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Alyssa Vance

@alyssavance.bsky.social
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Senior Data Scientist, Blue Rose Research. Futurist, neophile, machine explorer. alyssamvance@gmail.com

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scanstone.bsky.social @scanstone.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
holy shit jacobian conjecture down with a hand checkable counterexample
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
shot / chaser
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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...
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A Ramsey-style Problem on Hypergraphs
Construct hypergraphs as large as possible that do not have a certain easy-to-check, difficult-to-find property.
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Behind the Scenes: Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behi...
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Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
New details about what we found, and how agentic harnesses are now able to reproduce real bugs and dismiss false positives.
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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Corn 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.
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Reddit 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.
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I now have access to OpenAI's new o1-pro model, send me math or stats problems you'd like to test
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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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..."
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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
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
There are reasons to support this but it would help Republicans a lot
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Three 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)
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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"
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Worth 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...
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List of federal judges appointed by Joe Biden - Wikipedia
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Musk 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.
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Quick 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...
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Chuck Grassley - Wikipedia
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
What is your reason for switching to Bluesky?
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
What is the most effective organization that you have personal knowledge of?
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hi! 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 :)
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
What is the most effective organization that you have personal knowledge of?
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
What percentage of transphobes who talk about "basic biology" would be able to tell you what this diagram means?
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
John XXIII was a pope who was also a pirate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Jo...
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
What'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 :)
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
Should 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
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
There 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
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
My flying a plane as a teenager
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
manifold.love and Bluesky have the most trans userbases I have ever seen
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
I 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...
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Harsh 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...
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
TIL that there is a cure for cavities www.lanternbioworks.com
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
So how did Bluesky come to be the app for trans people and lefties (Serious question, I actually don't know!)
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
Here comes Ophelia
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Joanna 🏳️‍⚧️ @thegadget.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Regret 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))
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
The new "Number Go Up" crypto book is both informative and hilarious
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Damn I didn't realize how cool Bluesky had gotten. I should post here more
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 11/07/2023
The 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
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 01/07/2023
It takes a special kind of genius to mess up Twitter this badly....
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Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social · 18/04/2023
alyssamvance on Twitter is indeed me (not an imposter) twitter.com/alyssamvance/status/164…
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