@kylecranmer
Director Data Science Institute @UWMadison @datascience_uw. EiC @MLSTjournal. Physics, stats/ML/AI, open science. same handle @sigmoid.social and bsky
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Laude Institute says the batch spans self-improving agent systems, maximally-open models and training data, and kernels.
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A poster says he is proud to have Persson on the MLST journal’s editorial board.
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A user welcomes the attention the trio’s work is getting, calling it well deserved.
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A researcher says their paper received the award at COLM’s Scientific Understanding of Foundation Models workshop.
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One user calls the eight formalizations “broken”; another says whitelisted definitions could be overwritten.
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A post calls the work significant progress on the challenge of describing chiral fermions nonperturbatively.
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OpenAI says it drew on an independent mathematics advisory group’s advice about how to release the results.
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A poster says AI doomerism matters but is distracting from the midterms and events in the country.
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Addressing artists at the Vatican, the pope called for a renewed alliance to protect human creativity.
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Anthropic says Claude worked largely unsupervised for days, using methods developed by SLAC’s Lance Dixon and colleagues. The company puts the cost at a few thousand dollars and says Dixon independently verified the result.
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A post describing his UN General Assembly remarks says Trump argued that “artificial” makes the technology sound fake and urged wider use of “super intelligence,” or SI.
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A critique of Dario’s “Pacing AI” letter argues that Anthropic’s model documentation points to coding productivity gains sustaining the pace of progress, not accelerating it.
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Anandkumar says her team starts with AI-discovered candidates rather than human-constructed ones, then turns numerical results into certified bounds for analytical stability arguments.
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Posts say 25 Fields Medal winners signed a declaration warning of a mismatch between AI companies and mathematics. Supporters stress understanding and scientific communities; critics say AI proofs can still yield insights.
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The host’s September 9 announcement said the discussion would examine what would count as a verified solution and what such a result could mean for artificial general intelligence.
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Perplexity founders confirm appointment with focus on open research in continual learning and multi-agent systems.
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NYU professor will lead research on continual learning and RL at the AI company.
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Four former Google researchers found a public benefit corporation to automate machine learning and science.
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Internal Astra model produces Lean-certified proofs for ten open problems across math and theoretical computer science.