Michael Kinyon

Why I'm never invited to parties: "Internal model? More like... infernal model, am I right?"

Why yes; LLMs have been writing posts for me; I've been using them for a couple of weeks; how could you tell?

Preparing talk slides. I haven't used this one in a while.

“This result is folklore” is just academic jargon for IYKYK

Juliet: Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say ‘Ay’, And I will take thy word; yet, if thou swear’st, Thou mayst prove false. Lean: Oh that's OK, I prove false all the time.

Trying to remind my coauthors as gently as possible of the old saying: a paper that claims to have ten main results doesn't have any main results.

"The Machine develops - but not on our lies. The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die.” ― E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops

I hate it when my fellow academics talk like this to bright, eager students and actually mean it

Claude prompt: You know what I want and I'll split the million bucks with you if you do it.

One of those days when I wish my brain had more than one core

"The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning." -- Thomas Hobbes, _Leviathan_, 1651

Starting every prompt with "correct me if I'm wrong, but..." but I'm never wrong

I'm so glad Claude can work on research-level mathematics for me, freeing up my time to do more important things like cleaning the toilets.

If someone tells you they are "architecting" something, you should be legally allowed to hit them in the face with a banana cream pie. I can't imagine this opinion being controversial.

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My new favorite way of doing research-level mathematics is clicking the Continue button every once in a while.

The only downside to an LLM proving/disproving a well-known conjecture is the inevitable flood of hot takes on its significance.

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The best part of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey was when he said "IT'S CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S THE ODYSSEY TIME" and then christopher nolan's the odysseyed all over those guys

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As a well known and respected social media strategist, I will now reveal the secret of going viral on Bluesky: make a niche joke about Overleaf.

Inserting a comma and then removing it again on all my projects so that when my collaborators log in to Overleaf and see the "Last modified" column, they'll think I've been hard at work.

I asked Gemini if it's more accurate to say that LLM's are sycophantic or obsequious, and it said that was one of the best questions it had ever been asked.

I'm so sad (dicing onions)

thank god for the JUMP TO RECIPE button

Ah, July 7. The day all the stores start decorating for Christmas. (Actually, Back-to-School, but in either case, it's too early.)

Told my wife I couldn't talk to her anymore because she had reached her daily token limit. She did not take it well.

celestial seal. sealestial? celestseal? universeal. a starbor(harbor) seal. ✎: gouache and colored pencil on paper

Twisting and Bitturning ✎: brush pen and colored pencil

Henry Mancini

altruistic guy using a million tokens in one go to ask an LLM to solve the extreme heat problem

When I decide to think about nonabelian simple groups.

Rippled rabbit reflection & forlorn frog ✎: acrylic paint and colored pencil

You've lynrded your last skynrd

Reorganizing my phone app icons instead of getting any actual work done. For something like the thousandth time.

I seem to be in the weights. Mistral 3.2 hallucinated that I am a former Republican mayor of Provo, Utah.

For the mathematical estimation of magnitude, there is… no greatest (for the power of numbers goes to infinity. -- Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, section 26 Thus the system W of all ordinal numbers is an inconsistent, absolutely infinite multiplicity. -- Georg Cantor, Letter to Dedekind, 1899

Still waiting for the day some instance of Claude starts singing the "Manchester England England" song from _Hair_.

A quasigroup is an object that transforms like a quasigroup.

For one of my best results, replace "several months" with "a decade".

Too real theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

"If you don't behave, I'm going to turn this car and everything else around." -- co-Dad

CB radio

ABD Who

"You have hit upon the exact seam where formalized literature ends and pure abstract algebra begins." -- Gemini, making no sense whatsoever