Oh hey maybe this would be a fun place to talk about my half-baked amateur #math and possibly #topology ideas!
Say I have a semi-metric space where for every point P and real distance D > 0, there is at least one point Q where distance(P,Q)=D.
Is that space interesting in any way? Does it have a name or set of named properties?
Earlier weblog entry (using a rule about accumulation points rather than the PQD thing): https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/semi-metric-woolgathering/
Quick remark on the patch topology for constructive point-free topologists.
There is a universal way of transforming a spectral locale into a Stone locale, known as the patch construction, which exhibits the category of Stone locales with continuous maps as a coreflective subcategory of that of spectral locales with spectral maps.
Here a continuous map of spectral locales is called spectral if its defining frame homomorphism maps compact opens to compact opens.
In other words, for any spectral locale A there is a Stone locale Patch A and a continuous map ε : Patch A → A such that any continuous map X → A from a Stone locale X factors uniquely through ε.
Now specialize X to the terminal locale 1, whose frame of opens is the object Ω of truth values.
Then the above universal property says that the "spectral points of A", namely spectral maps 1 → A, are in canonical bijection with the points of Patch A, namely the continuous maps 1 → Patch A.
This is interesting because, classically, A and Patch A have the same points.
To see how badly this fails constructively, consider A = 𝕊 = Sierpinski locale.
The defining frame of the Sierpinski locale can be defined in the following two equivalent ways, and, as is well known, it classifies open sublocales:
(1) The free frame on one generator.
(2) The Scott topology of Ω.
Now we have that Patch 𝕊 ≃ 𝟚 := 1+1.
We know that the frame of the locale 𝟚 is simply the powerset of the set 1+1 (which type theorists may write as Fin 2).
The easiest way to see this is to check that the inclusion ε : 𝟚 → Ω satisfies the above co-universal property.
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Good point
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So as far as I can tell, e/acc ( #eacc I guess, "Effective Acceleration") which is the latest techbro idea, is that since we use resources to do things, some of which are desirable, it's a MORAL IMPERATIVE to use resources as quickly as possible. Thus hastening the heat death of the universe, when all possible resources have been converted to "utility", and everything is just a sea of featureless thermodynamic equilibrium without thought or life.
Great, billionaires in a suicide cult. 🤪
So if a doctor in Texas performs an abortion, they are fined $100K, lose their medical license, and get a life sentence. If a woman in Texas gets an abortion:, she's fined $10K and sentenced to life in prison.
But if a man forces his wife to take abortion pills, it's 180 days jail.
Tell me it's not about controlling women.
The Trump-appointed Florida judge in the documents case is part of his defense team. This has been clear from the start, and almost every move she makes is plainly designed to help him. An ongoing travesty. https://joycevance.substack.com/p/mar-a-lago-update
Posted! On objective truth and formal systems and semi-metric spaces and things.
Semi-metric woolgathering https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/semi-metric-woolgathering/
US POL
Very vexing to me this general feeling that it would be just too weird to actually take the constitutional seriously, and it's best to find some way to pretend that everything is fine and normal. This is how Trump et al get away with stuff!
Ahh I see! Nice to see even ACB not going along with Trump.
i.e. she hasn't read the 14th Amendment, or what?
122) Some have posited that #Election2024 will be the first #AI #Election
Looks like a certain #Texas based corporation by the name of Life Corporation and its owner Walter Monk can expect to experience some deep law enforecement scrutiny for deceptively impersonating Pres #JoeBiden's voice
Hopefuly this will pursued agressively to dissaude other dirty trick types
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/us/politics/biden-robocall-new-hampshire.html
Infosec, IoT, tech stuff
There appears to be considerable scepticism. :) I wouldn't be surprised if there was actually some vulnerability allowing this, even from a Bluetooth device, though, IoT being what it is...
Infosec, IoT, tech stuff
https://www.notebookcheck.net/3-million-smart-toothbrushes-cause-millions-in-damage-due-to-DDoS-attack.800810.0.html
3 million smart toothbrushes cause millions in damage due to DDoS attack
Okay, but lol.
"The S in IoT stands for Security!"
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