Computer scientist, computational biologist/chemist/physicist/cosmologist; PhD, MIT / Harvard Medical School; former Google AI research scientist; TED Fellow
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I created a Claude Code skill that scours every major indexing service on the web to find the source or PDF for scientific papers, so that when you cite a paper, the claims you make around the citation are grounded in the actual content of the cited paper:
github.com/lukehutch/allpape…
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Two MIT mathematicians have proposed a significant change to the future of mathematical research.
In an essay published on 21 October, Pavel Etingof and Slava Gerovitch argue that mathematicians should increasingly be evaluated for their understanding, judgment, and creativity rather than simply for being the first to prove a theorem.
They suggest that future PhD theses need not necessarily contain the first proof of a result.
Originality could instead come from new ideas, connections, explanations, or methods.
They also propose greater emphasis on oral examinations, collaborative research, and AI-assisted mathematical exploration.
Their central argument challenges a longstanding academic tradition: mathematical achievement should not be measured primarily by who proves something first.
If you love math, CS, and/or physics, seriously, do yourself a huge favor and go watch this video. This is the most sensible and inspiring thing I have heard so far on the positive future that AI is bringing to all of us.
youtu.be/LKrwhjOI8Nc
OK so people keep hating on Antigravity, but show me Claude Code or Codex trying to render complex LaTeX math as ASCII art... (Also Antigravity is still written by humans, whereas the others are vibed -- so this is ultra-impressive...)
This is EXACTLY why this is the beginning, not the end, of math.
Those who will make 100x the typical human impact in the future will be whose who continue to use 100% of their own cognitive effort and creativity, and use AI to amplify their own efforts.
For decades, a key question about the challenges of high-dimensional computation resisted proof. New research resolves the KLS conjecture, removing a major barrier to understanding the efficiency of randomized algorithms used throughout science and computing.
msft.it/6011aar01
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I’m very opinionated. So it’s nearly impossible for me to hear someone’s arguments and *not* find something I disagree with. (This includes reading things I myself wrote years - or weeks - ago.) And yet the amazing Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown has put out a long, detailed video on the future of mathematics, in which I cannot find a single flaw. I’ll be sending this to every PhD student and postdoc I know, and strongly recommend everyone watch it.
youtube.com/watch?v=LKrwhjOI…
(Of course I tried to say many of the same things in my conversation with Thomas Koberda. But Grant’s version, unsurprisingly, does an infinitely better job at communicating those ideas!)
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Recently attended an in-person handheld game console hackathon. I wrote a raycaster by hand. Someone wearing a “I ❤️ slop” tshirt saw mine and said “oh I wrote a ray caster too!”. They showed me. It was a ray *tracer* and claude did all the work. The person didn’t know basic graphics terms. They couldn’t answer basic questions about how it worked, could only talk about their prompting harness. Sad how AI is ruining the craft and community for people that actually like to program and have spent their lives getting good at it.
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"Some U.S. officials say that Musk acted unilaterally and that Trump didn’t specifically order any retribution against Ukraine. But a person familiar with the situation said Musk talked to multiple senior administration officials, including with Trump, before imposing the new speed cap, which Ukrainian officials said had allowed Russian missiles to evade their defenses."
Once again, for emphasis: this is Elon Musk unilaterally violating a contract between his company and a paying customer in a mission-critical situation, where lives were at risk and were almost certainly lost as a direct result of his actions, for purely personal reasons that had nothing to do with SpaceX's commercial interests.
It's as serious a breach of trust as can possibly be imagined. Who could possibly trust a contract with a Musk-controlled company now?
Full Congressional investigation is in order. ASAP. Ukrainians died and US diplomatic personnel plus US citizens were at grave risk. wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
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More on the language here: github.com/aardappel/goose
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I launched the first image and video generation models at Google, and kept asking why all AI designs look the same.
AI has brought us the WORST era of design.
It made content creation effortless, but it also made 90% of it look painfully generic.
My co-founder and I spent 2 years building in stealth to change that.
Meet Vyb, the first AI design model that understands your taste like a designer would.
RT + comment your website URL and we’ll make your first design.
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Introducing Pixel - a library for building GUIs in the terminal
- 120 FPS pixel-perfect graphics
- Embeddable inside existing TUIs
- Built in chromium webview component
pixelgui.com
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[Original in Polish. Text in the image translated and edited using AI]
🤖 Made with AI
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notice..
> Delta is blocking AI agents from booking flights
> JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab block agents from accessing accounts
> Yelp requires paid data licensing for agents
> Amazon has blocked Grok bot and other shopping agents.
the internet is starting to block AI agents that were supposed to do everything for us
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Unbelievable. At 9 PM on a Friday night, Trump just waived nearly every sanction the Lindsey Graham bill imposed on Russia. whitehouse.gov/presidential-…
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EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk came to Donald Trump with the plan to throttle Ukraine’s use of SpaceX’s Starshield satellite internet network, sources have told the Telegraph.
The tech billionaire made the proposal during the US President’s row with Volodymyr Zelensky over strikes on Russian oil refineries.
‘The reality is that they were both in it,’ a senior source said of Musk’s and Trump’s involvement.
But after a night of carnage in Kyiv caused by the slowdown, Musk was alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe.
The SpaceX boss then proceeded to tweet, blaming the US administration, and ultimately, President Trump for authorising the slowdown.
‘He tweeted out that he was innocent and that it was the US administration that did it,’ the source said.