Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Is it about protecting mathematics from AI? I'd interpret that title as an attempt to formulate AI safety as a mathematical problem. 110
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Certainly not! It also, to be clear, does not mean enjoying or playing Vivaldi indicates any sympathy for fascism. 130
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yeah, and the Vivaldi revival was due largely to fascists. 100
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What an idiot. Turtle trafficking? You never traffic turtles. It's impossible to outrun the cops. 010
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If I wanted to meet with somebody in secret I'd do it in the middle of a crowded stadium. 001
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026That's what I thought of. Paul McCartney just willing Get Back into the world. youtu.be/-R8pFCE3TP8?...youtu.be 010
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026static.klipy.comSaul Goodman: Take The BaitAlt: Saul Goodman: Take The Bait 000
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Is this expected to help? I don't think it will. So he definitely should do it! 010
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026static.klipy.comGhostbusters Venkman: Mass Hysteria!ALT: Ghostbusters Venkman: Mass Hysteria! 0100
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Slings & Arrows. It's great. Just ask @emilynussbaum.bsky.social 000
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I lived in Seattle for a couple years. One year on my ballot I saw a candidate named "goodspaceguy". I thought he was probably an eccentric oddball and looked him up. Yep. 110
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I suspect a Unitarian one would be pretty painless. 020
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Do you suspect the machines will be unable to go beyond the convex hull for long? 000
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In math I think this is what some companies, like Axiom, are trying to do (while saying their real goal is coding). So far, they seem well behind the frontier labs. Bitter lesson. Axiom — The Starting Point for Reasoning. share.google/b3GzL0tNu8cb...share.googleAxiom — The Starting Point for Reasoning.Formal foundations and tooling for verifying proofs and reasoning about logic — including AXLE, our interactive proof environment. 010
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Closer to home: Kevin Crosby is saying internal polling shows a tight race. Any chance? 110
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Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you haven't read this yet, I'd recommend it. The Playbook by James Shapiro: 9780593490204 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books share.google/Z7Abhth6ZLOb...penguinrandomhouse.comPenguin Random HouseCommitted to publishing great books, connecting readers and authors globally, and spreading the love of reading. 000
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The guy who came up with this is like the guy who came up with the Monster Mash. 001
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm not entirely convinced Trump doesn't think it's named to honor Gerald Ford. 000
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I appreciate you telling him he's too old with a reference to a 20+ year old song. 000
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Call animal control. Surely they have some puppies we can kill. Tell them I'd like to do it personally. I'll be coming with a camera crew. 010
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think Pappas will win comfortably, but there have been some close polls. 020
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Yeah. Outside of NC I'm not that confident about any D flip. MI and NH are also not in the bag. The Ds going down a senate seat isn't outside the range of reasonable possibilities. 230
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026OK. But, as somebody with a Ph.D. in tropical geometry I can say this from experience - the difference between linear and piecewise linear is VAST. 010
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm not angry, and I hope you're not either. I suspect the essence of our disagreement rests upon the word "essentially" from your statement. 100
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It certainly is piecewise linear, but it's not affine. 100
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A composition of affine maps is still affine, and so if it were all just affine a deep network would still collapse to a single layer. ReLU, for example, is not affine. Regarding your larger point: OK. 100
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Also, FWIW, on an SFU range reduction, table lookup, piecewise-quadratic evaluation, and reconstruction are all not linear. 120
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026MACs are linear in one argument with the other fixed. Once both inputs depend on the data, or you add compares like ReLU, the function isn't linear anymore. If it really were linear all the way down, a 100-layer network would collapse to one matrix. Agreed that most of the compute is matmul, though. 200
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This word, "linear". I do think it means what you think it means. 100
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026With God as my witness, I truly believed turkeys could fly. 000
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Yeah. My first guess when I saw how salacious the story is and how thinly sourced was that it's probably not true. 000
Dylan Zwick @dylanzwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026static.klipy.comSimpsons: Jimbo's Graffiti Makes Him Feel BigALT: Simpsons: Jimbo's Graffiti Makes Him Feel Big 060
