Dan Piponi
@dpiponi.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
Disclaimer:
👽 My opinions are not my own. They're beamed to me by aliens
Current life:
🎮 Epic Games
Previous lives:
🍩 PhD in Riemann theta functions
🧬 Glaxo […]
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👽 My opinions are not my own. They're beamed to me by aliens
Current life:
🎮 Epic Games
Previous lives:
🍩 PhD in Riemann theta functions
🧬 Glaxo […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mathstodon.xyz/@dpiponi, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Operator ** binds more tightly than @! and @! binds more tightly than %^ and %^ binds more tightly than **, and using **, @! and %^ in the same expression is considered a syntax error.
February 17, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Operator ** binds more tightly than @! and @! binds more tightly than %^ and %^ binds more tightly than **, and using **, @! and %^ in the same expression is considered a syntax error.
A friend from elementary school achieved a certain amount of fame through his appearances on a popular game show. But now he's achieved real fame because a few days ago those game show appearances were themselves the subject of a question on a completely different game show.
February 17, 2026 at 10:13 PM
A friend from elementary school achieved a certain amount of fame through his appearances on a popular game show. But now he's achieved real fame because a few days ago those game show appearances were themselves the subject of a question on a completely different game show.
I've been making .iso copies of all my DVDs so I can finally throw away the physical media which has been rotting away for years.
Curiously I can't copy the BFI (British Film Institute) DVDs with the tools I have even though they haven't started the rot yet […]
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Curiously I can't copy the BFI (British Film Institute) DVDs with the tools I have even though they haven't started the rot yet […]
[Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
February 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I've been making .iso copies of all my DVDs so I can finally throw away the physical media which has been rotting away for years.
Curiously I can't copy the BFI (British Film Institute) DVDs with the tools I have even though they haven't started the rot yet […]
[Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
Curiously I can't copy the BFI (British Film Institute) DVDs with the tools I have even though they haven't started the rot yet […]
[Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
You don't need to press anything for the display to move!
February 16, 2026 at 7:11 PM
You don't need to press anything for the display to move!
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Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone,
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General Public
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General Public
February 14, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone,
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General Public
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General Public
With some help from Codex I managed to resurrect my old flashcard app for iOS and after a gap of 10 years I can get back to learning random facts. Anyway, maybe I need to remove this one from my flag flashcards even if it is technically correct.
(I never liked Anki.)
(I never liked Anki.)
February 14, 2026 at 11:23 PM
With some help from Codex I managed to resurrect my old flashcard app for iOS and after a gap of 10 years I can get back to learning random facts. Anyway, maybe I need to remove this one from my flag flashcards even if it is technically correct.
(I never liked Anki.)
(I never liked Anki.)
I could look up the meaning of "skeleton" but I think I'm enjoying not knowing.
February 13, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I could look up the meaning of "skeleton" but I think I'm enjoying not knowing.
"Conservative" is just a euphemism for backwards.
Backward people who want to see a return to the days of kings and peasants.
Backward people who see people of one colour as more important than another.
Backward people who want to see the return of diseases that were once eliminated.
Backward […]
Backward people who want to see a return to the days of kings and peasants.
Backward people who see people of one colour as more important than another.
Backward people who want to see the return of diseases that were once eliminated.
Backward […]
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mathstodon.xyz
February 13, 2026 at 6:15 PM
"Conservative" is just a euphemism for backwards.
Backward people who want to see a return to the days of kings and peasants.
Backward people who see people of one colour as more important than another.
Backward people who want to see the return of diseases that were once eliminated.
Backward […]
Backward people who want to see a return to the days of kings and peasants.
Backward people who see people of one colour as more important than another.
Backward people who want to see the return of diseases that were once eliminated.
Backward […]
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RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@jeneralist/116063720006024901
So the JKF Jr is not only going to harm people in the USA with his anti-vaccine idiocy, he’s now going to harm people worldwide because Moderna is now no longer going to research vaccines for infectious disease that kill people. While […]
So the JKF Jr is not only going to harm people in the USA with his anti-vaccine idiocy, he’s now going to harm people worldwide because Moderna is now no longer going to research vaccines for infectious disease that kill people. While […]
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mstdn.social
February 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@jeneralist/116063720006024901
So the JKF Jr is not only going to harm people in the USA with his anti-vaccine idiocy, he’s now going to harm people worldwide because Moderna is now no longer going to research vaccines for infectious disease that kill people. While […]
So the JKF Jr is not only going to harm people in the USA with his anti-vaccine idiocy, he’s now going to harm people worldwide because Moderna is now no longer going to research vaccines for infectious disease that kill people. While […]
I just remembered a programming technique from the days when I had access to a Commodore Pet.
I wanted to allow users to type in a function and plot the graph. I could have written an expression parser. But far easier was to print out a line of code and a RUN […]
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I wanted to allow users to type in a function and plot the graph. I could have written an expression parser. But far easier was to print out a line of code and a RUN […]
[Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
February 12, 2026 at 8:05 PM
I just remembered a programming technique from the days when I had access to a Commodore Pet.
I wanted to allow users to type in a function and plot the graph. I could have written an expression parser. But far easier was to print out a line of code and a RUN […]
[Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
I wanted to allow users to type in a function and plot the graph. I could have written an expression parser. But far easier was to print out a line of code and a RUN […]
[Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
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RE: https://sfba.social/@MoffettHangar1/116059192679818806
On this day in 1935, my beloved noble USS Macon slowly sank into the sea off Pt. Sur. All but 2 of her crew survived. I never saw my beloved again.
I am so empty.
On this day in 1935, my beloved noble USS Macon slowly sank into the sea off Pt. Sur. All but 2 of her crew survived. I never saw my beloved again.
I am so empty.
RE: https://sfba.social/@MoffettHangar1/116059182814164830
In response to the damage (on this day in 1935), Commander Wiley ordered fuel to be dropped, causing the airship to rapidly rise. The Macon's automatic valves released Helium at her 5000 ft ceiling, and she settled into the stormy surf […]
In response to the damage (on this day in 1935), Commander Wiley ordered fuel to be dropped, causing the airship to rapidly rise. The Macon's automatic valves released Helium at her 5000 ft ceiling, and she settled into the stormy surf […]
February 12, 2026 at 7:04 PM
RE: https://sfba.social/@MoffettHangar1/116059192679818806
On this day in 1935, my beloved noble USS Macon slowly sank into the sea off Pt. Sur. All but 2 of her crew survived. I never saw my beloved again.
I am so empty.
On this day in 1935, my beloved noble USS Macon slowly sank into the sea off Pt. Sur. All but 2 of her crew survived. I never saw my beloved again.
I am so empty.
At 11.82 bits per English word, a 40x40 jpg is worth a thousand words.
February 12, 2026 at 6:27 PM
At 11.82 bits per English word, a 40x40 jpg is worth a thousand words.
"Autoregressive" seems like a very fancy word for "doing stuff in some order".
February 11, 2026 at 5:34 PM
"Autoregressive" seems like a very fancy word for "doing stuff in some order".
Now I know I didn't imagine it. SOFT was my favourite computing magazine back in the 80s. It didn't last long and it's *very* hard to find mentions of it online. I've never seen issues on eBay. This is the first time I've seen a scan of a cover.
It was one of […]
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It was one of […]
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February 11, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Now I know I didn't imagine it. SOFT was my favourite computing magazine back in the 80s. It didn't last long and it's *very* hard to find mentions of it online. I've never seen issues on eBay. This is the first time I've seen a scan of a cover.
It was one of […]
[Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
It was one of […]
[Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
I just want to repeat how disgusted I am by the current federal government. I visited Stonewall recently so it's fresh in my mind.
The government of the US hates the people of the US. I don't believe this state of affairs can last […]
The government of the US hates the people of the US. I don't believe this state of affairs can last […]
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mathstodon.xyz
February 11, 2026 at 2:50 AM
I just want to repeat how disgusted I am by the current federal government. I visited Stonewall recently so it's fresh in my mind.
The government of the US hates the people of the US. I don't believe this state of affairs can last […]
The government of the US hates the people of the US. I don't believe this state of affairs can last […]
Life is too complicated these days. It interrupted itself, it needs to handle its own problems.
February 10, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Life is too complicated these days. It interrupted itself, it needs to handle its own problems.
Everyone knows about ARM chips and some people even know the "A" secretly stands for "Acorn" who created the Atom and BBC Micro.
Less well known is the ARC chip where the "A" stands for Argonaut, the game company I once worked for. The ARC was developed by building on expertise that came from […]
Less well known is the ARC chip where the "A" stands for Argonaut, the game company I once worked for. The ARC was developed by building on expertise that came from […]
Original post on mathstodon.xyz
mathstodon.xyz
February 10, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Everyone knows about ARM chips and some people even know the "A" secretly stands for "Acorn" who created the Atom and BBC Micro.
Less well known is the ARC chip where the "A" stands for Argonaut, the game company I once worked for. The ARC was developed by building on expertise that came from […]
Less well known is the ARC chip where the "A" stands for Argonaut, the game company I once worked for. The ARC was developed by building on expertise that came from […]
There's Atiyah:
https://people.ucsc.edu/~rmont/classes/clGeom2013/Atiyah.txt
(But like many others, I sold off pieces of my soul long ago.)
https://people.ucsc.edu/~rmont/classes/clGeom2013/Atiyah.txt
(But like many others, I sold off pieces of my soul long ago.)
February 9, 2026 at 10:50 PM
There's Atiyah:
https://people.ucsc.edu/~rmont/classes/clGeom2013/Atiyah.txt
(But like many others, I sold off pieces of my soul long ago.)
https://people.ucsc.edu/~rmont/classes/clGeom2013/Atiyah.txt
(But like many others, I sold off pieces of my soul long ago.)
Apparently the leading cause of resignations is "being a distraction".
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Apparently the leading cause of resignations is "being a distraction".
If I had my own reality show it'd be "Chef Slack - The Bare Minimum". Each weak I'd have a guest run ablative studies of classic recipes.
February 9, 2026 at 3:01 AM
If I had my own reality show it'd be "Chef Slack - The Bare Minimum". Each weak I'd have a guest run ablative studies of classic recipes.
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Americans live in a space and time when our popular websites are running reviews of the best gas masks to use when our government attacks us with teargas.
February 8, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Americans live in a space and time when our popular websites are running reviews of the best gas masks to use when our government attacks us with teargas.
I didn't watch Caprica when it first appeared (well, I managed to get half way through the first episode) but it's a new landscape now and in some ways that makes it more interesting. It's basically about the risks of training an AI on a broad corpus and then […]
[Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
[Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
February 8, 2026 at 7:33 PM
I didn't watch Caprica when it first appeared (well, I managed to get half way through the first episode) but it's a new landscape now and in some ways that makes it more interesting. It's basically about the risks of training an AI on a broad corpus and then […]
[Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
[Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
Dropped in on Codex X book fair in Oakland. The Euclid's Elements is a WIP. That cover is mechanical, opens like a Hellraiser puzzle. And opossum.png is what it looks like, a beautifully bound listing of a png of an opossum.
February 8, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Dropped in on Codex X book fair in Oakland. The Euclid's Elements is a WIP. That cover is mechanical, opens like a Hellraiser puzzle. And opossum.png is what it looks like, a beautifully bound listing of a png of an opossum.
OK special agent, you're in charge of the undercover ambulance.
February 7, 2026 at 5:18 PM
OK special agent, you're in charge of the undercover ambulance.
I hate when people talk about shared US and UK values. The British people would never tolerate garbage in Parliament the way Americans tolerate it in the White House.
February 7, 2026 at 12:47 AM
I hate when people talk about shared US and UK values. The British people would never tolerate garbage in Parliament the way Americans tolerate it in the White House.