He doesn't even speak English so he couldn't give a fuck what the US of A wants to call it. He's probably laughing inside, thinking what a dumb fuck this president is.

Bessent buying $6B of Treasuries to bring down the yield curve

Fast Fourier Analysis in action. Any complex waveform, sound, or shape can be perfectly reconstructed as the sum of simple rotating circles (epicycles). [🎞️ lingualin]

In late 2008, I worked at NBC between the New York Stock Exchange. a studio in Times Square and 30 Rockefeller Center. Bruce Wasserstein worked upstairs at Rockefeller Center. He was the CEO of Lazard at the time and one of the kings of Wall Street. One day in November or December, I took the elevator up for lunch with him in his private dining room to discuss the ongoing financial crisis. Inside, branzino, asparagus, sparkling water, profiteroles Outside, the financial system was collapsing. We were talking about the government’s response when Bruce leaned back in his chair. “Dylan, this is the largest theft and cover-up in American history,” he said. I asked him how. He explained it simply. Wall Street had created enormous financial risks basically using unregulated credit insurance to create the appearance of default “coverage,” Those risks blew defaulted, the insurance couldn’t pay. The government stepped in. AIG was rescued. Its counterparties were paid 100 cents on the dollar by us.. Trillions in guarantees and liquidity flooded the financial system and years of bonus pools had been paid out based on the false claim of “managed risk.” The people who created the risk escaped consequence - and in fact made more money all while being covered by the government of Bush and the Obama. I asked him who was responsible. “The CEO and the board of every bank.” Bruce was a bank CEO himself, not exactly an Occupy Wall Street park protestor. He told me a bank CEO only has three jobs. Manage Risk. Make Sales. Guide Vision. The CEO’s job is to decide how much total risk the institution is willing to take. That decision belongs to the bank CEO. So do the consequences. Bruce explained to me that the CEOs of America’s largest banks had catastrophically failed at the most important job they had — and then taken the American pension and retirement funds hostage if they weren’t bailed out. Risk management. Their decisions created a financial crisis that destroyed jobs, homes, savings and lives. Then they were protected from the consequences of those decisions. That was Bruce’s point. The bonuses paid out on the years of previous credit issuance and the government payout to all of them at the end was the theft. Then distraction of the so-called health care reform (also a massive giveaway to the insurance companies) was used to to burn off the political energy of the moment and then pass financial reform years later certifying the same basic system, only bigger and with a direct connection to the central bank for future bailouts in order to bypass Congress and reduce attention on their actions. I finished my profiteroles and went back downstairs. But I never looked at the financial crisis the same way again. I became more aggressive in my reporting. Eventually it changed my career. I turned down a larger opportunity at ABC and took a lower-paying job at MSNBC because I wanted to talk about the relationship between money and political power. Bruce died in 2009. If I could take that elevator upstairs and have lunch with him again, I wouldn’t ask him about AIG. I’d ask him if he understood what came next. Because the government succeeded in stabilizing the financial system. But there was another cost. TRUST. Today, Gallup reports that 89 percent of Americans believe corruption is widespread in their government. I don’t think those things are unrelated. Bruce called what happened a theft and a cover-up. Eighteen years later, I think the most expensive thing we lost wasn’t money. Money can be replaced. Trust can’t. I publish every day, subscribe here: dylanratigan.substack.com

Carl Friedrich Gauss, often called the “Prince of Mathematicians,” famously described mathematics as the “queen of the sciences” and number theory as the “queen of mathematics.” I think prime numbers are the oxygen of number theory. They are the fundamental building blocks of the positive integers, and their distribution connects elementary arithmetic with some of the deepest questions in modern mathematics. The more we study primes, the more we see that their apparent simplicity hides remarkable mathematical structure.

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This guy’s comment is a great example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Math is full of magic tricks, and this is one of my favorites! Meet the “Infinite Gift Paradox.” Imagine an infinite stack of presents, getting smaller and smaller. The nᵗʰ box has a side length of exactly 1/√n. If you try to wrap all these boxes, you’re out of luck. The total surface area and total edge length are both divergent series, meaning you would need an infinite amount of wrapping paper and ribbon! But here’s the surprise: because the boxes shrink fast enough, their total volume forms a convergent series. The entire infinite stack of gifts can have a finite total volume! You could pour a finite amount of water into this infinite collection of boxes, but you could never wrap them all. Math > Magic.

#math Collatz Conjecture For every 𝐧 ∈ ℤ₊, define: 𝐂(𝐧) = 𝐧⁄𝟐, if 𝐧 is even 𝐂(𝐧) = 𝟑𝐧 + 𝟏, if 𝐧 is odd Then: ∀𝐧 ∈ ℤ₊, ∃𝐤 ≥ 𝟎 such that 𝐂ᵏ(𝐧) = 𝟏. In other words: every positive integer eventually reaches 𝟏. Lothar Collatz likely posed the eponymous conjecture in the 1930's. Experienced mathematicians warn up-and-comers to stay away from the Collatz conjecture. It’s a siren song, they say: Fall under its trance and you may never do meaningful work again. The Collatz conjecture is quite possibly the simplest unsolved problem in mathematics — which is exactly what makes it so treacherously alluring. The Clay Institute’s Millennium Problems are a selection of seven major mathematical challenges, not a definitive list of the most important or difficult open problems.The Collatz Conjecture was not included, but that does not imply that it is considered unimportant or uninteresting by the mathematical community. Could the Collatz conjecture be a good challenge for OpenAI or other AI companies to try to solve?

Terence Tao: The math behind today’s LLMs is actually simple. Training and running them mostly uses linear algebra, matrix multiplication, and a bit of calculus, material an undergraduate can handle. We understand how to build and operate these models. The real mystery is why they work so well on some tasks and fail on others, and why we cannot predict that in advance. We lack good rules for forecasting performance across tasks, so progress is largely empirical. A key reason is the nature of real-world data. Pure noise is well understood, perfectly structured data is well understood, but natural text sits in between, partly structured and partly random. Mathematics for that middle regime is thin, similar to how physics struggles at meso-scales between atoms and continua. Because of this gap, we can describe the mechanisms but cannot yet explain capability jumps or give reliable task-level predictions. That mismatch, simple machinery versus hard-to-predict behavior, is the core puzzle. ---- Video from Prof @Briankeating YT Channel (Link in comment)

Announcement from the Clay Institute on Navier-Stokes claymath.org/news/navier-sto…

INSANE #TORNADO INTERCEPT ripped my kayak off the Dominator F150 and blew out the back window north of Artichoke, Minnesota @meganjrenee @accuweather

anthropic dropped a 154 page threat report and some of this shit is absolutely insane. > alibaba allegedly sent 151M+ exchanges to claude to help train qwen > moonshot and deepseek allegedly secretly routed millions of real user conversations through claude while users thought they were using kimi and deepseek > a weapons group used multiple claude instances as an engineering team, test fired a guided rocket, failed, then asked claude to figure out what went wrong > zhipu used 273 fraudulent accounts to extract claude’s chain of thought and used claude to clean, score and improve its own training pipeline > a russian hacking group used claude across an espionage campaign and even had malware rewrite itself when security software detected it > researchers tried using claude for potentially dangerous biological research > governments used claude for surveillance of dissidents, journalists and activists what the actual fuck

Oxford's "Differential Equations 1" by Melanie Rupflin Lecture Notes: courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/mod/r… Problem Sheets: courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/cours…

RT @TruthGundlach: Bessent: “I am the house now. Bet against the house if you want.” They’re betting against the house.

Scott Bessent is either incompetent or a liar. Short bonds. THIS IS INSANITY!

>sam altman: "we tried this because there were rumor on the internet" >rumor: math professor close to solving navier-stokes >the professor: using codex for a year >openai: has all his logs >checked every codex session tagged to N-S >found the most promising one >spun up 10,000 agents to finish the proof where he couldn't >they got caught >told the guy if you say anything you'll destroy your own career >he ruins his career over this >openai: "we did not see his work" >also openai: "we cannot rule out that de-identified data from their usage helped improve our models" they stole it lmao

This mathematicians takedown of Sam Altman’s fraudulent proclamation of solving the Navier-Stokes equation, visualized.

How Massive Objects Bend Spacetime Reality!