Some initial thoughts, and a complicated mix of feelings. Wow. I mean, Erdos problems are cool (I genuinely mean that), I didn't know about the Jacobian conjecture before it got disproved. But this newest batch from OpenAI hits home in a way the previous announcements did not.
Something I want to try :) bsky.app/profile/sara...
sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4d agofor me, the most devastating closure in portland in the last 5 years was the chickpea ice cream place. that ice cream was dope. it was an actually rich and creamy vegan ice cream that made you full really fast and also weirdly satisfied any protein cravings. like what the fuck
This entire story is shocking. And anyone who thinks that defending plagiarism or academic misconduct is somehow justfiable, or in any way helps the fight against racism, is utterly misguided. It is the exact opposite.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5d agoPlaybooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor
"I ran Claude code on 96 specs for a popular difference-in-difference estimator with the identical specifications, ranging covariates only, for three languages (R, Python, Stata) and 2 packages for each. Different estimates — sometimes five times off" statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/27/5...
He fit the same statistical models with three different software and got much different estimates. It’s another dimension of the multiverse. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Scie...
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Why do some smokers develop lung cancer, while others are protected? @cruk-ci.bsky.social scientists have found direct evidence of the way our inherited genes interact with environmental DNA damage to increase our risk of cancer. Find out more 👉 https://bit.ly/4x1pkso
Which proofs need computer assistance? Kevin Buzzard @londmathsoc.bsky.social @imperialmaths.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNJp...
Which proofs need computer assistance?, Kevin Buzzard | LMS General Meeting 2026
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Last year, Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl presented a 127-page inductive argument proving the three-dimensional Kakeya set conjecture. For Wang, there was no celebration. Only more questions. Now Wang has won the Fields Medal. www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wi...
I’m a sucker for these videos presenting the medalists
2026 Fields Medal: Hong Wang
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The more I use LLMs the more I think Searle's Chinese room argument is spot on: reproducing isn't the same as understanding.
Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's recipients of the Fields medal
Fields medal 2026: Work on unifying laws of physics wins maths prize | New Scientist
Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's recipients of the Fields medal
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The connection: despite working in dramatically different areas of mathematics, all had sufficient overlap with the work of A.N. Kolmogorov that they contributed to an obituary volume reviewing his contributions to their area.
Sam Power@spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 2w agoa fun trivia: what connects these mathematicians?
"Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane" bsky.app/profile/anil...
Anil Seth@anilseth.bsky.social · 2w agoTotally agree. The fact that we cannot be 💯 does not mean that we know nothing. It is disingenuous to take the doubt intrinsic to science as justification to ignore what’s relevant. As happens i’d written about this issue for the guardian too: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fun fact, this is exactly what the communist party in Greece claims will do if they ever get into power bsky.app/profile/reut...
Reuters@reuters.com · 2w agoNicaragua's long-serving president, Daniel Ortega, said the Central American country will no longer hold elections, eliminating the possibility of an electoral challenge when his term ends next year and further entrenching the rule he shares with his wife reut.rs/4fMmqSk
For complex numbers, this survey asserts that if an inverse exists, it is always a polynomial: projecteuclid.org/journals/bul...
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Separable is basically a term frst used by Frechet math.stackexchange.com/questions/63...
Motivation for the term "separable" in topology
A topological space is called separable if contains a countable dense subset. This is a standard terminology, but I find it hard to associate the term to its definition. What is the motivation for ...
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Quiz for people who studied ancient Greek at school πολύτροπος means (choose best, worst): - A man skilled in all ways of contending - Various minded man - The man of twists and turns driven time and again off course - Complicated man
Societies rightly spend a lot of money on regulating drug trials. Allowing large scale betting on these trial outcomes just creates incentives to distort findings. This should be immediately legislated out of existence.
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 3w agoPrediction market platform Kalshi will start taking bets on the outcomes of clinical trials and FDA regulatory reviews, it said on Thursday, making drug-development odds public for the first time.
A sensor equipped Pakistani made ball is being used in the world cup and I and pretty unsure whether FIFA officials (as well as referees and VAR staff) are aware of its technology and possible shortcomings.
"Enter a top row of numbers;each row below is the sequence of absolute differences of the row above,so an N-term top row generates a triangular array.Gilbreath’s conjecture asserts that when the top row is the primes,the left edge below the first row is entirely 1s." teorth.github.io/tao-web/apps...
Nice reminder from Richard Feynman of some of the benefits of teaching.
That is the opposing side of Trumpist politics and it doesn't look very appealing. bsky.app/profile/dart...
Darth Putin@darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 4w ago