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  1. 🥳🎉 Behold! #Cate v1.0: The latest attempt to make #developers feel special by giving them an "infinite canvas" to doodle their bugs on. 😏 So strap in, folks, because now you can display all your #coding #disasters in one place while #GitHub tries to convince you that #AI can fix bad code. 🖥️💥
    github.com/0-AI-UG/cate #v1.0 #infinite #canvas #HackerNews #ngated

  2. 🥳🎉 Behold! #Cate v1.0: The latest attempt to make #developers feel special by giving them an "infinite canvas" to doodle their bugs on. 😏 So strap in, folks, because now you can display all your #coding #disasters in one place while #GitHub tries to convince you that #AI can fix bad code. 🖥️💥
    github.com/0-AI-UG/cate #v1.0 #infinite #canvas #HackerNews #ngated

  3. 🥳🎉 Behold! #Cate v1.0: The latest attempt to make #developers feel special by giving them an "infinite canvas" to doodle their bugs on. 😏 So strap in, folks, because now you can display all your #coding #disasters in one place while #GitHub tries to convince you that #AI can fix bad code. 🖥️💥
    github.com/0-AI-UG/cate #v1.0 #infinite #canvas #HackerNews #ngated

  4. 🥳🎉 Behold! #Cate v1.0: The latest attempt to make #developers feel special by giving them an "infinite canvas" to doodle their bugs on. 😏 So strap in, folks, because now you can display all your #coding #disasters in one place while #GitHub tries to convince you that #AI can fix bad code. 🖥️💥
    github.com/0-AI-UG/cate #v1.0 #infinite #canvas #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🥳🎉 Behold! #Cate v1.0: The latest attempt to make #developers feel special by giving them an "infinite canvas" to doodle their bugs on. 😏 So strap in, folks, because now you can display all your #coding #disasters in one place while #GitHub tries to convince you that #AI can fix bad code. 🖥️💥
    github.com/0-AI-UG/cate #v1.0 #infinite #canvas #HackerNews #ngated

  6. The electronics/logic behind "while(1)" and "for(;;)

    Up until recently, have been trying to validate user input by writing lengthy if-statetments nested in while-loops. I usually have the while-loop check that the function that takes input - for instance getchar() - is not EOF and the if-statement checking whether input is of the desired data type and/or size. But then I noticed people doing something similar with infinite loops while(1) and for(;;).

    While I understand that these loops are infinite because there is no condition to check against in for(;;) and because the condition is always true in while(1), I wonder if there is a more pedagogical (?) way of expressing the same thing. Like a proof of concept, or like what’s going on at the electronic/logic level, if one were to draw this on a schematic with logic gates.

    Or am I perhaps overthinking it and there is “simply” a signal/transistor somewhere that is always on/1/true/has the approproate votlage? Feels like “fooling” the machine by writing while(1) or for (;;) ….

  7. #Reels served in #infinite #scrolling powered by #algorithms are the #opium of the century.

    A tax should be imposed, as with #alcohol and legalized #drugs .

    Additionally, #social service providers using #algorithms should be required to provide users with #data and access to the #algorithm (even without disclosing weights\source code) so that users can effectively test for #bias.

    (Cover images, generated respectively with #ChatGPT, #mistral and #Gemini with the post as a prompt)

  8. #Reels served in #infinite #scrolling powered by #algorithms are the #opium of the century.

    A tax should be imposed, as with #alcohol and legalized #drugs .

    Additionally, #social service providers using #algorithms should be required to provide users with #data and access to the #algorithm (even without disclosing weights\source code) so that users can effectively test for #bias.

    (Cover images, generated respectively with #ChatGPT, #mistral and #Gemini with the post as a prompt)

  9. #Reels served in #infinite #scrolling powered by #algorithms are the #opium of the century.

    A tax should be imposed, as with #alcohol and legalized #drugs .

    Additionally, #social service providers using #algorithms should be required to provide users with #data and access to the #algorithm (even without disclosing weights\source code) so that users can effectively test for #bias.

    (Cover images, generated respectively with #ChatGPT, #mistral and #Gemini with the post as a prompt)

  10. #Reels served in #infinite #scrolling powered by #algorithms are the #opium of the century.

    A tax should be imposed, as with #alcohol and legalized #drugs .

    Additionally, #social service providers using #algorithms should be required to provide users with #data and access to the #algorithm (even without disclosing weights\source code) so that users can effectively test for #bias.

    (Cover images, generated respectively with #ChatGPT, #mistral and #Gemini with the post as a prompt)

  11. #Reels served in #infinite #scrolling powered by #algorithms are the #opium of the century.

    A tax should be imposed, as with #alcohol and legalized #drugs .

    Additionally, #social service providers using #algorithms should be required to provide users with #data and access to the #algorithm (even without disclosing weights\source code) so that users can effectively test for #bias.

    (Cover images, generated respectively with #ChatGPT, #mistral and #Gemini with the post as a prompt)

  12. RE: mathstodon.xyz/@paysmaths/1165

    Russell was my favourite #philosopher as a youngster, and it was only later that I realised he was also an important figure in my favourite #mathematics.

    Dedekind's definition of infinite is: a set is #infinite if (and only if) it has the same size as a proper subset of itself.

    "Same size" can be made precise too, but the intuition is clear: you can delete an element of something infinite, and it will still be infinite.

    #math

  13. Get to @offby1 ‘s nerd level: sitting in a secret-handshake underground speakeasy and moderating his Mastodon server. #infinite

  14. Ah, the #marvels of AI: be amazed as we retire our #bug #bounty program because, clearly, we've achieved bug-free utopia! 🌈 Who needs bugs when you can have #infinite #waitlists and #emoji announcements? 🤖✨
    turso.tech/blog/the-wonders-of #AI #retirement #announcements #HackerNews #ngated

  15. Ah, the #marvels of AI: be amazed as we retire our #bug #bounty program because, clearly, we've achieved bug-free utopia! 🌈 Who needs bugs when you can have #infinite #waitlists and #emoji announcements? 🤖✨
    turso.tech/blog/the-wonders-of #AI #retirement #announcements #HackerNews #ngated

  16. Ah, the #marvels of AI: be amazed as we retire our #bug #bounty program because, clearly, we've achieved bug-free utopia! 🌈 Who needs bugs when you can have #infinite #waitlists and #emoji announcements? 🤖✨
    turso.tech/blog/the-wonders-of #AI #retirement #announcements #HackerNews #ngated

  17. Ah, the #marvels of AI: be amazed as we retire our #bug #bounty program because, clearly, we've achieved bug-free utopia! 🌈 Who needs bugs when you can have #infinite #waitlists and #emoji announcements? 🤖✨
    turso.tech/blog/the-wonders-of #AI #retirement #announcements #HackerNews #ngated

  18. Ah, the #marvels of AI: be amazed as we retire our #bug #bounty program because, clearly, we've achieved bug-free utopia! 🌈 Who needs bugs when you can have #infinite #waitlists and #emoji announcements? 🤖✨
    turso.tech/blog/the-wonders-of #AI #retirement #announcements #HackerNews #ngated

  19. Infinite Wheatpaste Vol. 2 Review - A Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Journey That Hits Different
    WEEPPPAAAAAAAAA!!! Ohhh we traveling THROUGH SPACE, THROUGH TIME, THROUGH YOUR OWN DAMN SOUL with this one!!!

    Let’s talk about Infinite Wheatpaste Vol. 2: Universe....
    comiccrusaders.com/comic-books
    #anthology comics #Avery Hill Publishing #Comic Crusaders #cosmic comics #Experimental Comics #graphic novel review #Indie Comics #Infinite Wheatpaste #Pidge #Sci-fi comics

  20. Infinite Wheatpaste Vol. 2 Review - A Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Journey That Hits Different
    WEEPPPAAAAAAAAA!!! Ohhh we traveling THROUGH SPACE, THROUGH TIME, THROUGH YOUR OWN DAMN SOUL with this one!!!

    Let’s talk about Infinite Wheatpaste Vol. 2: Universe....
    comiccrusaders.com/comic-books
    #anthology comics #Avery Hill Publishing #Comic Crusaders #cosmic comics #Experimental Comics #graphic novel review #Indie Comics #Infinite Wheatpaste #Pidge #Sci-fi comics

  21. Infinite Wheatpaste Vol. 2 Review - A Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Journey That Hits Different
    WEEPPPAAAAAAAAA!!! Ohhh we traveling THROUGH SPACE, THROUGH TIME, THROUGH YOUR OWN DAMN SOUL with this one!!!

    Let’s talk about Infinite Wheatpaste Vol. 2: Universe....
    comiccrusaders.com/comic-books
    #anthology comics #Avery Hill Publishing #Comic Crusaders #cosmic comics #Experimental Comics #graphic novel review #Indie Comics #Infinite Wheatpaste #Pidge #Sci-fi comics

  22. “Something that doesn’t actually exist can still be useful”*…

    Gregory Barber on ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite. Ultrafinitism has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy, but it is also producing new insights in math and beyond…

    Doron Zeilberger is a mathematician who believes that all things come to an end. That just as we are limited beings, so too does nature have boundaries — and therefore so do numbers. Look out the window, and where others see reality as a continuous expanse, flowing inexorably forward from moment to moment, Zeilberger sees a universe that ticks. It is a discrete machine. In the smooth motion of the world around him, he catches the subtle blur of a flip-book.

    To Zeilberger, believing in infinity is like believing in God. It’s an alluring idea that flatters our intuitions and helps us make sense of all sorts of phenomena. But the problem is that we cannot truly observe infinity, and so we cannot truly say what it is. Equations define lines that carry on off the chalkboard, but to where? Proofs are littered with suggestive ellipses. These equations and proofs are, according to Zeilberger — a longtime professor at Rutgers University and a famed figure in combinatorics — both “very ugly” and false. It is “completely nonsense,” he said, huffing out each syllable in a husky voice that seemed worn out from making his point.

    As a matter of practicality, infinity can be scrubbed out, he contends. “You don’t really need it.” Mathematicians can construct a form of calculus without infinity, for instance, cutting infinitesimal limits out of the picture entirely. Curves might look smooth, but they hide a fine-grit roughness; computers handle math just fine with a finite allowance of digits. (Zeilberger lists his own computer, which he named “Shalosh B. Ekhad,” as a collaborator on his papers.) With infinity eliminated, the only thing lost is mathematics that was “not worth doing at all,” Zeilberger said.

    Most mathematicians would say just the opposite — that it’s Zeilberger who spews complete nonsense. Not just because infinity is so useful and so natural to our descriptions of the universe, but because treating sets of numbers (like the integers) as actual, infinite objects is at the very core of mathematics, embedded in its most fundamental rules and assumptions.

    At the very least, even if mathematicians don’t want to think about infinity as an actual entity, they acknowledge that sequences, shapes, and other mathematical objects have the potential to grow indefinitely. Two parallel lines can in theory go on forever; another number can always be added to the end of the number line.

    Zeilberger disagrees. To him, what matters is not whether something is possible in principle, but whether it is actually feasible. What this means, in practice, is that not only is infinity suspect, but extremely large numbers are as well. Consider “Skewes’ number,” eee79. This is an exceptionally large number, and no one has ever been able to write it out in decimal form. So what can we really say about it? Is it an integer? Is it prime? Can we find such a number anywhere in nature? Could we ever write it down? Perhaps, then, it is not a number at all.

    This raises obvious questions, such as where, exactly, we will find the end point. Zeilberger can’t say. Nobody can. Which is the first reason that many dismiss his philosophy, known as ultrafinitism. “When you first pitch the idea of ultrafinitism to somebody, it sounds like quackery — like ‘I think there’s a largest number’ or something,” said Justin Clarke-Doane, a philosopher at Columbia University.

    “A lot of mathematicians just find the whole proposal preposterous,” said Joel David Hamkins, a set theorist at the University of Notre Dame. Ultrafinitism is not polite talk at a mathematical society dinner. Few (one might say an ultrafinite number) work on it. Fewer still are card-carrying members, like Zeilberger, willing to shout their views out into the void. That’s not just because ultrafinitism is contrarian, but because it advocates for a mathematics that is fundamentally smaller, one where certain important questions can no longer be asked.

    And yet it gives Hamkins and others a good deal to think about. From one angle, ultrafinitism can be seen as a more realistic mathematics. It is math that better reflects the limits of what people can create and verify; it may even better reflect the physical universe. While we might be inclined to think of space and time as eternally expansive and divisible, the ultrafinitist would argue that these are assumptions that science has increasingly brought into question — much as, Zeilberger might say, science brought doubt to God’s doorstep.

    “The world that we’re describing needs to be honest through and through,” said Clarke-Doane, who in April 2025 convened a rare gathering of experts to explore ultrafinitist ideas. “If there might only be finitely many things, then we’d better also be using a math that doesn’t just assume that there are infinitely many things at the get-go.” To him, “it sure seems like that should be part of the menu in the philosophy of math.”

    For mathematicians to take it seriously, though, ultrafinitists first need to agree on what they’re talking about — to turn arguments that sound like “bluster,” as Hamkins puts it, into an official theory. Mathematics is steeped in formal systems and common frameworks. Ultrafinitism, meanwhile, lacks such structure.

    It is one thing to tackle problems piecemeal. It is quite another to rewrite the logical foundations of mathematics itself. “I don’t think the reason ultrafinitism has been dismissed is that people have good arguments against it,” Clarke-Doane said. “The feeling is that, oh, well, it’s hopeless.”

    That’s a problem that some ultrafinitists are still trying to address.

    Zeilberger, meanwhile, is prepared to abandon mathematical ideals in favor of a mathematics that’s inherently messy — just like the world is. He is less a man of foundational theories than a man of opinions, of which he lists 195 on his website. “I cannot be a tenured professor without doing this crackpot stuff,” he said. But one day, he added, mathematicians will look back and see that this crackpot, like those of yore who questioned gods and superstitions, was right. “Luckily, heretics are no longer burned at the stake.”…

    Read on for the history of ultrafinitism, the critical dialogue surrounding it, and its implications: “What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?” from @gregbarber.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social.

    * Ian Stewart (whose point was somewhat different from Zeilberger’s :-), Infinity: A Very Short Introduction

    ###

    As we engage the endless, we might spare a thought for a man whose work touched on the infinitesimal, Isaac Barrow; he died on this date in 1677. A theologian and mathematician, he played a key role in the development of infinitesimal calculus (in particular, for a proof of the fundamental theorem of calculus). Barrow was the inaugural holder of the prestigious Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a post later held by his student, Isaac Newton (who, of course, shares primary credit for the development of calculus with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz).

    source

    #calculus #culture #DoronZeilberger #finite #GregoryBarber #history #infinite #infinitesimalCalculus #infinity #IsaacBarrow #IsaacNewton #Leibniz #Mathematics #philosophy #Science #ultrafinitism
  23. “Something that doesn’t actually exist can still be useful”*…

    Gregory Barber on ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite. Ultrafinitism has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy, but it is also producing new insights in math and beyond…

    Doron Zeilberger is a mathematician who believes that all things come to an end. That just as we are limited beings, so too does nature have boundaries — and therefore so do numbers. Look out the window, and where others see reality as a continuous expanse, flowing inexorably forward from moment to moment, Zeilberger sees a universe that ticks. It is a discrete machine. In the smooth motion of the world around him, he catches the subtle blur of a flip-book.

    To Zeilberger, believing in infinity is like believing in God. It’s an alluring idea that flatters our intuitions and helps us make sense of all sorts of phenomena. But the problem is that we cannot truly observe infinity, and so we cannot truly say what it is. Equations define lines that carry on off the chalkboard, but to where? Proofs are littered with suggestive ellipses. These equations and proofs are, according to Zeilberger — a longtime professor at Rutgers University and a famed figure in combinatorics — both “very ugly” and false. It is “completely nonsense,” he said, huffing out each syllable in a husky voice that seemed worn out from making his point.

    As a matter of practicality, infinity can be scrubbed out, he contends. “You don’t really need it.” Mathematicians can construct a form of calculus without infinity, for instance, cutting infinitesimal limits out of the picture entirely. Curves might look smooth, but they hide a fine-grit roughness; computers handle math just fine with a finite allowance of digits. (Zeilberger lists his own computer, which he named “Shalosh B. Ekhad,” as a collaborator on his papers.) With infinity eliminated, the only thing lost is mathematics that was “not worth doing at all,” Zeilberger said.

    Most mathematicians would say just the opposite — that it’s Zeilberger who spews complete nonsense. Not just because infinity is so useful and so natural to our descriptions of the universe, but because treating sets of numbers (like the integers) as actual, infinite objects is at the very core of mathematics, embedded in its most fundamental rules and assumptions.

    At the very least, even if mathematicians don’t want to think about infinity as an actual entity, they acknowledge that sequences, shapes, and other mathematical objects have the potential to grow indefinitely. Two parallel lines can in theory go on forever; another number can always be added to the end of the number line.

    Zeilberger disagrees. To him, what matters is not whether something is possible in principle, but whether it is actually feasible. What this means, in practice, is that not only is infinity suspect, but extremely large numbers are as well. Consider “Skewes’ number,” eee79. This is an exceptionally large number, and no one has ever been able to write it out in decimal form. So what can we really say about it? Is it an integer? Is it prime? Can we find such a number anywhere in nature? Could we ever write it down? Perhaps, then, it is not a number at all.

    This raises obvious questions, such as where, exactly, we will find the end point. Zeilberger can’t say. Nobody can. Which is the first reason that many dismiss his philosophy, known as ultrafinitism. “When you first pitch the idea of ultrafinitism to somebody, it sounds like quackery — like ‘I think there’s a largest number’ or something,” said Justin Clarke-Doane, a philosopher at Columbia University.

    “A lot of mathematicians just find the whole proposal preposterous,” said Joel David Hamkins, a set theorist at the University of Notre Dame. Ultrafinitism is not polite talk at a mathematical society dinner. Few (one might say an ultrafinite number) work on it. Fewer still are card-carrying members, like Zeilberger, willing to shout their views out into the void. That’s not just because ultrafinitism is contrarian, but because it advocates for a mathematics that is fundamentally smaller, one where certain important questions can no longer be asked.

    And yet it gives Hamkins and others a good deal to think about. From one angle, ultrafinitism can be seen as a more realistic mathematics. It is math that better reflects the limits of what people can create and verify; it may even better reflect the physical universe. While we might be inclined to think of space and time as eternally expansive and divisible, the ultrafinitist would argue that these are assumptions that science has increasingly brought into question — much as, Zeilberger might say, science brought doubt to God’s doorstep.

    “The world that we’re describing needs to be honest through and through,” said Clarke-Doane, who in April 2025 convened a rare gathering of experts to explore ultrafinitist ideas. “If there might only be finitely many things, then we’d better also be using a math that doesn’t just assume that there are infinitely many things at the get-go.” To him, “it sure seems like that should be part of the menu in the philosophy of math.”

    For mathematicians to take it seriously, though, ultrafinitists first need to agree on what they’re talking about — to turn arguments that sound like “bluster,” as Hamkins puts it, into an official theory. Mathematics is steeped in formal systems and common frameworks. Ultrafinitism, meanwhile, lacks such structure.

    It is one thing to tackle problems piecemeal. It is quite another to rewrite the logical foundations of mathematics itself. “I don’t think the reason ultrafinitism has been dismissed is that people have good arguments against it,” Clarke-Doane said. “The feeling is that, oh, well, it’s hopeless.”

    That’s a problem that some ultrafinitists are still trying to address.

    Zeilberger, meanwhile, is prepared to abandon mathematical ideals in favor of a mathematics that’s inherently messy — just like the world is. He is less a man of foundational theories than a man of opinions, of which he lists 195 on his website. “I cannot be a tenured professor without doing this crackpot stuff,” he said. But one day, he added, mathematicians will look back and see that this crackpot, like those of yore who questioned gods and superstitions, was right. “Luckily, heretics are no longer burned at the stake.”…

    Read on for the history of ultrafinitism, the critical dialogue surrounding it, and its implications: “What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?” from @gregbarber.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social.

    * Ian Stewart (whose point was somewhat different from Zeilberger’s :-), Infinity: A Very Short Introduction

    ###

    As we engage the endless, we might spare a thought for a man whose work touched on the infinitesimal, Isaac Barrow; he died on this date in 1677. A theologian and mathematician, he played a key role in the development of infinitesimal calculus (in particular, for a proof of the fundamental theorem of calculus). Barrow was the inaugural holder of the prestigious Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a post later held by his student, Isaac Newton (who, of course, shares primary credit for the development of calculus with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz).

    source

    #calculus #culture #DoronZeilberger #finite #GregoryBarber #history #infinite #infinitesimalCalculus #infinity #IsaacBarrow #IsaacNewton #Leibniz #Mathematics #philosophy #Science #ultrafinitism
  24. After a lot of research, I finalise an infinite loop of portions of a tunnel movement.
    I make this system only with drivers and rig. Not with Geometry Nodes. I use just Array GN modifier.
    You can add some turns with rig and a follow curve.

    More detail of the animation car chase
    3dminfographie.com/en/blog/cou

    #blender #3d #rig #tunnel #infinite #loop #concept #animation

  25. After a lot of research, I finalise an infinite loop of portions of a tunnel movement.
    I make this system only with drivers and rig. Not with Geometry Nodes. I use just Array GN modifier.
    You can add some turns with rig and a follow curve.

    More detail of the animation car chase
    3dminfographie.com/en/blog/cou

    #blender #3d #rig #tunnel #infinite #loop #concept #animation

  26. After a lot of research, I finalise an infinite loop of portions of a tunnel movement.
    I make this system only with drivers and rig. Not with Geometry Nodes. I use just Array GN modifier.
    You can add some turns with rig and a follow curve.

    More detail of the animation car chase
    3dminfographie.com/en/blog/cou

    #blender #3d #rig #tunnel #infinite #loop #concept #animation

  27. After a lot of research, I finalise an infinite loop of portions of a tunnel movement.
    I make this system only with drivers and rig. Not with Geometry Nodes. I use just Array GN modifier.
    You can add some turns with rig and a follow curve.

    More detail of the animation car chase
    3dminfographie.com/en/blog/cou

    #blender #3d #rig #tunnel #infinite #loop #concept #animation

  28. I am past the books because I understand that I have never left the abode of the #Divine. I am not away on some small tiny spinning ball in the middle of the void waiting for somebody to come back. What we call the void is #infinite #consciousness. It's not empty. #Infinity is not confused. I am.

  29. #MagicBlade #Neo, the new luminaire AYRTON brings together on a bar five MagicDot Neo heads, small spheres with LED sources and #infinite #pan/tilt, capable of creating unprecedented scenes: light curtains, #living #light #surfaces, volumetric effects...

    🏅We award it an innovation prize and see the video here : lnkd.in/eaCRdiND

    #Ayrton #MagicBadeNeo #ledlighting #stagelights #concertlighting #lightingdesign #prolighting #movinghead #beamlight #ledlights #lightingshow

  30. “Now a curse upon Because and his kin! May Because be accursed for ever! If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness. Also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite & unknown; & all their words are skew-wise. Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog! But ye, o my people, rise up & awake!”

    https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/04/11/now-a-curse-upon-because-and-his-kin-may-because-be-accursed-for-ever-if-will-stops-and-cries-why-invoking-because-then-will-stops-does-nought-if-power-asks-why-then-is-power-weakness-also/

  31. See the thing that the powerful don't understand is that #intelligence is #infinite and they can't cover it all because they have very #specialized #interests. Those seeking #solutions don't have specialized interests and therefore are smarter #by #design. That's why we win. That's why Hitler lost.

  32. See the thing that the powerful don't understand is that #intelligence is #infinite and they can't cover it all because they have very #specialized #interests. Those seeking #solutions don't have specialized interests and therefore are smarter #by #design. That's why we win. That's why Hitler lost.