Gerd Faltings, who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize(scientificamerican.com)

51 points by digital55 7 months ago | 7 comments

Mystery math whiz and novelist advance permutation problem(quantamagazine.org)

201 points by sashank_1509 3 years ago | 80 comments

Mathematicians Crack a Fractal Conjecture on Chaos(scientificamerican.com)

12 points by mikhael 10 months ago | 4 comments

Dimension 126 Contains Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove(quantamagazine.org)

134 points by baruchel 1 year ago | 74 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics(quantamagazine.org)

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

Math and puzzle fans find magic in Martin Gardner's legacy(scientificamerican.com)

112 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 47 comments

Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?(animebythenumbers.substack.com)

387 points by zdw 1 year ago | 276 comments

Substack article from Anime By The Numbers examining a change in how Crunchyroll releases new anime that has degraded subtitle quality after layoffs.

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

361 points by 6bitquant 19 days ago | 380 comments

Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion(arstechnica.com)

516 points by samizdis 3 years ago | 76 comments

Ars Technica article about a Redditor using Stable Diffusion to generate anime-style images that still scan as working QR codes.

AI is making me dumb(jpain.io)

407 points by Eighth 5 months ago | 247 comments

A personal blog post in which a software developer argues that relying on AI for writing code, articles, and documents is eroding his own writing and programming skills.