Nathaniel Virgo

@nathanielvirgo.bsky.social

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I research applied category theory / complex systems. I post sporadically about maths, science, random creative projects. they/them

Wikipedia's aggregated graph of voter intention polls from July 2024 to present, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election It shows the green vote share increasing rapidly from about 9% to over 15% in Apr 2026, but then dropping precipitously from May 2026 onwards, currently at about 12% and trending sharply downwards.
Petition title: Stop using X.com for all official purposes What you want the UK Government or Parliament to do: Recognise the danger that X.com presents to Britain, in terms of the influence of a foreign actor and lack of political neutrality, and immediately cease using it for all official and promotional purposes by government and individual MPs. More information about your petition: Since its purchase in 2022, X (formally Twitter) cannot be seen as politically neutral. Its algorithm actively promotes the personal views of its owner, and entire sections of British society have stopped using it due to the overwhelming prevalence of extreme right-wing ideology on the platform. Yet X is still used as the primary social media outlet for outreach and promotion by the government and many of its MPs, leading to an extreme bias in who the government communicates with.
An image showing the classic Amiga Workbench fonts (Emerald, Diamond, Ruby, Garnet, Sapphire, Topaz, Opal, Courier), each in a choice of 2 or 3 sizes
A box fan stands in front of an open window. In front of it is a bowl of water, into which is dipped a wet towel, which is suspended in front of the fan by hanging it on a ruler, which is held in place by a precariously balanced book acting as a counterweight. The fan blows air past the towel, evaporating the water that it wicks up from the bowl. The cooling can be boosted every now and then by pouring a little water over the towel to wet the top part.
A commutative diagram showing * [0,1]^3, meaning the product of the unit interval with itself three times * its three projections into [0,1]^2 * inclusions of the letters G, E, and B into each of those unit squares * the universal property of the maximal subset of [0,1]^3 such that its three projections lie inside the letters G, E and B
An aperiodic pattern with a 5-fold quasi-symmetry. The pattern is related to Penrose tiles, but it's made of soft and curvy shapes that blend into each other rather than discrete tiles. It hopefully has the appearance of a multicoloured bumpy surface illuminated by a cold light from the top right. The height map is just a sum of five sine waves, and I used torch.autograd to find its gradient, in order to try and fake the illumination. In both this and the previous image I'm outputting values in the oklab colour space and then converting to RGB.
an abstract artwork that looks sort of like three moons aligned vertically, with a warm light shining from above, creating thin crescent shapes. Behind the moons a series of red beams extend down from the top and curve toward the viewer, as if we are entering hyperspace or something
some handwritten string diagram equations, one of which has a sad star drawn next to it
A series of three equations from an old monograph written with a mathematical typewriter. The equations have so many subscripts and superscripts that they just look like wiggly lines of letters meandering across the page.