🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

#introductions

Let's see... apparently, putting in a bunch of tags of things that interest me is going to make it easier for other people who share those interests to run across me.

Alright, then. Let's see...

#literature
#pratchett
#boardgames
#programming
#ai
#sciencefiction
#science
#machinelearning
#fantasy
#mathematics

...that should be enough for the moment, I guess.

Remember kids. #linguistics is a dangerous profession.

So. This will be my first mastodon post.

Whatever else I do, this will always be at the top of my timeline. However things change.

I should probably make it somehow interesting, or timelessly relevant.

But there is such a thing as overthinking things. A poor first post is very ignorable, and I don't want analysis paralysis to prevent me from ever posting anything at all.

So... overthought first post done, I guess.

@carlostomas @freemo

...it's certainly an approach worth looking at.

I've only looked at the overview of the proof, but there is one thing that occurs to me; and tht is that, when using the distance argument (i.e. showing that numbers have a common factor with each other, and that factor is not present in the number sought as a sum) it is *not* required that *all* the terms have the same factor.

To illustrate this, let us assume a set of N numbers, all of which are multiples of three (some may be negative). To this set of numbers, let us add the number 1, which is not a multiple of three. We now have a set of N+1 numbers, all but one of which are multiples of three; and there is no subset of these numbers which can possibly add up to 20. So we can use distance for identification of multiple subset sums even when some elements of the sum do not share a common factor.

If that common factor is 3, then we can have at most one number which does not share the common factor. However, for larger common factors, the number that we can have which do not share that factor becomes larger; with a common factor of 5, we can have at least three numbers in the set which do not share the common factor and yet still leave certain totals impossible to reach.

I'm not entirely sure how this applies to the subset problem in a general sense.

#JoeBiden 2020

Right?

You’re voting for this guy?

@freemo @General the little flag coming out of john wayne's gun

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Today is Vim's birthday!

It's been 29 years since Bram Moolenaar gave Vim it's first public release in 1991, November 2nd. After 8 major releases and a 9th in consideration, Vim has come a long way.

Take a chance to show your appreciation for the greatest text editor of all time!

@freemo @Nigma when you vote third party you're voting for the bad guy(tm)

#introductions

Interested in all things nerdy, often obscure things as well:
#science
#math
#programming
#art
#music
#physics
#philosophy
#linguistics
#cryptography
#animation
#vfx
#videogames
#neuralnetworks
#ai
#conlangs
#chess
#horology
#writing

Feel free to poke me with conversation!

@freemo @arteteco This one seems active this year: https://www.votepact.org

Though you have to find your own person to pair up with.

@freemo How about Jo Jorgensen?