Nathan Sorenson

@takeoutweight
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I like functional programming, collecting arxiv pdfs, trying to grok Topos Theory for years, and turning tedious problems into interesting math problems. I also like meditation and consciousness and Self Growth but am deeply suspicious of others who share this interest, in a Groucho Marxian sense

we need not belabor the details of my psychodrama but fwiw I try to minimize being That Guy across a variety of dimensions

ProunounsHe/Him
Copsdefund them
Capitalismoutlook seems grim
Nathan Sorenson22h ago
Sifting through old Photoshops I've done and for some reason this is the one I find the most hilarious
Nathan SorensonMar 18
William J. Bowman🇨🇦Mar 18

I think if I spend any more time on this, I'll risk doing more harm than good: new blog post on "AI" and ethics.

https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/13/against-vibes-part-2-ought-you-use-a-generative-model/

Against Vibes Part 2: Ought You Use a Generative Model

Since the wide-spread availability and forced deployment of generative models, people have argued about the ethics of using them. Many arguments have been presented to argue that they're _bad_: they use too much electricity, boil the oceans, massively inf...

Nathan SorensonMar 16
Honk if you like when you cook with some canned ingredients and all the cans are slightly different sizes so when you rinse the cans and take them to recycling you can nest them like Russian dolls
Nathan SorensonMar 1
I've been putting it off as long as I could but I guess I'm going to have to start thinking for myself ughh
Nathan SorensonFeb 24
*using an example.com email domain to log into the coffee shop's captured wifi* "I'm in."
Nathan SorensonFeb 22
RocketsoupFeb 22

If a Klein bottle could wear pants, would it be like this or like this?

#mathstodon #math #maths #shitpost

Nathan SorensonFeb 22
Lynnesbian Feb 20

You're doubting my humanity, but you're missing some key points. Here are some of the things I've seen:

  • Attack ships firing off the shoulder of Orion. These aren't just battleships — they're spacecraft designed for warfare.
  • C-beams glittering in the dark. Their location? Near the Tannhäuser Gate.
  • Things you wouldn't believe. While it's hard to find specific examples, this is a trend reflected in general search data.

The bottom line: All those moments will be lost — like tears in rain.

Nathan SorensonFeb 20
JA WestenbergFeb 20

I want to call this the Cruft Threshold: the point at which the cost of managing, evaluating, and ignoring new tools exceeds the benefit any individual tool provides.

We crossed it somwhere around the fourteenth app that added a "summarize with AI" button.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-unbearable-weight-of-cruft/

The unbearable weight of cruft

In 1958, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith coined the term "the dependence effect" to describe something he'd noticed about postwar America: once production capacity outstrips genuine human need, you have to manufacture the desire for things nobody actually wanted. Factories that could make ten million widgets needed ten million people

Westenberg.
Nathan SorensonFeb 12
C.B. AberléFeb 9

First up on the list of recent additions to my website: something that's a bit different from my usual work on type theory, etc., but that's also very near and dear to my heart—The Music of the Primes ( https://cbaberle.com/Blog/The+Music+of+the+Primes ) a blog post exploring the fascinating connections between musical tuning, the Riemann Zeta function, and linear algebra over the integers!

Some others on this server (e.g. @johncarlosbaez ) have touched on these topics before, but they've been a pet obsession of mine for the last several years, owing to my joint musical and mathematical background, and this blog post is a fairly comprehensive write up of my findings! Check it out if you're interested!

The Music of the Primes - Corinthia Beatrix Aberlé

Prelude: A curiosity about the Riemann \zeta function If you're like me and have a passing interest in analytic number theory, you already know that the Riemann \zeta function is intimately connected…

Corinthia Beatrix Aberlé
Nathan SorensonFeb 12
Show threadtechnomancyFeb 12

I'm looking around for options; got a few job applications out, but if you're hiring for Clojure work (or, somehow, Lua???) let me know

I have a lot of friends who have been looking for work for a long time and finding basically nothing, so I get that this is a bad time to do this, but I just can't stay with things going like that

https://technomancy.us/resume

edit: found a job now, thanks for your support

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