Barton Rhodes 🕹️

would Urs Schreiber quantum monadology / topological quantum compilation count? under some diagrammatic rewriting models, the diagram itself is the simulation of a kind... or perhaps some open-ended world model learner that uses ZX Diagrams for its world? arxiv.org/abs/2201.132...

guess what

"many exceptional math students without mentors ... could be reached with modest investments" Nice to see this coming out of Stanford, building on the Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) that Pat Suppes initiated at Stanford in the early 1990s

#atproto devs! have two new specification drafts up. first is "Data Synchronization", covering the firehose: github.com/bluesky-soci... second is "Account Hosting", covering account migration and lifecycle: github.com/bluesky-soci...

Mathematical Picture Language Seminar *slaps* ✨ mathpicture.fas.harvard.edu/seminar

🔍💡 da mo' u know, da mo' u reawize u don't know... but wot if u coud weave da not-knowin' behind? 🌌👽

Neural networks, seen as processes, have 3 distinct properties. They are: * parametric * bidirectional * defined functorially by differentiation Using the category Poly to model them blends these distinctions. I'm still trying to decide whether that's a good or a bad thing.

Off to a terrific start: attended some terrific talks, managed to give my own (!), and saw many very interesting topics on display at the poster session. All augurs extremely well for the week to come!

I pointed him to the clock to show it's not dinner time yet, but he doesn't believe in clocks.

Our new paper in PhysRevX at @apsphysics.bsky.social uses replica theory, cavity method, supersymmetry, Kac-Rice formula, Dyson's Brownian motion & high dimensional geometry to show how an Ising machine of coupled photons finds near spin glass ground states journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...

#20,169!

Just out "Robustness and complexity of directed and weighted metabolic hypergraphs" (arxiv.org/abs/2310.03623). We propose a new hypergraph-based representation of metabolic networks that captures HOI among metabolites and reactions, preserving all essential information.

Thursday! What a concept!

Quanta Magazine on the telescope conjecture: www.quantamagazine.org/an-old-conje... Or, as I like to call it, the “telescopes are not kaleidoscopes” theorem. It’s an exciting time to be a homotopy theorist!

beware ______

catch it live! 🪺 https://www.youtube.com/live/lA19zXgObKA?feature=share

gm 🌤️ squadsquad even haters* https://youtu.be/7ncpV05iHAk https://music.apple.com/us/album/at-dawn/1689221748?i=1689221752

https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01h74ex3tmchnafk311878advd

halp! my smart meter keeps saying "2nd husband material" 💥

centipedes? in _my_ hypergraph?! > it's more likely than you think! 😅

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cultivating agency

https://hf.co/tasks and chill 🙃

token representation BF, token representation BF

abductive reasoning or *abducktive* reasoning, amirite? 🦆 #SAT #SMT

New paper about participatory disinformation around the 2020 US election, improvisation, and online influencers. Teaser: maybe you’ve read the recent articles about the multi-dimensional harassment my colleagues and I have been receiving… here’s some of the research inspiring that harassment.

https://youtube.com/shorts/wjt6B5UbN54?feature=share

Today we normally use ACLs to handle authorization. But what if we got rid of the authorization server entirely? What if the user acted as their own auth server? Learn how UCANs make decentralized auth possible: https://fission.codes/blog/ipfs-thing-2023-ucan-decentralize-auth/

first - they laugh at you. then, no one is laughing. 😶 Erlangen Program for Geometric DL almost there!

the electric falcon soars ⚡️ accept the tithe, marvel at its simplicity!

got distracted by this open feedback loop and now it's already time to go to the #3 SF event! *sigh* gtfo.fun

Does your Markov blanket come with Markov smallpox, fellow systems enthusiast? 🫵👀🐛🦋

Dynamic. Organizational. Systems. 🧚🫃🏻

PaLM 2 uses “Compute-optimal scaling”, that's how. Google had previously disclosed that “this new technique makes PaLM 2 smaller than PaLM, but more efficient with overall better performance, including faster inference, fewer parameters to serve, and a lower serving cost.”

did you know they let me on NPR’s All Things Considered to talk about drones in Ukraine recently https://www.npr.org/2023/03/21/1164977056/a-chinese-drone-for-hobbyists-plays-a-crucial-role-in-the-russia-ukraine-war

going 1 excited to announce that my company will be progressively decentralizing and transforming into a swarm of agencies for all current employees to now inhabit via LLCs (https://wrappr.wtf) or non-profit / NGO (https://opencollective.com) AAMA (Ask Almost Me Anything): https://poe.com/bartonus

surreal Dali-esque scene of intertwined braided parametric oscillators with chaotic patterns against a backdrop of ignored differential overlap, surrounded by giant clock gears warping and melting, a twisted play of lines and shapes, bold colors

gm Saturday bsky, what did I miss? 🤸🏻‍♂️ https://youtu.be/eCUvGIsadU4

gm gm ⚡️🦾

tiny worlds

creepy and hilarious scene of a quirky tendril, tendrils sprouting googly eyes and cartoon beaks, occasionally honking, in a Tim Burton-inspired style, watercolor, odd, quirky, surreal, vivid chiaroscuro, bold colors, melting

anatomy of the shitpost what would a bounty to get Hinton on Bluesky be worth?

fantastical, dreamlike landscape where Salvador Dali's melting clocks meet the imaginative world of Dr. Seuss, featuring a whimsical telescope observing abstract planets, swirling shapes, and symbols hinting at hidden meanings in vibrant, mixed-media colors, fluid and playful