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as someone with a passing knowledge of knot theory & a dilettante interest in math I'm really interested in the behavior/rules of those graphs, could you talk a little more about them?

this is my first ask! and it's on my research!!! i still do research in this area. i am getting my phd in topological quantum computation. i saw someone else talk about categorical quantum in response to the post. as i understand, this is a related but distinct field from quantum algebra, despite both using monoidal categories as a central focus.

if you're familiar with knot theory, you may have heard of the jones polynomial. jones is famous for many things, but one of which is his major contributions to the use of skein theory (this graphical calculus) in quantum algebra, subfactor theory, and more.

For an reu, i made an animation of how these diagrams, mostly for monoidal categories, work:

https://people.math.osu.edu/penneys.2/Synoptic.mp4

to add onto the video, in quantum algebra, we deal a lot with tensor categories, where the morphisms between any two objects form a vector space. in particular, since these diagrams are representing morphisms, it makes sense to take linear combinations, which is what we saw in the post. moreover, any relationships you have between morphisms in a tensor category, can be captured in these diagrams...for example, in the fusion category Fib, the following rules apply (in fact, these rules uniquely describe Fib):

thus, any time, these show up in your diagrams, you can replace them with something else. in general, this is a lot easier to read than commutative diagrams.

the thing about the black tides of heaven by neon yang is that while i absolutely understand why not everyone would vibe with it - it compresses so much story into so few pages - it's just SO dear to me. like there's just something so so so compelling to me in a novella about characters who are twins, one of whom is a literal prophet with the world's worst case of main character syndrome, and then making the story about the Other One. that and the transgenderisms

Sanguine Tensor needed a new character for various plot related reasons so I’m retrofitting an older character into that role. So here’s revamped Maulissa!

She got MURDERED and it was AWFUL and then came back kinda wrong due to carbon plague and captured and used by the government and got rescued by a weird lady with holes in her and a robot cat that keeps ranting about the booj-wah and nothing fits anymore and everything is terrible! She has a 4 year old son who thankfully is being taken care of by her sister and he's very chill about the whole thing. Mommy threw a truck at the cops and he thought that was great! She was a kindergarten teacher and just wants things to be normal again and it is not happening! What even is a booj-wah?!

Initially her resurrection due to carbon plague messed with her digestive system and she just has a toothy maw in her chest with horribly corrosive chemical. Her original mouth is gone and she just has a weird air filter instead. In a weird inversion of Zmeyevich she gets a secondary power set in the form of hyperspace worms. These turn her into a meat TARDIS with a weird subspace internal factory and she can “copy” the macro scale characteristics of anything she eats. And she’s capable of eating nearly anything. The copied objects are made of carbon allotropes and generally have superior strength/toughness/sharpness compared to the original.

They always come out covered in spit. It’s gross.

So in addition to be very strong and fast she can puke up ridiculously sharp swords. And every once in a while she can puke up something that’s doesn’t 100% seem to obey physics and confuses spectrometers.

She has to hang out with supervillians and they won't shut up about science. Please help her.

(via A part of the human population can voluntarily control the tensor tympani. tensor tympani is a muscle within the ear. Contracting this muscle produces vibration and sound. The sound is usually described as a rumbling sound. : interesting)

July 11 2023: Non binary character

I have to admit, it took some getting used to reading "they/them" because I had to pay close attention if it was singular or plural "they." Is it easier for native speakers? Nevertheless, I did enjoy the book and got used to it.

Everyone talks about thinking rationally. But this is of course a mere approximation. At least in special cases, we should be able to understand how to think integrally. In this essay I will compute-

Slowly finishing my preparations for my last exam this summer term...

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Just finished tensorate series by neon yang and those novellas were soooo good I devoured them. It’s hard to pick a favorite… some of the things I really liked were Akeha’s relationship with gender (and how in the 3rd one it’s just stated they use they/them now with no further explanation, I fucking love that), the narration of the last 2 novellas (I’m a sucker especially for anything that’s an assortment of academic records or reports), the richness of the worldbuilding, and how you’re given answers that have just enough ambiguity to keep you both satisfied and constantly theorizing. Rider was my favorite character, I got really attached to them and I was so elated when they didn’t die and Mokoya was able to have that prophetic dream about their future (also they (presumably with the help of thennjay) have twins? Nobody tell Sonami.) Rider’s slackcraft was also cool… I hope they managed to rescue their twin… imagine raising your twin sibling who is like 20-30 years younger than you with your polycule… also I want a lizard arm… okay I think red strings of fate is probably my favorite then. Hmm lastly I’ll say that I think these novellas altogether tell a story that is perfectly wrapped up and I’m very satisfied but I do love that but there’s enough stuff to build upon if there were ever more additions and while I don’t think that will be likely I love that I can still think “oh what’s Sonami’s reign gonna be like” and “are they actually clones of Hekate and what does that mean” etc. idk this series is awesome you should read it

Map of the protectorate from the Tensorate Series by Neon Yang.

We heard her staccato thunder first, then she came into view, above the treeline, a cluster of red lights illuminating a vaguely humanoid shape in fits and flashes. She moved faster than vision. After that I remember nothing but a ringing in my ears and the smell of blood.

I finally finished THE TENSORATE SERIES by Neon Yang! Each book is written in a completely different style than the others, and is told from a different character's perspective. They're magical, queer, and morally gray.

You should read all four novellas, but for the sake of consistency...

Read THE BLACK TIDES OF HEAVEN if you love twins, breaking free, dysfunctional families, tyrants, monasteries, uprisings, discovering your identity, prophesies, genderfuckery & beginnings.

Read THE RED THREADS OF FORTUNE if you love grief narratives, deserts, running away, running forward, scars, discovering new powers, trauma narratives, breaking & entering, and cute enbies.

Read THE DESCENT OF MONSTERS if you love epistolary tales, mysteries, detectives, cover-ups, missing children, destiny, creepy settings, beasts, class dynamics, and heroes.

Read THE ASCENT TO GODHOOD if you love drunk protagonists, reminiscing about the past, dancing girls, espionage, ending at the beginning, f**ked up families, young queer love, unlikable people & beginning at the end.

The tensor tympani is a muscle within the middle ear. It automatically contracts in order to dampen loud sounds, usually ones produced in one’s head, such as chewing, coughing, and swallowing, but it also reacts to external noises like thunder.

Interestingly, while the tensor tympani’s reaction to loud sounds is completely involuntary, approximately 16% of the population can voluntarily contract this muscle, producing a low rumbling sound in their ears. Reportedly, many “ear rumblers” to block out annoying or disruptive sounds, though most cannot keep the muscle contracted for longer than a minute at a time.

All of that is to say, my headcanon with regards to Kryptonians is that they have exceptional control over their tensor tympani muscles, which they “rumble” in order to block out most of the sound that would otherwise be picked up by their superhearing.