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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 2m

That seems accurate. I like to think there are a lot of people not building the tower. So like a Bruegel painting, this tower of babel can be way over there. Their cognitive faculties degenerate. They can't understand anything. And we just keep going on without their tower... just a dramatic blip

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 41m

Before I left one of my jobs, they kinda forced me to write a new program for them. I didn't like the way they were acting. We were naming all of our programs after food. I named the program "Pee Soup" and I think management never noticed and used it that way for at least 5 years.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 1h

That commandment came from a culture very different from ours. Even interpreting it though the current culture requires defining what honor means. And all too often people throw that one out as an act of coercion. There's almost never a parental responsibility implicit on the other side.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 2h

Okay I realize times change but I am not that old. We just don't make affordable art scanners anymore? This feels less like progress and more like we are just walking off a technological cliff. Or maybe 2k is affordable and I need to calibrate for inflation.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 3h

Wtf is going on with my brain? As soon as the heat broke all these ideas started pouring out.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 3h

This gave me an idea! (Like a real one, not a joke) 💡

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 3h

Hmmm. Maybe a non-rigid rotating object. The moment of inertia tensor would stand in as the source. Looks like I need to dust off my elliptic function book.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 3h

I need to see if I can build a system equivalent to the three body cislunar system in a lab. Won't be identical but if i can do something with magnets, or even a rotational system, I can measure it with a small lidar or radar and get real data.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 3h

I, for one, am feeling this need to take back my tech from those losers. I feel a mad scientist energy rising in me this past month. I think their days are numbered and we have to rebuild it all soon.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 3h

I have grown to vibe with bugs so much over this in the past few years.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 3h

Gonna end up with a really weird Donald in Mathemagicland style cartoon.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 3h

Well shit. I went to bed and woke up still wanting to return to my research in cislunar trajectory characterization. So I guess I'm gonna make 2027 about cartoons, music, holography, and cislunar orbital mechanics and the associated pretty simulations.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 14h

Okay now I'm really enjoying getting into D&D. I soooo wish I had hung out with the D&D kids in high school and college instead of the "tough" kids who ended up being degenerate assholes. My life would have been so much happier if I had rpg friends when I was young.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 14h

Digging out old science code. The sim code is fine. But all the rest is a mix of OOP C++ circa 2009, corporate directed modern C++, and whatever the hell I was doing with memory arenas in 2017. This is going to take some time, but at least I am free to write it correctly now.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 14h

Starting a new bullet journal and giving myself xp for doing new things was a good idea. My last journal became a cursed tome of trauma.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you, and you too! I might need updated viz. My plotting routines are getting old and still half implemented in immediate mode openGL. And it'd be hard to slice the data set into 3D quickly anyway. Eeee. I imagine it looking like a display on the Enterprise.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 15h

I'm sorry. At least I'm starting to wonder if I can use my simulation code to test whether unstable transient lagrange points can form as a result of non-uniform gravitational gyration and solar radiation pressure. I'm getting tired. That sentence was hard to write. Minimal thrust stationary zone?

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 16h

I still think we should be putting dinosaur fossils on the lunar surface to fuck with future species' scientists.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 16h

No but I'll check it out. Im all inspired to dig out my massive pile of old code and see if I can reconstruct all this coherently now.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 16h

I mean there's nothing stopping us from creating a scientific "social media" platform to allow that. It might not work, and nobody might show up, but we would definitely know how to design it to ecourage proper science. And there would probably be 1,000,000 people sympathetic to it.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah don't let her get away with that.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah it's probably here. You know what, I should dig out that simulation code, collect my notes, write everything up, and put it out there. I might be able to get it peer reviewed if I reach out to some old contacts. And UT Austin has a great orbital mechanics program.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 17h

Here's a bonus insight: there are some who believe we may already be witnessing the kessler syndrome starting. Populations of small debris emerging in orbits that don't correlate with known events. Might actually start with the very small stuff. I may have directly observed fragmentation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 17h

That makes sense wrt to humor. Obviously my little thing here would be like a 45 page paper with domain specifics, and I cant fully expound on socials. But I sense you get the broad strokes.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 17h

And, thank you! That's so sweet to say. I have my brilliant moments and this was one of three that were really set up to be big solutions. It all came from the dusty old lost libraries of non digitized research. There's a lot of science we've lost. Many threads snipped.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 17h

I had already written neural networks to handle higher order staristics for dynamic systems so applying it to cislunar orbit was fairly strightforward. I got pushed out by management. All they could see was gen ai coders. My hope is to take these methods to the next generations, teach it.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 17h

Well it gets a little more complex because the orbital dynamics are complex. Basically you map the statistics at every point to a manageable distribution and get this 4+D energy map. Some paths are more useful than others. The mapping was the hard part. The sources aren't all published.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 18h

Hey I should put those solutions to unsolved technical problems my previous employers were too foolish to understand right into my cartoon. Millions spent for nothing and in the end, the answer is blurted out by a cartoon cat.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks! Which problem? I already did solve the cislunar trajectory problem, it goes back to a 1949 paper about the statistical distribution of beans. But all the other problems I mentioned, idk.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 19h

The irony of cislunar trajectories is that I can use neural networks to solve that problem. But I had to quit when the managers only wanted ai solutions that involved replacing coders with gpt. The problem with ai has always been GIGO. Garbage in garbage out. The jedi arts are lost on these ones.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 19h

I always blah blah godel when I turn philisophical. Hadn't heard if that paper. This whole tangent came from fitting bayesian estimators to cislunar trajectories. There are issues with doing that because of the statistics. And I'm seeing the same thing in the ai model outputs.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 19h

The details of the model collapse stuff are not my area of expertise, but I spent a long time seeing the same basic stuff in approximation methods on real data in several domains. It's all new and old. I think I've been through the loop thrice. I'm more of a "reconfigure the sensors" kid.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 20h

The human mind uses language, art, music to comprehend. The reality around us is bigger than we can speak, draw, or sing. My mind is oppressively linguistic. I see the reality, but internal dialogue obfuscates it immediately. Overcoming this is my major spiritual struggle.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 23h

Yadda yadda Godel Incompleteness yadda yadda blind spots and exploits yadda yadda uncertianty. I think my point is, the horizon for gen ai is way closer than we originally thought it was, and more training seems to make it worse. And, ofc I'm just rambling next to the pool. Not a PhD thesis here.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 23h

As soon as you start to meaningfully diverge into nongaussian predictor distributions, the whole thing falls apart. At the end of the day, ai is just a (complex) approximator over a domain. And it therefore must have statistical walls that prevent it from expressing or classifying certain results.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 23h

So this is interesting and it ties directly into the reason nobody could get reliable estimates for radar classification using neural networks since the 1970s. A lot of it relies on bayesian estimation, which assumes gaussian distributions.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I want to see a batman movie where robin was there first and adopted batman and he was a shitty little kid. Cuz the story works both ways - if Grayson used gymnastics to fight for justice after his parents died, and found bruce in the alley. But everythings so serious and it should be silly.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, does the Joker's inconsistent backstory work against the AI surveillance state classification algos? Further, can we estimate an AI based system's response to uncertainty? Like, in the bayesian sense? I feel like genAI is at a point now where we can nail down a system ID response.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean I understand that nobody is kind to anyone in america these days, and we are all isolated. But get a cat or something. And btw, gen alpha is doomed if this is what they use all day in schools.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sometimes I must use the google ai search to get at something obscure that normal search cant find. Holy crap i cannot stand the idiotic way it phrases things, the incessant sycophancy, or the presistent nudging to ask more questions. How gone does a mind have to be to talk to this thing daily?

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hmm. Looked back through my dream journal. It appears I have dreams about large scale fires a few weeks before the regime attempts some shockingly evil thing. Several times dating back to 2021. So, whatever that means. Protect yourselves.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think I'm past the first inertia hump for my cartoon. I'll have the plan, apparatus, and character sheets done soon. I'll need to start looking at voice actors for some of the parts. I can't do them all myself.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Had a dream that massive fires in Los Angeles were creating large heaps of ash raining down in Austin. Woke up to sweet gentle healing water rain.

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Em Void 🏳️‍⚧️ @coherentvoid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh yeah it ended up way off the premise. The first season had some darkness to it. It's like a different show by the end. But later on I think of it the same way I think of Scooby Doo. Another season and scooby would have probably shown up as an ancient one.

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