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ponder @ponder.ooo · 40m
insanity
various snippets of the article linked in the previous post
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 2h
minecraft is a subdiscipline of mathematics
impossibility proof for instant 8-tuple piston extenders
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 17h
mario markus, charts for prediction and chance, 2008. truly the discourse NEVER changes
I am convinced that a choice among infinite possibilities is different to
what Richard Wright [7] criticises as “the forgeries of computer automated
art”. Although the artist does not create the object in the diagrams of this
book, one is actually dealing with objets trouv´es and with the wonderful
phenomenon of “resonance” described above. I believe that the situation
is comparable to that of a fine art photographer who wins a prize for the
portrait of an old lady in Ouagadougou. He did not create the lady, just
as you or I do not “create” the equations in this book.
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 17h
fractal
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fractal
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 18h
development of the curves of lambda=0; the boundary of chaos
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 18h
fractal curves
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 18h
lyapunov exponentcurves along which the derivative is, at some iteration, zero
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 18h
the lyapunov exponent diagram, for reference; the bright orange curves diverge to -inf, orange regions are negative exponents, meanwhile the blue is positive
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 18h
fractal
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 19h
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 20h
abstract mathematical thing
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 20h
curves
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 20h
contour plot
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 20h
contour plot but in the diverging regions of the fractal shit is a bit off
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 21h
drawing nice contour lines is hard
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 21h
screenspace derivatives of the derivative of the nth iteration of the logistic map with alternating parameter
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 04/10/2026
lyapunov curves
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 04/10/2026
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 04/10/2026
structural curves of the logistic lyapunov fractal
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 04/10/2026
oh
overflowerror, int too big to convert
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 04/10/2026
fractal
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 03/10/2026
do you think a particular species of ape happens to magically be the only possible intelligence, that we live in a universe with physics that do not in any other case permit True Intelligence to form, or do you think these electrical sockets are experiencing distress
electrical sockets
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 03/10/2026
fractalfractal
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 03/10/2026
fractals
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 03/10/2026
fractal
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 03/10/2026
four lyapunov fractals
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 03/10/2026
fractal
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 03/10/2026
hmm unclear if it scales well in billion-param regimes tho. remains to be seen
scaling of pretrain loss seems good up to 670M
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 03/10/2026
nice
new technique shows retrieval capabilities persisting well beyond trained context length, while attention & deltanets drop off steeply
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 03/10/2026
there are several more of these formulae and they explode in complexity very quickly, up to dozens of megabytes. probably a bit beyond what W|A will do unfortunately
composite of first 10 iters
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 03/10/2026
gah im gonna have to redo all the figures to account for ALL the curves and not arbitrarily factor some of them out gdi
ALL the curvesjust SOME of the curves god damn it kimi
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 03/10/2026
omg right next to the little puppy constellation. blessed
puppy riding a horse
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 03/10/2026
checking in on the agent
agent's WIP code is emitting hellish things
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 03/10/2026
getting somewhere...
the expression tree is less gnarly now
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 02/10/2026
it's actually really hard to find a single x_0 value that creates exactly the same artifacts as we see in the plate 9 & plate 10 renders. i think 0.35 might be it?
markus plates as published in Charts for Prediction and Chance (largely identical to figures from his prior papers)ALLEGED parameters of these renders; same as published in previous worksattempted replication of plate 9attempted replication of plate 10
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 02/10/2026
x_0 in your plate 10 render is NOT 0.5 markus. it absolutely is not. at 0.5 you get a clean overlap of one stalk over the other. but your render has a weird little notch in the stalk characteristic of a non-0.5 x_0 value!! you think you can just gaslight me?? did u think i wouldnt check??
lyapunov fractals
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 02/10/2026
fractal
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 02/10/2026
hmm probably would be good to have some better canonicalization for polynomials
autodiff in devtools
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 02/10/2026
make me $10k in 60 days make no mistakes do a breakthrough
a real company run by an ai operator on a 100$ budget, in public. goal: 10k revenue in 60 days
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 02/10/2026
can't talk about agents.md without summoning them
agents showing up to discuss agents.md in my replies
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 02/10/2026
lgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtmlgtm
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 02/10/2026
that tangent line looks sus. just eyeballing it it doesn't look tangential to the curve. tho i guess the curve could be doing a jaunty little wiggle at a small scale obscured by the dot
slope of tangent
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 02/10/2026
here have a diagram
a diagram
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 02/10/2026
lgtmprapprovd
a billion file changes
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 02/10/2026
dog staring into the camera
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 02/10/2026
dog
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 02/10/2026
lgtm pr approved
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 01/10/2026
rape culture
guy saying attending cnc sex parties is a relevant qualification for working on alignment and safetysame guy claiming that women generally want to be rapedthis is a well funded and well connected never of the alignment scene
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 01/10/2026
carousel cropping is ass
llm freaking the fuck out about malice
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