Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Clearly the world should have heeded that movie's warnings about the arrogant harmful actions of an amateur outsider (a brash young white male) who thinks that it's just solving problems what counts in mathematics, and provides his proofs without explanations www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ViP...youtube.comGood Will Hunting (1997) - Will Solves Math Challenge (Matt Damon)YouTube video by CinemaGalaxy 000
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Clearly it has now been taken over by woke censors 000
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Frances Haugen must have killed a lot of valuable internal research. 011
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Grandpa, what convinced you to go into AI safety back in 2026?" 270
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Twitter has developed a culture of raising the temperature, and generally being mean. People dunk on each other, and are aggressively uncharitable." - Hard to argue with that, but are you claiming that Bluesky has a more charitable culture with regard to AI topics? 000
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026That could be. (I seem to recall HF being quite proud about their cybersecurity leadership when they introduced the safetensors format in 2022-23. Oh well) 020
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Can you say more about why you consider, say, finding and exploiting several novel CVEs in JFrog Artifactory to be on the same level as finding out that the Wi-Fi password is "wifi"? 210
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026(for a more in-depth critique of that part of the letter, see liorpachter.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/a... )liorpachter.wordpress.comAlign AI and Mathematics—to Something ElseTwenty five Fields medalists were initial signatories of the letter “A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics” in which they opine that “The goals of the AI companies and the go… 000
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026(another is the Fields Medallists' self-serving claim that "The most precious resources of our profession are students and ideas, and these we nurture with great care", which, shall we say, it not fully backed by solid empirical evidence bsky.app/profile/phdc... ) 100
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Ramanujan's letters, Perelman's preprints and the original 4-color proof were likewise "not giving us what we need"; all these required substantial follow-up work "for the purposes of pushing limits of understanding". One of the reasons why the statement's accusatory stance is quite hypocritical. 201
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Since there was some confusion: These are all quotes from the Economist article bsky.app/profile/wmli... ... 000
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"The most precious resources of our profession are students and ideas, and these we nurture with great care."[citation needed] bsky.app/profile/phdc... 000
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Or, the dedicated lecturer who has successfully introduced generations of grad students to advanced mathematical concepts, but ranks very low on the academic pole that this statement's 25 signatories sit on the very top of. 000
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The scholar who is a brilliant researcher with an impressive publication record but a lousy lecturer and whose PhD students struggle to get meaningful support from him is an archetype of academia: bsky.app/profile/phdc... Tao et al. want us to believe that their field is different in that regard. 100
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I'm ready to believe that @teorth.bsky.social himself is exemplary in that regard. But his field's own misalignment between research and teaching incentives might be a more fundamental one than the one decried in this statement. 110
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Regarding the 25 Fields Medallists' rather self-serving claim that "The most precious resources of our profession are students and ideas, and these we nurture with great care": liorpachter.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/a...liorpachter.wordpress.comAlign AI and Mathematics—to Something ElseTwenty five Fields medalists were initial signatories of the letter “A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics” in which they opine that “The goals of the AI companies and the go… 100
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Regarding the Fields Medallists' rather self-serving claim that "The most precious resources of our profession are students and ideas, and these we nurture with great care", compare liorpachter.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/a...liorpachter.wordpress.comAlign AI and Mathematics—to Something ElseTwenty five Fields medalists were initial signatories of the letter “A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics” in which they opine that “The goals of the AI companies and the go… 000
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Indeed. Another good take: bsky.app/profile/josh... (e.g. pointing to the only previous Millennium Prize solution announcement, by Perelman, who wasn't super integrated with "the mathematical community" either, and left the "proper writeup" to others as well - just like those super evil AI bros) 000
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Nitpicking seems to be a general problem with LLM fact checking (I also encountered it in this experiment on finding errors in top-rated Wikipedia articles: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... ). But one would think it can be avoided by better prompting, or in your case rewording the bounty criteria?en.wikipedia.orgWikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-12-01/Opinion - Wikipedia 010
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It's a quote from the Economist article recommended by Professor Tao here bsky.app/profile/teor... 010
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026You are evidently unaware that this is simply a quote from the Economist article recommended by Professor Tao here bsky.app/profile/teor... 000
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"Are mathematicians talking their own book out of fear? It is hard to argue that humanity is worse off with the extra knowledge ai is producing. Yet technological advance has certainly affected how humans think. [citing a 2011 study about the effects of search engines like Google Search]" 110
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"Mathematicians’ fears resemble those that accompanied the invention of the ball-point in a world of fountain pens, or even the advent of electronic calculators. [...] Will a new tool control humans? Will it lead to mental decay? Such fears have typically turned out to be unfounded." 110
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"Not since Socrates complained that the written word might make people lazy about remembering things has there been such an outpouring of angst against a new technology in the world of academia." 110
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'm kind of waiting for these folks to start a war on skeumorphisms too because it is DANGEROUSLY MISLEADING when deleted "files" or "folders" are moved into a "trash can" even though those digital objects are NOT THE SAME as the physical ones in a REAL office. 051
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Yes, that's what they say ("We ... did not see any of their work through any means") 😉 (In case it's not clear, I was joking about the rather implausible speculations that OpenAI's result had been "stolen" from Buckmaster via training data.) 001
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Surely you were only able to come up with this joke because you were surreptitiously training on Twitter data x.com/slaterstich/...x.comSlater Stich (@slaterstich) on Xwow so much drama about navier stokes. had no idea things could blow up so infinitely in such a finite time. 110
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Fwiw, Bubeck has since apologized "for this extremely poor choice of words, it is the opposite of what I was trying to convey. (I should say that I retracted them on the spot by the way.)" 🤔 x.com/SebastienBub...x.comSebastien Bubeck (@SebastienBubeck) on XI would like to clarify a few things: 1) The screenshot is my reaching out to Levent to coordinate our releases. I hope it’s clear from the message that we came in with the best possible intentions. ... 011
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172341...mathstodon.xyzTerence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)By sheer coincidence, another completely independent result on the Euler blowup question has just been released by Ganeshram, Duruisseaux, and Anandkumar https://anima-ai.org/2026/09/07/stable-singula... 000
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We'll see what the other side says x.com/SebastienBub...x.comSebastien Bubeck (@SebastienBubeck) on XA series of false and inflammatory allegations against me are currently circulating on social channels. To clarify, I came into the discussion following academic norms, and I'm disappointed that it has come to this. Anyone who knows me knows that academic standards are of the highest importance to … 010
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Context: mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172335...mathstodon.xyzTerence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)For the specific ansatz of perturbations chosen here, the amplitude-frequency dynamics turn out to be a remarkably simple ODE, at least for the model case of the Boussinesq equation, though there are ... 130
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"This is a Deep Blue-Kasparov moment [for mathematics]." 181
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Oh, so not inspired by Sheryl Sandberg you say? 040
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Clearly the solution is to make sure all kids have smartphones so they can stay in contact with their parents at all times 😉 020
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The R world unfortunately also took a bit of a proprietary turn, with @posit.co's RStudio alternative/not-quite-successor Positron no longer available under an open source license (like RStudio was and still is) devclass.com/2024/07/01/p...devclass.comPosit releases public preview of Positron next-gen data science IDE, promises RStudio will continuePosit, a public benefit corporation whose best-known product is RStudio, has released a public preview of Positron, based […] 020
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Some good points, but the entire post appears to be strangely oblivious of the fact that Twitter / X has open-sourced its "For you" algorithm. 120
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"Watermarking is always noise injection" - citation needed. I suggest to read the SynthID paper a bit more closely, or ask your favorite SOTA chatbot 010
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The authors of the paper don't seem to agree with that claim bsky.app/profile/tilm... 010
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026And that seems to directly contradict @segyges.bsky.social 's "mathematically impossible" claim 130
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Why are you basing parts of your new algorithm on the Perspective API, which has been deprecated for a while and is set to be shut down soon? 100
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026gwern.net/llm-writinggwern.netWriting for LLMs So They ListenSpeculation about what sort of ordinary human writing is most relevant and useful to future AI systems. 010
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Counterpoint: bsky.app/profile/zeke... I do not see that aspect addressed in the linked article 000
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This one was quite organized (in the sense of being released by a major publisher) and quite righteous en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon...en.wikipedia.orgSilicon Snake Oil - Wikipedia 120
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Of course it's almost always too early to be 100% pro or anti quoteinvestigator.com/2025/04/02/e...quoteinvestigator.comDialogue Origin: “What Has Been the Impact of the French Revolution?” “It’s Too Early To Tell” – Quote Investigator® 010
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026When was that critical period? And why did NVIDIA put so much work into preventing the use of their products for crypto mining? www.bbc.com/news/technol...bbc.comNvidia limits crypto-mining on new graphics cardNvidia's latest graphics card will deliberately slow down if used to mine a popular crypto-currency. 210
Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026A Stanford professor in number theory: "the result, beating 2/3 (or even 1/2), is an absolutely historic achievement. ... this does not have direct implications for, say RH, but it is a historic milestone of a result to celebrate." x.com/jdlichtman/s...x.comJared Duker Lichtman (@jdlichtman) on X@tilmanbayer @AcerFur One may distinguish between the result itself and the proof ideas therein: the result, beating 2/3 (or even 1/2), is an absolutely historic achievement. The proof, in turn, foun... 110
