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Peter Furness @geometerman

mathematician

Joined August 2010
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How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? quantamagazine.org/how-many-… via @QuantaMagazine

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? | Quanta Magazine

Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5.

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Humans outperform #AI at this highly rigorous #mathematics test nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Humans outperform AI at this highly rigorous mathematics test

Nature - A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

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😸 OpenAI solved an 80-year math problem by... disproving it theneurondaily.com/p/openai-…

😸 OpenAI solved an 80-year math problem by... disproving it

PLUS: Qwen’s 35-hour agent run, Cohere’s open model, Codex upgrades, Spotify’s AI remix deal, and the week’s strangest real-world AI failures.

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These powerful tools reveal the ‘control knobs’ of the genome nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

These powerful tools reveal the ‘control knobs’ of the genome

Nature - By accelerating the identification of DNA sequences that control gene expression, assays are revealing the hidden grammar of the regulatory genome — and giving scientists the means to...

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Mathematician who reshaped number theory wins prestigious Abel prize nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Mathematician who reshaped number theory wins prestigious Abel prize

Nature - Gerd Faltings showed that a subset of arithmetic equations have a finite number of solutions.

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This #supernova is too bright – now astronomers might know why nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

This supernova is too bright – now astronomers might know why

Nature - Wobbling signal could explain some extremely bright supernovae

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#Gauss at work! spectrum.ieee.org/ai-proof-v…

AI and Humans Verify Fields Medal Proof for the First Time

How did AI help solve a 24-dimensional puzzle in just two weeks? Dive into the world of sphere packing and find out.

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Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/…

Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text

Discovery sheds new light on how famed astronomer came to lead a scientific revolution

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The Man Who Stole Infinity quantamagazine.org/the-man-w… via @QuantaMagazine

The Man Who Stole Infinity | Quanta Magazine

In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism.

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Ancient rocks point to an early start for the Great Unconformity—the biggest gap in Earth’s rock record | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/…

Ancient rocks point to an early start for the Great Unconformity—the biggest gap in Earth’s rock...

Two-billion-year-old rocks in China suggest mountain building from Earth’s first supercontinent led to a planetwide burst of erosion

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‘An AlphaFold 4’ – scientists marvel at #DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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‘Universal vaccine’ protects mice against multiple pathogens nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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#Microsoft team creates 'revolutionary' data storage system that lasts for millennia nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Microsoft team creates ‘revolutionary’ data-storage system that lasts for millennia

Nature - Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method could preserve research data for millennia with minimal storage...

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Something Far Darker Than a Black Hole Could Hide in The Heart of The Milky Way #DarkMatter #BlackHole sciencealert.com/something-f…
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Coffee linked to slower brain ageing in study of 130,000 people nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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How malicious #AI swarms can threaten democracy | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy

The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfare

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AI investments yet to deliver benefits, CEOs report | News | Research live

Most chief executives are yet to see a financial return from their investments in AI, according to research from PwC’s Global CEO Survey.

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Jan 11
Weekend win: The proof I submitted for Erdos Problem #397 was accepted by Terence Tao. The proof was generated by GPT 5.2 Pro and formalized with Harmonic. Many open problems are sitting there, waiting for someone to prompt ChatGPT to solve them:
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Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what happens next nature.com/articles/d41586-0… #NuclearFusion
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Giant 3D map shows almost every building in the world nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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