Reposted by Chris Poultonyen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 08/10/2026I wonder if this is how people felt when Euler showed up 2828
Chris Poulton @chrispoulton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Statement by Terry Tao on AI in mathematics: "The mathematical community functions, in many ways, as a miniature version of humanity... The most precious resources of our profession are students and ideas, and these we nurture with great care." terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... 001
Chris Poulton @chrispoulton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It appears that the Navier-Stokes problem has fallen. Leaving aside the, ah, turbulence in the provenance, it's interesting that it is a *disproof*: i.e. there are smooth solutions, obeying the laws of physics everywhere, that result in singularities. Not what I expected! openai.com/index/navier...openai.comOn the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize ProblemWe’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean. 032
Reposted by Chris PoultonZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026For anyone not following the drama, there's been apparently a big development in ai math, along with some accusations of very bad behavior by OpenAI. But we don't have details yet. If I understand it, Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge made a big discovery on Navier-Stokes. Events go something like this: 17416157
Chris Poulton @chrispoulton.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Clearly showing my age while editing a paper draft 000
Reposted by Chris PoultonOpal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years. 14386173600
Chris Poulton @chrispoulton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Great news: our tutorial paper on statistical methods for Brillouin spectroscopy is now out! Brillouin spectroscopy is often messy, with multiple closely-spaced spectral peaks which may have weird shapes; statistical methods help you separate the different features. pubs.aip.org/aip/app/arti...pubs.aip.orgStatistical data analysis methods in Brillouin spectroscopy: TutorialThe non-contact and label-free nature of Brillouin microscopy, a type of optical elastography, is contributing to the growing popularity of this technology worl 020
Chris Poulton @chrispoulton.bsky.social · 11/05/2025It's because banh mi are totally awesome amp.abc.net.au/article/1052...amp.abc.net.auWhy are Australians obsessed with bánh mì, the Vietnamese roll with the complex history? - ABC News 000
Chris Poulton @chrispoulton.bsky.social · 03/05/2025A greatly underappreciated of Australian democracy: polls close and the result is known 3 hours later. Paper ballots, ranked-choice voting, no fancy tech needed. #AusVotes25 150
Chris Poulton @chrispoulton.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Best thing about voting in Australia. #democracysausage 031
Chris Poulton @chrispoulton.bsky.social · 12/03/2025New paper shows that sound can move faster than the speed of light!* *Terms and conditions apply. pubs.aip.org/aip/app/arti...pubs.aip.orgQuasi-solitons and stable superluminal opto-acoustic pulses in Brillouin scatteringWe theoretically and numerically study the evolution of soliton-like waves supported by stimulated Brillouin scattering. First, the emergence and unusual behavi 010
Chris Poulton @chrispoulton.bsky.social · 12/12/2024This gets to the heart of a big problem with AI in education. Calculators and other tools outsourced the lower-level tasks to a machine. LLMs tempt students to outsource the higher-level tasks as well. 010
Reposted by Chris PoultonRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/03/2024Physics vs. Magic xkcd.com/2904 272404511
Chris Poulton @chrispoulton.bsky.social · 09/02/2024Great to catch up with friends and colleagues at WOMBAT 5 in Brazil! 000
Chris Poulton @chrispoulton.bsky.social · 23/12/2023PSA: drinking a couple of beers does not improve the experience of watching Rebel Moon. 000
Chris Poulton @chrispoulton.bsky.social · 13/10/2023Voted this morning, but there was no democracy sausage! This also should be constitutionally mandated. 000
Chris Poulton @chrispoulton.bsky.social · 13/10/2023My german wife asked me to hide the Nutella from her, so I hid it where no German would ever find it. 130