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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 7h

>AI now writes something like 41% of long-form LinkedIn posts, 13% of Reddit, 10% of Substack. And on LinkedIn, where the measurement is cleanest, AI-generated posts get 45% less engagement than human-written ones. We flooded the zone and the zone shrugged. >This should have been obvious […]

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@ploum LLMs are a new tool. That's all. If you're already a skilled woodworker, a new woodworking tool may make your job a lot easier. You still have to learn the new tool, find out the hard points and the brittle ones. But then you can show to others how much easier your work is now. That does […]

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

When driving, teach your kids to count cyclists, so it becomes second nature to them to look for cyclists, once they start driving.

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@lowqualityfacts "random in the sense of xkcd 221 ( xkcd.com/221 ) it may be the same sequence every time but that sequence is guaranteed to be random.

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@rpbook o an unrelated peasant that died of cholera the following year never having heard of any of this

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Hey team Quick one before the weekend. youtu.be/3TNpOD6bov8 Song made with Suno v6, Animation: Claude Opus 5.5

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Conceiving of AI as a moment of Copernican trauma dislocating humanity, as it were, from the center of creation in yet one other axis, allows us to create a typology of the visible AI responses along the lines of the expected Kübler-Ross’s stages of grief: AI denial, AI anger, AI bargaining, AI […]

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@mattmcirvin Also in CA - I'll do the same as in the last couple elections: wait for the ballot to arrive in the mail, fill it in, and drop it off at the local city service center down the road weeks before the election proper. In the past I got the text-confirmation that my ballot was received […]

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mathstodon.xyz/@SvenGeier/117338803… Throw-away reply on a thread, I'll re-post this here so I can find it again later. It seems like it would be an appropriate reply to a lot of posts on mastodon...

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

@lowqualityfacts Actually, back in 2005 they combined sugar and sugar into a single ingredient, "sugar", and used the free slot to add sugar to the list.

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@lowqualityfacts And that's just in the east-west direction. Wait until you hear how long it is in the north-south direction...

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 18/09/2026

Talk like a pirate day: “please seed, I’m stuck at 68%”

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

You jest, of course, but it did pique my curiosity. Sadly or happily, today's LLMs are smarter than that...

Inquiry to an llm to solve the halting problem. The llm declines.

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

@julesh I keep telling people the US was founded by people so stuck up that 𝑡h𝑒 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑠h kicked them out. That should modulate our expectations.

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Just because a computer "solves a math problem" does not make the problem go away, and contrary to some people's claims does not invalidate the problem as a jump-off point for exploration, understanding, and the search for new techniques and ideas. Loaded language like "strip mining math […]

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@christianp If it's just a small target, you'd have to locate it such that the shadow is aimed at your head (otherwise you get a head-sized shadow on the wall right next to your head or some such). This means enough sensory apparatus and processing intelligence to discern where you are located […]

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@julesh I think in this metaphor I might be a bee on the mathematical landscape: I'll never go to the depths that a frog can go, nor soar as high as a bird. I enjoy just hopping from one colorful spot of sweetness to another - possibly sometimes falling asleep in one of them. If there's ultimate […]

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

@lowqualityfacts You'd be surprised how many evildoers can be swayed from their dastardly ways by bringing them a dead bird.

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

@bruces Does it need "improving"? It's a music video. Its purpose is to convey a certain esthetic. It does so. Any one viewer can like or dislike it, but in general we don't demand "linear plot" or "political commentary" of music videos. They can be in there - part of the esthetic to be conveyed […]

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@lowqualityfacts Also, for reasons not yet fully understood, the most common hang gliding death.

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

@dpiponi I don't see any units anywhere, so just redefine the 'type' of milk to "quarts" and you can have 2 pints without having to touch numbers at all...

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

@lowqualityfacts If you try to fail any kind of test and you succeed have you?

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

@dougmerritt Well, the exact link I posted goes to a page about the development of the eyes of slugs (I arrived there in my quest to research how many different parallel ways biology re-(re-re-)invented imaging optics). But putting "nudibranch" into the search box shows they have some 70-odd […]

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Today's expression I didn't expect to encounter, like, ever: predatory gastropod. Apparently many sea-slugs hunt[?] For prey[?] The thought of "having to run away from a snail" is both hilarious and frightening to me... www.molluscs.at/gastropoda/index.ht…

Screenshot reads "Vesicular eyes have much better visual properties than more primitive eye types. Especially predatory gastropods (which is a large portion of the sea-living species) now could better recognize and follow their prey. But a very large part of hunting in gastropods still is following the prey's scent."

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Today I learned a new (to me) word: celerity. It's still surprising to me, after 30+ years of living in an English speaking country, how many words there are that I've never heard anybody use, yet whose meaning is immediately clear to me from the Latin root. Anyways: if you're widely known for […]

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

@tm_baumgartner I've found it useful to keep a close eye on them for the first day and when they start doing the deed grab them and transplant them into the box. Yes, mid-poop if necessary. Usually you only need to do it once - once they've experienced finishing up in the box and getting to bury […]

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

@julesh 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑡h𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑦, 𝑜ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 (𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡h𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒), 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦'𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑦, 𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑜; 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦? 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑑 […]

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

It has been [hello world] days since someone mixed up variables

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

It has been [Inf] days since someone tried to divide by zero.

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

It has been [NaN] days since someone made a floating point error...

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

@lowqualityfacts Eh, not so impressive. Anybody can breathe underwater. It's called Scuba ... 🤷‍♂️

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

@dpiponi That's the real difference between hardware and software: if the hardware manual differs from the hardware, the manual is wrong; if the software manual differs from the software, the software is buggy.

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Curiously, modern capitalism has evolved two broad mechanisms to promote the general learning of mathematics: - the stock market, to reward those that are good at math and - the lottery, to punish those who are bad at it.

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

@lowqualityfacts Are we just talking about the human themselves or does the parasite count?

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Your uncle: Kids have so much autism today because of all the wifi. Now let me tell you every type of train you could see in South Dakota between 1932 and 1987.

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

@lowqualityfacts 𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 if the crime is patricide or infanticide...

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

@ifixcoinops Or we play it pragmatically and MAKE a trillion dollars. There's an old saying "never argue with a fool, make money off of them". Why not enjoy an annualized ROI in excess of ten thousand percent?

Google finance AI showing the money a hypothetical trader could've made in a week by betting against the SpaceX IPO.

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Σ(i³) = (Σi)² @svengeier.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

TIL: apparently it is legal in California to attach an extra red reflector on ones license plate for better visibility.

California license plate with an extra reflector

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