Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026European industry is doing better than you may think economist.com/business/202...economist.comEuropean industry is doing better than you may thinkThe firms most exposed to China are suffering. But many are adapting 020
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And so it starts. I hope the incentives change quickly enough! 110
Reposted by Leon RofaghaFX Coudert @nanoporous.net · 25/09/2026“Using a train, a professor ran 800 km in three hours.” 1235
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026youtube.comICM 2026 Invited Section Lecture - Rina Foygel BarberYouTube video by Simons Foundation 011
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026riannedeheide.github.ioDuring your PhD: learning to do research — Rianne de Heide 023
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug programAt a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab — or place for physical experiments — in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said. 010
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026youtube.com/live/ypBsP6a...youtube.comCLIMB + Neyman talk with Daniela WittenYouTube video by Climb Seminars 010
Reposted by Leon RofaghaSam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026(from www.its.caltech.edu/~matilde/AIm..., links to .pdf) 1136
Reposted by Leon RofaghaDaniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I've written an essay on how I think the mathematics profession should adapt to highly capable AI systems. It's hosted here on "Proofs and Prompts": proofsandprompts.com/2026/09/14/a... though you should also feel free to complain/comment on my website here: daniellitt.com/blog/2026/9/...proofsandprompts.comA beginning for mathematicsDaniel Litt, professor at the University of Toronto Three years ago, AI systems could not reliably add two numbers. A year ago, internal models at OpenAI and DeepMind received the equivalent of a g… 66413
Reposted by Leon RofaghaTerence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...mathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 422052930
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026An interesting read on software production at technology companies. The upshot seems to be that AI does almost all of it and engineers only review particularly risky snippets?newsletter.pragmaticengineer.comWhat is happening with code reviews?AI generates more code than devs can track in 2026, so will the code review process have to adapt – or is it doomed? A look into this decades-old practice and the approaches that could replace it 000
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It seems plausible to me that statistics, computer science and related disciplines will get more mathematical over the coming years as “pure” mathematicians whose funding has dried up find refuge there 010
Reposted by Leon RofaghaGrant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is just to say I have solved the open questions that were in your paper and which you were probably saving for your phd students Forgive me they were delicious so incentive-laden and followed so readily once your postdoc's drafts mysteriously found their way into my training data 4356115
Reposted by Leon Rofaghapost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Anthropic doesn’t have enough compute to service demand; OAI may be demand-bound instead. if so then they’re in a position where they have however much excess capacity and they just need to find the best thing to throw it at, over and over again 2571
Reposted by Leon RofaghaEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hey buddy you got any breakthrough proofs you’re working on? No reason, me and my large corporation are just curious 228036
Reposted by Leon RofaghaJohn C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Joan Birman is amazing! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...nytimes.comThe 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (Gift Article)Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn. 26017
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The trivialisation of programming is perhaps one bright spot of the effects of AI in research for me. I never enjoyed it and was always terrible at it 000
Reposted by Leon RofaghaKyle Cranmer @kylecranmer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Comments: 32 pages, human work 😜 2141
Reposted by Leon RofaghaAndrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 29/08/2026My German Applied Microeconomist costume this year will be lit 5585
Reposted by Leon RofaghaClément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 08/08/2026David Pollard has a new draft, "Probability tools, tricks, and miracles" (last updated June 2006). Lots of good things in there, from a quick skim! And, if nothing else, worth reading for the quality of the writing and the exposition choices and notes. www.stat.yale.edu/~pollard/Boo... 2395
Reposted by Leon Rofaghaa hangry mouse @oscillatory.net · 07/08/2026sorry for accidentally inventing a swarm of cybersecurity demons, but now that it exists, the only way to stop a bad swarm of cybersecurity demons is a good swarm of cybersecurity demons 06714
Reposted by Leon RofaghaAaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social · 07/08/2026People used to be able to impress and intimidate reviewers with complicated proofs. This will change. In the age of AI inscrutable proofs are cheap. It is understandable proofs that are valuable. Opaque complexity is now it is a sign of laziness or lack of insight. 1638
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Super interesting. “The point is that there are so many ways in which a result can be strengthened that it is hard to know in advance in which direction you should go. With the benefit of hindsight, it could have been done [by a human mathematician].” 030
Reposted by Leon RofaghaMark M. Wilde @markwilde.bsky.social · 04/08/2026why would I ever again share a well formulated open research question in an open problems session of a conference? 5273
Reposted by Leon RofaghaMark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This paper prompted Jack Clark, one of the co-founders of Anthropic to post this to their news letter: "the singularity could be delayed" (as a reminder: always be wary of statements from people who work in corporate AI labs--their livelihood depends on certain outcomes and beliefs) 1143
Reposted by Leon RofaghaGreg White @gregswhitenoise.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Don't forget (a) heavy subsectioning; (b - i; ii) overly emphatic adjectives and adverbs; (c) referencing expressions with (...); (d) insane use of display math; or (e) introductions written in the stylistic equivalent to the colour grey. Every day seeing this state of affairs worsen makes me sad. 172
Reposted by Leon RofaghaHenry Yuen @henryyuen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Some initial thoughts, and a complicated mix of feelings. Wow. I mean, Erdos problems are cool (I genuinely mean that), I didn't know about the Jacobian conjecture before it got disproved. But this newest batch from OpenAI hits home in a way the previous announcements did not. 232972
Reposted by Leon RofaghaUlrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 01/08/2026“Zusammenfassung: Die Europäer haben auf eine Bedrohung von außen nicht gemeinsam reagiert, sondern sind übereinander hergefallen. Der gestrige Tag war ein schwarzer Tag für Europa und ein Fest für seine Feinde.” www.zeit.de/politik/2026...zeit.deCeuta: Ein Fest für die Feinde EuropasDie Reaktionen auf den Ausnahmezustand in Ceuta? Teils faktenfreies Spanien-Bashing. Man muss festhalten: Friedrich Merz fiel hier beinahe positiv auf. 14361107
Reposted by Leon RofaghaK @kate10010.bsky.social · 31/07/2026-67%. Still up close to 100% ytd lol. 191
Reposted by Leon RofaghaRobin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 30/07/2026FT scoop: Citadel buys Situational Awareness equity holdings after steep AI losses www.ft.com/content/5fb4...ft.comCitadel buys Situational Awareness equity holdings after steep AI lossesDeal comes after Leopold Aschenbrenner’s investment firm held overnight crunch talks with investors 3376
Reposted by Leon RofaghaNalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 29/07/2026There’s a lovely video of Hong Wang from IHES, which is much happier than the one I saw at the #ICM2026 Fields medallists ceremony 📽️ youtu.be/3s35qhi_inU?...youtu.beHong Wang, professeure permanente en mathématiques à l'IHESYouTube video by Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) 0124
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is (selfishly) a worry of mine. Doing things is now trivial and understanding is what enables valuable contributions. In this regime having had 20 years to develop intuition about a subject is an enormous advantage 050
Reposted by Leon RofaghaSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Professor Hong Wang, a Fields Medalist, the highest honor in mathematics, has taken on an unexpected new role: fashion influencer. 3653
Reposted by Leon RofaghaRyan O'Donnell @booleananalysis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This new 'journal for talks' looks pretty cool: www.mathematicaldiscourse.orgmathematicaldiscourse.orgMathematical Discourse - Mathematical DiscourseA peer-reviewed video journal for mathematical research talks. 1171
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I’ve just discovered this super interesting exchange between Daniel Litt and Jacob Tsimerman xcancel.com/littmath/sta... 110
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 24/07/2026“In fact during the workshop I learnt from Harvard PhD student Bryan Wang that Harvard were already giving free Fable access to all PhD students, post-docs and faculty at Harvard.” 010
Reposted by Leon RofaghaJohn C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 24/07/2026A really good mathematician told me Anthropic is paying people like him $250/hour to improve Fable by throwing hard math problems at it. They also get a separate account where they can use Fable for their own purposes. They can do it for 5 months maximum. 104512
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I’m a sucker for these videos presenting the medalistsyoutube.com2026 Fields Medal: Hong WangYouTube video by Simons Foundation 131
Reposted by Leon RofaghaQuanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 19/07/2026An unorthodox solution to a major math problem came from an unorthodox place: a teenager who, after finding homeschooling confining, found her way to research mathematics.youtube.comHow a High School Student Overturned a Famous ConjectureWhen Hannah Cairo was a 17-year-old high school student, she did something mathematicians had been unable to do for four decades: she overturned the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a famous prediction… 0196
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Publication date: tomorrow! Can’t waitcambridge.orgModern Statistical Methods and TheoryCambridge Core - Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning - Modern Statistical Methods and Theory 1187
Reposted by Leon RofaghaTransactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026TMLR has been facing an significant uptick in the number of submissions since the start of 2026. This is placing an extreme burden on our amazing team of reviewers & action editors. To ease this burden, TMLR will be implementing submission quotas, effective July 1. 1/n medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ann... 23014
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026When the ARR time series has to be put on a logarithmic scale. I still find it baffling 120
Reposted by Leon RofaghaPeter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026SpaceX's business model is currently less "data centers in space" and more "space in data centers" www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/s.... 1320650
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 17/06/2026🤌🤌🤌ems.pressEstimation of discrete distributions in relative entropy, and the deviations of the missing mass | EMS PressJaouad Mourtada 120
Reposted by Leon RofaghaGro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026How (not) to call English place names in French. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_d... I am now referring to the University of Oxford as «l'Université d'Osenefort», and I regret there is no «Camepont» on the list for Cambridge because that would be even better.fr.wikipedia.orgListe des noms français de toponymes du Royaume-Uni — Wikipédia 462
Reposted by Leon RofaghaGro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026On m'a demandé de regarder cette vidéo www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYPQ... de @monsieurphi.bsky.social sur les progrès des LLM en maths et de donner mon avis. Attention, ça va être très long!, parce que forcément j'ai beaucoup à raconter. 🧵⤵️ •1/59 112772
Leon Rofagha @leonrofa.bsky.social · 07/06/2026@3blue1brown.com is doing a series on information theory!youtube.comReinventing Entropy | Compression & Intelligence Part 1YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown 030
