Greg Langmead

Formalizing the Enormous Theorem (Axiom has formalized in Lean the classification of finite simple groups, the longest proof in the history of mathematics). axiommath.ai/research/the... #LeanProver #ITP #AI4Math #AI #Math

[Trying out AI company-style marketing] South of the March is coming. I don't how to stop it. If you don't wishlist the game, it will fire you from your job. It will still fire you if you wishlist it. Every time I look at it, I get scared. Wishlist the game now. You are in danger. s.team/a/4628420/

@jtauber.com I just made the connection between where you're studying and where the music information retrieval research was done, that powers the audio synchronization in my app The Ring App. Cool! Did they also invent the MP3? www.audiolabs-erlangen.de

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A good corrective. AI is not teaching us, by contrast, about what we *had*, but what we *want(. What we had was ugly enough to resemble tech.

A Ph.D. in missing the point. Hard to make technical folks look more silly and small. phys.org/news/2026-10...

Votes for Women is now available in the Apple App Store! apps.apple.com/us/app/votes...

Just finished "Faster Than Light" by @jamielendino.com, about the Atari ST series of computers. Great book! I owned a 1040ST from 1987 to 1994, basically all of high school and college. But where is my nostalgia gene? Each computer becomes garbage for me when the new one appears. I'm a monster.

It's been a lot of fun trying the Duo out for a week, but it feels like I've gotten to use an extraordinarily polished prototype -- not a finished product that I'd want to buy and carry.

Giving Claude the zero-effort prompt to "make it a LOT more fun" is the dictionary definition of creating slop. Boo to this. But not boo to Simon.

Nice. Describing LLMs as “cheapeners” is wonderfully double-edged. Those who crave cheapening (the creators, and the boosters who are wannabe mathematicians) will appreciate the word because of its negative connotation, and good people will appreciate the word for the same reason.

The oligarchs who have taken over as math’s communications team are alienating regular people. I absolutely relate to this student’s loss of morale. Also, not enough discourse is focused on the personal gain those bigwigs are getting.

This article says the implications of the newly proved quasi-Riemann hypothesis are "staggering" - but it doesn't mention any. So what are they?

Hey, media people! Read this thread! Stop trying to interview the same few super-famous mathematicians about AI. It's like interviewing the two or three wealthiest people in the US about how inflation affects their ability to buy food.

All those high-tech refurbishments of A New Hope and they never managed to reinstate the bass in Harrison Ford's voice.

A fantastic new take on a remote desktop from Mac to iOS. It works so well, and operates at the window level, unlike Sidecar, which feels right. The graphical fidelity was perfect, unlike Steam Link. Apple Pencil hovering works like mouseover. It's all here. getsill.app/index.html

With the introduction of winetricks in NotProton version 1.1.8, I can run every Windows Steam game directly from Steam that I have ever gotten working in CrossOver. (Decisive Campaigns and Shadow Empire need winetricks, Soulash 2 needed some OpenGL DLLs copied to a weird place).

It really doesn’t say that, @quantamagazine.org. It’s worth getting it right, given your name!

Pittsburgh! On Tues Oct 20 I'm at Carnegie Mellon giving the Carl & Amy Jones Lecture in Interdisciplinary Science. It will be about the Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics. Hope to see you there. www.givecampus.com/schools/Carn...

I don’t know what kind of lectures you’re attending today, wherever you are in the world, but I’m pretty sure your lecturer didn’t show up dressed as a hobbit, with a pipe instead of a laser pointer! 🧙‍♂️ Yes, this is the first lecture of Digital Tolkien, taught by @jtauber.com.

Somewhere out there is the GOAT who designed the classic iOS 6 Passbook shredding animation. I hope they are having a great day. ✨

X is bad, though: https://lexontech.org/x-is-bad-though

"Do something." Front page of NYT, 9/10/26 — credit Jeff Roberson, AP.

Why, oh why, does this idea need a fresh, long explanation? Isn’t everyone already seeing this? It is RIGHT THERE. Has been for 40 years. Maybe 160. We can’t exit until everyone gets tired of it. Are we still in the early phase of understanding? Please no.

So now the public perception is that it should be assumed correct until it is debunked, and they've dropped this dump to give an appearance of exponential growth in the output of that process, even though they've changed that process by taking the human out of the loop.

One of Christopher’s motivations for the History of Middle-earth series was to make clear just how much was his father’s. Another was how much predated Lord of the Rings.

A lovely essay. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/w...

If like me you use CrossOver to play Windows games on macOS, check out NotProton which adds something to Steam so that it behaves like a Steam Deck and lets you install and launch Windows games directly, with per-game CrossOver configuration offered right within Steam.

All I ever want is for people who suck to become aware, even for a moment, that they suck. www.ahmath.org/statements "We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding."

If the AI is "doing math" in the full definition of that term, like CS marketing people "claim," then it would be doing it if they showed it to nobody. Why do they keep showing it? Could it be because of course it's not math until a real mathematician promotes it to semantics? It's a LaTeX spill.

Ultima V styled Middle-earth map jtauber.github.io/u5me/ Initially generated from Tolkien's maps but I've made various manual corrections. Let me know if you notice anything off. Scale is one tile/mile.

The purpose of a system is what it does. Attribute malice, it’s a single explanation instead of 5000 separate kinds of stupidity.

This is a worthy proposal, as you might expect from Grant. My PhD advisor, John Morgan, spent time writing books that packaged difficult material like Donaldson theory, Seiberg-Witten theory, and the proof of the Poincaré conjecture. These created lots of momentum and understanding.