as alive as you need me to be
Well they are different religions so they will obviously be murdering each other, as evidenced by... basically all of human history?
Oh, I'm sure that will go over well with the notoriously culturally accepting and tolerant folks of Idaho.
Yeah lol, damn, 70% of the US population was apparently murdered in 2006, label your axes kids, especially when you're dual-wielding!
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Well, I'm not quite sure how to ... intentionally create a cultural nexus ... but I would say that having something like lemmy, piefed, the fediverse, is at least a good start.
Socializing, discussion, via a non corpo platform.
Beyond that, uh, maybe something more lile an actual syndicalist collective, or at least a union?
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Yep, literal, functional idiots, as in, they keep doing easily provably as stupid things, mainly because they are too stubborn to admit they could be wrong about anything.
I used to be part of this industry, and I bailed, because the ratio of higher ups that I encountered anywhere, who were competent at their jobs vs arrogant lying assholes was about 1:9.
Corpo tech culture is fucked.
Makes me wanna chip in a little with a Johnny Silverhand solo.
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Shit idiots with enthusiasm could be trained, mentored, molded into assets for the company, by the company.
Ala an apprenticeship structure or something similar, like how you need X years before you're a journeyman at many hands on trades.
But uh, nope, C suite could order something like that be implemented at any time.
They don't though.
Because that would make next quarter projections not look as good.
And because that would require actual leadership.
This used to be how things largely worked in the software industry.
But, as with many other industries, now finance runs everything, and they're trapped in a system of their own making... but its not really trapped, because... they'll still get a golden parachute no matter what happens, everyone else suffers, so that's fine.
Oh great, I didn't realize CTE was fucking contagious, i guess blunt force trauma is the cause and the transmission vector, what a fucking piece of shit.
As much as I hate to use this term because of the most prominent person associated with it:
This literally is an infowar, this is an actual psyop.
Targetted and fairly convincing mis and disinformation deployed at exactly the moment it would generate the most chaos and distrust in your own ability to evaluate reality?
Yeah. Yeah.
Thats a psyop, that is what an actual psyop is.
This is the guy with CTE cottage cheese brain, right?
Halle-fucking-julah, it lives, it lives!
I was very worried this project has basicslly died.
Or, they already are homeless.
Well, I would attempt to provide that, but I am not giving scientific american my email.
Ah ok, ycombo commenter has solved that.
Most of the article is relevant background information, here's some of that, and the new stuff:
In particular, the prime numbers were shown to obey certain random measures. In math, a measure is concerned with the statistical behavior of a large number of things. For instance, a single particle of gas might be easy to model, but to predict the behavior of a large cloud of billions of particles would be beyond today’s computational power. Instead the overall statistics of the cloud’s movements can be captured as a particular type of random measure.
Northwestern University mathematician Maksym Radziwill calls the technique a probability oracle. “I can quickly get the truth out of probability,” he says. “I can find the right model, and then I can figure out what is the right answer for pretty much any question.” But the oracle fails to explain the deeper meaning behind that answer, leaving mathematicians with few insights for how to prove their new discoveries.
To be clear, the primes are not random numbers; they are completely deterministic. But if you choose a large number of primes, their distribution—theway they are spread across the number line—behaves statistically like certain types of random sequences. But what kinds?
The first measure of the primes was found in the 1970s during a chance discussion between University of Cambridge Ph.D. student Hugh Montgomery and famed physicist Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study. Montgomery was wary of bothering the venerable Dyson but diffidently told him about his work, says Jon Keating, a mathematical physicist at the University of Oxford familiar with the story. Dyson reacted with extreme excitement, realizing that Montgomery’s ideas tied into projects he was already working on.
Dyson was well versed with random measures because of a collaboration with Nobel Prize–winning physicist Eugene Wigner to understand the mathematics of the nuclei of heavy atoms. Directly calculating the allowed energies of such heavily populated nuclei was too complex, so Wigner statistically predicted the energy levels. The results showed energies that fell on “regularly” irregular spacings; they weren’t clumped tightly together or extremely far apart.
Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the positions of the notorious zeros of the Riemann zeta function. They weren’t evenly spaced, but neither were they completely uncorrelated.
In a discovery as shocking as it was beautiful, the spacings between the zeros of the Riemann zeta function were shown to match the same type of random measure that described quantum systems. For the prime numbers, it hinted at subtle patterns woven into otherwise murky statistics.
Since then, close to a dozen random measures have been linked to the primes, but many of the findings amount to conjectures. “A lot of these results really build your intuition,” Radziwill says. “They tell you what a typical object looks like, but they don’t actually prove results by themselves.”
At a September 2025 conference, Adam Harper, a number theorist at the University of Warwick in England, presented a proof of a different random measure’s suitability in the quest to find prime patterns. Gaussian multiplicative chaos captures highly fluctuating, scale-invariant randomness, which describes various chaotic systems, from turbulence to quantum gravity and even financial markets. Because fractals are scale-invariant, it is sometimes also referred to as a “random fractal measure.” Surprisingly, Harper’s proof showed that statistics associated with the zeros of the zeta function could also be captured by random fractal measures.
Furthermore, Harper, Max Wenqiang Xu of New York University and Kannan Soundararajan of Stanford University found a way to predict when this chaotic behavior emerged in the primes. Random measures describe large collections of prime numbers. But as you consider smaller and smaller collections, the statistics change, losing their probabilistic patterns and reverting to pure, unstructured randomness. The group announced during a 2025 summer conference that if random fractal measures described the numbers up to x, then for all the intervals in a transition period (x to x + y, where y is small) they could calculate the exact mix of randomness and chaos. Following this interval, the statistics reverted to random fractal measures.
When mathematicians tried to look at the short interval (x to x + √x), they were thrust into deeper mathematical waters dubbed “beyond the square root barrier.” Inside this small stretch, Harper conjectured in a 2023 paper that, after 200 years, he had found a better way to count prime numbers than Riemann’s historic equation. And indeed, in a 2025 paper, Xu and Victor Wang, a mathematician now at the Institute of Mathematics in Taiwan, demonstrated that Harper’s conjecture was true. The derivation fell short of a complete proof because it relied on a separate conjecture imported from physicists. “That’s the very funny part,” Xu says. “I’m personally not a big fan of physics, but my work relies on their intuition.”
But what do all these findings really say about the primes? Radziwill is cautious. “If I have a random number generator on a computer, it’s not random to me,” he says. “But if you don’t know how it’s functioning, it’s random to you.” In other words, just as a cloud of gas particles could be described deterministically if a powerful enough computer existed, there may be a highly complex deterministic method that can describe the primes. Until then, mathematicians (and physicists) continue to grapple with the meaning behind the many profound probabilistic patterns.
So... as best I can tell, this is not something that fundamentally breaks cryptography... at least not yet.
Basically, it seems that a new method for analyzing prime numbers and sets of prime numbers, one that is more... informative/precise than doing different kinds of analysis of the 200 year old Riemann Zeta function... that appears to have been achieved.
It is still not a proof, a full fledged solution that describes everything perfectly, all primes or where they would be in any given set of numbers, provably so.
But, it seems to be quite useful given you have a supercomputer to assign to prime number analysis.
I... have no idea at all what the actual computational efficiency of this new method is vs the various ways of anakyzing the Riemann Zeta function are, but it seems that this new function is both more precise/informative, yet also requires substantially more computational power.
There, there's an attempt at a summary from someone who almost minored in math, but didn't, because I reoriented toward a double degree in Econ/Econometrics and also Political Science.
Yeah, the... actual descriptions of exactly what they are doing and how they are using it is not present in the article, nor even in what I could see that it linked to, which were largely just abstracts, summaries of speeches to be given.
I don'f think that this would blow up modern cryptography, as that would require a way of basically doing something like an extremely fast and robust factoring of resultant numbers back down into their actual prime factors... where those resultant numbers have 256, 512, etc digits.
It... seems possible that this... could maybe be done... with some kind of reference help from this new method, but would require an unknown, but seemingly extremely large amount of computational power.
I don't know, I am out my depth, and am not able to find very precise information from the article on that kind of application of the new function.
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeFactorizationAlgorithms.html
Going by this, the fastest and totally deterministic prime factorization algo is still from the 80s/90s.
Where this newly discovered function is not deterministic, it is probabalistic, yes more precise in being able to differentiate between randomness and chaos, but still probabalistic, it is not a prime factorization function/method/algo, and it seems to work best ... or only really be relevant? ... with smaller sets, smaller ranges of numbers, at describing where primes pop up in those constrained sets.
I think we would need an actual math / cryptology / computer science PhD or something like that to appear to be able to explain whether or not anything I just said is remotely accurate or relevant.
... Drunken Tiger Paw?
Evolutionary advantage...?
Uh... its fairly energy conserving, accomplishes the desired goal when time is not a critical factor, also keeps kitty limber via basically a light stretch/workout of many diffent muscle/tendon groups?
... Has anyone adopted a 'Master' - 'Padawan' paradigm?
I mean, there are only so many golf courses, he's on one of them getting in all those strokes, best place for it.
Secondary reminder that the man literally demonizing his opponents has declared it to be criminal to criticise him or his cronies by accurately describing them with politically descriptive nouns or adjectives.
This doesn't just go away with the next midterms people, there ain't gonna be no next midterms, not meaningfully anyway, unless people actually do something to stop and depose this fucking madman.
You fail to understand the power of being an illiterate dumbass, all the time, every day, 24/7.
The man on the TV said the thing I agree with, I think!
... thats it, that's the level of cognition going on here.
Well, that and Trump is basically personally appointed by Jesus himself to do what he does, according to most of these idiot's pastors.
Oh, well a majority of Trump supporters explicitly voted to end those subsidies, so maybe at this point they should all just be purged from the voter rolls if they are definitionally too stupid to be trusted with voting.
Oh well, natural selection plays out either way I guess, sucks that these idiots are collectively going to be responsible for millions of unnecessary deaths, but I guess at least a large chunk of those deaths are themselves...
... its like with covid and not wearing masks, getting vaxxed.
Stay as safe as you can and at least a lot of these morons will kill themselves, with extra steps, sorry we can't have nice things, idiots decided to idiot harder.
... and all the actual tech nerds who told everyone they should avoid smart devices like the plague laugh and laugh...