Apparently aging really does happen in years.

time and clocks

"is it possible for any animal to fly from brooklyn to manhattan"

trash day

adding insult to injury

Please hold still while the AI gets the information into your brain most efficiently.

Excited our paper "AI Testing Should Account for Sophisticated Strategic Behaviour" was accepted to the first NeurIPS position paper track! We argue AI systems may act strategically w.r.t. the possibility they are currently being tested & game theory helps address this. arxiv.org/abs/2508.14927

planes

more geography

borders

I got to give the opening lecture for the 2025 Cooperative AI Summer School and the video is now online! "Foundations and Frontiers of Cooperative AI" www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfnb... @coop-ai.bsky.social

Don't you hate it when you have your eyes closed just when you take a picture?

"which country is two countries to the north of mexico"

Congratulations to Emin Berker for receiving the Best Talk Award at COMSOC'25! (in the picture with coauthor Edith Elkind; paper arxiv.org/abs/2502.16973 )

"if a baby has two siblings what is the probability it is the oldest?"

tennis

"how many unbreakable 1 by 1 by 1 blocks fit in a 2.9 by 2.9 by 2.9 box?"

occupancy limits

lion puzzle, part 2 -- I'll mark this solution as correct but with some drawbacks

lion puzzle, part 1

"what if i put the stamp inside the envelope?"

"what if i stand behind someone who stands in front of me"

depths of sunken ships, part 2 (let's see who can explain this one)

depths of sunken ships, part 1

Good luck to Sinner and Alcaraz in the US Open final today! ... even though their trajectory in the tournament so far is not even logically possible.

color photography

Greatly enjoyed hosting (with @adtraghunathan.bsky.social) the amazing @yejinchoinka.bsky.social for a packed Hans Berliner lecture! (Bonus question: who is the man giving the thumbs up?)

this sounds like fun

family relations (part 2 of 2)

family relations (part 1 of 2)

"how should i take a picture of a camera using that same camera"

Got a few quotes in this article on AI photo editing (LMK if you want my Kardashian image :-) ) www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Michiel Bakker in de Volkskrant! www.volkskrant.nl/tech/nederla...

did not expect that any AI would fail the Turing Test by being worse both at looking up data and at simple calculations

more to be said here than could ever fit in such a short article but it covers some of it, and happy to get a few quotes in it (no paywall I think) www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Gemini Deep Think: gold on the IMO AI Overview:

self-reference

another pro tip

I wonder if I'm on a going-upstairs floor or a going-downstairs floor.

I wonder if it just hates me now

advice for getting ready to hit a baseball pitch without a bat: positive self-talk and don't dwell on future outcomes

partial invisibility

(1/2) "is it possible that my wife always remains younger than me?"

(1/2) when your fiancé(e) shows up at your wedding

"what does the milky way look like from mars" -- text vs. image

The robot takeover starts at the highest levels of soccer.

apparently airlines have been putting us at risk by putting the wings on the outside of the airplane and exposing them to the elements

height reduction

"is it possible to touch the back of my friend's head with my nose"

how to build wealth