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[Arda @HasarArda]

@ThomasVanRiet2 AI becoming a major part of the "means of production" will create a greater injustice toward countries or institutions who are not able to afford this, or who do not believe that it will be -or more dangerously, should be- an important part of academia

[Arda @HasarArda]

@ThomasVanRiet2 I totally agree with this, but as far as I understand, job opportunities are not based on our curiosity but rather on our "research output", which will highly depend on how we integrate AI into our research.

[Sam Gregson @Samuel_Gregson]

Research you like: “Waste of public money! Welfare Queen! Only interesting to particle physicists! No practical uses! Makes no money! Protecting cosy job!!!”

Research I like: “It’s just like…fun m’kay? What’s your problem? Why do you even like football, loser!?”

[Konsti Wohlwend @konstiwohlwend]

drama summary for those confused:

- Aug 15th: Tristan Buckmaster & Levent Alpöge make progress on a few important math problems

- they do NOT have a proof for the $1,000,000 Millenium Prize problem. BUT, they do claim to have a proof for a similar (non-Millenium) Navier Stokes problem that could help lead the way there

- Levent works at Anthropic, but this research was independent of his work there, with a mix of GPT and Claude models. Tristan is not related to Anthropic.

- Early Sep: Rumor spreads to OpenAI that Anthropic has solved a major problem. Tristan emails OpenAI to clarify. without revealing the problem they solved or how they did it.

- After hearing of the rumor, OpenAI started researching Navier Stokes with a new internal model.

- Sep 6th: OpenAI's Sebastien Bubeck tells Tristan that they solved the $1,000,000 Millenium Prize Navier Stokes problem. The approach is very similar to Tristan & Levent's approach to the non-Millenium problem.

- Tristan is suspicious of the timing, as only few others were trying this approach. OpenAI says the model didn't access his user data directly, but leaves unanswered whether Tristan's chat conversations were part of the training.

- OpenAI says they would partially credit Tristan for the $1,000,000 discovery (even though Tristan did not solve the $1,000,000 problem) — but only if they remove Levent as an author, as he works for Anthropic.

- Sep 8th: Tristan refuses to remove Levent, and rushes to publish their results independently.

Currently unclear is whether Anthropic had a separate solution for the $1,000,000 problem, or whether the rumor was about Tristan & Levent's independent research.

[Thomas Van Riet @ThomasVanRiet2]

Since so many of you here were wondering how to put IIA strings on manifolds with Spin(7) holonomy, we wrote a paper:
https://t.co/njlXD2TZSt

[Chayanka_42 @42_gravity]

from Prof Edward Witten's latest paper in arxiv.

"Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 helped in generalizing this calculation beyond some simple special cases
that did not require assistance."

[🥑 @yujitach]

MIT の知人の Daniel Harlow の場の量子論の講義ノートだそうです。part 1,2,3 とあり、それぞれ150頁ぐらいあります:

Part 1: https://t.co/y4Kwfd0W46
Part 2: https://t.co/avngZND6a0
Part 3: https://t.co/i7jNKkwpci

[Vincent Van Hemelryck @VincentVanHeme1]

Had a lot of fun working on this with Filippo Revello! A recent holographic constraint rules out some AdS solutions in type II string theory on certain orbifolds, but allows similar ones with larger orbifold groups. O-planes seme to play a crucial role!
https://t.co/qbY4l2ODiT

[Thomas Van Riet @ThomasVanRiet2]

Sabine H followers send posts like this every week or so. We indeed need a website with standardized answers to these questions since it gets exhausting.
Maybe this summer I get to write
"Responses to FAQ of people subject to anti-science propaganda". 1/2

[Thomas Van Riet @ThomasVanRiet2]

@_wraith0 @girlcupid_ I don't see why passion is in the way of proper labor conditions. It's absolutely important that PhD students should be able to buy a house &start having children, like people in other "jobs". I am just saying that, similar to artists, athletes,...,passion in research is crucial

[Math Cafe @Riazi_Cafe_en]

Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations: An Introduction
by Peter Woit

PDF: https://t.co/acUpfXdecd

[Bahram Shakerin @BahramShakerin]

[QTFMS Weekly Seminar]

The Status of Scale Separation

Thomas Van Riet
https://t.co/Cn8S3UYnml

[Bahram Shakerin @BahramShakerin]

The Philosophy and Physics of Duality

Sebastian De Haro, Jeremy Butterfield

https://t.co/n9iX8BlbuI

[it ürür kervan yürür @Feyusa0]

In QTFMS seminars, we’ll be continuing with Michele Cicoli’s seminar on Inflation and Dark Energy — an exciting opportunity to explore recent advances in these fundamental areas of string cosmology. Get the Zoom Link via the following form:
https://t.co/rIHAZZcIAz

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

Gravity is weaker than all other forces, but is there a reason why it should be? Maybe.

This is a short thread on the weak gravity conjecture (minimal math)

1/5

[Arda @HasarArda]

@witty_physics Olur da bi gun "hoca" olursam, birilerine iki kelam bi sey ogretmeye calisabilirsem, kullanacagim tabir "altimdaki ogrenciler" degil, beraber calistigim meslektaslarim olur. Burdaki kelime farkliliklari bile tutumda nerde oldugumuza dair isaretler veriyor bence

[Arda @HasarArda]

@witty_physics Senle calissinlar abi, basim ustune

[Arda @HasarArda]

@witty_physics Ben Arda Hasar, kendisinin arkadasi degilim. Doktoramı Odtü de yapiyorum, benle karsilasmamak icin LMU ya gidin.

[Arda @HasarArda]

@witty_physics Yasiyor oldugun seylere uzuluyorum ama oturup da bilmedigin konularda ahkam kesmeni anlamiyorum. Tanidigim insanlar arasinda bu konuda sikayet etmeye hakki olacak kadar eli kirlenmemis tek insansin, oturup da fizik askini anlatma bana o yuzden. Otur calis. Olmuyorsa da cik aglama

[Arda @HasarArda]

@witty_physics Yol boyu 300 tane karar verip isler yolunda gitmediginde senin disinda olabilecek her yere bok atiyor olmak muthis rasyonel bi tutum, gercekten problemi ne kadar derinlemesine anladigini ve butunsel cozum uretebilecegini gosteriyor