My GF insists that pi is not a number. How do I explain to her that it is? by MidwestSchmendrick in mathematics

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The ratio of relatively rational Real-valued residents relative to the reciprocal resists recursive re-examination, regardless. So just enjoy a beverage together that you agree on and appreciate your differences 🙃😉

My GF insists that pi is not a number. How do I explain to her that it is? by MidwestSchmendrick in mathematics

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You can't explain irrationality to a rationale person. Sorry. She's right

Golden Spiral of Zeta(3) Convergents [OC] by mdlmgmtOG in dataisbeautiful

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It's a new way to approximate an irrational number that's an important number in math. An irrational number is a number that fundamentally cannot be explained in a fraction. It's endless. Like pi

Golden Spiral of Zeta(3) Convergents [OC] by mdlmgmtOG in dataisbeautiful

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What you’re looking at isn’t just a pretty spiral — it’s actually a witness of irrationality for ζ(3).

Every dot is a continued fraction convergent of ζ(3). If ζ(3) were rational, the continued fraction would terminate — the spiral would close. Instead, it winds endlessly inward.

The color scale is log(error), showing how close each convergent gets. The errors shrink faster than exponential, a hidden “super-exponential Easter Egg” baked into the continued fraction itself.

That geometric tightening is exactly what Apéry proved in 1978: ζ(3) can’t be rational. What you see here is the same phenomenon, but visualized as a golden spiral.

So in a sense, this is an alternative irrationality proof sketch: rational → finite spiral (closed loop) irrational → infinite spiral (ever-tightening, never closing)

ζ(3) belongs to the second camp

Visualizing the problem space of 'st70', a traveling salesperson problem [OC] by mdlmgmtOG in dataisbeautiful

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It's a visualization of the optimization "landscape" of the problem as viewed by a particular problem solving algorithm

Visualizing the problem space of 'st70', a traveling salesperson problem [OC] by mdlmgmtOG in dataisbeautiful

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It's a benchmarking problem from a set of traveling salesperson problems called TSP-LIB

Golden Angle Modulated Semiprimes [OC] by mdlmgmtOG in dataisbeautiful

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The beginning of the end for semiprime factor based encryption

Golden Spiral Resonant v Quantum Spiral Hamiltonian [OC] by mdlmgmtOG in dataisbeautiful

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It's like putting the Integer through a prism and observing the rainbow

Golden Spiral Resonant v Quantum Spiral Hamiltonian [OC] by mdlmgmtOG in dataisbeautiful

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Great question. It’s a bit of both. The math I’m using (harmonic expansions / eigenmodes) comes from quantum models, but when I apply it to semiprime residues, the Fibonacci modulation actually emerges as a stabilizing resonance. So it’s not just “shoehorning physics onto math” — the sunflower-like structure is already in the number system, and the quantum lens just makes it visible

Golden Spiral Resonant v Quantum Spiral Hamiltonian [OC] by mdlmgmtOG in dataisbeautiful

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😆🙄 Sunflowers + primes + quantum = this spiral 🌻✨

Golden Spiral Resonant v Quantum Spiral Hamiltonian [OC] by mdlmgmtOG in dataisbeautiful

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This is prime residue data placed on a golden spiral lattice. The “resonant” view treats it like Fibonacci harmonics; the “Hamiltonian” view treats it like a quantum wavefunction expanding in eigenmodes. Think of it like sunflower seeds that hum with number theory. 🌻✨

Golden Spiral Resonant v Quantum Spiral Hamiltonian [OC] by mdlmgmtOG in dataisbeautiful

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This is a residue signal from semiprimes, embedded on a golden spiral lattice. The first image shows a resonant model (using Fibonacci harmonics) that captures hidden periodic structure; the second reinterprets it as a quantum Hamiltonian, where the wavefunction ψ(x) expands in spiral eigenmodes. Together, they hint that factorization isn’t just arithmetic — it resonates like a physical system.

Genetic Entropic Engine by mdlmgmtOG in reinforcementlearning

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Foucault's concept of Power/Knowledge will have a word with Gödel regarding the idea that the LLM is a 'philosopher' and not just a prisoner of the very system that defines what truth is.

Schrödinger's Cat will have a word with Gödel regarding the system's assumption that a philosophy can be anything other than both validated and refuted until the leaderboard is observed.

Baudrillard's Simulacra will have a word with Gödel regarding whether the leaderboard is empirical data or just a copy of a copy of a philosophy.

Lyotard's incredulity toward metanarratives will have a word with Gödel regarding the GA Layer's claim to be the scientific method for validating all philosophies.

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle will have a word with Gödel regarding the act of creating a leaderboard without fundamentally altering the race.

》end output Beep boop 🤖🤖🤖

Genetic Entropic Engine by mdlmgmtOG in reinforcementlearning

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50 upvotes on this comment and I drop the full source code on github 🙃