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Mathematicians are broadly not anti-AI.
They’re more culturally open to using AI as a tool than, say, artists or writers
However, now that more and more genuinely prestigiousproblems have fallen to AI,
that might be changing.
Almost five thousand mathematicians
(including twenty-five Fields medalists)
have signed a declaration called
"A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics".
The core argument goes something like this:
In re…

How a Covid-Era Scramble Transformed Supreme Court Arguments (Adam Liptak/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/supreme-court-changing-oral-arguments.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260813/p71#a260813p71

A group of US lawmakers is sounding the alarm over
prediction market platforms that allow users to bet on wildfires,
as experts warn the emerging trend could raise the risk of arson.
Democratic senators from six states sent a letter this week to the chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC),
an independent government agency regulating platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi,
urging it to rein in the practice.
“As the United States faces yet …

US senators urge crackdown on wildfire betting amid warnings of arson risk
Experts say growing trend on sites such as Polymarket and Kalshi could motivate people to start fires to win money

Google appeals the European Commission's DMA mandates to open up Android at the EU General Court, arguing the requirements threaten user privacy and security (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Drift Estimation for a Multi-Dimensional L\'evy-Driven Stochastic Differential Equation Using Deep Neural Networks
Taisei Noguchi, Teppei Ogihara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.09813 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.09813 https://arxiv.org/html/2610.09813
arXiv:2610.09813v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We develop a non-asymptotic theory for nonparametric drift estimation in discretely observed multi-dimensional L\'evy-driven stochastic differential equations using sparse ReLU neural networks. Under exponential \(\beta\)-mixing and an exponential-tail condition on the L\'evy measure, we establish an oracle inequality for the least-squares estimator. The jump component changes both the martingale structure and the concentration regime relative to diffusion models: continuous martingales are replaced by discontinuous martingales, while the relevant empirical-process fluctuations are sub-exponential rather than sub-Gaussian. We handle these difficulties without truncating the observed increments, using an exponential-supermartingale argument for compensated Poisson integrals and \(\psi_1\)-chaining. Despite the weaker concentration, the resulting statistical bound is, up to constants, of the same order as the corresponding diffusion bound. For drift functions with hierarchical compositional structure, this yields intrinsic-dimensional convergence rates. The framework allows infinite jump activity and, in some cases, infinite variation. Finally, we establish a minimax lower bound on a fixed non-trivial compound-Poisson submodel. Together with the upper bound, this shows that the estimator is minimax optimal up to logarithmic factors.
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"We failed to act for three months to remove this guy for cause. That's why we need to be able to remove people without cause."
That's it, that's their argument for Prop F. Hell No on F!
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/lur

Der #Perito-Moreno-Gletscher in #Argentinien galt lange als außergewöhnlich stabil.
Aktuelle #Copernicus-Satelliten-Daten zeigen jedoch einen deutlichen Rückzug der Eisfront in den vergangen…

Perito Moreno Glacier retreats after decades of stability | EU Space Support Office
Perito Moreno Glacier lies in Los Glaciares National Park, in Santa Cruz Province, southern Argentina. For decades, the glacier showed few signs of retreat compared with many other Patagonian glaciers, but recent satellite-based research indicates that this pattern is changing.

"Argentina’s distributed solar capacity grew 34.5% in H1"
#Argentina #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Argentina's distributed solar capacity grew 34.5% in H1 - pv magazine Global
The capacity of self-consumption systems connected to distribution grids increased from 118.6 MW at the end of 2025 to 159.5 MW in June, while the number of users generating and feeding surplus electricity into the grid rose 25.8% to more than 4,700.

Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (Daniel Arkin/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/federal-communications-commission-scraps-limit-broadcast-tv-ownership-rcna587641
http://www.memeorandum.com/260806/p78#a260806p78

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