Alexander Wilson
@alxndrwlsn.bsky.social
Philosophy of science, technology, and aesthetics. Author of Aesthesis and Perceptronium. Former academic. Electronic music, media art, film and theatre background. Designer of off grid cybernetics. Student of mathematics.
Full nation wide power outage in Portugal and Spain. Parts of France too, reports of Italy and elsewhere affected. It's nice to be off-grid.
April 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Full nation wide power outage in Portugal and Spain. Parts of France too, reports of Italy and elsewhere affected. It's nice to be off-grid.
It's like this and like that and like this, not like this or like that or like this.
April 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It's like this and like that and like this, not like this or like that or like this.
Though I appreciate the sentiment, unfortunately the angle of Musk's Nazi salute likely corresponds to the supremum of the first derivative of the curve, not the tangent at some arbitrary point, which means it controls the volatility of the stock rather than its overall gain/loss over that interval.
March 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Though I appreciate the sentiment, unfortunately the angle of Musk's Nazi salute likely corresponds to the supremum of the first derivative of the curve, not the tangent at some arbitrary point, which means it controls the volatility of the stock rather than its overall gain/loss over that interval.
To learn is to repeat and to know is to repeat toward some limit. Knowledge is in the limit, and we know only as long as we repeat.
March 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
To learn is to repeat and to know is to repeat toward some limit. Knowledge is in the limit, and we know only as long as we repeat.
Sometimes people say that nature is logical. Nature is not logical. Logic is the interface between nature and it's observation, between what is and what is known of what is.
February 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Sometimes people say that nature is logical. Nature is not logical. Logic is the interface between nature and it's observation, between what is and what is known of what is.
Remember when Musk used to say things like he wanted to save the knowledge from the potential a dark age?
February 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Remember when Musk used to say things like he wanted to save the knowledge from the potential a dark age?
Is science our only redeeming quality?
February 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Is science our only redeeming quality?
What in calculus irks me probably has something to do with its historical connection with the study of movement, change, and therefore it's relation to time. For this reason, it immediately feels superficial, and I think this plays into my uneasy aesthetic relation to it.
February 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
What in calculus irks me probably has something to do with its historical connection with the study of movement, change, and therefore it's relation to time. For this reason, it immediately feels superficial, and I think this plays into my uneasy aesthetic relation to it.
What is it about calculus that I find meh, while loving linear algebra? Why should there be an aesthetic preference for one kind of math over an other?
February 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
What is it about calculus that I find meh, while loving linear algebra? Why should there be an aesthetic preference for one kind of math over an other?
One habit to overcome in order to properly learn math after a humanities education is that of actually reading the book. Just skim the book. Focus on the exercises. It's all about the exercises.
February 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
One habit to overcome in order to properly learn math after a humanities education is that of actually reading the book. Just skim the book. Focus on the exercises. It's all about the exercises.
February 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
It is a converting of a static relation into a dynamic process.
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
It is a converting of a static relation into a dynamic process.
There is a category where this kind of breaking down of complex functions into more elementary functions works. The Closed Monoidal Category
February 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
There is a category where this kind of breaking down of complex functions into more elementary functions works. The Closed Monoidal Category
Frege-schönfinkel-haskell-curry: multi argument functions can be broken down into a series of single argument functions.
February 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Frege-schönfinkel-haskell-curry: multi argument functions can be broken down into a series of single argument functions.
Say the universe at base just oscillates or iterates through its degrees of freedom. The progressive occupation of a dimension with more and more states to iterate through would imply that it takes more steps, more moves, to get through all of them.
January 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Say the universe at base just oscillates or iterates through its degrees of freedom. The progressive occupation of a dimension with more and more states to iterate through would imply that it takes more steps, more moves, to get through all of them.
Maybe the size of the dimension is a consequence of how biology is a succession of nested structures of antientropic delay.
January 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Maybe the size of the dimension is a consequence of how biology is a succession of nested structures of antientropic delay.
I sometimes wonder if the reason why the three dimensions of space we live in are so "big" relative to all the other dimensions is that, by inhabiting these dimensions, our ancestors progressively complexified and elongated the paths that traverse them.
January 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I sometimes wonder if the reason why the three dimensions of space we live in are so "big" relative to all the other dimensions is that, by inhabiting these dimensions, our ancestors progressively complexified and elongated the paths that traverse them.
Shut up and don't just calculate: figure out the concepts, the programs, then make a machine do the calculations.
January 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Shut up and don't just calculate: figure out the concepts, the programs, then make a machine do the calculations.
Stop having opinions. Just do math.
January 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Stop having opinions. Just do math.
What keeps Musk wanting more power? I mean what's the point? Richest person in the world. Basically also already most powerful person in the world. Shouldn't the next course of action not just be to curl up in a corner and die, satisfied with his accomplishments?
January 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
What keeps Musk wanting more power? I mean what's the point? Richest person in the world. Basically also already most powerful person in the world. Shouldn't the next course of action not just be to curl up in a corner and die, satisfied with his accomplishments?
Reposted by Alexander Wilson
"Management is worried about justifying the massive cost of GenAI org. How would they face the leadership when every single ‘leader’ of GenAI org is making more than what it cost to train DeepSeek V3 entirely, and we have dozens of such ‘leaders.'"
Meta AI in panic mode as free open-source DeepSeek gains traction and outperforms for far less
techstartups.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"Management is worried about justifying the massive cost of GenAI org. How would they face the leadership when every single ‘leader’ of GenAI org is making more than what it cost to train DeepSeek V3 entirely, and we have dozens of such ‘leaders.'"
DeepSeek is so good guys. Open source, trained with old GPUs for 5.5 million USD. And just as good if not better than the ones trained by the tech bro billionaire corps using gazillions of dollars and electricity and water to do so.
January 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
DeepSeek is so good guys. Open source, trained with old GPUs for 5.5 million USD. And just as good if not better than the ones trained by the tech bro billionaire corps using gazillions of dollars and electricity and water to do so.
Obviously this is just a matter of notational preference, and hence perhaps more of a question about writing: does writing go up or down, forward or backward in time?
January 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Obviously this is just a matter of notational preference, and hence perhaps more of a question about writing: does writing go up or down, forward or backward in time?
In categorical quantum physics, there are some who prefer the directed graphes and string diagrams to show time moding from the top down, and those who prefer from bottom to top. Does time go up or down?
January 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
In categorical quantum physics, there are some who prefer the directed graphes and string diagrams to show time moding from the top down, and those who prefer from bottom to top. Does time go up or down?
You opened my eyes to art and to what movies could be. You are incomparable. Congratulations on your life.
January 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
You opened my eyes to art and to what movies could be. You are incomparable. Congratulations on your life.