The mathematican's apprentice

Cinq chercheurs en maths face aux dernières avancées d’OpenAI : «Avec l’IA, il y a un deuil à faire d’une pratique millénaire» www.liberation.fr/sciences/cin...

"Un grave défaut d'alignement de l'IA en mathématiques, 28 jours plus tard", par Hugo Duminil-Copin (IHES et Université de Genève) youtu.be/iRjasLnigsU Le premier exposé du Séminaire MIAM (Math & IA à Midi) du jeudi 8 octobre est disponible en replay si vous n'avez pas pu y assister

[Prise de position du Bureau de la SMF sur les dernières annonces d'OpenAI] Le 8 septembre dernier, OpenAI a annoncé avoir résolu la question mathématique de la régularité des solutions de l'équation de Navier-Stokes, en exhibant un forçage permettant de construire une solution ⬇️

I've posted a free story, for Friday. It's called "Lad and the Devil". It has I assure you no contemporary or "A.I."-y relevance. profadamroberts.substack.com/p/lad-and-th...

I love how crazily abstract Jack Kirby got in the 80s. Even the normal buildings have been given these wild designs.

Les gens vous êtes chiants. Y'a mes deux livres dans la bibli, donc l'un en double, et vous me parlez de Freud et de crystal, est-ce que c'est pas ça être une femme finalement

Holy shit, Marvel really did make a Mystique action figure with a baby Nightcrawler accessory to throw.

I like how the whole "Mystique abandons Kurt" plot could have been done lovingly like Moses among the reeds but no, she just looks vaguely disgusted and hurls him down a waterfall.

J'ai eu peur pour mon palmarès car doudou 1 a été perdu, mais finalement retrouvé grâce à mon idée d'ajouter un numéro de téléphone sur l'étiquette 🤓

i think the wilson–nolan stuff was so explosive because nolan-heads are susceptible to the delusion that his stuff is much more highbrow than it really is, and bluesky heads are susceptible to the delusion that they are the number one homework do-ers, and wilson threatened both myths simultaneously

One of my Crank Theories of Everything is that the kind of work that survives and becomes part of the canon are stories that feature internal contradictions, because that means they have a rich text that can resonate with people in radically different circumstances and contexts.

Ghostbusters at the New York Public Library (This is the last one)

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

🏆 Congratulations to Lucy Jameson (Durham) and Michelle Pfeffer (Oxford), winners of the 2026 BSHS Singer Prize! Read about their award-winning essays, the special commendations and the panel's comments here: bshs.org.uk/singer-prize... More on the authors coming soon!

Your Sunday summary of the past week... in FLASH GORDON ⚡️

can’t find a night when everyone’s reliably free for it, huh

The legendary "walking bed" page from Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" was published on July 26, 1908. If there’s a Mt. Rushmore for Sunday pages, this one is certainly on it.

Going to become a tech billionaire just so I can name things after the non-sinister parts of Lord of the Rings. Please make hotel reservations through my new hospitality management software, Butterburr.

Je suis si content qu'Hannah Fry soit reconnue au plus haut niveau international. Son travail pour la diffusion est exceptionnel! Voici sa page dans le Grand Almanach Mathématique!

🇫🇷 Internet, fais mon ton miracle. 🙏 Mon fils de 11 ans a oublié la petite caméra numérique, qu'il a eu à son anniversaire, sur l'aire de Chagnats, sur l'autoroute A10, en direction de Paris, vers 19h45 ce 22 juillet. Il a le cœur brisé, donc si jamais quelqu'un la trouve...

I’m never surprised by anything. My life contains no wonder or whimsy. I’m fucking miserable and I’m a Bluesky Poster

love to experience the platonic discourses

I regret to inform my fellow West Coast bohemians that Pittsburgh does most of the same things as the cities we love but with cheaper beer

Si vous êtes habitué des journaux et magazines de science, vous l'avez sûrement remarqué: on annonce toujours les décès des grands scientifiques, jamais leurs naissances

Judith’s

"Who can I neg into signing off on my buddy's AI slop venture? I know: the famously opinionated indie publisher who's spent 30 years hand-drawing his labor-of-love project, which incidentally has already been adapted into real animation" said the most useless turd in your toilet

me: *sends email to self* gmail: *alert* me: ooh

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

👏💡➡️https://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/

"Je ne suis pas mathématicien. Mais je trouve toujours les bonnes réponses, voyez-vous." Chez Isaac Asimov

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No. Why. Just... no.

Les bébés dans mon entourage choisissent tout le temps la peluche que je leur offre comme doudou j'ai un super pouvoir 😎

Alors je suis allé dans un magasin de réparation, et le prix de la nostalgie est de plus de 240 balles mais je ne regrette rien, même pas mon nouveau look disco-holographique.

Hey! That's Tori Amos!

Judge Anderson in this one specific Simon Bisley panel, I have crossed oceans of time to find you

So sad to see that Sam Neill died. I sat next to him on a plane from NZ to Sydney. He was so kind, let me hang in the airport lounge w him (!), told me about his animals, and gave recs on what to do in Sydney and drew me a little map of how to get to Bondi. And was so gracious to fans who said hi.

This news makes me sad. I normally don't pay much attention to celebrities but Sam felt a bit more like a neighbour. Requiescat in pace.

Great news: The newborn has survived the night and is already curiously observing its surroundings. Mom found an empty raft to leave the pup on while she goes out to hunt/feed. But she's not going too far away and keeps peeking out of the water to keep an eye on Churu.

I started breaking that rule in the last few days, to my regret. Time to get back to it.

1) They think everyone else is doing it, and they don't want to fall behind or feel foolish for putting effort in 2) For many, it IS more about the credential at the end than it is about learning 3) Sometimes even people who have good intentions in the abstract will succumb to laziness in the moment