News & Musings
News & Musings
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Chapeau bas!
Paul Milgrom: "Kenneth Arrow told me that this result would be his final theorem[...] On his behalf, I have completed the formalization and proof of his theorem and tried to provide the kind of challenging remarks that he would have welcomed."
http://www.mechanism-design.org/arch/v009-1/p_02.pdf
Ssssshhh! Let ninnies fetishize their Carlsen-less "World Chess Championship"...
Champions Chess Tour winners:
2020 - Magnus Carlsen
2021 - Magnus Carlsen
2022 - Magnus Carlsen
2023 - Magnus Carlsen
2024 - Magnus Carlsen
Nice, @MagnusCarlsen 🏆
BREAKING: Magnus Carlsen is great at chess 🚨
All you—current and former—quantum theoretical physicists rejoice: not all you've been learning/ doing is arcane!😉
P.S. To top that, you don't have to worry about decoherence either in this setup (used to love that topic some quarter century ago, e.g., http://www.sebastianbuhai.com/pictures/UCU/Physics_AppliedMathematics/Quantum_physics/fighting_decoherence_qec.pdf)!
The pardon that Pres. Joe Biden granted to his son Hunter Biden on December 1, 2024 is a tragedy for US institutions.
Of course, it is understandable that Biden was worried about partisan attacks that his son would suffer from a Republican-dominated…
I agree with almost everything in this Guardian piece on Elon Musk de facto becoming a one-man rogue state , except for the "most charitable interpretation" bit: that is really *infinitely* charitable... (earlier on that same topic: https://x.com/sbuhai/status/1582295457254236160)
Elon Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state – it’s time we reined him in | Alexander Hurst
He has bankrolled elections, stoked riots and ignored laws. We mustn’t make the mistake of playing nice with the...
www.theguardian.com
Terry Tao has an insightful overview on machine-assisted proofs in the latest AMS Notices:
One thing I'd add: as I've recently become aware (e.g., Bryan's talk ), there's already notable competition to Github Copilot, such as Cursor.
Another fruitful BPLIM December workshop earlier this week, this time on "Empirical Research in the AI Era"—among my favorite presentations, Kevin Bryan's on 'Generative AI for Econ Research' and Nelson Areal's on 'Local LLMs & RAG for Exploring Articles':
https://github.com/BPLIM/Workshops/tree/master/BPLIM2024
I'm 36.
When I was 26 I worshipped identity politics, went woke & believed in the fantasy of equality.
Then I discovered Alexander Grothendieck, and he changed my life forever. Now, instead of identity politics and equality, I believe in isomorphisms.
