Mark C.

@Unprovable
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Researcher/Consultant in security and more. Jazz thinker w/out portfolio. Looks at ML, web3, and quantum - within and without cybersecurity. Started BSides Leeds, now helping with Quantum Village @ DEF CON
Mark C.May 21
Greg EganMay 21

Trying to brush up on my field theory to understand the counterexamples to the Erdős unit distance problem has made my inner dialogue sound like …

“totally real!”
“totally imaginary!”
“totally ramified!”

Mark C.May 21

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/116611684153322775

I'd love to see the survivorship stats on this... How many one shot maths conjecture runs came up with utter tosh vs. this one big win?

Mark C.May 21
Show threadGro-TsenMay 21
Oh wait, there's a graph on their announcement post. Is the y axis the probability of solving the problem successfully in a given run? The fact that there's absolutely no label on the x axis is a bit of a downer. Also, we'd very much like to know if all the runs produced “isomorphic” solutions.
Mark C.May 7
LobstersMay 5
Inexpressibility in Exp-Minus-Log https://lobste.rs/s/hmunw6 #math
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01636
Inexpressibility in Exp-Minus-Log

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Lobsters
Mark C.May 7

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/116520734629082281

This was fun to do... Fun fact; the substitutions for x*y, -x, and x^{-1} are minimal (by exhaustive search).

Show threadMark C.Apr 25
@tautology is SQL a new type of LLM?
Mark C.Apr 24

Tired; use poetry to hack your AI...
Wired; bad bard.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2026/04/23/how-poetry-is-diabolically-being-used-in-everyday-prompts-to-get-ai-to-do-things-it-isnt-supposed-to-do/

How Poetry Is Diabolically Being Used In Everyday Prompts To Get AI To Do Things It Isn’t Supposed To Do

Hackers and evildoers are using adversarial poetry to jailbreak AI. The trick involves writing poems as prompts. AI safeguards can be averted. An AI Insider scoop.

Forbes
Show threadMark C.Apr 24
@henryk @revk I think I last achieved anything like this with JavaScript embedded in the SVG. I do wonder if there's a pure markup way of doing it?
Show threadMark C.Apr 24
@henryk @revk oh this is fun. Use deBruijn's approach for Penrose tilings - he solved some major problems by looking at permitted corners :) if you code those into your loop, you generate the right tiling. Probably. :)
Show threadMark C.Apr 24
@henryk @revk hello hello?