A QR code that sends you to a different destination – lenticular and adversarial(mstdn.social)

512 points by zdw 1 year ago | 71 comments

A Mastodon post showing a QR code that resolves to different destinations depending on viewing angle or scanner, using lenticular and adversarial techniques.

The Muscular Compassion of "Paper Girl"(newyorker.com)

14 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 6 comments

The Supreme Court Made Just About Everyone Happy for Once(motherjones.com)

50 points by jawns 3 years ago | 53 comments

Qualcomm to Bring RISC-V Based Wearable Platform to Wear OS by Google(qualcomm.com)

89 points by fork-bomber 3 years ago | 24 comments

Facebook ban on discussing Linux?(distrowatch.com)

746 points by rogerthis 1 year ago | 335 comments

DistroWatch Weekly issue of January 27, 2025, whose site news section reports on Facebook blocking or banning posts that discuss Linux.

Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)(acc.org)

137 points by RickJWagner 3 months ago | 188 comments

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf](teorth.github.io)

533 points by Anon84 15 days ago | 530 comments

PDF slide deck titled "Math 2.0" by mathematician Terence Tao, dated October 2026, apparently from a Caltech talk.

Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video](youtube.com)

582 points by matthewsinclair 1 month ago | 77 comments

A Big Think YouTube video in which mathematician Terence Tao explains six essential concepts of mathematics.

Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly(mathstodon.xyz)

968 points by bertman 1 year ago | 490 comments

A Mastodon post by mathematician Terence Tao reflecting on how society operates at four scales and how the role of small organized groups has shrunk.

Oai-math-revised: a community hub for revising OpenAI's math write-ups(terrytao.wordpress.com)

38 points by tokepi 2 days ago | 29 comments

Guest post on Terence Tao's blog announcing oai-math-revised, a GitHub community effort to improve and properly cite OpenAI's math write-ups, inviting contributors and reviewers.

AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment(edworkingpapers.com)

57 points by bryan0 20 days ago | 42 comments

An Annenberg EdWorkingPapers research paper page on a two-year school experiment evaluating AI tutoring with Khan Academy's Khanmigo.

Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician(xenaproject.wordpress.com)

372 points by mathgenius 1 year ago | 317 comments

Blog post on the Xena Project blog by a mathematician discussing whether AI systems can do research-level mathematics yet.