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If you’re in the Bay Area next month then The Dillinger Escape Plan are bringing the Calculating Infinity circus to town(s):

https://www.theregencyballroom.com/events/detail/?event_id=1...

This is enormously off topic but if one person sees this and ends up not missing the show then it was worth mentioning. I think there’s a reasonable crossover between math, discrete math, hacking, and mathcore :)

Took me an embarrassingly long time to realize you're talking about a music event not a math lecture

Idk, mathrock gets pretty close in an applied level lol

If you wanted to dive in, here is a Jazz version of one of their singles. The real version is 2 guitars, 1 bass, 1 drums, and someone screaming into the microphone -- its real rad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4-erceTpc8

Fairly trivial, in haskell:

let x = x in x

Completely encapsulates a countable infinity.

>Finally - we can calculate infinity.

And Beyond!

∞/1 + 1/∞

One infinitesimal step for the numerical, one giant step for mathkind.

Chuck Norris counted from one to infinity. Twice.

Come on, now you know better than that. It was infinity that counted to Chuck Norris

This has indeed taken forever /s