yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here's a somewhat ill defined math question: there's a whole industry investigating analyticity, poles etc for complex functions. What's the analogue for non-trivializable bundles? For instance, if I have f(z) defined "up to a phase", is there any good analogous notion of poles and analyticity? 120
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Can someone explain to me why Tesla is still so highly valued? Do stockholders know other companies also make EVs? Or are we just way past the point where actually having a profitable product matters at all? 131
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Can someone explain to me how statisticians manage to get anything done instead of getting bogged down on what the correct way to do and interpret statistics is? 120
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A few years ago some people thought I was anti science when I was saying that advances in theoretical physics, math etc are almost always irrelevant to human well being and that we should ditch the utilitarian justifications. I believe this era of AI will change the minds of many. 010
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Y'all ignored me so I'm coming back with random tags to random people I know >:( @coexact.bsky.social @amkasprzyk.bsky.social @barbarafantechi.bsky.social @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social @duetosymmetry.com @kaichung.bsky.social @gro-tsen.bsky.social @scgriffith.bsky.social 120
Reposted by @yinyangmills.bsky.socialyinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Attention math and physics folks, What are some papers or books which you consider highly aesthetically valuable, due to being exceptionally deep, illuminating, well written or otherwise interesting? 362
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Attention math and physics folks, What are some papers or books which you consider highly aesthetically valuable, due to being exceptionally deep, illuminating, well written or otherwise interesting? 362
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 06/09/2026One problem that seems to plague modern culture, in most of the "west" at least, is a deterioration of the importance assigned to having firm principles. Too often one argues that they'll do or support something even if they think it's wrong, because they don't think they can change it. 130
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 03/09/2026So I've been trying to do these silly little PRL article explainers recently, and I saw the Lux-Zeplin experiment nuclear neutrino scattering + possible dark matter detection result, and wanted to do an explainer on that. But I wanted to also include a bunch of interesting neutrino stuff I know... 100
Reposted by @yinyangmills.bsky.socialGreg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“A mathematical question is much more than a theorem waiting to be proved; it is a source of momentum. First and foremost, it is a lighthouse in the night: it illuminates and guides mathematicians in their wanderings, both esthetic and scientific.” proofsandprompts.com/2026/08/30/c...proofsandprompts.comCare for a little more AI?Hugo Duminil-Copin, Professor at Université de Genève and IHES Disclaimer. The effects of AI are vast, and there is much to be said about its broader impact on society. One should also remind that … 1243
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 20/08/2026For this installment of me spamming paper "explainers", I will take a look on something that I know even less about than my previous explainer thread, but the subject is a very interesting one: the experimental search for Lorentz violations. journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1... 1/16journals.aps.org 121
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Why are so many romance book series titles like Book 1: "I came in my pants" Book 2: "I came in my skirt" Book 3: "I came in my underwear" Book 4: "I came in your underwear" 000
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Ok, I decided I am going to start spamming everyone with posts about random papers I read. Think of it kinda like what @johnbaez does, except I mostly don't know what I'm talking about. Today I have one about how Kirkwood-Dirac non-positivity is a necessary resource for quantum computing. 230
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Y'know many were (racistly) angry with the casting of Nolan's Odyssey, and I was not a fan of Travis Scott's casting as a rhapsode in particular, but I was visiting a Mycenaean site recently and I saw this. I'm pretty sure that's Travis Scott. 110
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Today I found out that almost everything I've done these last few months in my PhD was based on misunderstandings and is completely wrong, but somehow it didn't make me feel very bad because now I know what the right way is. Weird feeling. 010
Reposted by @yinyangmills.bsky.socialelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick 1743872327
Reposted by @yinyangmills.bsky.socialNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/06/2026This is absolutely deranged. He is promising genocide in Lebanon to ‘avenge’ the death of an illegally-invading soldier. 30676238
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The Epstein Axis relents, and cedes to Iran! Early rumors of Donald Trump being forcibly converted to Islam have been refuted, as Khamenei reportedly said "Allah will show him the way eventually". In His divine benevolence, He also relieved the US of the requirement to pay jizya. Alhamdulillah! 000
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Anyone read Hennaux-Teitelboim? Is it good? Any replacements? 010
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Today in Greek news: a priest was arrested for walking around with his dick hanging out. There was a debate on TV about whether or not he had an erection. 010
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Today I am trying to make my late grandma proud by making imam bayildi for the first time. Hope it turns out decent! 110
Reposted by @yinyangmills.bsky.social🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Russia kidnapped mathematician Mikhail Verbitsky from Armenia His lawyer is asking to make as much noise as possible 33726
Reposted by @yinyangmills.bsky.socialThe Intercept @theintercept.com · 14/06/2026With whole towns leveled by Israel, a quarter million Lebanese people may have lost the proof of who they are and what they own. interc.pt/4oqllCJ 27744
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I'm relistening to Selling England By The Pound by Genesis (1973) and I noticed something. The bit starting at around 1:20 in the first track sounds eerily modern, like some kind of low-fi hiphop beat. The rest is typical 70s prog but something odd happened there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oPA...youtube.comGenesis - Dancing With The Moonlight Knight (Official Audio)YouTube video by Genesis 010
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I will either find where I put the AC remote or die of a heatstroke, tune in to see which happens first. 110
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Someone pls help me care about quantum computation and quantum networks. There's a good chance I will need to pivot there if I want to have a Job ™️ but for whatever reason I find it hard to care about as a field from what I've seen so far. 000
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 08/06/2026After Shostakovich, someone is now also stenciling Eric Satie. I have to get to the bottom of this. 010
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 27/05/2026What was it with ancient people and eunuchs? Why is it that every ancient king liked to have as many dudes with snipped off genitals around him as possible, and why did it happen in so many cultures around the world? 000
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 23/05/2026The more that I think about it the more it seems like humanity has been seeing diminishing returns from technological advancement. Most advances are oriented towards consumer products that could disappear tomorrow and we'd get over it in a month or less. 110
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I love how much of statistical physics research is just "I decided this theory is actually the same as this other theory because I kinda know what to do with that other theory, and you can't make me stop". 010
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Today I found out my surname is an anagram of "topophilic hour loss". I think this is supposed to mean I'm wasting my time studying topology. 010
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 03/05/2026English had a vowel shift, which is why English spelling is so inconsistent. Greek also had a vowel shift (and more) but such that the same letters always make the new sound, so no inconsistency in reading words, just spelling them. Why? @dannybate.bsky.social @yvanspijk.bsky.social 220
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Remember 10-15 years ago when boomers and gen X were calling millennials entitled, lazy and socially inept? Basically the EXACT same shit that millennials now say about gen Z, but everyone pretends like this is a new thing... 110
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I'm trying to figure out why someone has stenciled Shostakovich everywhere around a neighborhood in Athens and why. I didn't expect that he would have this kind of a fan club lol 020
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Americans are NOT prepared for how much everyone will make fun of them for years to come about Iran. 000
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 24/03/2026The Cuban power grid didn't "collapse". It was MADE to collapse by the US blockade. 90% of Cuba's ills are the fault of the United States. There's just no way around the fact that this is criminal, and it's also not a new thing. It's been ongoing for decades, it's simply much worse now. 110
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Disgusting times we live in. I'm posting this because I'm expecting the "but Iran gave us no choice, they wouldn't yield" (as if countries are always supposed to yield to the US and Israel) crowd to start singing their tune any minute now. 020
Reposted by @yinyangmills.bsky.socialAkela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026NEW POD 🎧: Cuba is spiraling into a humanitarian crisis. Trump has kept the Caribbean in his crosshairs, kidnapped the Venezuelan president & executed >140 people in boat strikes — what does he want with Cuba? W/ @mjbusta.bsky.social & @andrespertierra.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comWhat Does the Trump Administration Want With Cuba?Podcast Episode · The Intercept Briefing · February 20 · 59m 22519
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I'm not seeing a lot of discussion on Cuba. The US is imposing unprecedented, genocidal sanctions on them by threatening to tariff everyone who gives them any oil. Without any oil you can't do anything, you can't even run vehicles which transport basic goods. It is simply genocidal. 100
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 11/02/2026The (entirely uninteresting) Superbowl saga has led me to the realization that most Americans and most native English speakers in general never listen to music with lyrics in a foreign language. It never struck me until now. 000
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Virgin MIT Opencoureware intro: Blah blah creative commons please give us money uwu Chad IHES intro: Bangs out some Beethoven Grosse Fuge like the universe's most terrible secrets are about to be revealed, only for you to be killed shortly thereafter because you can't handle the responsibility. 000
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Some people insist there is no choice but to jump on the AI train, or else be left behind. But it feels more and more like they only care about how fast their train is, not where it's going. Are you moving faster towards the same goal, or did you just take off to somewhere else? 000
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Today I learned that one of the earliest possibly state level societies in China was Erligang, but Erlitou was early too (actually even erlier). 110
yinyangmills.bsky.social @yinyangmills.bsky.social · 14/11/2025All these years studying physics and I still don't know wtf is up with the Carnot engine. It's a very confusing concept, makes me think it's not the best idea to teach it in schools. 040