3314
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Quick reminder that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has been in elected office since before President Obama was born, and would be older than Elvis if Elvis were still alive (seriously, look it up!). His current Senate term ends in 2028. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_G...en.m.wikipedia.orgChuck Grassley - Wikipedia 160
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 19/11/2024What is your reason for switching to Bluesky? 21221
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 17/11/2024What is the most effective organization that you have personal knowledge of? 380
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Hi! Any good, intellectually engaging follow recommendations that are not mainly politics-posting? I'm glad for the Twitter alternative, but do not need more politics-posting. Thank you :) 7200
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 09/02/2024What is the most effective organization that you have personal knowledge of? 250
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 31/01/2024What percentage of transphobes who talk about "basic biology" would be able to tell you what this diagram means? 1111
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 30/01/2024John XXIII was a pope who was also a pirate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Jo... 010
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 30/01/2024What's your favorite statistical distribution? Mine is log-normal, it's what you get when you have many small factors that are multiplicative instead of additive :) 130
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 30/01/2024Should I leave Twitter, and do all my posting on Bluesky or blogs? I like having an audience of cool people there, but it seems to be jumping the shark with the swarms of Nazi idiots 120
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 28/01/2024There are ~two scenarios for a second Trump term 1) like Trump's first term, he's an incompetent dick, but he can't get much done and life is mostly normal 2) he goes full fash, at which point half the US economy leaves because the top firms are full of immigrants, liberals, atheists and gays 030
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 29/10/2023manifold.love and Bluesky have the most trans userbases I have ever seen 040
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 02/10/2023I wish there was somewhere on Earth I could move to where trans people weren't the universally despised Public Enemy #1 😓 www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/u...cnn.comHarsh penalties approved for Florida state college employees who use restrooms that don't correspond...Florida education officials on Wednesday unanimously approved harsher penalties against state college employees who violate a new law barring them and students from using restrooms or changing facilit... 161
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 23/09/2023TIL that there is a cure for cavities www.lanternbioworks.com 020
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 23/09/2023So how did Bluesky come to be the app for trans people and lefties (Serious question, I actually don't know!) 461
Reposted by Alyssa VanceJoanna 🏳️⚧️ @thegadget.bsky.social · 20/09/2023Regret to inform you that your CPU has a bad case of FJCVTZS. Instructional, really. ((That's "Floating-point Javascript Convert to Signed fixed-point, rounding toward Zero" for people with lives to attend to. It's an instruction that exists solely to make JS go faster)) 3242
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 22/09/2023The new "Number Go Up" crypto book is both informative and hilarious 040
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 22/09/2023Damn I didn't realize how cool Bluesky had gotten. I should post here more 090
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 11/07/2023The Discord servers I'm in seem to be slowly shrinking. Are other people seeing this? Has anything replaced Discord for chatting with friends or about niche interests 110
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 01/07/2023It takes a special kind of genius to mess up Twitter this badly.... 1100
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 18/04/2023alyssamvance on Twitter is indeed me (not an imposter) twitter.com/alyssamvance/status/164… 050