Y'know, when I signed up for this back in June I had grand plans for some grand writeup on the domestically produced unmagnified gunsights of Cuba. I had collected images and info and sources but I lost sight of it as life stuff happened and my time for the trans mega snuck up on me.
Que sera sera.
Anyways, today felt like the first whisper (you have no idea how hard I just thought about the ideal word for this metaphor) of autumn and that put me in the mood for one of my favorite autumnal albums. More Constant Than the Gods by SubRosa is a really lovely doom? sludge? metal album. I like how big it sounds. The lead vocalist is a really talented lady, and its got violins, also the lyrics talk about dying and stuff and I'm into that. Its very fall-y to me, as is Standard Time Volume 1 by Wynton Marsalis, but for extremely different reasons.
The funny thing is that, like the poster of the previous mega it is also my 5th transiversary, I started HRT half a decade ago today (ok technically it was the 17th but I'm gonna count it since thats when I started writing this). Now, I don't think that taking HRT was what made me "officially trans", rather it was the degree of self acceptance required to get to that point. It's a long story, and one I prefer to share privately, but it took a very, very long time before my fear and desperation gave me the strength to allow myself to have this. I think it all turned out pretty well, I experience existence in much higher fidelity, I'm this whole person, along with everything that entails.
I feel very blessed to be transgender.
I hope you all stay safe and have a good, or atleast tolerable week.
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Category theory is complete insanity. It's diagrams and words look like they were made by madmen. Yes, this is a real page on wikipedia:
They had to add an "intuition" section for legal liability purposes.
"No your honor, there was an intuition section so the reader could have chosen to not have an aneurysm and their death from the brain hemorrhaging was on them"
If you are wondering how I got to this page, it is because I am trying to do economic simulations.
Yeah..... Category theory has the reputation it does for a reason lol. It's soooo pretty tho
What I mean by pretty is that it's elegant enough to treat pretty much any mathematical object as composed of the same stuff as all other mathematical objects.
It allows you do do things exactly like what you posted: take a thing that makes sense in some very specific circumstances and make sense of it in places where it shouldn't make any sense.
Theres Busy Beaver theory. Theres a finite number of states for a busy beaver machine to take such that we can check if a given statement is false - goldbach was 25 states, I think. If you design a busy beaver with 25 states the right way and it halts, then Goldbach is true. Same for Reimann, theres some number of states (it was 600 or something like that) that we can check if one of the right ones halts then Riemann is true. Technically you can win $1 million for the right busy beaver, there's a bunch of open millennium prize problems that could be solved using this busy beaver technique. The downside is the number of busy beavers explodes way faster than exponentially as the number of states increase - but still, you just gotta find ONE. I guess for goldbach and riemann, if you find ONE conterexample number you also win a million dollars and probably eternal fame for shortest proof but most impact
I like to imagine someone publishes a paper entitled "Counterexample to the Riemann Hypothesis" and the entire paper is nothing but a single complex number