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Maxine 💃🏼

@maxine.science

🔬 Looking at the brain’s “dark matter” 🤯 Studying how minds change 👩🏼‍💻 Building science tools 🦋 ♾️ 👓 🌐 maxine.science

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Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · 2d ago

me: Oh that's fun, I found a weird bug in the C source for the macOS wifi module that causes a kernel panic on personal hotspot, why don't I make a minimal replication and file this—— Anthropic: WE HAVE FLAGGED THIS CONVERSATION FOR DISCUSSING A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SUBJECT—— ah ... cool. ty ty

Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · 4d ago

An unreasonable amount of my symbolic life is from The Bourne Identity (2002), and I had the pleasure of showing it to my Zoomer girlfriend for the first time. And look—it's a bad movie, ok. We all know it's a bad movie. But I was kind of hoping she'd be a *little* less merciless about it. I was 9.

Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · 6d ago

Very proud of the work @dollspace.gay and I did on designing and building Thermite 2. When Doll showed me the original Thermite lang, it was clear how cool the concept was—but also, that it really needed dependent types for richer verification. Happy to see this out! 🎉 github.com/dollspace-ga...

RFC-1: Thermite 2 — a dependent-type tier, a stratified cage, and new ladder boundaries · Issue #2 · dollspace-gay/Thermite

RFC-1: Thermite 2 — a dependent-type tier, a stratified cage, and new ladder boundaries Status Design sketch — not shipped software Supersedes RFC-1-draft1, RFC-1-draft2 Baseline dollspace-gay/Ther...

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Doll@dollspace.gay · 7d ago

Thermite 2 is out!

Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · last wk.

Chat, can I go on a single goddamn off-grid vacation without simultaneously having a new Opus release *and* the creator of Ruby on Rails calling for ethnic cleansing of another group?

Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · 2w ago

oh snap, people using the tools @dollspace.gay and I put together :) github.com/dollspace-ga...

GitHub - dollspace-gay/ferray: A NumPy-equivalent scientific computing library for Rust. Correctly-rounded math, SIMD-accelerated operations.

A NumPy-equivalent scientific computing library for Rust. Correctly-rounded math, SIMD-accelerated operations. - dollspace-gay/ferray

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wariziles@riziles.bsky.social · 2w ago

HOLY CRAP, EVERYONE! With the help of Ferray (a library by @dollspace.gay ), I found a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture!!!! Check out this app I built with @skeleton.dev : riziles.github.io/ferray-wasm-...

Visualization of Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · 2w ago

It does speak to an important point though: Sometimes, the real magic of disproving a conjecture comes not from superintelligence, but from brute-force normal intelligence.

Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · 2w ago

Real talk though: Fable clearly did go off of Vitushkin for this solution, it’s a *slight* modification and the dimension move helped repair the singularity. So weirdly it actually kinda was this time. Sorry—unit distance was much more impressive; here the mathies goofed, it was right there lol

Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · 3w ago

The problem isn’t intrinsically in computers, video games, or social media. It’s is that common revenue-maximizing design strategies implemented after ~2010 constrain online play to hijacked reward-seeking. The answer isn’t ban phones, but instead ban certain UX patterns—keep kids free, and healthy

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 4w ago

There’s a big push to blame teen mental health issues on smartphones but this story made me wonder about exploring other things that have since become normalized. Should we expect kids who grew up post-Columbine on regular school shootings and active shooter drills to have great mental health?

Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · 4w ago

Colleagues in the sciences have no idea about the seismic shifts happening with agent-driven development. But I would strongly endorse this position: code has phase-changed from solid to liquid.

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last mo.

1. A bit of evolutionary biology. I'm really intrigued by a new perspective piece from Steve Frank that explores connections between how natural selection creates systems that generalize and recent work in machine learning about the surprising capabilities of massively overparameterized systems.

Generalization as the great leap in evolvability: insights from machine learning

Abstract. Natural selection encodes learned information in the genome. Learned solutions may be tuned specifically to past challenges, failing in altered e

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Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · last mo.

For a cis comparison: People with ovaries very commonly experience second male puberty after first female puberty. This is a common part of a relatively common condition called polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), in which biochemical changes result in ovaries producing testosterone. It *sucks*.

Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · last mo.

And most importantly: A trans girl who transitions peri-gonadarche *does not undergo male puberty*. She has *female* puberty. I don’t understand why cis people cannot get this into their skulls—the whole reason for youth trans care is to make it so that you don’t have to undo the wrong puberty.

Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · last mo.

And most importantly: A trans girl who transitions peri-gonadarche *does not undergo male puberty*. She has *female* puberty. I don’t understand why cis people cannot get this into their skulls—the whole reason for youth trans care is to make it so that you don’t have to undo the wrong puberty.

Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · last mo.

Hearing a lot of “why do we care about trans sports—this is just ~biology~” As someone who did seven years in an MD-PhD program: the biology is f*cking complicated. “Biological sex” is not a coherent notion. Chromosomal sex segregation is the single most nonsensical way to ensure sports fairness.

Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · last mo.

Hearing a lot of “why do we care about trans sports—this is just ~biology~” As someone who did seven years in an MD-PhD program: the biology is f*cking complicated. “Biological sex” is not a coherent notion. Chromosomal sex segregation is the single most nonsensical way to ensure sports fairness.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com In the Supreme Court’s ruling on transgender athletes, the justices are “arguing about something more fundamental than the law,” our columnist M. Gessen writes. “They are arguing about who should be seen, whose story ought to be heard and who deserves to be protected.”

Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · last mo.

One thing life has given me enormous pain for—and had convinced me to hate myself for—is that I am autistic. Yes—in my inside I go through a lot. My dreams are your trips. In a world designed to force everyone into a controllable box, being unboxable hurts. It is also the core of me—and I love it.

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Maxine 💃🏼@maxine.science · last mo.

Every person must face the Shadow—that the deepest pains of our lives are also our liberation, because the pains Are us, cause us, and impel us forward. This scene is intrapsychic allegory. I’ve faced it many times in my life; but, each time, I remember more that I love my pain, just as I hate it.