A fractal spectrum of tales

The announcement of the resolution of one of Clay’s math millennium problems is spreading all over the news, mostly based on the official announcement by OpenAI.

I was discussing options for running LLMs locally, particularly on low-resource systems, with a colleague today.

Not long ago I had heard from some friends about a slow inflection on the junion positions openings, in the sense that after a time of decline, they finally seemed to start going up again.

In some cases, the very same companies selling detection tools are also making apps that allow students to cheat, including by writing papers for them or rephrasing text written by others.

Geometry is among the anciest branches of mathematics.

In the previous post on mechanizing mathematics and on its relation with beauty and generative AI, I have extensively discussed my views on how societal and technological changes are shaping mathematics and what I hope we will do to respond and evolve with

I attended an interesting meeting recently, where we debated the role of University and how our education should change in a world that is more and more taken over by generative AI.

What a council meeting today!

Firefox 149 has quietly started shipping the Rust-based ad-blocking engine from Brave within the browser.

Recently, a friend asked me a variation of the question in the title.