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shiz @shirazkn.bsky.social · 13h

But hey a lot of programming languages use a generic ‘end’ keyword so 🤷‍♂️

shiz @shirazkn.bsky.social · 13h

You may be right. I still feel that having to keep track of which environment you’re ending may be a ‘feature not a bug’. I’m thinking of the times when programming in Python I have something like a((. , (b(. , .), .)) and a misplaced ) isn’t immediately reflected in the error message

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shiz @shirazkn.bsky.social · 14h

This would be harder to read unless you indent your latex code properly (which we obviously do not do). I imagine it would also be harder to debug? If you end the wrong environment IIRC latex says something like “\begin{foo} ended with \end{bar}”

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shiz @shirazkn.bsky.social · 20h

That sounds awesome! My own research led me to diffusion MRI one afternoon some months ago. In it they model the diffusivity of water(?) in brain tissue as a tensor field, and then try to learn that tensor field using MRI, which then tells them something about the tissue structure idk

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shiz @shirazkn.bsky.social · 20h

Idk what either of those areas of math are tbh, but blow-ups kind of sounds like how in classical mechanics you solve problems involving smooth submanifolds on the tangent/cotangent bundle of a manifold, rather than on the manifold itself. Like finding geodesics or minimal surfaces

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shiz @shirazkn.bsky.social · 21h

It is unqeuivocally shameful to be using an LLM for something search engines have been good at for what, 20 years now? Even the few use-cases of LLMs that I am empathetic towards (like code-completion, literature review) seem to degrade one's ability to think independently and systematically

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shiz @shirazkn.bsky.social · 21h

What do engineers do with *checks notes* toric varieties? Wait I guess you never found out

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

‘96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children’s anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation after the children played with the set.‘

‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’

Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 1d

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment

Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.

www.cnbc.com

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shiz @shirazkn.bsky.social · 1d

Spent a lot of time today playing around with @diffgeom.com's incredible math visualizations www.diffgeom.org/software/ind...

My favorite was the Torus Sketch! Makes me wanna learn Javascript

Andrew D. Hwang: Interactive Math Software

www.diffgeom.org

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shiz @shirazkn.bsky.social · 1d

They call it a window because it keeps the wind owt

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shiz @shirazkn.bsky.social · 2d

The only acceptable reason

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shiz @shirazkn.bsky.social · 2d

I MEAN..

a person is riding a skateboard on a ramp in the dark

ALT: a person is riding a skateboard on a ramp in the dark

media.tenor.com

shiz @shirazkn.bsky.social · 2d

@skatestory.com is just incredible on all counts. Dude has been developing it for as long as EA has been developing their silly fortnite reskin

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shiz @shirazkn.bsky.social · 2d

-Kurt Gödel in 1929