I am sorry to say that AIs absolutely are going to replace regular office workers.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Sadly, winning an election has always been more important to the Dems. We are terrible governors and this is why the Rs have been so frighteningly good at breaking things. I don’t think the Dems could do the same if they tried.

No health care, no deal.

arxiv.org/abs/2511.01272 /Design and Fabrication of Origami-Inspired Knitted Fabrics for Soft Robotics/ Sehui Jeong, Magaly C. Aviles, Athena X. Naylor, Cynthia Sung, Allison M. Okamura

Why can't we just say 0/0=1? I showed one way why this would break math. What's another way?

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

RIP Sayan Mukherjee. You were a fantastic mentor, collaborator, and friend. youtu.be/XF8B5afS1DI?...

So Mac Lane and Eilenberg invented category theory so they could prove the universal coefficient theorem, which they discovered because Saunders showed an algebra computation to Sammy and Sammy went "Huh. That's how I compute the complement of the p-adic solenoid inside a 3-sphere."

I just shared a new article, "The State of Reasoning Models", where I am exploring 12 new research articles on improving the reasoning capabilities of LLMs (all published after the release of DeepSeek R1): magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/state-of-l... Happy reading!

LLMs may be good for something new. Some of them are good at “fast thinking” that sets up “slow thinking” by combinatorial optimization. This flavor of “coherence” has deep roots in cognitive science. We made an algorithmic benchmark: o1, Sonnet, and QwQ do very well—apparently superhuman, even.

Maybe a hot take, but what about the following advice to the next gen: Don't get an AI degree; the curriculum will be outdated before you graduate. Instead, study math, stats, or physics as your foundation, and stay current with AI through code-focused books, blogs, and papers.

“The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.” ― Jacob Burckhardt . . . . . Made with #python #mlx #matplotlib #particlelenia #alife

Polynomial roots mist. #MathArt #Mathematics Made with #python #matplotlib #numpy #sympy

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

Today at Grading for Growth: A guest post from two Dutch faculty on how they're using alternative grading in probability and statistics. gradingforgrowth.com...

Random autumn snapshots

my younger brother is at the point of his undergraduate math degree (taking galois theory) where he no longer believes in the reality of the irrationals. they grow up so fast!

Are you interested in Root responses to climate change? Read our latest synthesis article about tropical root responses to global changes led by Daniella Yaffar and Laynara Lugli @laylugli.bsky.social on Global Change Biology. #fineroots #tropicalroots onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Roots of parametric polynomials. Made with #python, #matplotlib, #numpy and #sympy.

I'm thankful for the #MathSky community developing here! Here are some random Catalan-Truchet-Tantrix-inspired patterns as a token of appreciation.

I should've introduced myself on my first day in my first posting. I'm an industrial engineer turned software programmer turned environmental urban planner turned statistician with an interest in information geometry. Spent some time on AI and machine learning. I'm a forever-learning person.

Yes!

Three high schoolers have proved that a fractal called the Menger sponge can contain any knot. @gregbarber.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/teen-mathema...

ngl, but the Starter Pack feature solves a really hard problem that Threads and TikTok both missed out on. Brilliant way to clone whole communities instead of waiting for it to happen naturally

Knot tiles with the math club this week (inspired by @divbyzero.bsky.social and @anniekp.bsky.social #mathartchallenge day 22). Random numbers, binary, knot theory, probability... so much to talk about. #ITeachMath docs.google.com/presentation...

Woo! I made it. Thanks Mathieu…

My deep learning course at the University of Geneva is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in PyTorch. fleuret.org/dlc/ And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!) fleuret.org/lbdl/

Nvidia’s new audio model - Fugatto - can generate new sound effects from text descriptions arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/n...

Recommended! arxiv.org/abs/2403.14606

What did the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (#LECA) look like? Consensus View in #PLOSBiology; massive authorship including @AncestralState, @lauraeme.bsky.social, John Archbald, @andrewjroger.bsky.social, @dackslabecb.bsky.social, Jeremy Wideman. plos.io/4g0alq4

🎢🧮🍎 A college professor once told me there's nothing like a good slider to understand the behavior of something. People like to post these fun inequalities in desmos that make wild patterns and it's really fun to add your own parameters with sliders! Link in Reply

Yesterday, @erikjbekkers.bsky.social presented his vision on equivariance to IvI (at UvA), showcasing recent work on geometry-grounded representation learning - addressing fundamental limitations in geometric reasoning of current AI systems. 🤖 Exciting times ahead for geometric deep learning! 🌐 🤩

Continuing the old photos thread (?). Mark Goresky and Fred Cohen (RIP) talking at the blackboard in ICERM in 2016.

Man, I forgot that Google Photos existed and now I’m tripping down memory lane. Photos from when I first got my Canon Rebel XTi in Fall = 2007 Senior year at MIT!

Hey friends! I am interested in #geometry, #topology, and #MachineLearning. Silent lurker for some time, but now with the recent influx, I'd love to engage more. If you followed me from the 'other place' but I did not follow you back, let me know! The notifications here are sometimes a bit much...