mathy

comparative more mathy · comparative mathier · superlative most mathy · superlative mathiest · alternative math-y

1. colloquialSynonym of mathsy (“of or relating to mathematics”).

   I showed a draft of this book to one of my nieces and she declared it “too mathy.”

   2009, Bob Dancer, Video Poker for the Intelligent Beginner, page 7

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   She first combined her math-y and woolly mind-sets as a Ph.D. student, after admiring a friend’s crocheted interpretation of the hyperbolic plane (curly kale is a vegetable example) and wondering how to do it differently.

   2019 May 17, Siobhan Roberts, “‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab”, in The New York Times

   AI Doomerism has been in the news lately, especially with the loud, viral resignation of Jacob Coxon from Anthropic. Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen any statements from CEOs and other execs who are more on the AI Booster side of the ledger. Where are Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, XD Huang, Jeff Dean on this? Why aren't they out there calling out the Doomer narrative for the nonsense that it is? I have an hypothesis: They can't, because the Doomer narrative *is* the Booster narrative. To debunk the Doomer stuff (and it *is* bunk), you have to point out that it's based on pure fantasy that the mathy maths are going to combust into consciousness ... ... or if not consciousness, then some thinking, reasoning, self-improving entity.

   2026 September 10, Emily M. Bender, dair-community.social, retrieved 11 Sep 2026

   Synonyms: mathsy