finished my first “serious” formalization (i.e. it’s an actual theorem, not a toy example). this is based on an example from the book i’m reading (Mathematics in Lean) but i rewrote the code on my own from scratch to better understand the proof.
it was fun! (and took me the whole week)
it was fun! (and took me the whole week)
Formalization of Schröder–Bernstein theorem in Lean, based on an exercise from Mathematics in Lean
Formalization of Schröder–Bernstein theorem in Lean, based on an exercise from Mathematics in Lean - schroeder_bernstein.lean
gist.github.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
finished my first “serious” formalization (i.e. it’s an actual theorem, not a toy example). this is based on an example from the book i’m reading (Mathematics in Lean) but i rewrote the code on my own from scratch to better understand the proof.
it was fun! (and took me the whole week)
it was fun! (and took me the whole week)
Corrections that say the study was merely the formalization of a hypothesis and provides no evidence that ROGD is a real phenomenon.
Classic Jesse to be like "Can you believe this ODIOUS FREAK is spreading MENDACIOUS LIES" and his actual correction is that Littman's paper wasn't technically redacted, it was merely republished after major corrections.
Here’s one interaction I experienced with Jesse Singal. It was over Littman’s discredited ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’ (ROGD) PlosOne article. In the thread he selectively quoted, I noted the striking similarities between Wakefield’s bunk autism paper with Littman’s ROGD paper— 1/n
December 11, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Corrections that say the study was merely the formalization of a hypothesis and provides no evidence that ROGD is a real phenomenon.
The formalization of pedocon theory is that sexual violence is baked into conservative understanding of hierarchies and sexual violence from outside it is seen as actually bad. Hence trans panic but no Southern Baptist preacher panic, or all those “I’ll kill my daughter’s boyfriend” jokes.
Qanon basically came true. a cabal of pedophile sex traffickers has seized control of the state news.sky.com/story/andrew...
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have left Romania for the US
Andrew Tate - a champion of Donald Trump - and his brother are on a private plane to Florida, according to Romanian media.
news.sky.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The formalization of pedocon theory is that sexual violence is baked into conservative understanding of hierarchies and sexual violence from outside it is seen as actually bad. Hence trans panic but no Southern Baptist preacher panic, or all those “I’ll kill my daughter’s boyfriend” jokes.
How to widen the Oligarch vs. A Everyday American gap even further. That's also a formalization of corruption.
February 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
How to widen the Oligarch vs. A Everyday American gap even further. That's also a formalization of corruption.
To the extent that it's a coherent ideology, Trumpism (Mk.II) can be described as the ratification and formalization of thirty years of legislative atrophication.
now, well, it turns out we invested the president with an absurd amount of discretionary authority. *congress* did that, by way of abdicating its own role in government. instead of making tough decisions it handed the president a blank check. just look at how the 9/11 AUMF is *still* being used!
March 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
To the extent that it's a coherent ideology, Trumpism (Mk.II) can be described as the ratification and formalization of thirty years of legislative atrophication.
🇺🇦 In Lviv, Ukraine and partner states issued a joint declaration confirming readiness to launch a Special Tribunal on Russian aggression. The legal groundwork is complete—next step: formalization at the Council of Europe meeting in Luxembourg on May 13–14.
May 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🇺🇦 In Lviv, Ukraine and partner states issued a joint declaration confirming readiness to launch a Special Tribunal on Russian aggression. The legal groundwork is complete—next step: formalization at the Council of Europe meeting in Luxembourg on May 13–14.
No Democrat should attend the formalization of fascism.
January 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
No Democrat should attend the formalization of fascism.
“Direct File is an extraordinary accomplishment that skillfully executes not a flexible formalization of the underlying statute and regulations, but rather a formalization of tax forms and informal guidance, designed to accomplish a particular task: allowing online return preparation.”
Direct File was a government computer program that allowed people to file tax returns online for free. Article (draft; forthcoming Pittsburgh Tax Review) about the computer code underlying that program: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Direct File as Formalization
Direct File was a program created by the United States government that allowed some taxpayers to file their federal income tax returns online, for free. This ar
papers.ssrn.com
May 6, 2026 at 12:35 PM
“Direct File is an extraordinary accomplishment that skillfully executes not a flexible formalization of the underlying statute and regulations, but rather a formalization of tax forms and informal guidance, designed to accomplish a particular task: allowing online return preparation.”
Here’s the latest ep of my iHeartRadio/Cool Zone Media show Better Offline. I walk you through how Meta’s recent “right-wing turn” is actually the formalization of a years-long policy of profiting off of conservative propaganda and hate.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
Facebook Was Already Zucked
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 01/22/2025 · 36m
podcasts.apple.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Here’s the latest ep of my iHeartRadio/Cool Zone Media show Better Offline. I walk you through how Meta’s recent “right-wing turn” is actually the formalization of a years-long policy of profiting off of conservative propaganda and hate.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
I mean they already wanted to get rid of everyone vaguely Brown, they were already doing that this is like a formalization of that
April 21, 2026 at 2:07 AM
I mean they already wanted to get rid of everyone vaguely Brown, they were already doing that this is like a formalization of that
The formalization of rape as regime is the most disgusting part of this bullshit
February 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The formalization of rape as regime is the most disgusting part of this bullshit
If you haven’t read @brkeogh.bsky.social’s “The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist”, the concept of in/formalization is very appropriate here.
The 'deprofessionalization of video games' was on full display at PAX East
The 'deprofessionalization of video games' was on full display at PAX East
PAX East felt like a warning: explosively successful games by solo devs and small teams are great, but it could lead to a dearth of vital specialists.
www.gamedeveloper.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
If you haven’t read @brkeogh.bsky.social’s “The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist”, the concept of in/formalization is very appropriate here.
the elimination of chevron deference is the formalization of this new, extraconstitutional regime of total judicial primacy over executive agencies' delegated legislative power
the through-line is that if the legislature uses its authority to delegate its lawmaking power to an agency under the executive, that power is exercised only at the whim of the super-legislative court, a power it has simply invented for itself from the stolen powers of the other two branches
the important thing in the supreme court's reversal of the bump stock ban, aside from the upcoming pile of dead children, is that it is a direct continuation of this illegitimate court's clawing away of the powers of the legislature and the executive for itself. no delegated power is safe
June 28, 2024 at 5:56 PM
the elimination of chevron deference is the formalization of this new, extraconstitutional regime of total judicial primacy over executive agencies' delegated legislative power
Tbh, this feels like it's just a formalization of the petty tyrant problem we've already seen on Mastodon and to an increasing extent here
Bluesky is built to give users control over their social spaces online. Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets users collaboratively inspect and label content on the network.
Later this week, we’re opening up the ability for users to run their own independent moderation services.
Later this week, we’re opening up the ability for users to run their own independent moderation services.
Bluesky’s Stackable Approach to Moderation - Bluesky
Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets a team of moderators or curators collaboratively review reports, create labels, and inspect content on the atproto network. Later this week, we’re op...
bsky.social
March 12, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Tbh, this feels like it's just a formalization of the petty tyrant problem we've already seen on Mastodon and to an increasing extent here
One of the features of the Trump era is a formalization of the use of enemies lists to induce terror. It is one thing when MAGA influencers or organizations are naming you as an enemy of the state, but it takes on a different cast when its the White House. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
The White House web site now includes a "media bias" tracker with a leaderboard and an offender hall of shame. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
November 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
One of the features of the Trump era is a formalization of the use of enemies lists to induce terror. It is one thing when MAGA influencers or organizations are naming you as an enemy of the state, but it takes on a different cast when its the White House. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
Writing can be time-consuming and unpleasant, it's true, but it's important not to skip that part because it's a crucial element of thinking through an actual idea. The part of writing that's difficult is the formalization of proto-ideas into actual thought. You can't fob that off onto Clippy 2.0
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Writing can be time-consuming and unpleasant, it's true, but it's important not to skip that part because it's a crucial element of thinking through an actual idea. The part of writing that's difficult is the formalization of proto-ideas into actual thought. You can't fob that off onto Clippy 2.0
What in the divorced from material reality is this? Politics is just the formalization and institutionalization of violence. What do you think power is, Adam?
Politics was invented to prevent violence. When violence enters politics, politics fails
April 26, 2026 at 5:51 PM
What in the divorced from material reality is this? Politics is just the formalization and institutionalization of violence. What do you think power is, Adam?
At the same time, Zelenskyy plans to raise with Donald Trump the issue of stable funding for Ukraine’s armed forces, enhanced air defense, and the formalization of a European military presence in Ukraine—signaling an effort to turn allied support into a long-term, structured commitment.
December 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
At the same time, Zelenskyy plans to raise with Donald Trump the issue of stable funding for Ukraine’s armed forces, enhanced air defense, and the formalization of a European military presence in Ukraine—signaling an effort to turn allied support into a long-term, structured commitment.
We love to see it. Feels like a formalization of the fact that the player characters in New Horizons are all functionally nonbinary, if not explicitly stated.
January 29, 2026 at 5:26 PM
We love to see it. Feels like a formalization of the fact that the player characters in New Horizons are all functionally nonbinary, if not explicitly stated.
In my book, caring enough to show up for a vote is synonymous with declaring your citizenship. the rest ought to just be formalization of the paperwork.
January 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
In my book, caring enough to show up for a vote is synonymous with declaring your citizenship. the rest ought to just be formalization of the paperwork.
Impossible to know for sure without a Coq formalization
November 23, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Impossible to know for sure without a Coq formalization
I'm excited to share yet another (unexpected) application of my recent science: a computational formalization for foundations of medicine. (Why is medicine hard? Are there a finite number of diseases? ...)
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/02/towa...
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/02/towa...
Towards a Computational Formalization for Foundations of Medicine
Stephen Wolfram takes the first steps in developing a medical metamodel framework for studying and formalizing the abstract foundations of medicine.
writings.stephenwolfram.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I'm excited to share yet another (unexpected) application of my recent science: a computational formalization for foundations of medicine. (Why is medicine hard? Are there a finite number of diseases? ...)
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/02/towa...
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/02/towa...
Another great practical formalization video from @teorth.bsky.social!
A video on an actual formalization task from my Polynomial Freiman Ruzsa (PFR) project, which is sufficiently tricky (and sufficiently far from existing training data of current models) that one still has to largely formalize these proofs by "hand": www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uLX...
Formalizing a proof in Lean by hand
YouTube video by Terence Tao
www.youtube.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Another great practical formalization video from @teorth.bsky.social!
America has been decisively defeated on the battlefield.
Starting a war over nothing and the result being a formalization of Iran’s control over the strait of hormuz is a historical blunder.
Starting a war over nothing and the result being a formalization of Iran’s control over the strait of hormuz is a historical blunder.
April 8, 2026 at 12:47 AM
America has been decisively defeated on the battlefield.
Starting a war over nothing and the result being a formalization of Iran’s control over the strait of hormuz is a historical blunder.
Starting a war over nothing and the result being a formalization of Iran’s control over the strait of hormuz is a historical blunder.