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Safeguarded AI Meeting (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

2 weeks ago | mathgenius | wordpress.com | newest

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When .999... isn't 1 (mathenchant.wordpress.com)

2 weeks ago | mathgenius | wordpress.com | newest

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When .999... Isn't 1 (mathenchant.wordpress.com)

3 weeks ago | mathgenius | wordpress.com | newest

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The Crisis of Professional Skepticism (mitchhorowitz.substack.com)

4 weeks ago | mathgenius | substack.com | frontpage

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How Not to Run an Airline: The 2024 Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 Crash (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

4 weeks ago | mathgenius | medium.com | newest

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How to build the Stasheff Associahedron out of a trefoil knot (francisrlb.com)

a month ago | mathgenius | francisrlb.com | newest

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Testing the Conjecture That Quantum Processes Create Conscious Experience (mdpi.com)

a month ago | mathgenius | mdpi.com | newest

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2025 Essay Competition: Focus on Quantum Biology (fqxi.org)

a month ago | mathgenius | fqxi.org | newest

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An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education (openletter.earth)

a month ago | mathgenius | openletter.earth | frontpage

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A Man Who Destroyed Skepticism (mitchhorowitz.substack.com)

3 months ago | mathgenius | substack.com | newest

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Raymond Laflamme (1960-2025) (scottaaronson.blog)

3 months ago | mathgenius | scottaaronson.blog | newest

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Hemisphere Theory Helps Us Understand the Metacrisis (cjlpa.org)

3 months ago | mathgenius | cjlpa.org | newest

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The ANT MILL – how theoretical high-energy physics descended into groupthink (jespergrimstrup.substack.com)

3 months ago | mathgenius | substack.com | newest

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Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective (arxiv.org)

3 months ago | mathgenius | arxiv.org | newest

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Only check this box if you are a robot (stevendbrewer.com)

3 months ago | mathgenius | stevendbrewer.com | newest

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Diabolus Ex Machina (amandaguinzburg.substack.com)

3 months ago | mathgenius | substack.com | frontpage

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Rice University's 2025 UFO Conference (oxfordamerican.org)

3 months ago | mathgenius | oxfordamerican.org | newest

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It Is Not Too Late (mitchhorowitz.substack.com)

3 months ago | mathgenius | substack.com | newest

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A Participatory Universe in the Realist Mode (springer.com)

4 months ago | mathgenius | springer.com | newest

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What Lives? A meta-analysis of diverse opinions on the definition of life (arxiv.org)

4 months ago | mathgenius | arxiv.org | newest

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Math and the Museum (mathenchant.wordpress.com)

4 months ago | mathgenius | wordpress.com | newest

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Quantum Picturalism (quantuminpictures.org)

4 months ago | mathgenius | quantuminpictures.org | frontpage

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Elliptic Curves and the Hopf Fibration (arxiv.org)

4 months ago | mathgenius | arxiv.org | newest

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One hundred and one rules of effective living (mitchhorowitz.substack.com)

4 months ago | mathgenius | substack.com | best

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Form and Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty (tug.org)

4 months ago | mathgenius | tug.org | newest

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The Quantum Era Has Begun (time.com)

4 months ago | mathgenius | time.com | newest

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I spent 6 years at Enron right out of college (twitter.com/johnarnoldfndtn)

4 months ago | mathgenius | twitter.com | newest

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When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history (quantamagazine.org)

4 months ago | mathgenius | quantamagazine.org | best

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The companies racing to build quantum chips (techcrunch.com)

5 months ago | mathgenius | techcrunch.com | newest

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Tech Is Bad for School (twitter.com/e8chin)

5 months ago | mathgenius | twitter.com | newest

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A Mysterious Publication (Update: Several Mysterious Publications) (dailynous.com)

5 months ago | mathgenius | dailynous.com | newest

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Is Precognition Real? (mitchhorowitz.substack.com)

5 months ago | mathgenius | substack.com | newest

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Squiggle Orbs (mzucker.github.io)

5 months ago | mathgenius | github.io | newest

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I got into an argument with Yan Lecun last night (twitter.com/robertghrist)

5 months ago | mathgenius | twitter.com | newest

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Lefty preppers are taking a different approach to doomsday (theguardian.com)

5 months ago | mathgenius | theguardian.com | frontpage

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AI bubble versus dotcom bubble are not the same (tante.cc)

5 months ago | mathgenius | tante.cc | newest

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'The Legend of Ochi' uses puppetry to bring a fantasy to life (latimes.com)

5 months ago | mathgenius | latimes.com | newest

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Analytic Combinatorics – A Worked Example (grossack.site)

5 months ago | mathgenius | grossack.site | best

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The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius (physicsworld.com)

5 months ago | mathgenius | physicsworld.com | newest

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DARPA eyes companies targeting industrially useful quantum computers (darpa.mil)

5 months ago | mathgenius | darpa.mil | newest

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Some Doodles I'm Proud Of – The Capping Algorithm for Embedded Graphs (grossack.site)

6 months ago | mathgenius | grossack.site | newest

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Crash: Germanwings A320 on Mar 24th 2015, first officer alone in cockpit (avherald.com)

6 months ago | mathgenius | avherald.com | newest

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Intuition and Formalism in David Bessis's "Mathematica" (3quarksdaily.com)

6 months ago | mathgenius | 3quarksdaily.com | newest

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The Situation at Columbia II (columbia.edu)

6 months ago | mathgenius | columbia.edu | frontpage

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Beyond Bohr and Einstein (cerncourier.com)

6 months ago | mathgenius | cerncourier.com | frontpage

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What Is the Meaning of Life? (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | mathgenius | theguardian.com | newest

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Living Things Are Not Machines (Also, They Are) (noemamag.com)

6 months ago | mathgenius | noemamag.com | newest

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Microsoft quantum computing claim still lacks evidence (nature.com)

6 months ago | mathgenius | nature.com | frontpage

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How to Build Community in Uncertain Times (holdingboth.substack.com)

6 months ago | mathgenius | substack.com | newest

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The Attention Economy and the Right to Attention (philarchive.org)

6 months ago | mathgenius | philarchive.org | newest

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Think of a Number: An Update (xenaproject.wordpress.com)

6 months ago | mathgenius | wordpress.com | newest

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We need new science stories (arutherford.substack.com)

6 months ago | mathgenius | substack.com | newest

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A science of consciousness beyond pseudo-science and pseudo-consciousness (nature.com)

6 months ago | mathgenius | nature.com | newest

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Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023) (reuters.com)

6 months ago | mathgenius | reuters.com | best

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Passing the Buck: The story of the 2022 Wings Over Dallas air show collision (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

6 months ago | mathgenius | medium.com | frontpage

2

Approaching Hard Problems (buttondown.com/yarntheory)

7 months ago | mathgenius | buttondown.com | newest

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Category Theorists in AI (utexas.edu)

7 months ago | mathgenius | utexas.edu | newest

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Python 3.13.0 Speed (python.org)

7 months ago | mathgenius | python.org | newest

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Nirvanic Consciousness Technologies FAQ (nirvanic.ai)

7 months ago | mathgenius | nirvanic.ai | newest

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DARPA selects two utility-scale quantum computing approaches for evaluation (darpa.mil)

7 months ago | mathgenius | darpa.mil | newest

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DARPA Selects PsiQuantum to Advance to Final Phase of Quantum Computing Program (psiquantum.com)

7 months ago | mathgenius | psiquantum.com | newest

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Picturing Quantum Software (zxcalc.github.io)

8 months ago | mathgenius | github.io | newest

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Where do those undergraduate divisibility problems come from? (grossack.site)

8 months ago | mathgenius | grossack.site | best

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Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine (deevybee.blogspot.com)

8 months ago | mathgenius | blogspot.com | frontpage

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Silicon Valley reacts to Nirvanic's AI consciousness (nirvanicai.substack.com)

8 months ago | mathgenius | substack.com | newest

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My experience today with Google support, and their AI/plagiarism machine (bsky.app)

8 months ago | mathgenius | bsky.app | frontpage

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Is Consciousness Research the Next Big Quantum Use Case? (thequantuminsider.com)

8 months ago | mathgenius | thequantuminsider.com | frontpage

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SAT Solver Etudes I (philipzucker.com)

8 months ago | mathgenius | philipzucker.com | frontpage

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Great scientists follow intuition and beauty, not rationality (theintrinsicperspective.com)

8 months ago | mathgenius | theintrinsicperspective.com | newest

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Linear Algebra: Essence and Form (twitter.com/robertghrist)

9 months ago | mathgenius | twitter.com | newest

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Visual Algebra (clemson.edu)

9 months ago | mathgenius | clemson.edu | frontpage

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The Telepathy Tapes (thetelepathytapes.com)

9 months ago | mathgenius | thetelepathytapes.com | newest

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Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician (xenaproject.wordpress.com)

9 months ago | mathgenius | wordpress.com | best

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Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The untold story of EgyptAir flight 804 (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

9 months ago | mathgenius | medium.com | newest

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My Unexpected Healing at San Quentin (motherjones.com)

9 months ago | mathgenius | motherjones.com | newest

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Quantum Computing Stocks Are Flying (barrons.com)

9 months ago | mathgenius | barrons.com | newest

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An Interview with a Boxer Who Is Paying the Price (hamiltonnolan.com)

9 months ago | mathgenius | hamiltonnolan.com | newest

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Do Not Work for Symbolica (bsky.app)

9 months ago | mathgenius | bsky.app | newest

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Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine (quantumfrontiers.com)

9 months ago | mathgenius | quantumfrontiers.com | frontpage

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Hands-On Quantum Error Correction (coursera.org)

9 months ago | mathgenius | coursera.org | newest

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Large Numbers – The Infamous Jonathan Bowers (sites.google.com)

9 months ago | mathgenius | google.com | newest

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The AI Snake Oil Book (aisnakeoil.com)

9 months ago | mathgenius | aisnakeoil.com | newest

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The Quantum Quest (qi-rub.github.io)

10 months ago | mathgenius | github.io | newest

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Billion-dollar firm plans to build giant quantum computers from light (nature.com)

10 months ago | mathgenius | nature.com | newest

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Cambodia's Cyber Slaves (aljazeera.com)

10 months ago | mathgenius | aljazeera.com | newest

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The Spiral of Wrath: The crash of Armavia flight 967 (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

10 months ago | mathgenius | medium.com | frontpage

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Renaissance minds in 21st century science (biomedcentral.com)

10 months ago | mathgenius | biomedcentral.com | newest

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A Man with the Moustache (ecosophia.net)

10 months ago | mathgenius | ecosophia.net | newest

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Don't implement unification by recursion (philipzucker.com)

11 months ago | mathgenius | philipzucker.com | best

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Destigmatize Being Dumb (defenderofthebasic.substack.com)

11 months ago | mathgenius | substack.com | newest

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The Visualization of Differential Forms (2021) (ulisboa.pt)

12 months ago | mathgenius | ulisboa.pt | best

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Euclid with Coloured Diagrams (lib.harvard.edu)

12 months ago | mathgenius | harvard.edu | newest

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Our Fractional Universe (mathenchant.wordpress.com)

12 months ago | mathgenius | wordpress.com | newest

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This Week's Hype (columbia.edu)

12 months ago | mathgenius | columbia.edu | newest

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Assisted dying – where next for the UK? (lse.ac.uk)

12 months ago | mathgenius | lse.ac.uk | newest

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Picturing Quantum Software (github.com/zxcalc)

12 months ago | mathgenius | github.com | newest

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A new rare high-rank elliptic curve, and an orchard of Diophantine equations (thehighergeometer.wordpress.com)

12 months ago | mathgenius | wordpress.com | best

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Thinking about a UFO as some kind of extraterrestrial spaceship is naive (theguardian.com)

12 months ago | mathgenius | theguardian.com | frontpage

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When Reality Came Undone (nautil.us)

a year ago | mathgenius | nautil.us | newest

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Galois Theory (utexas.edu)

a year ago | mathgenius | utexas.edu | best