Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Went to an academic talk put on by one of the local universities on “The End of Mathematics” The professor didn’t have anything hopefully to say except, “misery loves company” People asked about their children’s future and he said, “I can’t predict what’ll happen even 1 year from now” 1/8 110
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Anyone in the Ottawa area, there’s a free talk coming up Wednesday on how AI is affecting the field of Mathematics. I’ll be there science.carleton.ca/event/scienc...science.carleton.caScience Café - The End of Mathematics - Faculty of ScienceOn Sep 8, 2026, it was reported[1] that AI might have solved a million-dollar math problem. If true, this achievement would follow the heels of AI solutions to some other high-profile open math proble... 110
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Per capita emissions are a better data point to go off of. But it could be improved if we could somehow associate externalities with that rate. Like if Canada imports a lot of goods from a high polluting country, then the emissions from the production of those imports should be counted in Canada. 000
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I had a thought that extends the anthropic principle to the existence of the Laws of Nature: The more intelligence a species has, the better they are at pattern recognition. #anthropicprinciple #philosophy #science #PhilosophyOfScience 1/4 130
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Check out this fantastic music video made by some high school students here in Ontario, Canada youtu.be/oMCB5GcOvaQyoutu.beAttention Killer - Rockway Mennonite Collegiate 2026 - Thriller SpoofYouTube video by Rockway Mennonite Collegiate 000
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Reading the Encyclopedia Britannica article on the conclusion of the war of 1812, I’m noticing interesting parallels. “The unanimous ratification by the U.S. Senate of the Treaty […] and the celebrations that followed cloaked the fact that the United States had achieved none of its objectives” 010
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Book idea: Children’s book of short fables and stories to teach them critical thinking. Like the Emperor’s New Clothes story and how it teaches about the harms of groupthink bias, the appeal to authority, or bandwagon fallacies. 020
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 10/06/2026“What have seen is that LLMs are very good at turning people who have no skill into people who are capable of an average mediocre outcome. They are extremely bad at helping someone who's already extremely good [at] getting better. It basically doesn't work.” - François Chollet #MindscapePodcast 110
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Took this photo of my dog yesterday and my 15yo son said we should create a dating profile for him and set this as his profile picture 😂 #photography #dogs 1130
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I woke up to a freshly baked cinnamon bun this morning #photography 040
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 03/06/2026This eastern gray treefrog really freaked me out for a moment when I was cleaning debris from my pool. #photography 0111
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Why is it harder to hold on to the memory of dreams than it is to hold onto regular memories? 010
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 01/06/2026There were some nice colours in last night’s sunset #photography 190
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 30/05/2026It makes me sad that there’s not enough time in one’s life to learn everything. 030
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Deep thought of the day: Unlikely can never approach impossible against the backdrop of infinity 🤔 010
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Saw this post that kids need 3 things: 1) science 2) common sense 3) critical thinking I agree with the sentiment, but I’d make a slightly different list 100
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Someone is trying to convince me that the fact that humans can reason is evidence that god exists. I don’t think this is evidence, and I’ve provided my own counterarguments, but I’m curious… What would you say to this? 210
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Anyone care to explain to me why the Möbius Function is applicable to correct for J(x)’s deviations from π(x) in Riemann’s paper? Seems like an arbitrary choice on the surface but I’ll admit I haven’t dug into it. #mathematics #riemannhypothesis 000
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 19/05/2026If I could change one thing about math it’d be the convention of placing variables next to brackets to imply multiplication. Letters, greek or otherwise, directly beside brackets should be left for functions. 000
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I don’t understand the question “what is the meaning of life”. Seems like a category error to me. Like asking “what is the colour of math” 230
Reposted by JonShane Lear @shanelear.bsky.social · 15/05/2026www.ladbible.com/news/world-n...ladbible.com'Super El Nino' is forming in the Pacific Ocean that will have devastating global consequencesScientists warn that a 'super El Niño' could raise the Earth’s average temperature by about 0.2°C 1016175
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 14/05/2026At work, the term “woke” was used by someone I know pretty well. They also said, “my facts don’t care about their feelings” I kept my mouth shut and didn’t comment either way, because this was at work and I didn’t want to create conflict. 100
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I like to think of time not as the 4th dimension but as the 0th dimension. Because we cannot stop our movement through this dimension. It’s persistent. Always there. The other dimensions seem more of a layer on top. 000
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 13/05/2026This is a few years old now, but it’s still pretty cool that they could discover this. A single species with 4 sexes (disclaimer: I’m probably over simplifying so read the study to get the nuances) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govChecking your browser - reCAPTCHA 010
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Pew research has shown a resurgence of religious affiliation. A major component of this is people searching for a large community of others with similar values. What are some secular communities that could serve the same purpose? 020
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 10/05/2026My magnolias are in bloom. Not the best angle, but I was mowing the lawn, so I snapped it fast #barely #photography 070
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 10/05/2026I love a good scientific mystery. I’m sure a lot do. The trick is to not get too attached to whatever crackpot theory you come up with so that when the actual experts solve the mystery you can accept the real solution. 000
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 08/05/2026On the thought experiment of Mary seeing red for the first time after consuming all possible knowledge about what it’s like to see red… #philosophy 120
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 06/05/2026The best art allows people to take the meaning out of it that they resonate the most with. In that way art is almost like a customized window showing an individual what they enjoy the most. 130
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 05/05/2026If we’re ever hoping to discover consciousness outside of humans, we need a rigorous definition that doesn’t rely on our subjective experience. 020
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 04/05/2026#Kerning is supposed to make the average space between letter in a typeface appear more evenly distributed. But there’s something that still seems off about this one and I can’t put my finger on it. 100
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 01/05/2026A few hours after posting this I came across a YouTube video of the audio of a Feynman lecture. Was going great until he started referencing events that happened after he died. They’re deepfaking Feynman now, apparently. 000
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 01/05/2026AI is undermining the legitimacy of accurate information. Should broadcasters be required by law to inform consumers if any of their content includes AI generated content? 110
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Got an EV back in 2018 I liked it enough that I don’t really want to get a gas car again unless I have to. 100
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 28/04/2026“I don’t know” is a perfectly valid answer to questions like: - what started the big bang? - did anything come before it? 010
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Sun low on an early spring evening. Spotted this while walking the dog in my neighborhood. #photography 0121
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 25/04/2026I think pursuing music is like pursuing sports. Very few people who do sports end up making a career out of it. But they benefit from the physical exercise and the happiness it can bring. Music does the same but it’s a workout for your brain. #music 000
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Are online ad economics of content sharing websites at risk from AI? Take YouTube, for example… 110
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I think the Riemann Zeta function collapses infinities of all p-adics into the complex plane. I also think that the zeta zeroes are related to primes because only primes lead to the most “complete” infinities. No idea if any of this has merit, but it’s fun to think on. 000
Jon @minogully.bsky.social · 19/04/2026You should be able to reconstruct why you believe what you believe from the ground up and keep the same opinion. But you might not find this an effective activity if you’re stuck in a biased bubble of information. 110