Kartik

I'm happy to introduce Symmatica, a space to situate our theoretical formalisms within wider pursuits of awe and meaning. For now, a blog. Someday, a community for those who live between proofs and poems. Symmatica starts here: symmatica.substack.com

@drishtadyumn don't know how the plot was produced but the x-axis is not normalised to per capita duh

Wait, I was under the impression that Narinder mudi is a violent dictator who brutally suppresses any sort of dissent. How are people able to do all this?

@PAHoyeck I'm generally disappointed by scifi movies because they rarely go as hard as print-sf (due to the length constraints ofc). But from a film-making/craft perspective Herzog's 'Lessons from Darkness' and Tarkovsky's 'Solaris' are absolute cinema

Updating my science fiction film to-watch list. What are some philosophically poignant science fiction films I need to see? I'd especially appreciate neglected films and foreign films I'm probably not familiar with.

might as well post this here too I guess

I'm a Buddhist in that I support dialetheism and para-consistent logic, and I'm a Vedantic in that I support the Neo-Aristotelian grounding program and priority monism

@davidbessis This reminds me of a thread by @getjonwithit He said his work on automated theorem proving made him realize that, in some sense, it was the mathematician's interest in a patch of a landscape of theorems that breaths life into an otherwise sophisticated but sterile space

I'm equally upset by the AI bros and the luddites. As a pure mathematician, I identify both as a "barbarian" (I wasn't ashamed to publish computer-assisted proofs) and a "Thurstonian" (I value human understanding above theorem proving).

About a week ago, I received this blunt direct message. I thought about a quick "feel-good" reply, but came to the conclusion that it deserved a much more detailed and nuanced response.⤵️

@TOEwithCurt Cool thread. Another angle to infinity which has foundational interest is its application in physics; from Berkeley-Newton debates about infinitesimals, to renormalizations and GR singularities, conformal completions and asymptotic symmetries (im biased because its my PhD focus)

What is infinity, exactly? For over 2,000 years, humanity insisted that infinity was only potential (roughly, this means you can always add "one more," but you never actually arrive). Aristotle thought so; Gauss just said so. Then Cantor showed up with a sort of hearsay we're still fighting about to this day. He treated infinite collections as completed objects in and of themselves. Then he proved there are strictly more of them than anyone imagined. Kronecker called Cantor a "corrupter of youth." Poincaré called Cantor's work a "disease." Cantor died in a sanatorium. Turns out, Cantor was right all along. Here's what's going on. (1/18)

@eigenron I doubt the efficacy of essays (because it's largely an aesthetic question) but what works well here is to motivate what a vision of utopian future might look like. Fiction works well for this use case. The short story called 'The Gentle Deduction' by Stiegler is a good start ig

what are the strongest theories that argue there is an objective reason to pursue human progress? any blog/article recommendations are appreciated.

@eigenron That there is grotesque suffering to be eliminated from the realm of our shared experiences, that knowledge has intrinsic value and mysteries still remain. I don't align with e/acc because I don't think swapping one set of problems with another set of problems counts as progress

You can read it here: symmatica.substack.com/p/on-sacred-pt…

First half of an essay where I motivate my secular account of sacred experiences (as someone who makes a living out of studying foundations of physics)

@zetalyrae The ending absolutely wrecked me man ;_;

I wrote a short story: an aphasic space station monitors an anomalous object, while keeping the last two humans alive. Read “Julia” at the link below:

Kartik Tiwari @hppBonn on the spacetime matter distinction uu.nl/en/research/ut…

@TVachaW Beautiful

Our unconscious mind will punish us if we aren’t living a life it can legibly interpret as heroic. This is in partly why mythological tales so often centre around heroic activity. Myth and story are how our unconscious minds communicate with us, and the hero model they present us with shows us how our deepest hearts want us to behave. They want us to adventure, to discover, to overcome obstacles, to slay dragons, to find the grail. These obstacles may be physical obstacles, mental obstacles or spiritual obstacles. These dragons may be real beasts or the beasts of our fears and insecurities and pain. These grails may be worldly prizes, spiritual flourishing or beautiful mysterious lights beckoning from deep within our own soul. But whichever obstacles are in our path, whichever dragons we encounter, whichever grail glows on our horizon, if we aren’t overcoming them, slaying them and seeking them, then our unconscious minds will become restless. They will think less of us. They will feel let down by us. They will resent us for failing to live out the heroic role they cast for us. And they will make our lives hell. Everyone needs their quest and if they refuse to take it up, the unconscious architects of the quest will consume and destroy us. If we ask ourselves every morning - how can I be heroic today? - then our lives will run much smoother. That is, we may invite more external turbulence into our lives, but we will be able to navigate it with evermore peace as the wind of our spirits will be in our sails. The armies of our soul will be on our side. To refuse the call to heroism is to insult our soul and to pervert the natural pattern of our being. The nitty gritty of our quests will often feel mundane on a day to day basis. The heroic thing to do on a given day might be just to call your mum, take the bins out, or hold your partner in their pain. Or it might be to dare to write the first page of your novel, the first line of code on your prototype or record the first song on your album. It might just be having the courage to face a single fear or step out of the shadow of some particular current of shame. But whatever it is, deep down we know the difference between acting heroically and acting cowardly, whether in the most mundane or most exalted matters. We can always ask - how can I live heroically today? And our soul will always have an answer for us.

@adityaarpitha Just last week I wrote something about this 'disembodied, ideas-rich life' - open.substack.com/pub/symmatica/…

it is an urgent need to ensure your environment is aesthetically pleasing adjacent clutter, cold utilitarian efficient interfaces warp your attention away from them as you engage with them in the present making disembodied states of living in your head with ideas more favored

@vrundasays_ I consistently feel the same until I teach/tutor for a course. As soon as that happens, something within me flips. Your professors understand the wide variety of textbook material so well because they've taught it many many times

Gosh, sometimes it's like idk any of the physics I've learnt till date and it's all been a waste of years

Recent meditations on the texture of my life's major backdrops (and answering some FAQs) open.substack.com/pub/symmatica/…

@martinmbauer Friedrich Schuller's YT lectures on GR and QM are probably the most iconic ones that come to mind. Alex Flournoy's 'Physics of X' is probably lesser known but also very interesting

Send me your favourite math or physics lectures that someone in the field could follow. I would be really interested to see what everyone’s favourite technical lectures are

@ParasharDivas Damn you got some big capacitors bro 🍒

Going strong with the indigenous circuit development for our portable power stations at quintinno.com. 🚀 The next steps are clear 🏃 Test —> fabricate —> assemble —> sell

enjoying a rare relaxed autumn vacation before my phd(s) begin :D

run clubs are the new MUNs