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Quirky science, mordant humor, random quotes, visual arts.
Not a doctor or raccoon.

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One of many versions by Klee.

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Theda Bara as Lady Isabel Carlisle in disguise in order to become the governess for her own children. Film: East Lynne (Bertram Bracken, 1916)

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Artist Khalid Rashid

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Palestinian artist Mohammed Alhaj

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"Nutten" ca1930 by German painter, illustrator, and printmaker Jeanne Mammen (1890 – 1976)

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"The Resilient Palestinian Woman" by
Palestinian artist Said Elatab

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"Lebanese and Palestinians United" by
Palestinian artist Said Elatab

[Pushmeet Kohli @pushmeet]

AI agents are advancing research-level math. 🚀

I’m thrilled to share @GoogleDeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus - an agentic framework for formal proof search powered by Gemini.

When applied to a set of open formal math problems, our agent autonomously solved:
✅ 9 open Erdős problems (including two open for 56 years!)
✅ 44 Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) problems
✅ A 15-year-old open problem in algebraic geometry ✅ A 7-year-old open question in min-max optimization

We are collaborating with mathematicians across disciplines - from combinatorics and graph theory to quantum optics. Ultimately, these results show the massive potential of even simple agentic loops powered by Gemini.

Read the paper here: https://t.co/c5M9ZjRXU1

[Alex Kontorovich @AlexKontorovich]

More big news from Mathlib:

# The Formal Frontier Project

The Mathlib Initiative is launching Formal Frontier — a new project focused on responsible, scalable, and open-source AI-driven autoformalization of mathematics.

The primary goal of Formal Frontier is to bring formal mathematics closer to the research frontier in a way that is scalable, composable with Mathlib and its ecosystem, aligned with community standards, and genuinely useful for researchers.

The Mathlib Initiative, a program of Renaissance Philanthropy, is funded by generous donations from Alex Gerko and XTX Markets.

Why now? Autoformalization is advancing rapidly, and the choices made now will shape the foundations that the next generation of formalized mathematics is built on. We think getting this right matters, and that it should be done in the open, in close coordination with the communities who will actually use and extend these artifacts.

What will we do? Formal Frontier will help establish standards and set a positive example for what formal mathematics in the age of AI should look like, both in the technical artifacts produced and in how projects at this scale engage with the wider community.

The initial phase of the project will have three components:

We will develop and release an autoformalization specification, in coordination with the community. This specification will articulate what a valid autoformalization looks like, covering how formal code should relate to its informal source, what counts as adequate coverage and faithfulness, and how artifacts document their relationship to Mathlib. It will also address the broader lifecycle of an autoformalized artifact, including expectations around human oversight, maintenance, licensing, coordination with related projects, and paths to eventual upstreaming. We expect this to happen quite soon, and will make follow-up announcements in the next couple of weeks.

We will develop and release open-source autoformalization tooling, so that inference cost, rather than access to tooling, is the main limiting factor for researchers who want to autoformalize at scale.

We will release autoformalized artifacts that embody the standards this project promotes, demonstrating in practice what responsible autoformalization at scale looks like while providing material that researchers can readily build on.

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@AJENews

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

Yemen’s Houthis have declared a ‘total ban’ on Israeli vessels wanting to pass through the Red Sea.

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Absolutely brilliant analysis by Col. Macgregor.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Douglas Macgregor: New World - Israel Dying, NATO Dead & U.S. Defeated by Iran
https://t.co/dRGDQhRDVo

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Douglas Macgregor: New World - Israel Dying, NATO Dead & U.S. Defeated by Iran
https://t.co/dRGDQhRDVo

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Palestinian artist Nadia Abdallah Alkhateeb

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"You don't go into a war like you're a drunk going into a bar fight."
― Anthony Aguilar, on the attack on the Iranian primary school

https://t.co/Kb2w3SlIfI

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@Microinteracti1 Pretty much overlaps with this:

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Palestinian artist Mohammed Al haj

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

If there is any justice left in this country, the entire Trump crime family will end up behind bars due to their obscene corruption.

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There's just . . . no words. 🤣

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Ivanka Trump, on her and Jared Kushner's dream of developing an uninhabited Albanian Island for the ultra rich. 😂🤣👇

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@maddenifico That . . . was a work of art!
There's just no words. 🤣

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Ivanka Trump, on her and Jared Kushner's dream of developing an uninhabited Albanian Island for the ultra rich. 😂🤣👇