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Christian Stump
@christianstump.bsky.social
Mathematician @ Ruhr University Bochum. Antifascist.
Quickly getting bored with social media, let's see how it goes.

Homepage: https://homepage.rub.de/christian.stump
New math benchmark from math.science-bench.ai :

209 research-level mathematics problems from Combinatorics, Algebra, Geometry, Number Theory, and others.

👉 math.science-bench.ai/benchmarks/

#AI #Mathematics #AIBenchmark #EpochAI #FrontierMath #OpenAI #Gemini #Grok
November 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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A large ice sculpture of the word “Democracy” was placed on the National Mall on Wednesday morning in direct view of the U.S. Capitol as a vanishing reminder of rapidly eroding rights and an existential threat to the freedom on which America was founded.
https://wapo.st/3J8Q46P
October 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Congratulations, you're department chair.
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Breaking news: MIT’s president turned down the Trump administration’s offer of priority access for federal funding, publicly releasing a letter that emphasized the elite university’s values.
MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding
MIT is one of the nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.
wapo.st
October 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Note the wording.. Ms. Machado receives the prize for:
- promoting democratic rights
- struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition
- At a time when democracy is under threat
- where democracy is in retreat
- more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norm
www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en
Nobel Peace Center | Museum of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway
The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo is the museum of the Nobel Peace Prize. Experience our exhibitions, events and guided tours inspired by the ideas and work of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
www.nobelpeacecenter.org
October 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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All conspiracy theories eventually lead to antisemitism.
Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."
October 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
- Molly Ivins #BurntheFlag
August 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Sprachmodelle gewinnen Mathe-Olympiaden und lösen Aufgaben auf Doktorandenniveau. Doch im Arbeitsalltag der meisten Mathematiker spielen die neuen Technologien bisher keine Rolle - trotzdem verändern sie das Fach.
Forschung mit KI: Wo Mathematik und KI zusammenpassen - und wo nicht
Sprachmodelle gewinnen Mathe-Olympiaden und lösen Aufgaben auf Doktorandenniveau - und doch ist KI im Arbeitsalltag vieler Forschender nicht angekommen.
www.spektrum.de
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Der Sinn „die AntiFa“ zu verbieten ist es übrigens nicht „die AntiFa“ zu verbieten, sondern Mittel in die Hand zu bekommen gegen jede einzelne Person, die einem nicht passt, vorzugehen mit der Behauptung sie sei Teil „der AntiFa“.
September 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
September 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal.

Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.
September 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The first ScienceBench benchmark is live!

👉 math.science-bench.ai/benchmarks/

We tested all major AI models on 100 research-level mathematics problems.

#AI #Mathematics #AIBenchmark #EpochAI #FrontierMath #OpenAI #DeepSeek
ScienceBench|Challenge the newest AI models
Challenge the newest AI models with your hardest PhD-level exercises. Learn how to use AI in your math research.
math.science-bench.ai
September 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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August 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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All kidding aside, suffering from both leprosy & syphilis at 79 is no joke, but I am sure whatever cure RFKjr is mixing up will get him back on the golf course in no time.
August 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🚨 New preprint alert 🚨

With my awesome student Elena Hoster, we just posted

Chow polynomials of simplicial posets with positive $h$-vector are real-rooted
arxiv.org/abs/2508.15538

Read it while it is still fresh and warm 🍞!

#MathResearch #MathSky #Combinatorics
Chow polynomials of simplicial posets with positive $h$-vector are real-rooted
We prove that a finite graded simplicial poset with a top element added has real-rooted Chow and augmented Chow polynomials whenever it has a positive $h$-vector. This class of posets include Cohen-Ma...
arxiv.org
August 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Featured on @nbcnews.com! Our USA IMO team outperformed the world’s smartest AI. High school mathletes, proving human brilliance still shines.

Watch their story here: youtu.be/dSSeoQcY1n4?...
The Future of Math: High School Students Outperform AI at the IMO | NBC News
YouTube video by Mathematical Association of America
youtu.be
August 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I have been #VibeCoding a website in #VSCode, using different models, mostly GPT-4.1, GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.

The codebase is 99832 lines with
#HTML 43%, #Python 36%, #JavaScript 21%

It is great and you get good results very fast. But the quality of the code is a disaster.

Some impressions:
August 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Are you a math researcher?

Challenge the newest AI models with your hardest PhD-level exercises and learn how to use AI in your math research:

math.science-bench.ai

#Mathematics #MathResearch #MathEducation #LLM #AI #Science
August 17, 2025 at 7:35 AM
How will research mathematics change with the use of #LLMs like #GPT-5?

Based on many discussions, @tomkalei.bsky.social and I have written up some unfinished thoughts about the process:

Mathematics in the Context Window
www.thomas-kahle.de/blog/2025/ma...

#Mathematics #MathResearch #AI #LLM #LRM
Thomas Kahle | Mathematics in the Context Window
Starting from successes at math competitions, large language models are slowly making their way into math research. We share some thoughts about this process.
www.thomas-kahle.de
August 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Liebe @zeit.de! Euer Artikel "Oh, Geheimnis" vom 25.7. beginnt mit

"Beinahe jeder Wissenschaftler erlebt irgendwann einmal den Augenblick des Triumphes über seine Widersacher und Konkurrenten..."

Das ist glücklicherweise großer Quatsch. Normalerweise haben Wissenschaftler:innen keine Widersacher.
August 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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One reason a German train accident is international news and German car accidents are not is that roughly 1000x more people die in car accidents each year in Germany. It’s so common that it’s not newsworthy.

https://apnews.com/article/germany-train-derailment-38e8960c549b4d1c43e0b7172b18b19a
July 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM