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The (boring) answer to "who gets the prize?" is whoever the CMI decides gets the prize.

https://www.claymath.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/millenni...

I also think about this, and worry about this. My go-to example is that the file-system in Windows used to clearly be a tree, and the file explorer was how you traversed this tree. With "Libraries" and other shenanigans with the location of the Desktop folder, it's not much of a tree anymore, and I wonder if this is related to kids-these-days not understanding the basics of file systems anymore.

https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc...

Right?! It's a bummer when a nice-looking website is now a red flag. It's become part of my workflow now browsing the web to check the About/Contact page on a website immediately; if there's no real person behind the site, how can it be trusted?

For anyone interested in Grothendieck's opinions on kimchi …

https://mikepierce.github.io/grothendieck-kimchi/translation...

They're most definitely trying to ride on the recent anti-technology in school push.

It's about ensuring "academic honesty" on exams. Also, it's nice to have buttons rather than a touchscreen. Also, there is something to be said about using a device with a different form-factor than the one on which a student also scrolls TikTok/IG and distracts themselves otherwise.

Sniff test: a paper with a single author and 53 revisions, listing a gmail address as contact information despite the author, after a brief internet search, appearing to have affiliations with CSU Global, (maybe) the University of Central Florida, and the San Jose State University Department of Aerospace.

It appears Apple/iTunes has already responded. He's no longer on the Top 100: USA list:

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/top-100-usa/pl.606afcbb7...

> Putting it all together isn’t a trivial task, […] the team offers training from its researchers and support throughout the building process. The training would take up to three months, […] with the whole system being ready to run after at least 10 months of work.

> The EduQit quantum computer comes with five qubits, which makes it less than a tenth of the size of cutting-edge devices, but it also only costs around €1 million, making it much cheaper.

Prior to this article, I didn't think of currying as being something a person could be "for" or "against." It just is. The fact that a function of multiple inputs can be equivalently thought of as a function of a tuple can be equivalently thought of as a composite of single-input functions that return functions is about cognition, and understanding structure, not code syntax.

Hosting and nicely typesetting some of the essays/speeches of Alfred North Whitehead on education and the role of Universities, now in the public domain. Most are from Project Gutenberg, but I've been manually transcribing a couple others.

https://mkprc.xyz/public-domain/whitehead/

Here's a direct link to the 178 page preprint:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01820

A counter comment: I'll bet many folks didn't know what an em-dash was until the whole "you can tell it's AI because of the em-dashes" thing. Then everyone learned what an em-dash is, and every pause in every sentence thereafter suddenly deserves an em-dash. While I suspect it's mostly bots, the number of sincere (human) new em-dashers isn't negligible.

Do you have a direct link to the audio stream? I'd probably add it to my go-to list of stations.

I've noticed this too. It might be a chicken-or-the-egg thing though. I think LLMs learned this sort of "punchy" writing style from the blogs of software developer who blog and from Linkedin posts.