Thanks to Michael Harris for featuring this essay as a guest post on his substack. Check out the essay and the substack Silicon Reckoner!

When you do the math, humans still rule — Harvard Gazette Harvard’s Lauren Williams, a MacArthur “genius,” joins international effort to challenge notions of AI supremacy.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/02/when-you-do-the-math-humans-still-rule/

#1stproof

These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test

From @nytimespr.bsky.social, a closer look at #1stproof, a community experiment to see how well AI can do research math.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/s...

Hard copy available now for overnight delivery (at least in NorCal): amzn.to/3Ja6ITk. (PDF is also free on my website.)

Gabriel Brown & Joe Kileel (UT Austin) have enabled me to much better understand some foundational results for 2x2x2 tensors, and the result is a paper that hopefully illuminates these results.
Gabriel produced the Hyperdeterminant Visualizer: ghbrown.net/deter/hdet/

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.03937

Unlocking LaTeX Graphics This is a channel is focused on teaching TikZ and PGFPLOTS, tools for creating graphics in LaTeX documents. Tammy Kolda, an applied mathematician, explains these tools step by step. She provides exten...

Milestone/Nerd Alert: I've created 2⁵-1 YouTube videos about TikZ and PGFPLOTS. These are tools for creating beautiful graphics directly within your LaTeX documents. Check it out and share with your network. Thanks! #texlatex #tikz #pgfplots

www.youtube.com/@UnlockingLa...

Since Trump fired most of the National Park Service, the bears have to pick up the slack.

“Alaskan bear corrects a fallen roadside cone”

Credit @gunsnrosesgirl X

@altnps.bsky.social

Math is woke, apparently

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Apple Tops the List of Best-Managed Companies of 2024 Tech companies held six of the top 10 spots, while Mastercard jumped to fifth place from 24th last year.

Philip Morris rates high in social responsibility because 38% of its revenues are from cigarette alternatives like nicotine pouches. That's like saying Smith & Wesson is socially responsible because 38% of its revenue comes from non-assault rifles. www.wsj.com/business/app...