broke: ())))( is a palindrome woke: the opposite of ‘inside out’ is ‘outside out’ bespoke:

Outside In

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everybody's got one these days, i know - but now i do too and i hope you'll check it out. i'm going to use it as i work towards completing my book on Big Brain ideas in biology, and i continue my work as Varela's #1 Fan it's free fvfc.substack.com/p/hi-there

Hi there

on joining the fan club

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pragmatists: truth is when our activities cohere to bring about outcomes in some systematic, repeatable form other philosophers : wow no, that is dangerously stupid, truth is when some abstract relation holds with Metaphysical Reality

your personal site could look like this: davidcarchedi.com

there are certain technologies where they will change how you think in a profound way, books are one, in mathematics, an interactive theorem prover is another, I have tried them extensively but I have not found llms to be one, and it leads me to strongly doubt the vision of personalized tutors

@boarders.bsky.social · 4d ago

that is to say: I wouldn’t say it is clear-cut even in the areas that these systems currently accelerate that it necessarily points to a timeline of total outclassing of humans in the domains, personally I have tried them extensively as tutors and books are still way way better

🌶️ "Why Rocq is better than Lean for program verification": A write-up on why I don't give in to the hype and switch to Lean for formal verification of programs. joomy.korkutblech.com/posts/2026-0...

Why Rocq is better than Lean for program verification

A write-up on why I don't give in to the hype and switch to Lean for formal verification of programs.

joomy.korkutblech.com

dana scott’s existence predicate is a v nice way to understand what is wrong with an argument like: “the greatest prime number doesn’t exist” to “there exists something that doesn’t exist”

One of the main ideas of synthetic differential geometry is doing geometry in a setting where the tangent bundle is a representable functor, as in there is a space that embodies the "free walking tangent vector" D such that maps D -> M correspond to tangent vectors in M. Therefore we have TM = M^D

working on an implementation of synthetic differential geometry in lean

fuzz testing against interpreter output is just model distillation against someone’s hard work

how does anyone actually use the claude app on their phone to write code? It doesn’t seem to allow you to see the full commands it wants to run or show the full file edits it wants to make? am I missing something totally obvious here?

From Stephan Zweig's The World of Yesterday.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 3w ago

open borders

all will become fidgetable

“What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot through the ages.”

If you wanna make llm criticism your main thing (heavens knows why one would) you should perhaps minimally know how to use the tools better than a university student, have a benchmark for what you would consider actually impressive, and have used a model more recently than 2023

Regis Iussu Cantio Et Reliqua Canonica Arte Resoluta

from the opening to pete wolfendale’s new book The Revenge of Reason

personally i'm ok with AI techniques being less well known but there's a deeper thing going on here which is far more important IMO, because it's also partially why LLMs have taken over == this thread is in response to this tweet: == x.com/krismicinski...

continuation monad should have been called the nomad monad

realized today, perhaps not for the first time, that constructively there are no non-trivial finite complete lattices

social media giving people dysmorphia about their bodies, their intelligence, their financial situation, their latent sense of how much ennui is appropriate to modern life … ah well, probably nothing to worry about

have been working on my own haskell-ish json query language (which also compiles to jq) and I'm really starting to be happy with how it looks

As Joyal says, toposes generalizes spaces by having an underlying _category_ (as opposed to set) of points and so can have e.g. ‘stacky’ points with non-trivial symmetry groups (e.g. BG) — getting to know them is coming to understand some of what that entails or doesn’t

“must discursive alien cognizers have space and time as the pure form of the sensibilities, and if so what form does that knowledge take?” - the greatest thread in the history of kantian scholarship, locked by a moderator after 354 transcendental arguments

doing a new bit where if someone says “the earth moves around the sun”, I reply “not from my reference frame it doesn’t”

incredible final sentence recommendation

“When a philosopher writes well one can forgive him anything, even being an analytic philosopher.” (Gian-Carlo Rota)

It is cool that the most famous argument against functionalism simply describes some elaborate mechanism for computation then says “look see”

Russia kidnapped mathematician Mikhail Verbitsky from Armenia His lawyer is asking to make as much noise as possible

Meduza in English@meduza.io · 2mo ago

Armenia detained mathematician Mikhail Verbitsky in Yerevan this week at Moscow's request — 11 years after he left Russia for a professorship in Brazil. Russia has classified him a terrorist. He faces up to 40 days in detention if Moscow files for extradition. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

“Philosophy, like some people, was prepared to accept boredom in exchange for certainty as it grew to middle age”