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Powering up for a pivotal moment
From a nuclear revival to qubits, the MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research conference tracked deployment of today’s technologies to discovery of tomorrow’s breakthroughs.
MIT News · EN
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Jeffery Lim wants to open up cloud research
The Lincoln Laboratory scholar developed a hardware platform inspired by proprietary infrastructure, allowing researchers to design and evaluate their cloud technology in a realistic environment.
MIT News · EN
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Faces of MIT: Vera Grbic
IDHR communications officer Vera Grbic helps connect the MIT community with resources, support, and information through clear and accessible messaging.
MIT News · EN
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Lemelson-MIT brings invention education to classrooms from kindergarten to college
A new initiative in California, Tennessee, and New England puts learning by doing at the center of students’ STEM pathways, in step with MIT for America’s focus on helping students design, make, and innovate.
MIT News · EN
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The Situation at Columbia XXXVII
Ever since a new Columbia president (Jennifer Mnookin) was appointed by the trustees back in January, many have been wondering if she would do anything to try and change Columbia’s reputation as “Vichy on the Hudson”. The reason for this … Continue reading →
Not Even Wrong · EN
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A Modest Proposal
The announcement yesterday by OpenAI of a solution to the Millennium Prize Navier-Stokes problem has been causing a great deal of discussion among mathematicians. There’s a lot to be said about this story and its implications, most of which I’ll … Continue reading →
Not Even Wrong · EN
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Some HEP-TH News
In a previous posting, I’d noted that the number of arXiv hep-th preprints/month was significantly higher recently, clearly due to LLM use, but that I hadn’t heard of much in the way of significant new results coming from this. Around … Continue reading →
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Slopocalypse
OpenAI has just released a vast number of new results in preprint form, see here. These are the products of an internal frontier model. About the AGMAI, they say they “have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform … Continue reading →
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AI and Chiral Fermions
It turns out that yesterday there was another AI result coming out of OpenAI, quite different than the slopocalypse and of more interest to fundamental physics. Nathaniel Craig, a particle theorist now on a one-year visiting position at OpenAI, put … Continue reading →
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Vote!!
I’d like to echo the sentiment of Scott Aaronson’s latest posting: if you’re in the US, get out and vote against Fascism. We have a two party system, so your choice is voting for a party that has unified in … Continue reading →
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Secret Unified Physics Slop
OpenAI has announced a mathematically rigorous existence proof of certain interacting quantum field theories containing gauge fields and fermions in four dimensions, including Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and a unified completion of the Standard Model of particle physics… Our models produced … Continue reading →
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OpenAI Conference at KITP
There was a conference held at KITP the week before last entitled Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics. The nature of this conference was somewhat of a mystery. As far as I can tell it never appeared in the list of forthcoming … Continue reading →
Not Even Wrong · EN
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The mathematics of “are we there yet?”
Will the Marvel Cinematic Universe outlast human civilization? Unlikely, but not impossible.
Math with Bad Drawings · EN
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Oxbridge of America
A plea, not to end snap judgments, but merely to better calibrate them.
Math with Bad Drawings · EN
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Curves to curve by.
A guide for teachers looking to fix up their test scores.
Math with Bad Drawings · EN
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On the diameter and distribution of Sidon sets
Daniel Carter, Kevin O’Bryant, and I have uploaded to the arXiv our paper On the diameter and distribution of Sidon sets. This is a paper stemming from an interaction on my blog last year, regarding the use of AlphaEvolve to improve the then state of the art on the size of Sidon sets. We obtained […]
Terence Tao · EN
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AI, Mathematics, Education, and a public goods problem
[This is a guest post by Gireeja Ranade. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] The day after the Navier-Stokes result was announced, a student came to my office hours. They said, “Can we please talk about the Navier-Stokes result and what it means? I […]
Terence Tao · EN
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Collaborative retreat: New developments in the theory of zeta functions
Edgar Assing, Valentin Blomer, and Farrell Brumley are organizing an event at the Hausdorff Center in Bonn on Jan 11-15 to discuss recent developments regarding the Riemann zeta function and allied functions. From the announcement: “This includes in particular the recently established proof of the quasi Riemann Hypothesis over the rational numbers as well as over general […]
Terence Tao · EN
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Report of the Summit on Math Research in the Age of AI
[This is a guest post by the organizers of the Summit on Math Research in the Age of AI: Dan Freed (Harvard), Larry Guth (MIT), Bryna Kra (Northwestern), Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins), and Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford). This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Last week […]
Terence Tao · EN