"There is a serious risk that, in parallel with accelerating the progress of serious mathematical researchers, AI prevents us from making more mathematical researchers.”
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What a time to be alive.
"Users are tricking enterprise chatbots into performing complex AI computations unrelated to customer support, with potentially costly governance and ROI ramifications."
Five raccoons sit on corner bench seating around a table.
one of us either needs to take grandma to the optometrist or tell her no more cats
catholics: oh hey u guys are back early
me: pope's woke
catholics: what?
me: *grabs rosary, heads toward the confessional* pope's woke
BY YOUR COMMAND.
“I think there’s a small but real chance he’s eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer.”
"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
Programming started close to the machine. [...] We spent fifty years climbing the abstraction ladder, trading machine efficiency for human readability at every step: C, then C++, then Java, then Python. [...] Now the reader isn’t human anymore. We’re climbing back down.
the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow
4 pictures 1 Chair: A chair in the air 2 Chwater: A chair in water 3 Chfire: A chair on fire 4 Chearth: A chair with a plant growing out of it
The Fifth Chelement Is Chlove
Each looks like a different Star Trek race
'Imagine if the dumbest person in the world and humanity’s biggest asshole were the same person, and that guy was president. Then imagine he started a war with Iran. Now check the news. One look, and here’s what you should be thinking: “Yep, that tracks.”'
“Belief in the end of the world is surprisingly common across North America, and it’s significantly influencing how people interpret and respond to the most pressing threats facing humanity."
news.ubc.ca/2026/03/apoc...
Trump: "The president of the United States, Gavin Newsum, admitted he has learning disabilities"
These missives have been sent by a committee formed by another committee that was formed by Google’s Sergey Brin & his friends to negate another ballot measure for which signatures are currently being gathered: the one that would establish a one-time 5 percent wealth tax on California’s billionaires
A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States, thereby justifying the need to “federalize” elections. We must anticipate it, with sadness and resolution, and not be surprised, if it happens.
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Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,,
Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO
'In a post on Twitter, Larian publishing director Michael Douse responded to the Business Insider post, saying “can I have just one normal week”.'
Might be a good time to remember that each of us is profoundly annoying to someone.
BY YOUR COMMAND.
Kung Fu Cylons!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUml...
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Mounted on a robotic arm, the hand detaches at the wrist and transforms into a spider-like creature that can navigate nooks and crannies to pick up objects with its finger-legs. It then skitters on its fingertips back to the arm while holding on to its stash.
AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had with the company’s stuffed animals.
www.wired.com/story/an-ai-...
A picture of bad bunny with the word love
Bad Bunny understood the assignment…