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Noah Giansiracusa

@profnoahgian.bsky.social

Math prof at Bentley University, faculty associate at Harvard, cohost at Breaking Math podcast. www.noahgian.com

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Noah Giansiracusa@profnoahgian.bsky.social · 3w ago

The names of next week's Fields Medalists has leaked, and amazingly not one of them is winning the award for solving an Erdos problem. Based on everything I've seen on social media and the news, I thought that's all there is to math.

Noah Giansiracusa@profnoahgian.bsky.social · last mo.

Humans (homo sapiens) have roamed the Earth for 300,000 years. Dinosaurs made it over 500x longer (165 millions years)—and they achieved that without any longevity podcasts or tech startups aimed at extending the light of consciousness. Impressive.

Noah Giansiracusa@profnoahgian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s funny how people act like once Claude starts doing recursive improvement we’ll lose control and no longer understand how it works. It’s half a million lines of code wrapping a trillion parameter neural net. You already don’t understand how it works.

Noah Giansiracusa@profnoahgian.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Why is so much pop math writing like “the formula involves addition—an operation where the values of numbers are combined, as in 5+3=8—and semi Hodge-theoretic neo-Riemannian integration. Surprisingly, the authors proved the formula is quasi-invertible when the Sasquatch locus is homogeneous.”

Noah Giansiracusa@profnoahgian.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@scinews.bsky.social has a feature aimed at kids 9+, and for the past few months I've been chatting with a journalist to help with a piece explaining social media algorithms to this demographic. Very happy with how it turned out--useful for kids and adults alike! www.snexplores.org/article/how-...

Understanding algorithms — and how to make them work for you

They’re the recipes behind everything from cooking to social media feeds. Learn how algorithms work to avoid their pitfalls. You can even make your own.

snexplores.org

Noah Giansiracusa@profnoahgian.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Pop quiz. Consider this quote: "This is the last effort of the human mind, and when this project is carried out, all people will have to do is be happy." Was this by Hinton in 2016, Altman in 2021, or Amodei in 2026? None. It was Leibniz in the 1600s.