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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 28/09/2026

Well, if you believe what the AI companies say, they really have no way of knowing what their agents are up to! So the only plausible consistent response they could have to plagiarism accusations is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 28/09/2026

Reposting our job openings at SJSU, please repost the original post quoted below One asst prof discrete math/graph theory, one open rank position in statistics/data science Please let your friends know!

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 25/09/2026

This story is amazing, and appalling, and hilarious, and sad - ah, academia

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 25/09/2026

Pleased to announce that San Jose State Math/Stats (www.sjsu.edu/math/) is hiring two tenure-track faculty this year, one in discrete math/graph theory and one in statistics/data science! More details and application form in thread below:

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Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 24/09/2026

Google study: AI "saves" scientists 7 hours a week, 25% of which they then burn going through AI slop; worse, AI leads to "less diverse, less risky and less innovative science" www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl... Not looking forward to the future where we become referees of AI slop

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AI saves scientists seven hours a week, Google paper finds - Research Professional News

But study also highlights extra time spent verifying AI-generated results and push towards “safer” projects

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 24/09/2026

In case anyone thought the whole Susan Collins corruption thing is just a big misunderstanding

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Laurie Hertzel @lhertzel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The publication that blew the lid off of Clarence Thomas' grift and Susan Collins' bribes is doing a membership drive. Money incredibly well spent! I have no affiliation with @propublica.org other than great admiration. Donate if you can. give.propublica.org/campaign/749...

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 22/09/2026

As someone who grew up in Maine, I'm honestly shocked - not that Collins would be corrupt, but that she'd be so *openly* corrupt in such an easily discoverable way

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 21/09/2026

As always, I feel that Yiddish translates well to Chinese

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

For Lauren Bacall’s birthday: Benjamin Schwartz New Yorker, May 29, 2023

Description: A woman gives instructions on how to find a video to learn how to whistle.

Caption: "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just go to YouTube, search 'whistle how to,' and it's like the third video from the top."

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 16/09/2026

not a lot of candidates out there making (correct!) calculus jokes!

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 16/09/2026

Now *this* is the opinion I've been waiting to hear about The AI Thing - wise and humane as always

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 16/09/2026

Now *this* is the opinion I've been waiting to hear about The AI Thing - wise and humane as always

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 16/09/2026

not a lot of candidates out there making (correct!) calculus jokes!

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 15/09/2026

every day we are farther from God's light

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

all these endless warnings about ‘getting left behind’ as if surely the thing i want most in the world is to cling to some deeply degraded version of my art just to keep my name out there and my paychecks coming lol i’ll go back to shake-dancing before i do that shit

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 12/09/2026

Once you tune out Ted's voice, this is a very enjoyable 3 min

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Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This 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

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 11/09/2026

Thoughtful, balanced, and elegantly written, and a great lens through which to view All This

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 10/09/2026

@theonion.com has such a tough job now - this is funny, but it's not much weirder than stuff Trump actually says all the time

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 10/09/2026

My take is that math will end up like graphic design: just as many people will do it and find it fulfilling, but it'll be harder, maybe a lot harder, to make a living at it It's amazing how all of the innovation of the last few years just ends up exacerbating income inequality

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 10/09/2026

Great idea - we have to be prepared for a future time when the government is actually interested in building things instead of breaking things

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

But let's at least not outsource our creativity to plagiarism machines. We can do at least that much.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And then this. Oh boy. Maybe he'll be proved right that the best scientific ideas of this century will come from AI. But there is currently no reason to believe that, and good reason to think otherwise.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You gotta just reject the freak-ass framing devices these people are giving you while also acknowledging the freak-ass people are making freak-ass tech with no safeguards, bad intentions, and a substantial amount of money behind it. It's good to be a Healthy amount of worried. Like a 4 out of 10.

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 08/09/2026

Really an old story in mathematics: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_n... www.math.ntnu.no/Selberg-inte... But it's definitely grosser when you do it to boost your stock valuation

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 08/09/2026

"According to OpenAI... the week-long effort consumed 300 billion output tokens — $22.5 million worth of compute, if charged at current Astra rates." It might have taken another year or two, but I'm pretty sure a couple dozen NSF grants devoted to this one problem would have gotten it done?

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 08/09/2026

I laughed, but seriously, one casualty of All This is that now we can't post research on the internet until it's nailed down

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 08/09/2026

Quote reply because so many others know much more about this! But to start: * Pick teams randomly * Teams work at a board to make communication easier * Assign roles as described here, e.g.: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Anyone else got suggestions about social hacks for teamwork?

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User Guide v2.4

User Guide Version 2.4 Philosophy Behind the Materials 2 What is the format? 2 What do I do in class? 2 What does “team-worthy” mean? 3 Overview of Lesson Content 4 Introduction to Team-worthy Work 4...

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 08/09/2026

Really an old story in mathematics: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_n... www.math.ntnu.no/Selberg-inte... But it's definitely grosser when you do it to boost your stock valuation

math.ntnu.no

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 06/09/2026

This is such a beautiful, human story, and like the author says in the comments, a tonic after all of these AI math stories (gift) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...

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The 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.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 06/09/2026

Obviously other critiques are more important, but I really want to underline how there is almost nothing to teach about using an LLM, save that their outputs are unreliable and often bad. In fact, the whole pitch of LLMs is that they Just Work. By their own standards, what is there to teacch?

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 26/08/2026

My undergrad advisor and a big reason I majored in math. One of the best teachers I ever had, and beloved by so many. And nearly 96 years old: not a bad run! Condolences to his family, and salute to the hundreds (maybe thousands?) of mathematicians he mentored and nutured in his time at MIT.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT

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Sarama Burwani @ 7.56 @saramaburwani.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

both Jon Ossoff and Chris Van Hollen have been opposed by AIPAC and backed by the much less awful J Street, but Ossoff is Jewish while Van Hollen isn’t so guess who gets the Evil Red Monochrome background

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 21/08/2026

Check out this (short by Bluesky standards) and entertaining thread

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Americans are paying for Trump's vanity projects anntelnaes.substack.com/p/americans-...

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 18/08/2026

(deleted previous thread because I think that was a misinterpretation)

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/08/2026

7. It's yet another thing that AI has stolen away from the current generation of scientists. Yet again, AI proves to be an anti-egalitarian force in that these abuses force us to abandon the Mertonian norm of universalism for increased reliance on credentials, reputation, and personal connections.

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