Many "serious" mathematicians are aghast(twitter.com)

17 points by tosh 3 months ago | 6 comments

Niklaus Wirth has died(twitter.com)

1796 points by aarroyoc 2 years ago | 329 comments

A post on X by Bertrand Meyer announcing that Niklaus Wirth, pioneer of programming languages and software engineering, died on January 1, 2024.

One of the more painful things: many bool fields with byte sized bools(twitter.com)

3 points by tosh 2 years ago | 2 comments

Gap in Mochizuki's proof of ABC confirmed by Lean(twitter.com)

13 points by ogogmad 3 months ago | 1 comments

A mass surveillance system for national security based on advertising/RTB data(twitter.com)

37 points by wchr 2 years ago | 15 comments

Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing?(twitter.com)

341 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 390 comments

Kara Swisher post on X reporting sources say Ilya Sutskever was at the center of Sam Altman's firing from OpenAI amid tensions over role and influence.