Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Can I get back the music I purchased, or is this a change in stance under which you would like to claim that stealing from me is ok if my purchases happened enough years ago? (2/2) 000
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 13/01/2026@itunes Back in the day I purchased a whole lot of dredg albums. I’ve noticed recently that I’m having a harder and harder time playing them. I keep getting popups asking me to subscribe to things, though with a great deal of work I can occasionally dismiss those popups and still listen. (1/2) 110
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Hey Apple, why can’t I play albums I purchased a decade ago with Apple Music? I click on tracks I own and it brings up a full screen ad. I have no way to listen to the music I purchased from you. 010
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Pluribus is literally just ‘reintegration’. The only reason it feels alien is because there didn’t happen to be a ‘severance’ that happened first. 000
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 12/11/2025I asked myself ‘what if bitmap textures could be circles instead of squares’. Then I did some math in desmos. With square textures you can easily bi-linearly sample between the pixels you know. In circle land, you additionally have to interpolate between the two ways to pick your local grid basis! 041
Reposted by Jasonbbqshoes @bbqshoes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025five men writing in fingers of gold #Tuesday #Fractals #FractalArt #DigitalArt 071
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Classic mistake. I mean the stop signs with the white borders are optional, right? 😊 010
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Characters in a story don’t know if they are ‘role playing’. Actors do. There is no legible difference between an author writing a play and a court recorder recording real dialog. We *perceive* a difference only because we consciously perceive whether we are playing a character. (4/4) 010
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 31/10/2025It would be a mistake to say that the substrate itself wants anything, beyond how we’ve tuned the probabilities for the types of personalities it is likely to instantiate. Instead it is the particular instantiations that can be said to have preferences! (3/4) 110
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 31/10/2025I model the base LLM as the laws of physics… it is the substrate of a universe that can simulate arbitrary humans. The AI assistant is just one potential human being simulated on that substrate. But the substrate itself is capable of simulating the complete gamut of human personalities. (2/4) 100
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 31/10/2025youtu.be/5CKuiuc5cJM?... ——- I think that to reason coherently about what ‘the AI’ ‘wants’, we really need to disentangle the ‘text prediction engine’ from the ‘helpful assistant character’. (1/4)youtu.beChatGPT isn't Smart. It's something Much WeirderYouTube video by Hank Green 110
Reposted by Jasonbbqshoes @bbqshoes.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Got to punch, right on target #Tuesday #Trippy #Fractal #DailyDose 2132
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 22/08/2025www.desmos.com/calculator/w...desmos.comSqueeze-Squish 020
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Today I learned that “angle of incidence = angle of reflection” is an incomplete representation of what happens when light bounces. Turns out that the *polarization* of the light still refracts! That’s actually foundational for how ‘iridescence’ can be a thing. 010
Reposted by Jason∞ Juan Carlos @jcponcemath.bsky.social · 15/08/2025New cool #math T-shirts! 🤯😍🤩😃👕 Get yours here: jcponcemath.secure-decoration.com/shop 1205
Reposted by JasonAndrew D Hwang @diffgeom.com · 09/08/2025These silver earrings in the Anemone family are a new design at Differential Geometry. The knotted band is a stylized representation of the complex 2/7-power function. www.diffgeom.com/product/anem... #MathSky #MathArt #Jewelry #3DPrinting 1151
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Too few people are appreciating this rational design. And in addition to its rationality I also appreciate the aesthetics 🙃 110
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Of course I forgot nothing animated in blue sky, but it’s on the wiki page for the OKLAB color space. 000
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 06/08/2025I spent twice the time making AI make an animation as it would have taken me to make it myself. Pretty much entirely because at the time I only had access to a phone, not a laptop. I have absolutely no idea how I’m supposed to feel about this ethically. 100
Reposted by Jasonbbqshoes @bbqshoes.bsky.social · 05/08/2025#Tuesday #Fractal #Fractals #FractalArt 151
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Seriously, the mathematicians need to get in on this. I mean… anti-false with 180 degree rotational symmetry? Surely that axiom unilaterally spawns an entire field of study. 020
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 26/07/2025The 4 sphere is weird because two orthogonal circles on its surface can create a flat torus, which might as well be Euclidean space aside from its connectivity. So flat 2D Euclidean geometry might be surprisingly comfortable on the surface of the 4-sphere, especially if those dimensions are complex. 000
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Yeah I feel the diaspora too. If it counts, my TI-83 was stolen in middle school and replacing it was financially painful for my parents. They hid it well and I didn’t find out until decades later. They also taught me to apply pathological levels of persistence and creativity to problem solving! 020
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Then I’ll just commiserate! It absolutely sucks when a monolithic system doesn’t match the needs and incentives of the people embedded within it, and I share your hope that it doesn’t stay stuck in that misaligned state for too long. 020
Reposted by JasonHana Murray @murrayh83.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Pattern block play with octagons! #21CenturyPB #iTeachMath 1112
Reposted by JasonTim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Some of this week’s math-y art. 081
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Apologies, while I believe in the concept I have no idea to what extent it has been tried in practice in the past decade nor what results have been seen. I shouldn’t be jumping on the opportunity to respond to you as if it’s an opportunity to retroactively affect the education I experienced! 🙃 100
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 26/07/2025It mirrors the real world, where during work hours you have access to other peers and mentors that are on your team and want to help you get unstuck to help you be productive. The teacher can meet the needs of individuals, instead of lecturing to the hypothetical average student. 100
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Do problem solving in the classroom, make the homework ‘watching lectures to be prepared for class’, instead of isolated drills solving problems. There are many benefits to this reversal beyond trying to outwit AI cheating. 110
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 26/07/2025m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Le...m.youtube.com[4K #HDR] Weaver Lake 2025: DJ MOASES DnB set Night 1 UON VISUALS EXTREME MODE (Bonus: Just K8 b2b!)YouTube video by UON Visuals 100
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 26/07/2025And YouTube likes to crop things weird… alright, it’s on Wikipedia now, just check out the animation there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklab_c...en.wikipedia.orgOklab color space - Wikipedia 000
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Whoops, forgot blue sky can’t GIF. youtube.com/shorts/P8nnY...youtube.comLinear RGB, Gamma sRGB, and Perceptual OKLABYouTube video by Jason Hise 100
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 26/07/2025It’s a magic space where you can blend text of any foreground color onto any background color and it *just looks right*. Linear and sRGB are both wrong for this task. hikogui.org/2022/10/24/t...hikogui.orgThe Trouble with Anti-Aliasing (updated)The Trouble with Anti-Aliasing (updated) by: Take Vos date: 24 Oct 2022 110
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 26/07/2025For context, OKLAB is a color space published in 2020 in which perceptual differences match 3D Euclidean distances with remarkable accuracy. bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/bottosson.github.ioA perceptual color space for image processingFrom personal project to industry standard Introduction added in 2025 When introduced Oklab in 2020, I never expected it to reach as far as... 100
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 26/07/2025This is a ‘vibe animation’! Produced 100% from fighting with chatGPT for 3 hours instead of spending the 90 minutes it might have taken to make it myself. 110
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 12/07/2025I’m full complex quaternionic… it’s just the octonions that make me feel weird. 110
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Mostly in real life it looks like Boolean ‘not’ or ‘turn inside out from being inside out’ 110
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Yeah being self inverse is weird. But 180 deg and another 180 deg is a self inverse thing, because it rotates you back to not ever having rotated at all. 200
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Reminds me of the video I saw yesterday where Hilbert went to a lecture about Hilbert spaces and went up to the front of the class and said “right… but, so what is a Hilbert space” 000
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 12/07/2025I think you may have misinterpreted the direction in which I was trying to sway things. My thesis was ‘you don’t have infinite obligation to everyone on the internet, most of your obligation is toward your neighbors, go outside and learn their names’ 000
Jason @antitwister.bsky.social · 12/07/2025I meant that moral obligations should not be paralyzed by their seemingly infinite applicability. There’s no excuse here… just an obligation to not fuck over those you have the power to affect! This is an attempt to resolve technology paralyzing us by giving us too many ways to make a difference. 200
