Uffda Geek

@annoyednerd.bsky.social

I’ve been on a poetry kick lately and for what I’d hope are obvious reasons, I reread Howl.

The verdict from the related obscenity trial has one of my favorite statements.

“Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemism?”

Moritz Schauer

@mschauer.bsky.social

Furstenberg gave a fascinating proof that extracts the infinitude of the primes from seemingly innocuous manipulations of clopen sets.
Here is a retake: The σ-algebra 𝓕ₚ = σ(n ↦ n mod p) encodes exactly the information contained in knowing n mod p. That is natural, σ-algebras model information.

Medusa, Theorix Administrator

@thelovelymedusa.bsky.social

Day 63 of posting one big guy until Kamigawa Titanbreach.

Quite an innocuous little card nowadays, this one tore through standard back in its day.