I know Parenti’s not a fan of us anarchists but I’ll take it, I’m so sick of Chomsky 😮‍💨

Even before this Epstein shit, I knew he had severe liberal tendencies (yes even from an anarchist position) and yeah honestly he became a court jester for capitalism, but at least he has some good takes in his past. Like at a bare minimum he had Manufacturing Consent.

Unironically if you have an alternative recommendation for Manufacturing Consent that doesn’t have his prints on it, I’d love to see it because I’m so tired having to cite this fucking clown 😮‍💨

The author suggests a pivot to Alexandre Grothendieck’s Topos theory, which provides a mathematical framework for understanding geometric forms and preserving the deep structure of data rather than just its statistical number crunching.

There’s this four-volume book that I’ve been meaning to finish reading called The Topos of Music by Mazzola. My (extremely loose) understanding is that it basically applies Grothendieck’s theory to come up with a topos theory for gestures in music. This ‘geometry of concepts’ idea is basically the justification for the framework in The Topos of Music.

So it’s absolutely not surprising (at least to me) to see topoi pop up in AI.

See I’m an engineering major but on opposite day, like all the time. I’m unironically like “please I beg you just let me do more integrals, I don’t wanna build the prototype, I just want to do all the math to control it.” So whenever it’s just more integrals I’m like “Finally some fucking good food” 😆

Good news!

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Is there like some dark implication to this story that I’m missing? Because I really want this to just be a happy story about a cute baby seal showing up in an unexpected place, but I’ve been burned so many times by “cute animal stories” where it’s like “actually this implies that something terrible happened/is going to happen to this animal”.

Ah. Thank you for clarifying ❤️

Sorry but I am completely 1000% confused about what you’re trying to say and the sincerity/sarcasm of this post. I’m autistic and my social battery is drained today, so I’m really not able to read through the irony if it’s there.

For what it’s worth: I’m not sure that I really want the Democrats and Republicans to learn to “compromise” because, as history has shown, they’ll compromise with each other to ratfuck anarchists, leftists, and the working class all day every day. And since both parties are liberal parties, and liberals basically exist to provide a palatable pressure valve for the capitalist class to stifle radical movements…I’m not interested in compromising with them either. Like I don’t want to compromise with liberals, I want liberals to stop being liberals.

Yup, whenever I can!

Thanks. It’s a reference to this guitar speaker, which has ended up on a bunch of metal recordings. Ironically, it’s very “not vintage” sounding, very modern and mids-heavy. 🤘😈🤘

Like literally unlicensed literal dentistry? Sorry if I’m being naive but my social battery is drained today.

To whomever created this: it would have cost you zero dollars to not bring this abomination into the world 😆

alternative lifestyle things

Can you elaborate? I’m autistic and not getting the euphemism. DMs are open if it’s too dark for Hexbear 😣

Okay here are the 🫘:

Wavelets:

So the best way to begin explaining wavelets is through analogy to music. (I’m cheating a bit since this explanation is alluded to in the article 😆)

It is a nontrivial practical fact that you can express any reasonable sound as a sum of sine waves. Yes, by combining enough sine waves (which individually “move” for all time) in just the right weights, you can come up with “any” sound you want (edit: including sounds that “start” and “end”. Isn’t that wild?). And then, it turns out that if you give me just the weights, I can give you back the sound itself. And as a final physical fact, it turns out that we hear the weights of any given sound, averaged over some finite window of time (more on this window in a minute). Hence why we can pick out instruments from a band. And lastly, some phenomenon are easier to analyze by looking at the weights; music is an excellent example. In fact, when I mix music in my rapidly diminishing free time, I am often staring at a graph of the weights and seeing this these weights add together and make the instruments work together.

Formally, we use one of the Fourier transform frameworks. Each weight is associated to one unique sine with a given frequency. The size of the weight is called the frequency response at that frequency.

Now for many, many purposes, breaking up a signal in terms of sines is a perfectly appropriate choice. However, what you lose when you choose to look at just the weights is all timing information. (This is why I included the detail about the window in how you hear stuff. If you heard all frequencies over all time with no window, you would not be able to perceive rhythm.) The solution in music often is to simply impose a window on the signal and slide it as the play head moves.

However, we must now leave the realm of music to talk about wavelets in a domain where they are typically used. Now imagine you want to apply all your intuition about music [more accurately, theory of sound, not music theory] to seismic signals. Well… unfortunately, we really do care about the timing of these signals. So instead of ditching all the magical techniques of linear algebra and transform analysis, we can pick a new set of waves and decompose in terms of those. I.e., we use a transform “midway” between the Fourier transform and the identity transform (doing nothing, just working with the raw signal).

One way to do this is to start with a wavelet: any waveform with zero average and finite “length”. Then, you take this mother wavelet, and you create child wavelets by stretching and/or shifting the mother wavelet. Then, you break up your signals in terms of the wavelets. (I think you pick wavelets based on what you want to find. For example, if you want to find sharp changes, you can pick a Haar wavelet, which is basically a family of rectangles. And then, you can pick wavelets based on their statistics so that the variances and higher order statistics vanish.)

My favorite book on Wavelets, and one of my personal favorite books, is A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing: The Sparse Way by Mallat. It’s a bit mathematically challenging, but it’s such a fun read. One of the few books I actually own in print. And it’s one those cool fields in math where you basically just start with like pure math and end up with some incredibly practical results and algorithms.

Research:

My background is in control theory. I work on analyzing dynamical systems, specifically large-scale, complicated (typically people use the word “complex”, but I really mean complicated, because all the systems I work on evolve in real spaces) systems that evolve in time according to differential equations (e.g. electronic circuits, mechanical systems, power systems) or difference equations (e.g. sampled versions of the above). The goal of my research is to make just enough assumptions and prove it using calculus so future generations don’t have to do so much calculus…because you have to do so much calculus that not even a supercomputer can solve it.

PM me for more details since I’m not quite ready to dox myself 😆

Goddammit now I want to talk about wavelets and my research 😆

Does anyone really need to live? What you need is to be producing value for your company!

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• Electrically valid - All components connected to a shared net; the PCB could be sent to a fab house (it just wouldn’t do anything useful)

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Okay Pooh, based answer but this isn’t World History homework, this is English homework, so I actually need you to spell “murderer” specifically please

Badges of fucking honor 🫡

Yeah, definitely exciting news even if the empirical result was incrementally better, because it demonstrates that the new framework recovers SOTA performance. Sounds like this framework might be helpful for analyzing and controlling dynamical systems, e.g. wrapping a system with a NL network that continuously improves as the system evolves. But I’m a dynamical systems guy so I’m gonna be a bit biased 😆