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Silvia Barbina

@doppelsilvia.bsky.social
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As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown, but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra. 📍Northeastern and Central Italy. Formerly the UK.

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Richard Elwes @richardelwes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
...OpenAI has seemingly done just that. So can Sam Altman expect to recieve a bottle of 15yo single malt? Asaf explains why not here, calling the recent drop a Denial of Service attack on mathematicians. 2/2 karagila.org/2026/openai-...
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OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and mathematics
By the time I got out of bed yesterday, I had three people ask me if I'd seen the OpenAI announcement that the Partition Principle does not (...)
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here’s a bombshell for those considering the impact of the recent dump of mathematical papers by OpenAI: why the semantic translation of a mathematical text into Lean code by an AI may neither be reliable nor faithful 👉🏼 arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144
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Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofs
Autoformalisation is increasingly used to verify mathematical texts, including those generated by AI, as in OpenAI's announced proof of blow-up of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. In this pro...
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Silvia Barbina @doppelsilvia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people: we hear you, you were right," Miliband said. www.middleeasteye.net/news/we-hear...
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javier @bartlebooth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OpenAI is trying to frame their incompetence as technical prowess. Their robots are not becoming sentient. They are just badly set up in systems that are not properly isolated.
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Silvia Barbina @doppelsilvia.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
www.quantamagazine.org/chatbot-soft...
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Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations | Quanta Magazine
Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.
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