(((1/f))) ファデシング / फेडसिंह

科学と数学の探検家 / Explorateur des sciences et des mathématiques / Explorer of science and mathematics

[(((1/f))) ファデシング / फेडसिंह @fadesingh]

The very fact that things of any kind exist at all should be enough science fiction for most people.

[Archie McKenzie @archiemckenzie_]

“we sandboxed the agent”

meanwhile the agent:

[Jaideep Unudurti @Unudurti]

The limited B&W run of “Lovecraft in India” (Script: Jai Undurti, Art: Harsho Mohan Chattoraj) is now available on Amazon India.

[Joey Pfeifer @joeypfeifer]

Two weeks ago, I resigned from OpenAI to join Jurassic Park as a founding researcher, where we’re cross-breeding extinct dinosaurs on an island off of Costa Rica.

Excited for the work ahead and the fun problems we get to tackle!

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

AI has found counter examples to so many conjectures, math is basically solved

[Kevin Hartnett @KSHartnett]

It strikes me that by the time computers could solve integrals, mathematicians no longer cared about them as research. The move away from explicit computation had happened decades earlier, in the late 19th century.

That period — Riemann, Dedekind, Hilbert — and the climb into algebraic abstraction seems like the right analogy for now.

As AI mows down conjectures (many of which maybe weren't so deep to begin with), the question is what abstraction layer sits above the coming avalanche of individual results.

[kache @yacineMTB]

What if unlimited intelligence changes nothing

[Paul Prudence @MrPrudence]

Xanti Schawinsky
Euclidian, 1934 / Walls & Stones, 1943

[Pixel Symphony @Pixel0Symphony]

Robert William Billings, The Infinity of Geometric Design Exemplified. 1849.

Engraved plates.

[Pixel Symphony @Pixel0Symphony]

Ferdinand Friedrich Hans Schraidt, Geometrical Drawing; A Collection of Plates for Practical Use in Elementary Mechanical Drawing. 1915.

[Physical Review E @PhysRevE]

A new study reveals that particles in a strongly confined viscoelastic fluid form chains when a particle-scale Weissenberg number exceeds a critical threshold. “Shuttling" motion promotes collisions and self-organization.

🔗 https://t.co/L5JFSKVwRB

[Pixel Symphony @Pixel0Symphony]

Niels Bohr, Structure of the Radium Atom. 1922.

Printed in The Theory of Spectra & Atomic Constitution (Cambridge University Press).

Bohr’s early atomic model, mapping electron orbits as overlapping geometric paths, drawn as a system of harmonies rather than probabilities.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Abakcus @abakcus]

This is the most beautiful journal I have ever seen.

[Paul Prudence @MrPrudence]

Illustrations of interference patterns from Physikalische Krystallographie – Paul Heinrich Groth, 1885

[Bartosz Naskręcki @nasqret]

Stanisław Lem in The Invincible (first English edition, 1973) described a situation that many of us are experiencing with auto-research. If you let certain programs process their reality without any external pressure, the results over time can get extremely bizarre and very hard to explain.

The world of cellular automata offers glimpses into such a reality in the purest and simplest way. I think we do not appreciate enough how different, and how hard to understand for us humans, the world will be when algorithms and models take our place in exploring it.

When we do the steering and try to internalize the work of the machines, it ultimately limits the scope of their work. On the other hand, free exploration will quickly hit the limits of our capacity to internalize it, and everything beyond this limit will be opaque and alien. Lem has no answer to this conundrum. He just offers us an insight into such a world. No simple answers, just something else entirely.

[Gols Clássicos @GolsClassicos]

Dizem que maturidade chega com a idade…
Eu, aos 36 completamente entretida com um brinquedo de ET sequestrando uma vaca.

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

Middle East wars are now scheduled from 9pm Friday to 10.30pm Sunday (GMT). That’s it. Fighting outside designed non-market hours isn’t allowed.

[Tim McNamara @timClicks]

Today in cursed code: a computer program that plays pong by modifying its own source code. (Each frame is a new compilation). https://t.co/kS2ACZ7r79

[有村泰志 @15424578268]

単位を変える魔法

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

Today, global investment in antihydrogen production and transport is $10-$15/million/yr, funded by public scientific collaborations at CERN. If you really believe antimatter has the potential to become a multi-trillion-dollar industry, where is private venture capital?