Bits of DNA

Twenty five Fields medalists were initial signatories of the letter “A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics” in which they opine that “The goals of the AI companies and the goals of the mathematical community are severely misaligned”.

The philosopher Felix Hausdorff, famous for his foundational philosophical work Das Chaos in kosmischer Auslese (Chaos in Cosmic Selection) in which he rejects metaphysics, also did mathematics as a “hobby”.

Among the millions of pages in the Epstein files, there is an inconspicuous, seemingly mundane short email, EFTA00896810, dated 14th September, 2010.

In a paper titled “THEOREMS FOR A PRICE: Tomorrow’s Semi-Rigorous Mathematics Culture” published in 1993, mathematician Doron Zeilberger wrote: There are writings on the wall that, now that the silicon savior has arrived, a new testament is going to be wr…

James Watson, who described himself as “not a racist in a conventional way”, has died at the age of 97.

The mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss invented the heliotrope for long-distance surveying in 1821.

In the Nature paper “Spatial transcriptomics reveal neuron–astrocyte synergy in long-term memory” published on March 14th, 2024, authors Sun et al. claimed to identify cell-type specific transcriptional signatures of memory in mouse basolateral amygdala.

Earlier this year I came across this interesting post by mathematician Daniel Litt, where he pondered how many intrinsically true results in mathematics have been published with erroneous proofs: How many *true* theorems have plausibly written but erroneo…

by Laura Luebbert and Lior Pachter Background (by LL) Four years ago, during the first year of my PhD at Caltech, I participated in a journal club organized by the lab I was rotating in.

In a Tablet Magazine article titled “How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers” posted on March 6, 2024, Professor of Statistics and Data Science Abraham Wyner from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania argues that statistical…

The All of Us Research Program, whose mission is to “to accelerate health research and medical breakthroughs, enabling individualized prevention, treatment, and care for all of us”, recently published a flagship paper in Nature on “Genomic Data in the All…