Tim Gowers: What sort of maths are LLMs good at?

For the sake of anyone who might read this blog post in the distant future (a month from now, say), let me mention that I am writing it a few days after OpenAI announced that it had solved ten major problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including the first construction of a non-sofic group, … Devamını oku

Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland

Published inNature Food, the research also shows that the environmental impacts of farming are concentrated in relatively few places. Two-thirds of the world’s carbon loss from agriculture and two-thirds of its biodiversity loss occur on just one-third of global farmland, creating opportunities to tackle both challenges together. Agriculture has already caused the loss of an … Devamını oku

AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class

It’s a familiar experience: racing against masses of anonymous netizens online to get yourself on the list for an in-demand event. For Andrew Bird, from Melbourne, in Australia, it was a spot in an often over-booked pilates class – but his solution had unexpected consequences. He says he outsourced the “chore” to an AI agent … Devamını oku

llama.cpp

Run frontier AI entirely on your machine. No API keys, no telemetry, no limits. Own your models and conversation data. Runllama serve, install thepi-llamaplugin and launchPi. It will automatically discover your local model. No config, no API keys. Files stay on your machine, requests never leave it. From your laptop to a cluster, llama.cpp runs … Devamını oku

The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)

In 2007, on my first trip to New York City, I grabbed a brand-new DSLR camera and photographed all the fonts I was supposed to love. I admired American Typewriter in all of the I <3 NYC logos, watched Akzidenz Grotesk and Helvetica fighting over the subway signs, and even caught an occasional appearance of … Devamını oku

CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York

WASHINGTON— The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today exercised its emergency authority in response to KalshiEX, LLC’s notification of a market emergency and ordered the exchange to continue to operate in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Act’s Core Principles. KalshiEX, LLC notified the Commission of the emergency after New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a … Devamını oku

Compression Is Prediction

I was reading about compression recently when I stumbled upon something crazy: that compressors and LLMs are, at their core, trying to solvethe exact same problem. In this post, I’m going to walk us through the basics of compression to understand its deep relationship with language modeling. It’s probably going to blow your mind. There … Devamını oku

How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story

One of my first big personal successes in my career was way back in 2000, when I became Polo Ralph Lauren’s in-house photographer. It was my second staff photography job, the first one being at Christie’s auction house. Polo offered me twice what I was making at Christie’s, and accepting the position was a no-brainer. … Devamını oku

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 lightning and Nemo Switchyard

As AI shifts from chatbots to autonomous agents, open models are serving market demands for full control over where AI runs and how it’s deployed and evolves. Today, NVIDIA is expanding its Nemotron 3 model family with Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, the highest-efficiency model in its class for long-running agentic AI workloads. This release follows Nemotron … Devamını oku