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@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz @sgf@mastodon.xyz @lily@glaceon.social I'm glad enough that biblical numerologists don't know anything beyond addition and multiplication. It would be cursed as hell if they started pulling out angel-topological arguments for the day of judgement

@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz @lily@glaceon.social I hate everyone's obsession with the golden ratio so much. It's an interesting number mathematically but for literally none of the reasons anyone thinks it's interesting. They'll go impose a spiral or ratio onto literally anything, it won't even be aligned, there's enough tolerance that they can get away with it, and they're like "wow cool universal constant" when no, you're just doing designerist numerology

@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz @lily@glaceon.social see this would only somewhat work if 2x the font size had some significant meaning. like 2x the frequency does, but 2x the font size doesn't really? and it would work better if there were harmonics and beats between specific intervals but there aren't either? like it's not even a good analogy

@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz @lily@glaceon.social wait so this is just, you pick a ratio to multiply your fonts by. but they're appropriating music terminology to sound fancy. wh

@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz @lily@glaceon.social these vibes are like the pepsi redesign document https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell-021109.pdf

@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz @lily@glaceon.social wait thats a thing???

@lily@glaceon.social @tryst@fedi.imu.li no, 1.2Mm

@lily@glaceon.social with that we actually have looped back to Newton's theory of light

@lily@glaceon.social yes but that would be even funnier. "what is the transistor pitch" "ultraviolet"

@lily@glaceon.social you can also go up the musical scale "what's the frequency of this radio" "D27" "how about this CPU" "F#27"

@lily@glaceon.social you could get sillier and give your cpu cycles in terms of clock wavelengths. this is a 7.5cm CPU connected to 22cm RAM. actually i imagine a variation of this is somewhat useful for circuit design

@lily@glaceon.social "how fast are we actuating this motor" "middle C" is actually where floppy disk music comes from

@sc_griffith@mathstodon.xyz I love that he thinks that a LLM can just, like, solve the inverse protein folding problem in a snap, the entire field of biophysics be damned. He should just stick to writing fanfictions like he was 10 years ago

@mo@mastodon.ml @LMAOYEEN@pounced-on.me and inside the JVM it's interpreting Python

@steyrshrek@techhub.social @kkeller@curling.social @Agora@mindly.social @JxckS@mastodon.social okay but have you seen Elon and Epstein in the same room together? oh wait a minute,