Christian Alexander

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Christian Alexander

Christian Alexander

@CFindlater

Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Scientific Computing

Bergabung Mart 2021
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Christian Alexander
Christian Alexander@CFindlater·
I am genuinely in love with the Americans discovering Scottish people and culture - like hands-down one of the funniest things to happen.
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Christian Alexander@CFindlater·
@notch @XorDev @cmiller__ On determinants: the Lie algebra (infinitesimal action of the group) is anti-commutative by definition via the [X, Y]= - [Y, X] relation, which is precisely the structure one is already working with. For example, the group SL(2, \mathbb{R}) is all 2 \times 2 matrices w/ det = 1.
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Christian Alexander@CFindlater·
@notch @XorDev @cmiller__ Another way: groups are essentially a vector space \mathbb{R} without axiom of commutativity - this give rise to the anti-commutative algebras which are forms of the geometric algebra one sees in representations of algebras within graphics programming contexts.
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notch@notch·
In unrelated news, I finally "understand" matrix determinants well enough to implement calculating them from first principles. next up: quaternions
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Christian Alexander@CFindlater·
@XorDev @cmiller__ @notch Quaternions have strong connections to Lie theory and have seen some interesting work on computational geometry and symmetry groups in this context - this may be of interest to you.
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Chris Grocott
Chris Grocott@DrChrisGrocott·
Academic Twitter is having a meltdown because some people have just learned that you should actually read the sources you cite. This really shouldn't be as controversial as it appears to be.
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Christian Alexander@CFindlater·
I was also revising for an exam tomorrow so I guess I just go fuck myself then?
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sudoSanti
sudoSanti@SantiTobio_·
The word "manifold" should be banned for at least 2-3 years in the AI and especially neuroscience communities, with the option to publicly execute those who use it and don't know what a homeomorphism is. I would start to call it the "m-word""
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Xor@XorDev·
Whirl for(float i,z,d,h;i++<8e1;o+=vec4(9,5,h+t,1)/d) {vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy),a;p.z+=9.;a=mix(dot(a+=.5,p)*a,p,sin(h=dot(p,p/p)-t))+cos(h)*cross(a,p); for(d=0.;d++<9.;a+=.3*sin(a*d).zxy);z+=d=length(a.xz)/15.;} o=tanh(o/1e4);
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Christian Alexander@CFindlater·
@RussellWolfey @IAmTimNguyen Yeah I think I began reading this about the same time you did - shocking to see the outcomes of how science, popularity, and social media collide.
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Christian Alexander@CFindlater·
@sebs_tweets @obsdmd Yeah have found that it can incentivise this. I really like that it works with Markdown. Can make notes pretty much anywhere and import them as it needed.
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Sebastian David Lees@sebs_tweets·
@CFindlater @obsdmd I had to stop using Obsidian after I just found it slightly addictive… just collecting and categorising knowledge I would never look at again.
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