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.

Astra, the next version of GPT, solves 10 unsolved problems in math Each of these problems has had little to no progress in ten years or more openai.com/index/ten-ad...

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.

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New useful estimates shared by John Bistline. A good rule of thumb is that it would take about 1000 Wh in a data center to raise the average American's daily carbon footprint by 1%

📖 Nearly 3 years after the publication of Causal Analysis (MIT Press), I'd like to highlight the lecture slides accompanying the book. Available here as PDF and editable TeX files, together with datasets & code in R, Python, & Stata: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm... @mitpress.bsky.social

Comment l’isolation a (trop) simplifié la thermique du bâtiment ? J'ai lu énormément de choses plus ou moins vraies sur l'isolation thermique ces dernières semaines et j'ai voulu faire une petite mise au point historique. 1/28

Sécheresse : l'humidité des sols atteint un niveau extrêmement bas à l'échelle du pays, inédit si tôt dans la saison estivale, dépassant les niveaux de 1976, 2022 et 2025 à la même date. Les sols sont exceptionnellement secs sur un large quart Sud-Ouest, ainsi que du nord des Alpes à l'Alsace.

Ça ressemble à un changement radical de trajectoire !

Ember@ember-energy.org · 3w ago

BREAKING | The EU is targeting 46% electrification by 2040 according to its new Electrification Action Plan ⚡ "Delivery on this plan is the bare minimum needed to unlock a more competitive future for Europe, powered by homegrown clean energy," says Ember's Chris Rosslowe.

Suggestion for hyperscalers feeling pressure over data center water use: Buy up a few exclusive country clubs, convert the golf courses into public parks, pay for guides and binoculars to get the previous members into birdwatching - help them embrace a more sustainable hobby!

Il faut arrêter de faire les surpris. J’ai eu une réunion avec un bailleur pour un problème de surchauffe sur une résidence senior livrée en… 2025. Il fallait que je vous en parle. UN FIL 1/13

La question centrale est celle de la réintroduction du flupyradifurone, en usage, en filière & en volume. Ils laisseront tomber l'acétamipride si la CMP s'accorde sur le flupy, bien moins connu, voire inconnu du grand public, donc aucune mobilisation à redouter. Pas faute de l'avoir répété pourtant.

Sébastien Billard@sebbillard.bsky.social · 3w ago

“L’histoire n’est pas finie” : l’intense bataille de Duplomb et du lobby agricole pour obtenir le retour de l’acétamipride www.nouvelobs.com/societe/2026...

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

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I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying. For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silence. Here's what happened. 🧵

Une approche réticulaire de la mobilité professionnelle intra-générationnelle en France The Structure of Occupational Mobility in France by Max Sina Knicker et al. arxiv.org/abs/2407.14179

I made a multi-agent pipeline that turns articles I save into a physical magazine. I clip a reading queue, the AI handles editing, design, typesetting, and illustration. matthodges.com/posts/2026-0...

A Magazine With One Subscriber

How three AI agents turn the articles I save into a real printed magazine.

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At work, in the middle of the XVth district, the building has three parking levels, most of which are empty. I've always wondered why the parking lots weren't rented out....

EmmanuelSPV@emmanuelspv.bsky.social · last mo.

In Paris there are many available parking spots in underground parkings and less and less parking spots in the streets (except for the disabled parking spaces), so you'll see more and more advert for spots to rent in underground parkings. Here the sign appeared around 2024.

🔧📊 We recently built four interactive tools that give you new ways to explore our rich datasets — check them out! 🧵 Population projections: lets you test how changes in fertility rates, life expectancy, and migration rates will change future populations. → ourworldindata.org/population-s...

The best AI systems being closed off and restricted to just a handful of elites, is basically my worst case AI doom scenario. I really hope the z ai guys werent kidding about open source fable/mythos soon

New post! Most people didn’t think it was possible to develop Covid vaccines fast enough to be useful. In the summer of 2020, I came to a different conclusion. Now I wanted to look back on how it happened, and suggest boldly that we should ask whether that speed should've been the norm all along.

Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast?

The timeline to develop coronavirus vaccines blew many predictions out of the water.

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i feel like coding has two tiers of tasks: 1. ambiguity reducing 2. logical we’ve gotten to the point where some very small models can chug for a long time and complete most tasks successfully as long as they’re low ambiguity but (1) is firmly in the land of big expensive models (or people)

An analysis of 85 British news programmes during a May 2026 heatwave found only 4 mentioned fossil fuels as the cause explicitly. I suspect it'll be the same proportion for this current heatwave. What is the point, if the primary cause isn't stated clearly? climatenewstracker.org/during-the-h...

Contrairement à ce qu'a dit le Premier ministre, le pré-rapport souligne *évidemment* le rôle cardinal du manque de moyens (qui a permis l'enchaînement des erreurs et dysfonctionnements). Mais pour le Gouvernement, l'urgence est de faire payer les lampistes. Pour s'exonérer tranquillement.

It's been one year since I published VizDex. The library has grown from featuring 19 data viz blogs & newsletters to 59; still continuing to expand. Thanks to all contributors! www.vizdexproject.com

VizDex

A library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization.

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William Careri@wcareri.com · last yr.

Introducing VizDex! An ever-growing library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization. vizdexproject.com

Pendant qu'on fait tous l'expérience charnelle de l'écologie punitive, il est bon de se rappeler qu'on en est là parce qu'on n'a pas démantelé l'industrie fossile. Et ça continuera de s'empirer jusqu'à ce qu'on démantèle l'industrie fossile.

I remain of the view that regulation of social media is better than a ban for young people. But I also pretty much agree with all these proposals.

After three years of waiting and the help of my data protection authority, I finally achieved to get my 'tweepcred' from Twitter/X. It is a score linked to my account used in recommender systems. Learn more: www.linkedin.com/posts/davidl... #GDPR #DSA #recsys

Fable 5 is the new highest scorer on bluffbench! The eval measures models' ability to accurately describe plots that show counterintuitive patterns. Six months ago, the strongest models were still in the single digits. simonpcouch.github.io/bluffbench/

La revendication du piratage de la messagerie de l'Etat Tchap, des conversations issues de salons publics, a confirmé la Dinum

Les priorités de Darmanin ? 64 circulaires en 2025, 53 en 2026 "faisant de chaque actualité une nouvelle priorité de politique pénale, sans allouer aux juridictions les moyens pour les mettre en œuvre". Les magistrats du tribunal de Bobigny dénoncent avec justesse la COMPOL de Darmanin.

Nous venons de mettre à jour notre calculateur d'itinéraire en transports ! Non pas les données, qui sont mises à jour chaque nuit, mais le logiciel lui même. Pour rappel, nous sommes l'un des seuls calculateurs de transport libres. Nous utilisons Motis, un fleuron européen trop peu connu.

Samedi, j'ai été invitée par Essonne Nature Environnement à présenter un état des lieux factuel concernant les impacts environnementaux des data centers. Vous trouverez les points clés de ma présentation et le lien vers celle-ci ici : www.linkedin.com/posts/val%C3...

Les enjeux environnementaux des data centers | Valérie Masson-Delmotte | 82 comments

Bonjour, voici une note qui présente ma synthèse des enjeux environnementaux des data centers et partage la présentation que j'ai faite à l'invitation de la fédération Essonne Nature Environnement. N'...

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