Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The core idea is a social certification system for demonstrating your learning in a niche of mathematical knowledge 020
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"One possible future": an optimistic vision for mathematicians proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/03/o...proofsandprompts.comOne possible futureIf we are not needed to produce maths, then we can spend our time learning. With the right incentive structure, that does not sound so bad. 100
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026LIFE, March 1961: "The Machines Are Taking Over: Computers Outdo Man at His Work — and Soon May Outthink Him" books.google.com/books?id=wUU... 100
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I assume not. We should found an Institute for Art Studies. 000
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Oh, my mistake. I had no reason to think he meant other than the conventional definition, but I would be curious! 010
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“Pure” vs “applied”, a disciplinary distinction that’s been in use since at least 1900. It’s porous, like any discipline boundary, but widely accepted in academia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_ma...en.wikipedia.orgPure mathematics - Wikipedia 100
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Lot of interesting examples at #AIMECon2026 of how teachers are incorporating AI literacy into their lessons. Example from an ETS pilot study: students are encouraged to test the model's boundaries and to compare their output to their neighbors. 000
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Designing AI collaboration partners for classroom discussions. Work-in-progress from @pf-flyer.bsky.social at #AIMECon2026 aclanthology.org/2026.aimecon... 010
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Students don’t read writing feedback, and they don’t read AI writing feedback either! Study with GPT-5.1, undergrad psych class. ~10% revise in response to feedback. #AIMECon2026 000
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026In 157 teacher-facilitated tutoring sessions (grades 2 & 3), teachers include praise in 25% of their utterances. Work-in-progress at #AIMECon2026 aclanthology.org/2026.aimecon...aclanthology.orgMore than Words: Modeling What Teachers Praise and How They Praise ItJiseung Yoo, Paiheng Xu, Jing Liu. Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con): Works in Progress. 2026. 000
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026How do students use chatbots for online coursework? Qualitative work-in-progress at #AIMECon2026 aclanthology.org/2026.aimecon-wip.1/ 030
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Using metaphors to elicit feelings about math. 1100 US middle-school students are asked “If math were a food, it would be ____ because ____.” and “If math were an animal, it would be ____ because ____.” aclanthology.org/2026.aimecon... #AIMECon2026aclanthology.orgFine-Tuning Large Language Models for Codebook-Guided Coding of Students’ Mathematics Metaphor ResponsesLiang Zhang, Stephen Hwang, Yue Ma, Jinfa Cai. Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con): Full Papers. 2026. 000
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Come see Dr. Danielle Thomas (CMU) talk about tutor-session transcription, today at 1:45pm #AIMECon2026 000
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Dragan Gašević keynote at AIME-Con 2026 osf.io/preprints/ps... 000
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hmm, that's a @mariaa.bsky.social question! I'm not actually sure how it works! 010
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026AIME-Con 2026 starts today. This year's theme is "Measurement Science in AI-Integrated Assessment and Pedagogy". Here's a one-shot Claude Opus 5.5 hype video to get in the mood (it is slop, but amusing). 010
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'm expecting and hoping for deep, contentious conversations about the ethics of measurement in K-12 education! Say hi if you see me at the conference! 000
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'm not presenting anything, although I co-authored a paper exploring the use of Gemini-backed multi-modal transcripts to align events across learning systems. arxiv.org/abs/2609.36502arxiv.orgTowards Breaking the Learning System Wall Using Multimodal Tutoring TranscriptionsPast research using log data has faced the "learning system wall," whereby few methods exist for generalizing models of student learning across platforms. Increasingly, online learning is captured by ... 100
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'll be attending NCME's "Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference" next week for the first time! You can follow the conference in the Lea feed: lea.ac/conferences/... #AIMECon2026lea.acLea - Feed · AIME-Con 2026Oct 5 – Oct 8, 2026 · Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Schedule, papers, and attendees on Lea 100
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026See you there, I'm planning to be in that session! You might also be interested in Lea's event view, which has a nice feed of Bluesky posts from the conference: lea.ac/conferences/...lea.acLea - Feed · AIME-Con 2026Oct 5 – Oct 8, 2026 · Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Schedule, papers, and attendees on Lea 000
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026See you there, it'll be my first time too! You might also be interested in Lea's event view, which has a nice feed of other Bluesky posts from the conference: lea.ac/conferences/...lea.acLea - Feed · AIME-Con 2026Oct 5 – Oct 8, 2026 · Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Schedule, papers, and attendees on Lea 120
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_p...en.wikipedia.orgMoral patienthood - Wikipedia 050
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Great article! The actual number is 11 deaths: 232 is injuries + deaths. Still way higher than the US, which is fascinating 101
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Hmm, I recall the NYTimes profile of Latour being quite accessible if you want something less classically academic? www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/m...nytimes.comBruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science (Published 2018)He spent decades deconstructing the ways that scientists claim their authority. Can his ideas help them regain that authority today? 020
Reposted by Zach Levonianconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026now this is fun. guest post on Terry Tao's blog by the great Grant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown arguing that we should "give novel and compelling motivated explanations academic credit similar to what generating new proofs of open problems has had historically."terrytao.wordpress.comIf math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it[This is a guest post by Grant Sanderson. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] A sentiment echoing throughout the mathematics communit… 519031
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I wonder if they’ll respect the .agents/skills directory as well 1160
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Interesting persimmon.humansand.ai/blog/persimm...persimmon.humansand.aiIntroducing Persimmon | humans&A model of human behavior, and new ways to measure how faithfully AI can simulate people. 1134
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026voxdev.org/topic/techno...voxdev.orgWill open source AI keep up for long?Open source AI is likely further behind closed-source than current benchmarks indicate. If this gap grows, which is certainly possible, it would limit the usefulness of open source AI across a broad s... 010
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Great thread, mostly because of the phrase “superintelligent Amelia Bedelia” 011
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I had missed this nice discussion about implementing tutoring interventions. From January, linked in the piece: schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/how-hard-is-tutoring-to-get-rightschooledbymikepetrilli.substack.comHow hard is tutoring to get right?SCHOOLED | Wednesday, 1/21/26 020
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I have officially lost control of my Saved posts reading list on Bluesky. Oldest saved post is now 5 months old, 50+ posts saved. 100
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I imagine it as the most popular IRL stream in the world, but at a scale that it’s functionally ubiquitous. On in every waiting room, on at dinner, etc. 010
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I feel Reviewer 2 is like user feedback: right on the weaknesses, wrong on the appropriate fixes! 010
Reposted by Zach LevonianMatt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026New: There's been a notable and, in many cases, sustained rise in teachers leaving the classroom over the last four to five years, according to new data I collected. The uptick in any one year was modest but the cumulative loss of teachers has been substantial. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/07/30/t... 12312
Reposted by Zach LevonianManoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Hot take: ACM should just provide torrents called all_papers_{year_month_day}.tar.gz and let anyone download it! 0152
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Briefly: there are too many confounding variables to account for (and we don’t even know what they are!), so any causal analysis will be based on hard-fought assumptions. So the discussion will become a discussion about the assumptions. 040
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Adding "managed $1.9 billion in S3 spend" to my resume. 130
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Glad to see the ACM starting a consultation on LLM access to the ACM Digital Library. Here's the feedback I submitted. 020
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 16/07/2026If you work in structural biology, neurodegenerative diseases math, or climate science and use – or avoid! – LLMs in your research, you should talk to the team at RenPhil doing a landscape analysis: aixscience.renphil.org/engagementaixscience.renphil.orgAirtable | Everyone's app platformAirtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free. 030
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026What really stood out to me was the length and lack of structure. Needed a 70% cut from a harsh editor 130
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Learned about Spanish Black Legend a few years ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_L...en.wikipedia.orgBlack Legend - Wikipedia 010
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Animated a card trick that is secretly the Josephus problem. levon003.github.io/2026/07/04/c... 000
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 29/06/2026A few notes on using atproto and Citoid/Zotero to enrich my Bluesky likes with link metadata levon003.github.io/2026/06/28/b...levon003.github.ioMy auto-updating Bluesky reading listA vibe-coded pipeline to extract a reading list from my like history on Bluesky. 010
Zach Levonian @zwlevonian.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Vibe-coded an auto-updating list of the 2000+ links I've liked on Bluesky. levon003.github.io/bsky-links/ 020