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Written by Vince Vatter on 2025-01-22 at 17:58

Contrapositives are for cowards. Behold.

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2025-01-21 at 21:04

Contrapositives are for cowards. Instead of saying, "if you do your share of the dishes, we'll have a clean kitchen", they skulk around leaving sticky notes like "if the kitchen's messy, someone didn't do their share." Logically equivalent, but completely lacking in courage.

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-12-16 at 18:44

"I decided to roll out my own LLM benchmark: how well can different models render an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle?"

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/25/pelicans-on-a-bicycle/

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-12-13 at 23:16

unfortunately the price was determined using new math so I didn’t buy it

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-11-14 at 17:02

why the romans never invented algebra

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-11-09 at 18:41

what % of the population can enter their birthdate in this format?

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-10-30 at 12:02

this is not how temperatures work

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-10-21 at 02:40

My 6-yo daughter has got into running, which is great, but she thinks miles are a unit of revolutions. Like, 4 laps around ANYTHING is a mile to her. "Daddy can I just run a short mile?" This is almost as bad as George Lucas and his "parsecs".

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-10-19 at 23:44

uhh all of the above

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-10-07 at 18:42

I think this might be the worst proof I've ever read.

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-09-19 at 18:03

I wrote about Jackson and Richmond's supposed "proof" of the Four Color Theorem for Cantor's Paradise on Medium, giving a bit of the social media history of the "proof" and pointing out the fatal flaw.

https://www.cantorsparadise.com/on-the-supposed-nonconstructive-proof-of-the-four-color-theorem-5049e3eee366

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-08-08 at 13:20

The correct answer was eventually reached.

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-06-04 at 00:08

mistral's digit tokenization makes me question reality

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-05-15 at 20:37

ChatGPT-4o does surprisingly poorly on MNIST.

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-03-28 at 20:37

the elites don't want you to know this but

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-03-25 at 13:36

91th anniversary chalk service, maybe^^, until December 2023, or something, I have no idea.

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-03-22 at 17:29

In the abstract of all places!!

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2024-03-15 at 14:05

I wonder if this is one of my students.

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Written by Vince Vatter on 2023-11-02 at 12:14

We should do this in math. Who wants to start "Theorem Names for Theorems" with me?

Context: The group "Bird Names for Birds" has convinced the American Ornithological Society to change the names of all bird species currently named after people.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1209660753/these-american-birds-and-dozens-more-will-be-renamed-to-remove-human-monikers

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