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@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-01-18 18:07:02

Alle acht bisherigen Vorträge der Reihe „Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access“ (weitere werden folgen) sind in der Mediathek der TIB verfügbar:
#OpenAccess

TIB AV-Portal
Scientific videos und audios: technology/engineering, architecture, chemistry, information technology, mathematics, and physics.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-17 06:40:42

Top AI researchers argue that AI is now more useful for mathematics thanks to the latest "reasoning" models, as math becomes a key way to test AI progress (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-12-11 23:47:37

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Yasiin Bey:
🎵 Mathematics (clean)
#YasiinBey
truthhiphop.bandcamp.com/track

@ocrampal@mastodon.social
2026-01-16 14:41:52

AI without meaning is not intelligence, it is mathematics
#philosophy

AI and the Neglect of Meaning: From Unlimited to Indefinite
The story of artificial intelligence is not just one of increasing computational power—it’s also a story about how machines relate to meaning. Or more precisely, how meaning has been progressively sidelined in favor of statistical pattern manipulation. To understand this, we can trace AI’s evolution through a

@@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot@mastoxiv.page@mastoxiv.page
2025-12-15 08:52:51

Verification and experimental validation of neutral atom beam source produced by L-PBF
Vineet Kumar (Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Dept. of Surface and Plasma Science, Prague 8, Czech Republic), Niklas V. Lausti (Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Dept. of Surface and Plasma Science, Prague 8, Czech Republic), Peter K\'u\v{s} (Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Dept. of Surface and Plasma Science, Prague 8, Czech R…

@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2026-01-04 14:54:53

"Christopher Bishop’s 2006 book “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning,” arguably one of the triggers of the current popularity of machine learning, is quite literally a book about applied mathematics, diving into probabilities, linear algebra, neural networks, Markov models, and combinatorics. And rightfully so; if your objective is to find a job as an engineer at OpenAI, knowing a thing or two about eigenvalues and eigenvectors is definitely going to be useful."

In Praise Of Mathematics
How much math knowledge does a programmer need to know to fulfill their job? How deep should the mathematical knowledge of full-stack engineers, computer security experts, or large language model engineers be? The spectrum of possible answers to these questions is too large to be useful. Perhaps the eternal answer "it depends" is enough?

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-11-19 18:09:10

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Joy Crookes:
🎵 Mathematics (feat. Kano)
#JoyCrookes
open.spotify.com/track/68sOQ9M

@tarah@infosec.exchange
2026-01-11 14:41:04

It's always lovely to have the doubters get their asses academically kicked when it comes to Ada Lovelace's actual mathematical capabilities, but at the same time, I am so, so, so tired. Just so very tired. From an open access 2017 Historia Mathematica article debunking the idea that Lovelace was not a competent mathematician.

C. Hollings et al. / Historia Mathematica 44 (2017) 202-231 203 1. Introduction On 21 January 1844, the English mathematician Augustus De Morgan wrote a confidential letter to Lady Noel Byron about her 28-year-old daughter, Augusta Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace, who De Morgan had tutored as a private pupil in various areas of advanced mathematics for about eighteen months in the early 1840s. In his letter, while he was at pains to stress that “I have never expressed to Lady Lovelace my op…
@robpike@hachyderm.io
2025-12-09 10:04:47

I find something profound in recursive descent parsing, both the idea of it and the coding of it. For me it's one of the more beautiful things in mathematics, let alone computing.

@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social
2025-12-05 10:46:34

Blocked by yet another dude I proved wrong with #Mathematics 🙄 and a self-proclaimed "Mathematician" no less. It's incredible how people can't deal with finding out they were wrong... just learn from it and move on, seriously. It's not that hard!
BTW here is the proof he couldn't handle

💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱 (@smartmanapps.bsky.social)
And here's an inductive proof (which is a formal proof method) (1) show true for a=1 1+b=b+1 subtract 1 both sides b=b true (2) assume true for a=n n+b=b+n (3) show true for a=n+1 n+1+b=b+n+1 subtract 1 both sides n+b=b+n true by (2) thus holds for all values of a

@fortune@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-04 10:00:02

``Obvious'' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
-- Eric Temple Bell

@todbot@mastodon.social
2025-12-05 18:23:47

But what *IS* the Matrix?
Oh. okay. nevermind.

screenshot of a section of the Matrix page on Wikipedia showing a 2x3 real matrix labeled A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(mathematics)
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-07 16:03:08

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
James Horner & James Horner:
🎵 A Beautiful Mind "A Kaleidoscope Of Mathematics"
#JamesHorner
open.spotify.com/track/2MK1w1I

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-01-01 09:42:01

from my link log —
What if the world is made of cubes? Uncovering the universal geometry of geology.
quantamagazine.org/geometry-re
saved 2020-11-22

Geometry Reveals How the World Is Assembled From Cubes
An exercise in pure mathematics has led to a wide-ranging theory of how the world comes together.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-08 16:40:48

Q&A with mathematicians behind the "First Proof" experiment, which tests AI's mathematical competence on questions drawn from the authors' unpublished research (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)
nyt…

@tomkalei@machteburch.social
2026-02-12 08:14:25

The paragraph
"Amateurs and cranks aim higher, and are currently producing large documents which purport to contain breakthrough results, but which do not survive 5 minutes of expert scrutiny. I continually find it surprising that a non-expert can genuinely believe that they might contribute to research mathematics using only the tools which the experts also have access to. ..."
is taking the words right out of my mouth!!
xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-01-27 07:05:04

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Broken Social Scene:
🎵 Love and Mathematics
#BrokenSocialScene
brokensocialscene.bandcamp.com
open.spotify.com/track/3Wu1flk

@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social
2025-12-01 05:46:00

1/7
This air-quote #Mathematics unquote article quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridg

OED definition of "finite", which includes "limited in size or extent", and shows that the root word is "finish"
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social
2025-11-30 23:06:11

@… TiL about the Petersen Graph, which is the exact combination of mathematics and pentagrams that I feel epitomises The Laundry Files.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersen

Petersen graph - Wikipedia

@darkrat@chaosfurs.social
2025-12-27 10:51:07

So now we know why there was a suspicious hole in the #39c3 Fahrplan
GPG 0-Day(s) - Spicy
gpg.fail
17:15 CET

[39c3] To sign or not to sign: Practical vulnerabilities in GPG & friends
Beyond the underlying mathematics of cryptographic algorithms, there is a whole other layer of implementation code, assigning meaning to the processed data. For example, a signature verification operation both needs robust cryptography **and** ass...

@lysander07@sigmoid.social
2025-11-26 08:12:40

Have you ever wondered to what extend LLMs are used to support writing of scientific publications? Here is a chart indicating the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in scientific publications over time.
c.f. Liang et al, Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers (2024)
arxiv.org/html/2404.01268v1

Estimated Fraction of LLM-Modified Sentences across Academic Writing Venues over Time. This figure displays the fraction (α) of sentences estimated to have been substantially modified by LLM in abstracts from various academic writing venues. The analysis includes five areas within arXiv (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics), articles from bioRxiv, and a combined dataset from 15 journals within the Nature portfolio. Estimates are based o…
@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-02-06 16:15:54

AVISTA SMART Grant: Call for Proposals
ift.tt/jlpEFbe
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

AVISTA SMART Grant: Call for Proposals | H-Net
The AVISTA START (Science, Technology, and Art Research/Teaching) Grant is a new award that provides up to $3,000 USD in seed funding for the initial stages of a long-term scholarly project. It is sponsored by Robert E. Jamison, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Clemson University, in collaboration with AVISTA (the Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art).APPLICATIONS DUE: March 15, 2026

@tomkalei@machteburch.social
2026-02-12 09:35:20

The NY Times interview is full of amazing insights.
E.g. @… makes the point that AI is both touted as being your collaborator or colleague with whom you can play back and forth to do math while at the same time the LLM is always praising your input, never challenging you and there is zero trust in the output.
It's the most painful of all possible collaborations: One who cannot be trusted at all.
nytimes.com/2026/02/07/science
1/2

@ocrampal@mastodon.social
2026-01-28 14:33:54

Why Computation Can’t Create—And Where It Hits the Logic Ceiling.
While logic can rearrange the pieces of an existing puzzle, it cannot explain the spark that creates the pieces themselves.
ocrampal.com/the-scope-of-gene

The Scope of Geneosophy: Where Concept-Creation Matters
Not every domain of inquiry requires genosophical investigation. Understanding when geneosophy applies—and when traditional approaches suffice—clarifies both its potential and its proper limits. The Traditional Domain: Working Within Given Concepts Science, mathematics, programming, AI, and most philosophy operate successfully within what we might call "conceptually closed" domains. These

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-02-05 16:20:53

AVISTA SMART Grant: Call for Proposals
ift.tt/OVR1aG7
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

AVISTA SMART Grant: Call for Proposals | H-Net
The AVISTA START (Science, Technology, and Art Research/Teaching) Grant is a new award that provides up to $3,000 USD in seed funding for the initial stages of a long-term scholarly project. It is sponsored by Robert E. Jamison, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Clemson University, in collaboration with AVISTA (the Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art).APPLICATIONS DUE: March 15, 2026

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-02-05 01:17:14

AVISTA SMART Grant: Call for Proposals networks.h-net.org/group/annou

AVISTA SMART Grant: Call for Proposals | H-Net
The AVISTA START (Science, Technology, and Art Research/Teaching) Grant is a new award that provides up to $3,000 USD in seed funding for the initial stages of a long-term scholarly project. It is sponsored by Robert E. Jamison, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Clemson University, in collaboration with AVISTA (the Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art).APPLICATIONS DUE: March 15, 2026

@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social
2026-02-04 00:03:08

Blocked by person refusing to believe a #Mathematics #textbook and #proofs because of a random #Wikipedia …

Captain Jack meme: "The difference between 0.(9) and 1is infinitesimally small" "But there is a difference!"
@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-02-04 16:20:51

AVISTA SMART Grant: Call for Proposals
ift.tt/09syCE8
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

AVISTA SMART Grant: Call for Proposals | H-Net
The AVISTA START (Science, Technology, and Art Research/Teaching) Grant is a new award that provides up to $3,000 USD in seed funding for the initial stages of a long-term scholarly project. It is sponsored by Robert E. Jamison, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Clemson University, in collaboration with AVISTA (the Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art).APPLICATIONS DUE: March 15, 2026

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-02-04 16:17:17

AVISTA SMART Grant: Call for Proposals networks.h-net.org/group/annou

AVISTA SMART Grant: Call for Proposals | H-Net
The AVISTA START (Science, Technology, and Art Research/Teaching) Grant is a new award that provides up to $3,000 USD in seed funding for the initial stages of a long-term scholarly project. It is sponsored by Robert E. Jamison, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Clemson University, in collaboration with AVISTA (the Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art).APPLICATIONS DUE: March 15, 2026

@tomkalei@machteburch.social
2026-01-06 08:45:58

Manchmal bekommt man ja noch Post, z.B. Neujahrgrüße vom Vietnam Journal of Mathematics. Die Karte ist um die ganze Welt gereist und dann in meinem Bürobriefkasten gelandet. Sowas erzeugt eine sehr starke analog-wohlige Wärme in meinem Herzen!
Und die Poststelle der @… hat natürlich unverzüglich die Briefmarken erhalten, um die sie da per Bleistiftnachricht gebeten haben.