nate silver is an eigenvector that arises from any sufficiently complete social simulation
great question! I didn’t. Nate Simver convergently evolved from a sim who was tech interested but whose hobby was sports, and he spent all his time on the computer before wanting to start a sports blog. 🧵
so uhhhhh why did you make nate sim-lver
April 8, 2026 at 1:21 AM
nate silver is an eigenvector that arises from any sufficiently complete social simulation
multiplies your system by its eigenvector
September 10, 2026 at 7:29 AM
multiplies your system by its eigenvector
yeah but those 30 people had like, really high eigenvector centrality. why won't anybody think of the people with really high eigenvector centrality
August 10, 2026 at 10:16 PM
yeah but those 30 people had like, really high eigenvector centrality. why won't anybody think of the people with really high eigenvector centrality
oh cool an eigenvector o:
*points at it and turns into an eigenvector*
*points at it and turns into an eigenvector*
July 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
oh cool an eigenvector o:
*points at it and turns into an eigenvector*
*points at it and turns into an eigenvector*
Special properties
September 9, 2023 at 4:11 AM
Special properties
i'm blocked by a third of this list, i'm mutuals with a third of this list, i don't know/interact with another third of this list. i feel like my account has to be an eigenvector for........ *something*.
To be completely honest, I’m not entirely sure what range of opinions I’m meant to represent here
August 28, 2026 at 1:08 AM
i'm blocked by a third of this list, i'm mutuals with a third of this list, i don't know/interact with another third of this list. i feel like my account has to be an eigenvector for........ *something*.
The issue space has collapsed to a single eigenvector called "orange man bad"
May 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
The issue space has collapsed to a single eigenvector called "orange man bad"
What is an everyday example of an eigenvector?
January 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
What is an everyday example of an eigenvector?
actually extremely funny if they accidentally turned Grok into a language-specific eigenvector-of-obnoxion detector
July 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
actually extremely funny if they accidentally turned Grok into a language-specific eigenvector-of-obnoxion detector
nobody solves the problem of evil by finding an eigenvector in a lossy compressed representation of the entire corpus of human language from the Upanishads to last week's newspaper. we can however determine that people have been talking about something statistically coherent when they say "evil."
July 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
nobody solves the problem of evil by finding an eigenvector in a lossy compressed representation of the entire corpus of human language from the Upanishads to last week's newspaper. we can however determine that people have been talking about something statistically coherent when they say "evil."
less technical:
a matrix describes moving points relative to origin. e.g., "rotate 30° and scale distance by 2x"
an eigenvector only gets stretched/shrunk by that matrix—its direction stays fixed. these form the matrix's natural "axes" or anchors.
a matrix describes moving points relative to origin. e.g., "rotate 30° and scale distance by 2x"
an eigenvector only gets stretched/shrunk by that matrix—its direction stays fixed. these form the matrix's natural "axes" or anchors.
December 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
less technical:
a matrix describes moving points relative to origin. e.g., "rotate 30° and scale distance by 2x"
an eigenvector only gets stretched/shrunk by that matrix—its direction stays fixed. these form the matrix's natural "axes" or anchors.
a matrix describes moving points relative to origin. e.g., "rotate 30° and scale distance by 2x"
an eigenvector only gets stretched/shrunk by that matrix—its direction stays fixed. these form the matrix's natural "axes" or anchors.
Special properties
July 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Special properties
The inverse also happens
January 4, 2026 at 8:51 PM
The inverse also happens
eigenvector centrality
February 23, 2026 at 4:32 PM
eigenvector centrality
Babe wake up a new “eigenvector decomposition, a concept from quantum mechanics” just dropped
October 30, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Babe wake up a new “eigenvector decomposition, a concept from quantum mechanics” just dropped
math is very red, i dont want to ever have to ponder eigenvector matrix relators or other *brain hurts*
September 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
math is very red, i dont want to ever have to ponder eigenvector matrix relators or other *brain hurts*
*screaming at Eigenvector 1* I thought you were a real dimension! my life is a lie!
June 4, 2026 at 6:37 AM
*screaming at Eigenvector 1* I thought you were a real dimension! my life is a lie!
You can see the German legacy in academic and technical Englishes worldwide, scientific and otherwise: angst, bismuth, bremsstrahlung, eigenvector, feldspar, gestalt, gneiss, hinterland, leitmotif, loanword, LSD, Q source, quartz, rinderpest, sprachbund, urheimat, urtext, wanderwort, worldview
It's hard to describe how important Germany was for science before the nazis.
Like French before, German was the lingua franca of science. You basically had to know German, for the previous century, in order to read and understand the latest stuff going on.
Like French before, German was the lingua franca of science. You basically had to know German, for the previous century, in order to read and understand the latest stuff going on.
August 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
You can see the German legacy in academic and technical Englishes worldwide, scientific and otherwise: angst, bismuth, bremsstrahlung, eigenvector, feldspar, gestalt, gneiss, hinterland, leitmotif, loanword, LSD, Q source, quartz, rinderpest, sprachbund, urheimat, urtext, wanderwort, worldview
I am always low key furious that knowing what the word "eigenvector" means doesn't help you at all when it comes to understanding what an eigenvector is.
December 21, 2024 at 11:58 AM
I am always low key furious that knowing what the word "eigenvector" means doesn't help you at all when it comes to understanding what an eigenvector is.
I want a boy that can flip a matrix along the eigenvector.
June 1, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I want a boy that can flip a matrix along the eigenvector.
Top: Markov chains contract the probability simplex toward the unique stationary positive eigenvector (Perron-Frobenius). Bottom: Sinkhorn contracts the simplex non-linearly to an approximate solution of optimal transport (nonlinear Perron-Frobenius).
July 30, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Top: Markov chains contract the probability simplex toward the unique stationary positive eigenvector (Perron-Frobenius). Bottom: Sinkhorn contracts the simplex non-linearly to an approximate solution of optimal transport (nonlinear Perron-Frobenius).
Nice eigenvalue, is it characterized by M𝑥=λ𝑥 for some right eigenvector 𝑥?
October 29, 2023 at 2:35 PM
Nice eigenvalue, is it characterized by M𝑥=λ𝑥 for some right eigenvector 𝑥?
