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.”

As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.

Grant Sanderson was scheduled to speak at Bridges 2025, but couldn't make it. Instead, he filmed a special behind-the-scenes and sneak preview of this video, which was partly finished, for the conference. I look forward to watching the final product! (Topic: Sol Lewitt + Burnside's lemma)

Hegseth is now the Secretary of War, which is fitting I guess as RFK jr is basically the Secretary of Pestilence. We just need Famine and Death to round it out.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Nice oveerview of tiling notation from Craig Kaplan isohedral.ca/isohedral-ti... @isohedral.ca

RIP Graham Greene. To me he will always be Leonard, the shaman who came to town from time to time in Northern Exposure. I just rewatched my favourite episode in which he appears: “Three Doctors” (s5e01). bsky.app/profile/jord...

Montreal bagels > New York bagels. I will not be taking questions at this time.

We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

Lutefisk hotline: ya hey, what's the deal now? Sven: Ya, we ran out of lutefisk Lutefisk hotline: oh jeez Sven: oh jeez

Meet the spectre 👻 the first-ever true aperiodic monotile. For ages, no one knew if a single shape could tile the plane without ever repeating. This tiling uses just one tile, no reflections, has no patterns, and fills space perfectly. 🧶 🧮 #MathSky #embroidery #handembroidery

Still fails the test though this is the first model that got toward my actual art style. Even watermarked with my name?

Surprising no one, this is what the expropriated farmland is for. So we get huge use of electricity and water, which may negatively impact our communities, with very few jobs, and we give up food production. What do our elected officials think the win is here?

If you are an enemy of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting you are a villain. There’s nothing good about you.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Max Brodeur just presented our paper on smooth rolling knots at the Bridges Conference on Mathematics and the Arts. Max worked on this topic during his semester project together with Michele Vidulis and Liliane-Joy Dandy. More info here: go.epfl.ch/smooth_rolli...

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

How great was Tom Lehrer? In 2020, he moved his entire catalog into the public domain because he felt he'd made more than enough money off of it. Enjoy every Tom Lehrer album: tomlehrersongs.com

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Looking forward to meeting everyone in Eindhoven on Monday and to a great week of #MathArt!

Chekov’s Torment Nexus.

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