spectral gap

@icobeast @lzminsky @Kalshi @j0hnwang I mean a cash settled option like SPX but instead of the S&P just some scalar outcome. Eg unemployment % print or like 2027 Q3 top line revenue for Google

@lzminsky @eigendecomposer @Kalshi @j0hnwang By continuous payouts…do you mean perps?

Happy to ship the first version of Hedgebook, powered by @Kalshi : an app showing how every SPX companies can hedge their core business risks using Kalshi event contract markets. Event contracts and perpetual contracts consolidated into a single, onshore, regulated exchange is how we get to perfect Arrow-Debreu markets. Thanks to @j0hnwang and @0x_ultra for inviting me to build this, and to Nicole from @KalshiResearch for inviting me to present the early frameworks at the Kalshi Research Conference in March.

@dwarkesh_sp Misha Lukin

Who should I interview on my podcast? Open to more AI, but also to random history/econ/etc professors that I might not have heard of before.

anthropic literally has the mandate of heaven now?!

Having studied math at a graduate level, I suspect the Mathematics Industrial Complex should be shaking in their boots right now. Once you have a machine that solves industrial math problems on demand, the will to fund speculative math research greatly diminishes.

many of the same dynamics would still exist, but there wouldn’t be the incentive to maximize time on the app

if @pmarca or some other SaaS guy wanted to help out Gen Z, they would make a nonprofit Hinge alternative that is actually designed to be deleted. This would be enormously popular if executed thoughtfully bc every for profit dating app is guaranteed to have perverse incentives

@XYHan_ thank you professor for the Sunday afternoon inspiration

Imagine if Erdos were still alive with a GPT-5.5 Pro subscription and amped up on amphetamines.

@indefeasible_ @mannatvjain I’m interviewing them at a conference

@eigendecomposer @mannatvjain you're interviewing ppl from those labs for something or you're interviewing at them?

why I quit theory…

@indefeasible_ @mannatvjain I will be interviewing Periodic/Lila ppl next week, gimme questions

@mannatvjain @eigendecomposer I mean, automation is definitely cool, like what Ginkgo does. But isn't physical experimentation and discovery bottlenecked by, like, VLM advancement? If we could do everything in silico, I feel it would be more promising.

“Did you hear about the new rules about uploading to arksiv? Crazy right”

@Trotztd going back to experimental research

@eigendecomposer pretty enough, huh?

@indefeasible_ a lot of this happens in math depts as just “dynamical systems theory”

is there an actual name for the field i've been calling macroscale biophysics (i.e., the study of the motion of whole animals/organisms)? or is it just classified as active matter physics? there is some cool work being done on mice/drosophila/worms by physicists that feels different from traditional active matter biophysics (e.g., vicsek model).

@indefeasible_ I have no idea what they use at mit tbh, uchi math sweats recommended it to me

@eigendecomposer is that the book they teach out of at mit? Only recommended readings for theoretical linalg at harvard are Rudin and Axler. but yeah i know all the mechanical stuff that is taught in less rigorous intro classes, so ill take a look

can anyone recommend me a intro to proofs book/lecture notes to read this summer?

@saltwatersoph @indefeasible_ honestly might walk up to Constellation hq and ask for a job

@eigendecomposer @indefeasible_ I’m sure you could find things to do in Berkeley / SF but it’s lowkey a bit dead post finals.

I need to find smth to do this summer in sf or Berkeley TBH I don’t want to just sit and do baby Rudin all day.

@indefeasible_ @saltwatersoph this is funny bc I’m going to bum around this summer in either Berkeley or Cambridge but still haven’t decided which

@saltwatersoph me personally im hyped to just roam around cambridge in july and larp

@mean_field_zane the funniest part about this is that she has a higher h index than him

She had a tattoo across her chest that read “Fortnite” in Arabic.