Nor am I particularly keen on becoming a science manager of sorts overseeing N different projects at once each carried out by an AI system

I really don’t want my future job to be chiefly about sifting through and verifying AI output

The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived | Quanta Magazine AI is being used to prove new results at a rapid pace. Mathematicians think this is just the beginning.

I'm taking away from this interesting article that AI might divorce *learning mathematics* from *doing mathematics* in a way that could make research less fun in the future

Could you enlighten me on the following? (I’m not an economist.) I understand that zombie companies staying afloat because of subsidies is bad, but why are dwindling profits bad per se (as the article seems to suggest)? Isn’t that the aim in competitive markets?

“Recent OECD analysis underscores the role of subsidies. Company-level analysis of Chinese industry by the 38-member organisation estimates that Chinese businesses are subsidised at between three and nine times the rate of their rich-world counterparts.” Between 3 and 9 times!

Hungary’s Orbán concedes defeat as opposition heads for landslide win Péter Magyar’s Tisza party was projected to win 136 out of 199 seats, giving it a two-thirds majority

Hungary’s Orbán concedes defeat as opposition heads for landslide win ft.trib.al/QyIb0GJ

Magyar now 80% likely to replace Orban as PM of Hungary according to Polymarket

Happy Hungarian election day!

Our final poll tracker update gives Tisza, the centre-right opposition, a 6pt lead over Orban's Fidesz: www.economist.com/interactive/...

TIL: a function on a compact interval which is bounded and RCLL need not be of bounded variation 🥴

Contains the following chart with 2024 numbers

Viktor Orban’s pro-natalist policies are not working Hungary spends 5.5% of GDP on child support to boost fertility rates, but births have fallen to record lows despite Viktor Orban's pro-natalist policies ahead of elections.

Update: Viktor Orban’s pro-natalist policies are not working
economist.com/europe/2026/...

How AI is changing the nature of mathematical research What machine learning theorists learned using AI agents to generate proofs — and what comes next.

Michael @mkearnsphilly.bsky.social ) and I wrote a blog post about our experiences using AI for research, and our thoughts on what these developments will mean for research, publication, and education: www.amazon.science/blog/how-ai-...

A very bad day for CDU/CSU-SPD governing coalition in Baden-Württemberg elections.

Merz' CDU loses to Greens after year-long polling lead.

SPD at disastrous low of 5.5%.

Expect pressure to increase on both Merz & SPD vice chancellor Klingbeil from within their own parties.

Das musste sein. Die #heuteshow ist online: https://kurz.zdf.de/hs2604b/

Hi, did you find something to your liking? I’d be interested too

Don’t go after the rich to fix broken budgets It will not work, and is wrong in principle

What am I missing? Most proposals under discussion (e.g. the Californian tax or the French “Zucman” tax) target wealth inequality, not income inequality. Yet the article keeps criticising them based on steady or falling income inequality

Jean-François Le Gall - Promenade dans le monde brownien YouTube video by Institut de Mathématique d'Orsay

Chouette interview !

jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> to Sep 19, 2015 8:23 AM star_border yau says you are the schools expert in category theory. true? . 2 . is there a topological equivalent to the power laws. ? 3 is there a geometric derivation that is coherent ? 4, re language, as martin may have told you i have been spending a great deal of time with Chomsky. i have been trying to formalize the concept of signals ( images etc ) that are coherent. . visual energy is first focused and then our vision system eventually recognizes -separates , real world images from noise. a form of a map? then arguably makes judgements based on similar ( distances from already existing maps etc ). images. , meaning etc. . skype or call might be helpful when and if you have time Jeffrey Epstein jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> to Sep 19, 2015 11:43 AM star_border query , is gravity merely a pseudo force. like centripetal , created by the central limit theorem. so that it is a consequence of the probabililty distribution of matter in the universe . nothing more. . 2. in a truly random probability space. if an event occurs for the first time, does it increase the probability that it will happen again.

Michael Hopkins <Michael Hopkins> to jeffrey E. Sep 19, 2015 4:24 PM star_border He Jeffrey I think Jacob Lurie is more of an expert in category theory than I am, but I appreciate Yau's endorsement. I'm not sure I understand the questions in your first email. I'll have to ponder them. As for the others I'm not sure I know enough to think beyond the boiler plate answers. General Relativity tells us that gravity is an aspect of mass, so I wouldn't know how to think of it as a pseudo force. And "truly random" would be probably be taken to mean that the occurrence of an event does not increase the probability of it happening again. though I think Martin tells me that evolution, once it has solved a problem, is more likely to solve it again, so there may be a model of probability spaces that do have this property. Mike

in math, he comes across as an annoying and ignorant crackpot, and could not have appeared otherwise to any knowledgeable person. for example he sent this garbage to hopkins, who somewhat disappointingly did humour him.

Graphic of a power button icon where the top segment is replaced by a book, symbolizing education as power. The text reads “Education is Power,” with the European Commission logo visible.

💪🏼 What’s the power of a more educated society?

More democracy, equality, and opportunities.

On the International Day of Education, we reaffirm our commitment to enhancing high-quality education, training, and lifelong learning across Europe, through our initiatives like the Union of Skills.

FULL DISCUSSION: Google's Demis Hassabis, Anthropic's Dario Amodei Debate the World After AGI | AI1G YouTube video by DRM News

Amazingly balanced and down-to-earth discussion on the future of AGI.

Very good, knowledgable, informative host with great questions driving it, referring back to relevant past comments.

However you feel about the topic, this is worth watching. 1/4

www.youtube.com/watch?v=02YL...

Massive change. Average unemployment in southern and northern Europe is now the same
economist.com/finance-and-...
from The Economist

Schumpeter aurait déclaré dans son jeune age avoir trois buts: être le meilleur économiste de son époque, être le meilleur amant de Vienne, et être un cavalier accompli. Il disait avoir accompli 2 buts sur 3 (et être assez nul sur un cheval)

Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests

16 000 dead protestors according to Iranian doctors

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

I’ve been told that’s how you know it’s good. Great statisticians don’t explain. They lemma.

The Mean-Field Dynamics of Transformers We develop a mathematical framework that interprets Transformer attention as an interacting particle system and studies its continuum (mean-field) limits. By idealizing attention on the sphere, we con...

The arXiv paper uploaded a month ago looked really interesting
arxiv.org/abs/2512.01868

Philippe Rigollet: The mean-field dynamics of transformers YouTube video by Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques

Looking forward to watching this!

Hundreds of gunshot eye injuries found in one Iranian hospital amid brutal crackdown on protests Doctors in Tehran have described overwhelmed medical staff as thousands of demonstrators have been killed by security forces

"An ophthalmologist in Tehran has documented more than 400 eye injuries from gunshots in a single hospital, as overwhelmed medical staff struggle to cope with the toll of an increasingly violent crackdown on nationwide protests by Iranian authorities." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed and injured by the security forces, with more than 70 bodies brought to one hospital.

"A medic at one Tehran hospital said there were "direct shots to the heads of the young people, to their hearts as well", while a doctor said an eye hospital in the capital had gone into crisis mode"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Carrying a cup of coffee doesn’t seem of particularly high economic value :-)