I've been working on some important research on the forefront of physics: why do my cat's toys end up under the couch so fast?? youtu.be/JMNQ-Y5efGM

"Great question, Croesus! While my status as a delphic model prevents me from elaborating further, I can affirm that by going to war with Persia you *will* destroy a mighty empire. Would you like me to write this up as a set of daily affirmations, or perhaps you'd like a list of mighty empires?"

Wait you can just do that instead of talking about it for decades?

Only a few days left to submit a short paper or a workshop paper. I'm workshop chair and looking forward to seeing what is submitted!

“Literally doesn’t understand that other people exist” is the skeleton key to understanding Trump

ok folks we are adding compute shaders to p5! the bouncing balls in this test sketch have their state updated in a compute shader.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I'm happy to be just one of a team of maintainers on p5

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

A single-line drawing that is simultaneously an open knight's tour of a 99x99 chessboard and a 3x3 Latin square.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Breaking: Sir Demis Hassabis becomes the latest to say that ChatGPT is a dead-end and that we must turn our focus to world models - Gary Marcus garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-s...

I'm excited to share that I'm going to be a TEDxWinnipeg speaker in May! I will be talking about digital legacy and the lack of tools and policy to support digital end-of-life planning. tedxwinnipeg.ca/speakers/ #winnipeg #tedx

Some seem surprised that one can hold the following three beliefs simultaneously. 1. The October 7th attacks were appalling. 2. Israel's response has been appalling. 3. The Iranian regime is appalling and it would be great if it were overthrown (assuming something worse didn't replace it).

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

If you are a senior researcher (i.e., associate prof level or later), and you're interested in moving to the University of Waterloo (best CS program in Canada) for the Canada Impact+ Research Chair (biggest chair position in Canada, $$$$$), email me. Discretion guaranteed.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

People mistakenly think prototypes are for discovering the right answer. They are most effective when used to find the right question.

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

The days between December 25 and January 1 are the Lanthanides and Actinides of the Gregorian calendar

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

What would be cool is if we asked authors to provide a short human-written summary of their paper that could appear on the DL page about it. The summary could even be included at the beginning of the paper itself.

My 4 year old’s new obsession is playing with hat tiles

Inspired by a zoom talk on Escher-like Spiral Tiling yesterday by @isohedral.ca, wrote some code that's probably not quite working right but it's still pretty fun... Here, the starting tile is a small symmetric Turing Pattern with a little color added. #mathart

Here’s something fun I made in Tile Farm Studio while watching @isohedral.ca talk about spiral tilings during the #illustratingMath seminar this morning.

Evergreen panel right here

Me when I cite myself:

As far as I understand, this position is still open. Thus, if you're looking for a paid position to drive #MathArt forward, consider to apply!

The Journal of Mathematics and the Arts invites applications for Editor-in-Chief from scholars who understand that mathematics and art are not separate worlds. Help us showcase research that reveals the mathematical soul of creativity. spr.ly/63321AhlWd

Originally created as a final project in the undergraduate computer graphics course at the University of Waterloo. We still have the shrink-wrapped physical media in the lab!

Not surprising that Gary Marcus (@garymarcus.bsky.social) thinks LLMs will not get us to AGI. His recent column is about how the LLM-will-save-us narrative is crumbling at an accelerating rate, about how obvious the emperor's lack of clothing is becoming.

Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski

This talk was given on September 12 in the New York Combinatorics Seminar. Here's a link to the recording. youtu.be/BX6VkFHwn-g?...

Oreoboros

The Cheriton School of Computer Science is recruiting! We invite applications for multiple positions in data management and data systems, as well as in other areas of CS — ML, robotics, computer vision, bioinformatics, and computer systems and architecture. cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/open-p...

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There is a lot of fuss today over whether chatbots can replace human participants in social sciences research when the solution is obvious: ask chatbots to simulate the views of social scientists and survey them on attitudes towards chatbots as substitutes for human subjects.

A little thread on how the crisis around GenAI in academia is also a crisis of confidence, and it makes me quite sad. [1/n]

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

It's not actually a metaphor. I just think of that scene. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/asteroid PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Here's a recording of my talk on the role of computers in making art, including so-called "AI", which was presented as the opening keynote of SIGGRAPH 2025, incorporating lessons from the history of computer graphics, photography, modern art, and philosophy of art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2YR... 1/

Updating my LEGO White House

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military. If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

There's a nice article by Siobhan Roberts about the Bridges 2025 conference in Eindhoven in the NY Times. I can now say that I am in The NY Times! (A photo credit for the shot of Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Edmund Harriss,... but still!) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/s...

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

Submissions are now being accepted for the Exhibition of Mathematical Art to be held as part of the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, DC, in January of 2026. Apply online through October 15 at gallery.bridgesmathart.org. pic.x.com/MGSEyexSzo

I heard AI and its relationship to the economy recently described as “The wasting is masked because the tumor is growing so fast that the body isn’t losing weight.”