to be honest, i’m surprised that the software industry managed to lose this energy so badly that this sort of lift is needed to bring it back!

i couldn’t understand the initial post, but i am starting to get a fuller picture reading your replies. do you mean, “ai has the capacity to help more people build *their* version of xyz app to taste”? if so, yeah, that’s pretty cool!! very lost dream of the 90s…

🎼 “I just deaded you, left you in all black / but dear old Stevie, please call back” 🎶

[suddenly Lena Dunham] or *a* state of *a* generation

"hell yeah babe, increase the order of the cone points that are my tits, let's ratchet that Z/2Z up to a Z/nZ for some large n"

i wonder what it decodes to. not enough to scan it myself tho i guess

greg spam is exactly the kind i need way more of in my life

not that she needs me to cape for her but i do object a little. the quotation, which is reported speech—never as grammatically nice as writing—seems pretty clearly to say to me “doing quality work is not going away as a value. the toothpaste is not going back in the tube and we’re adjusting.”

is the big republican dip around 2015ish Obergefell?

Z mod 2 Z Oh Gee Oh

wow this exchange is way more family friendly than “ho(top)” would have made me joke 🥹

you’re making it really hard not to joke in response.

probably “the homotopy category”?

i’m not quite sure if this is the same thing, but it reminds me of the cacophony of voices present at points in Imre Lakatos’s frame story for “Proofs and Refutations” recreating fancifully some of the historical record trying to put the notion of Euler characteristic on a solid footing.