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Mathematician, d̶e̶p̶a̶r̶t̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ c̶h̶a̶i̶r̶, husband, father, follower of news and sports.
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Terence Tao
6 days ago
I started a crowdsourced meta-project to list all the other crowdsourced mathematical research projects that are currently active and seeking participants:
mathoverflow.net/questions/50...
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List of crowdsourced math projects actively seeking participants
I believe that with the advent of modern online collaboration platforms (such as Github), proof assistant languages (such as Lean), and (potentially) AI tools, there are many emerging opportunities...
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/500720/list-of-crowdsourced-math-projects-actively-seeking-participants
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Albert Vilella, PhD.
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@khurramjaved.com
, not active on
#Bluesky
, on the value of LLM tech.
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Kristina Šekrst
about 22 hours ago
This is what happens when Wittgenstein edits your math textbook.
#science
#philosophysky
#math
#mathematics
#academia
#philsky
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Katie Mack
about 24 hours ago
Just to recap, the actual president found an AI-generated video of a fake news report depicting a fake announcement about an imaginary healthcare system based on a technology that doesn’t exist and posted it on his official social media account
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Jack Jenkins
1 day ago
Wait: so the President of the United States shared a video of a fake news report, rooted in a conspiracy theory, that features an AI-generated version of himself promoting a policy that…doesn’t exist?
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onion person
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i genuinely think donald trump didn’t realize this was ai and thinks he said this himself
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Topotoy Labs
11 days ago
Testing my topology (DCEL/half-edge) library a little bit. Some Conway operators on a polyhedron and Catmull-Clark SubDiv. Simple matcap rendering in the viewport.
#indiedev
#gamedev
#procgen
#dcel
#halfedge
#computationalgeometry
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Christopher Hanusa
19 days ago
On Friday at Noon (EDT) I am giving a talk in the New York Combinatorics Seminar. The title is: "Mathematical illustration through a combinatorial lens" in which I share my decade-long journey as a mathematical artist and jewelry maker and how it intertwines with my combinatorics research.
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Daniel Wilson
2 days ago
Padovan sequence
#MathArt
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Michael Meir Saltzman
4 days ago
Me: Which is why I did a Chotiner interview meme post Chotiner: but you did want engagement Me: Oh, of course! But it wasn’t just that. C: You felt you could add to the conversation Me: My own perspective. C: By posting the same joke as everyone else Me: it’s a funny variation
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Lupita Nihongo
5 days ago
The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this. I don’t view it as a Me problem.
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Joshua Collins
7 days ago
A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19 What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us?
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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U.S. naval forces have sunk a fourth suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, Trump says
U.S. naval forces have conducted another lethal strike on a vessel President Donald Trump said was tied to a designated terrorist organization involved in drug trafficking in the Caribbean.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article312184848.html?taid=68d0c9d6ccd1500001b6bed1&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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Jolyon Maugham KC
6 days ago
In these awful times for trans people I've found great comfort in the observation of a friend in her 40s who recently transitioned that 'my female friends immediately embraced me as one of their own and my male friends just became a little more gentle with me.'
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EmilyPhD
7 days ago
Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️ 🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST. 🗣️IT IS EUGENICS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD
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Mike Masnick
8 days ago
Just got sucked into
@neal.fun
's "Not a Robot"
neal.fun/not-a-robot/
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I'm Not a Robot
Prove your humanity once and for all
https://neal.fun/not-a-robot/
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Verfassungsblog
8 days ago
"Falling Far and Fast" Yale Law’s ROBERT POST — one of the nation’s foremost experts on freedom of speech — has been teaching First Amendment law for more than 40 years. For the first time, he fears that freedom of speech in America is truly endangered.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall
8 days ago
Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source:
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
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Michael Hobbes
9 days ago
This is so fascinating
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How the Golden Gate Bridge Works
YouTube video by Animagraffs
https://youtu.be/RjbJwnUd3Pw?si=SZ3eNwCCKkcme48D
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Ralph Janik
9 days ago
“Harvard geneticist David Reich said … increasingly sophisticated analysis of genetic material made possible by technological advances shows that virtually everyone came from somewhere else, and everyone’s genetic background shows a mix from different waves of migration that washed over the globe.”
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Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/claims-of-pure-bloodlines-ancestral-homelands-dna-science-says-no/
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Aaron Rupar
8 days ago
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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Filipe Campante
8 days ago
Must-read piece.
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Bobby Kogan
9 days ago
Trump just enacted the largest cuts to food assistance in history. Now he's cancelling the government survey that measures hunger in America.
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Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trump-administration-cancels-annual-hunger-survey-ca3d3793?st=XQwqPE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Ana Marie Cox
9 days ago
My most Gen X complaint is that this question ignores our existence.
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Anna Gifty
11 days ago
Maryland where you at? 👀
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Anybody know why Maryland isn’t part of this?
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Such a physical process, when sometimes we think of math as being disembodied.
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Elke Stangl (elkement)
11 days ago
New blog post - The Making Of my first geometric watercolor pencils drawing on stretched canvas:
elkement.art/2025/09/17/l...
I am constructing the curve described by x=sin(t), y=sin(2t), z=sin(3t) from its 2D projections using traditional descriptive geometry.
#SciArt
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Lissajous Trilogy on Canvas
Let me show you the genesis of my most involved watercolor pencils drawing so far! I have constructed 3D Lissajous figures on paper, projecting the three-dimensional world down to two dimensions. B…
https://elkement.art/2025/09/17/lissajous-trilogy-on-canvas/
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Alger Hiss's Secret Jack-o'-lantern
14 days ago
Friends: I need recommendations for a kind of primer pushing back on RW/admin narratives on immigration. I have a lot of info but it's too in-the-weeds for a beginner. I need something 101, preferably with some larger historical background. Any ideas? 🙏🏻
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depths of wikipedia
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I wish I were this brave! Well, I can aspire.
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Tim Chartier
20 days ago
Tonight,
@momath.bsky.social
and
@stevenstrogatz.com
celebrated the winners of the math communication prize that bears Steve's name. Want to be inspired by creativity of high schoolers? See the prize winners work at:
momath.org/strogatzpriz...
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Strogatz Prize 2025 Winners – National Museum of Mathematics
National Museum of Mathematics: Inspiring math exploration and discovery
https://momath.org/strogatzprize/strogatz-prize-2025-winners/
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Karen Attiah
14 days ago
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
https://substack.com/@karenattiah/note/p-173531760?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2bz6j
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Caravelle
15 days ago
Did you see this video response? It's great! It looks like a genre because I saw another one across my YouTube homepage but I haven't watched it yet
bsky.app/profile/park...
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Rachael the Hobbit
16 days ago
Ikr the queen of bad takes
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
16 days ago
"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️
16 days ago
Hey bug/arachnid people, what the heck is this? I was admiring some green shield lichen on a tree trunk in western Pennsylvania when I noticed a teeny tiny (.5 cm?) clump moving. I gently flipped it over, it’s something with legs?? Using the lichen for camouflage?
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Lyndsey Stonebridge
16 days ago
Rebel nuns breakout of care home & re-occupy their home. As I've been saying: old women are the future.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps
Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y8r2gk0vyo
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Louis Barclay
18 days ago
Q. Who aligns the aligners? A.
alignmentalignment.ai
Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
https://alignmentalignment.ai
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Oliver Willis
17 days ago
Charlie Kirk spewed so much hatred throughout his career it was impossible to include all of it in my story. And yet the mainstream media is largely whitewashing what he said and stood for. Stop supporting them.
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The whitewashing of Charlie Kirk’s toxic legacy is underway
Conservative activist and pundit Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday, becoming another victim of America’s epidemic ...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/11/2342963/-The-whitewashing-of-Charlie-Kirk-s-toxic-legacy-is-underway
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Akiyoshi Kitaoka
16 days ago
コレクションが増えた。
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hannah gais
17 days ago
I feel like I've spent today sorting through accusations of this guy being a groyper, only to find that those aren't based on anything. There isn't an indictment yet. The cops haven't handled this better, but seriously—posting without verification makes you no better than the right yelling "antifa."
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chelsea bridge 🏳️⚧️
19 days ago
the new account created today with 6 followers and 0 posts and 12 replies that is replying to you with bullshit is a troll and if you aren't blocking on sight you lost the game cmon yall don't waste the energy, don't engage especially in other people's mentions
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil
18 days ago
I say this with love but if you go around telling people that the regime has already fully consolidated power, you are doing their work for them. And you are also factually wrong.
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Elizabeth Gibney
18 days ago
ICYMI, this week I wrote about GPT-5 and the effort to stop LLMs from hallucinating, as well as saying they've done tasks they haven't. With web search to verify facts, finding citations is getting a lot better. But as soon as it's off, things can still go very wonky🧪🤖
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Can researchers stop AI making up citations?
OpenAI’s GPT-5 hallucinates less than previous models do, but cutting hallucination completely might prove impossible.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02853-8
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Michael Chesnut
18 days ago
Appreciate the original poster below for bringing this important and interesting event to my attention! I would genuinely love to see this! Someday, perhaps . . . .
tramwm.wienerlinien.at/en/
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I'm the same as Howie (just not as charismatic, charming, etc.)
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This is next on my list
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Isaac! At the Butler!
18 days ago
Charlie Kirk may have been good at showing up at college campuses and talking to anyone who would listen etc. But the org he headed built a database of professors to target with harassment campaigns in the hopes of drumming them out of academia. Is that practicing politics the right way?
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Fionna O’Leary
19 days ago
Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
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