Siobhan Roberts asks whether A.I. is more a replacement for cognition or a tool. Fields Medalist Martin Hairer likens it to "reading a paper by a bad undergraduate... they just stick in 'and therefore' and pray."
These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/s...
50 odd features for @nytimes.com and Siobhan Roberts still masters the telling detail, to wit: "The investigation’s challenge: Cut a pancake into as many pieces as possible, in the latest attack on a longstanding puzzle known as *the Lazy Caterer’s problem*." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/s...
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Puzzles and puzzle makers constitute in part Siobhan Roberts' beat. Today's entry is a corker.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/s...
Hero!
‘Don’t Think, Just Solve’ www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @eroston.bsky.social this has you written all over it (I mean it's not the The Beatles; still...) Siobhan Roberts at her weirdo best! Four bylines!
you must use this power for good
Savonarola lives!
A rose plant is red
And a late bloomer.
I'm logging off, to
See less about Schumer.
And they say it's not a beautiful world.
It's Pi day: "Ingrid Daubechies...is an expert on many matters, not least the baking of cookies in the shape of pi... she prefers a savory version with cheese (Parmigiano-Reggiano) and herbs (thyme and marjoram)." The incomparable Siobhan Roberts! @eroston.bsky.social nytimes.com/2025/03/14/s...
Richard Hamilton. who devised the Ricci flow and should have received half the Millennium Prize for solving the Poincare conjecture (this according to Perelman who won it then turned it down), gets a suitable obit in The Times from Siobhan Roberts. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/s...
I'm going with a Bill Ackman-style "you're kidding right? I've been dead for nearly twenty years and -- by the way -- the Times didn't even bother with an obit"
