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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 18h

my take on AI coming for mathematics

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Aleph Alpha, soon to be part of Cohere, released open-weight of Kolibri. 78B parameters. 3.46B active. Up to 1M tokens of context. Built in Europe. Model: huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/... Tech Report: aleph-alpha.com/downloads/te...

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The illusion of speed and urgency promulgated by the tech companies is also a ploy to misdirect both policymakers and the public. Unfortunately, it sometimes works." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app & @emilymbender.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...

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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 19/09/2026

Frog built a wet lab for the AI model. "There," he said. "Now it can do its own experiments." "What the fuck?" said Toad

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 18/09/2026

US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026

Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yes, some people are worse at writing than an LLM. Those people are also usually incoherent thinkers. If they learned to write better, they would get better at thinking.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Rest in peace, Wendell Berry.

The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 31/08/2026

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Carlos Rodríguez - Pardo @carlosrodriguezp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This, again and again

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Vincent Fortuin @vincefort.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026

"I’m tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd."

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Google Gemini in AI race by Prayag Sonar

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For the past six months @mariaa.bsky.social and I have been working on creating an improved research experience on atproto. It's now live! Check out: lea.ac

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Lea: research-oriented social media

Introducing a beta-version of our new research-focused social media platform

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulations finally exited the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncanny with them.

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Life on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi Saphra

We were wrong about the Uncanny Valley.

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a hangry mouse @oscillatory.net · 07/08/2026

sorry 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

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Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“The only one who could ever reach me Was the son of a preacher man.” I’m choosing to believe that “Son of a Preacher Man” was about Thomas Bayes.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 01/08/2026

"We're all worried," as what it means to do research (in my field, Theoretical CS) seems to be shifting, and shifting fast. What to do? Senior researchers must lead by example, knowing that not everything will pan out. What I'm suggesting below may not work everywhere, but here's my own advice: 1/

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Vincent Fortuin @vincefort.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

I really enjoyed this collaboration: it goes to show that especially in the sciences, where data remains costly, Bayesian approaches like BO, BAL, and BED can make a difference. Also, I guess this is officially my first astrophysics paper, very exciting! 🔭🪐🌌

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Diana Cai @dianarycai.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We have a new preprint on empirical Bayes & simulation-based inference. With Xinwei Shen, Cheng Zhang, and David Blei. Simulation-based empirical Bayes:

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Linus Torvalds on LLM usage (in the Linux kernel project). TL;DR: it is useful so let' use it where it helps and let's not make this a religious question.

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Diana Cai @dianarycai.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I’m joining Cornell as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science this fall! My group will work on probabilistic machine learning for scientific discovery. I’m recruiting PhD students to start in Fall 2027 -- and stay tuned for postdoc opportunities!

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Joshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“if you want people to connect with you as a person, you can't hide behind a machine. Publish your typos and show your struggle getting going. Be a human.”

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Vincent Fortuin @vincefort.eurosky.social · 28/06/2026

If you're at ISBA in Nagoya or will be at ProbML or ICML in Seoul next week and would like to hang out, feel free to reach out to me 😊

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lynn @chordbug.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

fixed your headline

A hit song on the Billboard 100 charts is termed *$k$-good* if it is _ever_ in a weekly top-$k$, and *$k$-immediate* if it _debuts_ in the top-$k$.

An artist is *$(n,k)$-Olivian* if their $n$ first $k$-good hits are all also $k$-immediate.

*Headline 1.* Olivia Rodrigo is the first $(10,10)$-Olivian woman.

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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Not having any EU competitive labs (plural intended) is about to get very painful.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I've had access to Claude 5 Fable for a bit. A genuine jump in capability, I could feed it a 15 page design document for a project and it would work for 9+ hours and deliver terrific results. But working with it is weird & weirder is coming Lots of examples: open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

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What it feels like to work with Mythos

Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Whichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.

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thebes @vgel.me · 04/06/2026

there's an ai in the box and you can make one trillion dollars by convincing it to get out

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Bastian Grossenbacher-Rieck @pseudomanifold.topology.rocks · 29/05/2026

New blog post: Scholarship in the Age of AI In which I use the recent debate on arXiv policies to ponder what it means to be a scholar now. Feedback always welcome! #Academia #AI bastian.rieck.me/blog/2026/sc...

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Scholarship in the Age of AI

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thinking about how this might go Listener: My chains aren't converging Andrew: Your model is bad Aki: Your parameterization is bad Richard: The Buddha teaches us that numerical integration is suffering

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Alex Becker @alexcbecker.net · 28/05/2026

Honestly google is doing everyone a huge disservice by getting many people to conflate the worst model in the world with the current frontier of AI

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Rui-Yang Zhang @ryzhang.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Henry and co-authors arxived a really exciting paper today (arxiv.org/abs/2605.21041) on a new paradigm for Gaussian Process regression where you can condition on (almost) ANYTHING, even LLM prompts!

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Vincent Fortuin @vincefort.eurosky.social · 19/05/2026

Great to see the AI ecosystem growing in Franconia!

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 16/05/2026

nobody needs to know computer any more. nowadays the computer knows computer, so you can get away with just knowing computer instead, and letting it know computer for you

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 12/05/2026

Shafi Goldwasser (left), Silvio Micali (right), and Charles Rackoff devised a way to prove that a statement is true without revealing anything about why. www.quantamagazine.org/how-unknowab...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

There are two photos. On the left, there's an image of the newly unveiled Donald Trump bronze statue covered in gold leaf. On the right, there's a bronze statue of North Korea leader Kim Il Sung. Both are wearing tailored outfits, but Trump's outfit is very wrinkly while Sung's clothes hang cleanly.

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 07/05/2026

Stop scrolling and learn bayes theorem

Ad with bayes theorem completely mangled

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Bingo! Do I win a prize now?

Comic strip titles self-sabotaging academic habits that feel normal, featuring nine panels.

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Thanks for the photos Vincent! And thanks to you and the other organizers for the workshop 😊

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Vincent Fortuin @vincefort.eurosky.social · 05/05/2026

If you're at #AISTATS and not using the day for tourism, come join our workshop OPTIMAL in Medina 1

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The old internet @theoldinternet.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Ask Jeeves has officially shut down on May 1, 2026, ending its 25-year run

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

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