Casually wondering how one would test whether Mitch McConnell is brain dead.
Graeme Smith
@graemesmith.bsky.social
Theorist in Waterloo. Quantum information, quantum computing, science, parenting. https://gsbsmith.ca
"A.i." for education is for cheating. That's its primary use case. Anyone who's pushing for "A.i." in education is pushing for fraud.
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4w ago
Two years from today Dragonfly will be sitting atop a rocket at the cape. With any luck weather will be green, the go no go poll will be all go and we will be on our way to Titan.
let me tell you, writing bullshit reports has gotten incredibly easy with AI
In the AI future we will have neural networks installed directly in our brains!
Wonderful news! Congratulations to Gautam Kamath and his collaborators on their foundational research on robust estimation being recognized with the 2026 Gödel Prize, the top award in theoretical computer science.
Gautam Kamath@gautamkamath.com · 2mo agoLaudatio: sigact.org/prizes/g%C3%... Article by @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social comms guy Joe Petrik. Pic's a few years old (you can tell by the gray hairs). He joked, this shot is for when you win the Turing or the Gödel. Didn't think we'd actually get to use it. 7/7 cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/gautam-...
Combinatorics must be pretty easy if some dumb AI can solve a major open problem in it
AI boosters get so weird about people thinking AI sucks. If this tech is so miraculous, why do you care if some people don't like it? Good products that have the support of the world's largest companies don't need volunteer cheerleaders, their adoption is inevitable. Have faith in your slop gods.
LOL, I have a variety of feelings about this, but mostly glee. Note that in the preprint you'll find a link to a github with code by @kalramolak.bsky.social @avantikaag03.bsky.social @sungjai.bsky.social and Pulkit Sinha, the leaders of the project. I expect codex made heavy use of that.
Aanthony-leverrier.bsky.social@anthony-leverrier.bsky.social · 3mo ago
A nice application of LLMs (Codex with gpt5.5 here) for research. Yesterday, a paper appeared on arXiv with an improved lower bound on the capacity threshold of the depolarizing channel, one of the most frustrating open problems in quantum information theory (1/4)
UIUC Canvas has been hacked, as have many more universities. The hackers clearly know that finals are ongoing to maximize damage with this.
A little task to get your brain going today: Prove the statement in the picture!
OTD 1933 Adolf Hitler was officially sworn in as chancellor of Germany. He immediately pardoned 8,000 violent Nazis, many of whom were involved in the failed 1923 coup.
April 9, join Angela Sara Cacciapuoti (Co-Founder of the Quantum Internet Research Group) for the #ACMTechTalk "Toward a Quantum-Native Internet: From Architecture to Protocol Organization." Rajkumar Kettimuthu (Senior Scientist @ Argonne) will moderate. Register (free) to attend: bit.ly/4rIyhnn
I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...
writing your own code will soon be considered charmingly eccentric, like churning your own butter.
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10
In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.
I’m “there’s too many teenagers over there to stop for lunch” old
what the fuck this really seems like another case of them going after someone prominent to send a “nobody is safe” message and what’s actually going to happen is continuing to polarize everyone but the worst of the worst against them because how the fuck is this kid a threat to anything
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · 5mo agoColumbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"
stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright
