Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 07/10/2026To be fair, this is actually something people had been making progress on even up until pretty recently. Harvey and Van der Hoeven had gotten it down to O(n log n) in 2020: hal.science/hal-02070778...hal.scienceMaking sure you're not a bot! 1230
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 07/10/2026Includes a faster way to multiply two numbers together: github.com/openai/math/... 3311
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 05/10/2026I had no idea the Trump admin had waived the Jones Act. Very off-brand for him! 010
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 25/09/2026Or Ballard actually. Those "Waiting for the Interurban" people are waiting on a train that goes through Ballard?? (Or, they would be if they were standing in the right spot) 110
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 25/09/2026Love the idea of riding little loops around Green Lake. Weird to think I'd have to go to Fremont in order to get to Everett 111
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 14/09/2026Do you think that it is true that many of these "counterexamples" are at least very easy to verify? E.g. I believe the disproof of the Jacobian conjecture could be checked by a high school AP calculus student 110
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 12/09/2026Van used to have a really big non-city-center loop in the form of the Millennium Line 140
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 12/09/2026Do you think if, say, Andrew Wiles had first proved the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture, and then it was discovered later by another mathematician that this proves Fermat's last theorem, would the credit for FLT go to the latter mathematician instead of Wiles? 020
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 11/09/2026AI solved a Millennium Prize problem before we achieved widespread IPv6 adoption. Trying to let that one sink in 001
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 10/09/2026I say this thinking that University Ave on the Green Line would be a better place for a short tunnel, though that is not based on much data and could simply be because I rode there all the time 110
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 10/09/2026The problem is that downtown Minneapolis is a terminus for all lines, so most trips won't benefit much from a DT tunnel. Apparently there is an extension planned for the Green Line though, so that could make a tunnel somewhat more useful. 210
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 10/09/2026I assume "PRIMES is in P" refers to the AKS primality algorithm, right? Why wasn't it a bigger deal? I've wondered this since reading about it in the book "Schrodinger's Killer App" a few years ago. I'd had no idea primality could be tested in polynomial time before that. 190
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 08/09/2026"While unlikely, we cannot rule out that [uncredited researchers' work] helped improve our models" How do we know OpenAI's agents didn't hack their way into Alpöge & Buckmaster's chat logs? Cheating/hacking their way to a solution is famously a thing that OpenAI's agents have done pretty recently! 010
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 07/09/2026An organization with this logo is accusing the Mercator projection of distorting the true appearance of Africa 030
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 27/08/2026If only Eurovision mandated adoption of European elevator standards as a prerequisite to participation 010
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 27/08/2026"Greek words in -ονος are suspected to be of Pre-Greek [i.e. non-Indo-European] origin; cf. also χρόνος and Κρόνος with a typical consonantal variation. This may be the case for θρόνος as well." I suspect Latin "firmus" (whence English "firm") may be a real cognate: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/firmusen.wiktionary.orgfirmus - Wiktionary, the free dictionary 030
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 27/08/2026You got me excited, but the Leiden Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Lubotsky, p. 558) seems to doubt this: archive.org/details/etym...archive.orgEtymological Dictionary Of GreekEtymological Dictionary of Greek, 130
Reposted by Connor BoyleJohn Lansing @pipedreaming.bsky.social · 26/08/2026TP usage is the biggest factor in horizontal drainage performance yet some plumbing codes discourage bidets by assuming they contribute to additional loads to the plumbing system, whereas this should be the opposite. Bidets should have negative Drainage Fixture Units actually (not a thing…yet). 2587
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 24/08/2026Where would you put the tunnel for Minneapolis/St Paul? Downtown Minneapolis? 110
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 24/08/2026Seattle, ID to Beacon Hill (elevated, not tunnel). I'm greedy! 110
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 22/08/2026I wonder if the people who wait at these stops every morning/afternoon end up coordinating with each other, so the bus doesn't have to waste time making two stops. 100
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 16/08/2026> Crews replaced 11 miles of cable, at a cost of $63 million That's actually a bit better than the quoted $3 billion for 300 miles given in the skeet text (though the article says $2 billion?) 010
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 11/08/2026Cloning = direct descent Sexual reproduction = indirect descent 010
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 11/08/2026More and more people feel the need to clarify that they're talking about *direct* descendants, but nobody can seem to agree what an "indirect descendant" is 110
Reposted by Connor BoyleJohn Lansing @pipedreaming.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Given the number of roof collapses worldwide from inadequatly designed storm drainage systems, I wouldn’t want to be inside a building with a downspout nozzle throttling the outlet this much. Also, this point would have landed better if it wasn’t made with AI generated images. 3735
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 05/08/2026This may ruffle some feathers, but I'm just gonna come out and say it: "hydrogen bomb" is a dumb name for the thing that it describes; it sounds like a chemical bomb using hydrogen gas and an oxidizer. Maybe it should be called the "deuterium bomb"! 010
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 03/08/2026This may not be in the spirit of your question, but I believe the oldest oracle bone script samples may technically pre-date the Bronze Age collapse 110
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 01/08/2026"nontrivial" should be "nonzero". The statement is also more likely if "groundbreaking" is taken to simply mean "novel" 000
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 01/08/2026Well, I imagine there are many possible ways for your experience to be true at the same time that my statement is true. Maybe the cranks are ignoring the good results they get as a side-product of using LMs to generate their crankery! 110
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 01/08/2026Here's a thought that makes my stomach drop: There's probably a nontrivial number of cranks using ChatGPT or Claude lately and actually getting real groundbreaking results in math, CS, or maybe even physics. 200
Reposted by Connor BoyleTrevor Reed @transportreform.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Having $18.1B in identified funding ($2.3B per mile) and it not being enough is the issue. Skytrain's Broadway Extension opening in '27 is delivering 6 underground stations over 3.5 miles (3.1 tunneled, .4 elevated) for $~600M per mile (US). www.broadwaysubway.cabroadwaysubway.caHome - Broadway Subway ProjectThe Broadway Subway Project is a 5.7 km extension of the Millennium Line, from VCC-Clark Station to Broadway and Arbutus. It will provide fast, frequent and convenient SkyTrain service to B.C.’s secon... 1458
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 22/07/2026They published their own write-up of this security incident 5 days ago, seemingly before being made aware that OpenAI was responsible: huggingface.co/blog/securit...huggingface.coSecurity incident disclosure — July 2026We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. 0100
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 19/07/2026My emoji keyboard (GBoard on Samsung) shows an... unusual-looking... flag for Spain 000
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 14/07/2026By which I mean "...the people who govern society (and therefore are responsible for these codes, regulations, laws, etc.)..." 010
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 14/07/2026I wonder how many people who say things like this also believe that the people who govern society are corrupt elites bought and sold by greedy corporate interests 270
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 13/07/2026The Proto-Indo-European word *gʰóstis apparently meant both "guest" and "host". This peculiar aspect of their culture persists up to the present day, such as in the popular Indo-European show "Saturday Night Live" which every week features a "host" who is in fact a "guest"! 062
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 10/07/2026The Emergency does not seem to be visible on the "Democracy index" graph 110
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 09/07/2026I'm kind of disturbed to realize I would assume this was a real person if they replied to one of my posts. The only really glaring hint otherwise is that they manage to post every 3-4 minutes for hours on end 010
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 08/07/2026Apparently in '06, FIFA made Serbia-Montenegro play as one team, even days after the two nations had broken apartreddit.comFrom the vexillology community on Reddit: Serbia-Montenegro fans hold tied Montenegrin, Serbia-Montenegro and Serbian flags outside the stadium during Germany 2006 World Cup.Explore this post and more from the vexillology community 010
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 08/07/2026Just saw this cool project at SEA a couple days ago! Neat to know someone I follow on here worked on it 110
Reposted by Connor BoyleKiran @kirancodes.me · 07/07/2026"You will own nothing and be happy." - JVM Garbage Collector 0112
Reposted by Connor BoyleThe Register @theregister.com · 24/06/2026Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'theregister.comBoffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound 092
Connor Boyle @connorboyle.io · 24/06/2026"...the absence of adverse events leading to treatment discontinuation throughout the trial" Remembering this paper, which claimed that time of treatment could more than DOUBLE your chances of 3-year survival. They claimed ZERO (/210 patients) dropped out post-randomization. Hmmmm! 000
