clocksSugars

pov you asked her about her interests

you can find it on my website if this is your cup of tea clockssugars.blog/articles/0426-…

finally finished the longass article i was working on about efficient Ax=b solvers and intuitive understanding of how conjugate gradient works efficiently it turns out that a biproduct of solving Ax=b means future Ax=c problems require only a single dot product on each iteration

none of it matters. not the hedonism, not the glory, not the pain. glory to the highest, Christ is King. ✝️

its really incredible how much less problem solving you have to do if you're willing to do literature review

@creatine_cycle 🫵

i've never seen a hot pause AI guy that can bench 225 for reps

havent noticed many people mentioning "reality distortion fields" lately. come to think of it im not sure i've seen anyone distort reality in at least a year, probably two

@scootykins maam this isnt tumblr

I will drink the horse electrolytes i will eat the horse treats. I will take the beef flavored dog life extending pills. I am a farm animal. I am a freak of nature. I will live forever

@drethelin you could delete this post in an hour and find out

If someone sends you a message and then deleted it but you saw it, should you say something?

@rachtsingh look man, all i wanted to do was write a finite element solver that runs on webgpu, now i have ACTUAL NIGHT TERRORS ABOUT KRYLOV SUBSPACES why is all of this happening to me 😭

@clocksSugars working on something better than UMFPACK?

the awful realization, after all this lit review, that sparse Ax=b iterative solves are largely dot product workloads and thus probably better off as CPU tasks than GPU tasks

@ksbspecialops you go to math classes dressed like this?

@Impish_Bunny this just reads like you told it to vibecheck your instagram and write a pov poem

what the hell is my claude on about

@ksbspecialops this looks like a meme format

@esotericwaifu @male_leo_xxvi i hate this crossover event

@male_leo_xxvi exactly. leave that for your schizo wife

as a man, why are you having thoughts

what kind of bullshit is this, you mean to tell me not only is preconditioned conjugate gradient 'optimal' but also it converges exponentially

@1thousandfaces_ from after the leetcode funeral?

I never quite recovered from my cold 2 weeks back so i'm just perpetually at 60% battery and keep saying shit that makes me sound like Jeremy Fragrance

@Bonecondor which eye

last night in the middle of the night i awoke woozily, had no idea where i was, and immediately ran into the corner of my nightstand with my eye. i felt the corner slide between my eyeball and orbital socket……….now i have a crazy black eye

@generic_void good post. stealing this for copypasta

I live in a limestone-and-glass building south of Pacific Heights, the kind of place where the lobby smells like money, eucalyptus, and seed-stage fraud. My name is anon. I’m 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, maintaining a clean stack, and keeping my blood chemistry within acceptable operating parameters. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I put on an ice pack and scroll X until I see three people I know subtweeting each other about compute, Zionism, or whether AGI should be allowed to do ketamine. Then I do my crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the ice pack, I wash with a cleanser expensive enough to imply self-respect but not so expensive that it signals LA. In the shower, I rotate between a medically unnecessary body scrub and whatever minimalist Scandinavian product makes my bathroom look like a founder kidnapping victim lives there. Then I begin the real routine: electrolytes, black coffee, magnesium, nicotine, a handful of compounds sourced from websites that look like they were built to sell fake passports, and a small but meaningful quantity of pharmacological optimism. By this point the smart Adderall box has already pinged my phone, verified the time, and dispensed exactly enough amphetamine to turn ambient dread into productive abstraction. While Bach plays in the background, I review overnight group chats, check whether clawdbot said anything spiritually corrosive, glance at a preprint on GLP-1 agonists, and open Cursor to vibecode some totally unnecessary internal tool that will either make me feel briefly omnipotent or trigger a six-hour dissociative spiral about Chinese manufacturing dominance. Then moisturizer. Then eye cream. Then sunscreen. Because entropy is real, aging is real, and the only moral response is countermeasure. There is an idea of anon. A Bay Area abstraction. Someone with good skin, good taste, a custom supplement protocol, and opinions about export controls that become more coherent the more stimulants enter his bloodstream. But there is no real me. Only a permissions structure. A chemical timing device. A thin membrane separating Handel, Adderall, and terminal windows from complete psychic disintegration. And though I can hide my optimized gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our eGFR scores are probably comparable, I simply am not there.

last week's lecture was on introducing prerequisites for homotopy type theory. we went through set quotients, topology, some very basic applications of category theory, and the basics of martin lof type theory for propositional logic. notes here: clockssugars.blog/articles/0326-…

i guess im doing weekly math lectures now. the blog article version of the lecture is out on my website. we detail from a purely matrix-oriented perspective, the very basics of group theory and Lie group theory for a non-mathematical audience. clockssugars.blog/articles/0326-…