When the Mac Was a Munition(newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)

52 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 32 comments

The War on the Walkman(newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)

74 points by mfiguiere 1 year ago | 75 comments

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

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

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

201 points by sashank_1509 3 years ago | 80 comments

The Original AI Doomer: Dr. Norbert Wiener(newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)

90 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 61 comments

Physicists create elusive particles that remember their pasts(quantamagazine.org)

97 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 26 comments

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.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled(xenaproject.wordpress.com)

456 points by artninja1988 3 months ago | 225 comments

A Xena Project blog post about mathematicians being outpaced at finding counterexamples, from the blog on mathematicians learning the Lean theorem prover.

Cryptographers solve decades-old privacy problem(nautil.us)

324 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 124 comments

Nautilus article by Madison Goldberg on cryptographers' advance toward fully private database lookups and internet searches (private information retrieval).

The Chalk and the Airplane(unintendedconsequenc.es)

23 points by paulorlando 4 days ago | 9 comments

Blog essay on mathematicians' emotional reactions to AI-generated proofs, framing it as the end of math's romantic era and comparing it to past industrial disruptions.