Tomasz Steifer
@steifer.pl
mathematics, theoretical computer science, philosophy @ Universidad Católica de Chile & Polish Academy of Sciences | 'The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.'
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Watson and Crick elucidated the structure of DNA. Stop saying that they discovered DNA! This was done by another guy you probably haven't heard of! And therein lies a story. academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
Before Watson and Crick in 1953 Came Friedrich Miescher in 1869
Abstract. The story of genetics typically omits the original discovery of the molecular nature of DNA: Friedrich Miescher's 1869 discovery of the substance
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November 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Watson and Crick elucidated the structure of DNA. Stop saying that they discovered DNA! This was done by another guy you probably haven't heard of! And therein lies a story. academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
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#OAweek Support diamond #openaccess scholar-controlled journals, such as those listed at freejournals.org.
October 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
#OAweek Support diamond #openaccess scholar-controlled journals, such as those listed at freejournals.org.
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BREAKING: At least 71 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 56 people in Gaza City, hospital sources in the besieged enclave told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/nu10uv
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September 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
BREAKING: At least 71 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 56 people in Gaza City, hospital sources in the besieged enclave told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/nu10uv
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/nu10uv
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Pre-registering my opinion (before my paper's reviews are released) that the AAAI AI reviews are essentially worthless. It's not that they are necessarily bad, but they just have no substance to them. They are at best a long summary with some superficial points pointed out.
September 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Pre-registering my opinion (before my paper's reviews are released) that the AAAI AI reviews are essentially worthless. It's not that they are necessarily bad, but they just have no substance to them. They are at best a long summary with some superficial points pointed out.
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This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life
August 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life
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June 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I can't say I understand why this inkwell from the 16th century was made, but it's well done.
May 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I can't say I understand why this inkwell from the 16th century was made, but it's well done.
Yesterday, the editorial board of Mathematical Logic Quarterly resigned and announced creation of a new diamond open access journal: Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik. Let's say I am just going to call it ZML.
ZML - Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik
ZML: Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik is an electronic Diamond Open Access research journal in mathematical logic publishing original research papers in all areas of m...
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April 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Yesterday, the editorial board of Mathematical Logic Quarterly resigned and announced creation of a new diamond open access journal: Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik. Let's say I am just going to call it ZML.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WELCOME TO HELL, AI INDUSTRY
April 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WELCOME TO HELL, AI INDUSTRY
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The disconnect between AI benchmarks and math research (Evaluating AI systems on their ability to be a mathematical copilot). ~ Ralph Furman. sugaku.net/content/ai-b... #AI #LLMs #Math
April 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The disconnect between AI benchmarks and math research (Evaluating AI systems on their ability to be a mathematical copilot). ~ Ralph Furman. sugaku.net/content/ai-b... #AI #LLMs #Math
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A common remark from AI/ML conference reviewers is: "The paper lacks a clear message." This attitude goes opposite to how research is done. Sometimes, the message is the entire paper and it can't be compressed into 140 signs. Simplified messages mislead and are usually false. #academicsky #MLsky
March 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
A common remark from AI/ML conference reviewers is: "The paper lacks a clear message." This attitude goes opposite to how research is done. Sometimes, the message is the entire paper and it can't be compressed into 140 signs. Simplified messages mislead and are usually false. #academicsky #MLsky
A common remark from AI/ML conference reviewers is: "The paper lacks a clear message." This attitude goes opposite to how research is done. Sometimes, the message is the entire paper and it can't be compressed into 140 signs. Simplified messages mislead and are usually false. #academicsky #MLsky
March 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
A common remark from AI/ML conference reviewers is: "The paper lacks a clear message." This attitude goes opposite to how research is done. Sometimes, the message is the entire paper and it can't be compressed into 140 signs. Simplified messages mislead and are usually false. #academicsky #MLsky
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Possibly the dumbest of the many dumb plagiarism claims
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March 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Possibly the dumbest of the many dumb plagiarism claims
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Yet another LLM-generated review. I knew something was off when they said our results were 'groundbreaking'. 🤨
March 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Yet another LLM-generated review. I knew something was off when they said our results were 'groundbreaking'. 🤨
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This might be the best one yet!
"We are currently clean on OPSEC"
-Publius Quinctilius Varus, Sept 7, 9 CE, probably
-Publius Quinctilius Varus, Sept 7, 9 CE, probably
March 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This might be the best one yet!
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Bluesky's gonna really take off once people discover joking
March 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Bluesky's gonna really take off once people discover joking
I applied to a grant scheme for establishing a research team and lost due to a lack of experience in leading research teams. The scheme is called 'First Team'. 😂
March 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I applied to a grant scheme for establishing a research team and lost due to a lack of experience in leading research teams. The scheme is called 'First Team'. 😂
March 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I applied to a grant scheme for establishing a research team and lost due to a lack of experience in leading research teams. The scheme is called 'First Team'. 😂
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Another cool example:
Commoner's firefighting jacket (hikeshibanten)
Japan, 19th c.
Cotton cloth w/ indigo dye (sashiko & tsutsugaki), 98x 127cm
Seattle Art Museum
"The oversized #spider hovering over the go board alludes to Tsuchigumo (Earth Spider)…”
samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2017/10/fire...
Commoner's firefighting jacket (hikeshibanten)
Japan, 19th c.
Cotton cloth w/ indigo dye (sashiko & tsutsugaki), 98x 127cm
Seattle Art Museum
"The oversized #spider hovering over the go board alludes to Tsuchigumo (Earth Spider)…”
samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2017/10/fire...
![official museum photo of the object on white background: "A large spider-with an endearing face-looms over the shoulder of the jacket, where it hovers menacingly over an abandoned go board. The range of tonalities centers on indigo, white, black, and greyish-brown, with red accents on the fan; this color palette visually unites the work, creating parallels between the spider's eyes and the go pieces."
“The oversized spider hovering over the go board alludes to Tsuchigumo ("Earth Spider"), the Noh drama that tells the story of the warrior Minamoto Yorimitsu fighting off the monstrous earth spider, who is disguised as a monk.”
“The jacket tells a story from the life of Minamoto no Yorimitsu (948–1021), a warrior-hero. The story is as follows: Yorimitsu was sick, and was resting in bed. He was visited by a priest—but the priest was actually a giant spider (tsuchigumo) in disguise! Yorimitsu, being very clever, sees through the disguise, and attacks the spider with his sword, wounding him. Yorimitsu’s four attendants, called the Four Heavenly Kings, were playing a game of go while guarding him, and leapt up to track the spider back to his den.[2]
This narrative was popular in theatrical productions, and there was a song in Noh theatre specifically about tsuchigumo, the intimidating earth spider. The story appears frequently in woodblock prints in the nineteenth century as well. The jacket shows the moment when the go game was abandoned, with tsuchigumo retreating back to his web. So great was the hurried effort to find the spider that the attendants left behind their personal effects, scattering go pieces in their haste.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l5pcfqdnvtivhxufycjnvzui/bafkreicfoswuxmlup5sdgdlfk3ap42dt24ik2kpozwi67s27qn5qei7dgi@jpeg)
March 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Another cool example:
Commoner's firefighting jacket (hikeshibanten)
Japan, 19th c.
Cotton cloth w/ indigo dye (sashiko & tsutsugaki), 98x 127cm
Seattle Art Museum
"The oversized #spider hovering over the go board alludes to Tsuchigumo (Earth Spider)…”
samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2017/10/fire...
Commoner's firefighting jacket (hikeshibanten)
Japan, 19th c.
Cotton cloth w/ indigo dye (sashiko & tsutsugaki), 98x 127cm
Seattle Art Museum
"The oversized #spider hovering over the go board alludes to Tsuchigumo (Earth Spider)…”
samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2017/10/fire...
'My body is a temple' but it's Spain, 1936.
March 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
'My body is a temple' but it's Spain, 1936.
Cheers from AAAI-25 in Philadelphia! Any of my mutuals here?
February 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Cheers from AAAI-25 in Philadelphia! Any of my mutuals here?
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A huge "DO NOT INGEST" written on my wife's shampoo bottle, but no one will tell me how to live my life, glurp glurp glurp glurp.
February 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
A huge "DO NOT INGEST" written on my wife's shampoo bottle, but no one will tell me how to live my life, glurp glurp glurp glurp.
A huge "DO NOT INGEST" written on my wife's shampoo bottle, but no one will tell me how to live my life, glurp glurp glurp glurp.
February 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
A huge "DO NOT INGEST" written on my wife's shampoo bottle, but no one will tell me how to live my life, glurp glurp glurp glurp.
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it is very much not a delusion to assume infinite free images and text, because i can run something very close to state of the art on my desktop for everything other than video.
LLM inference is not free, it is currently free at point-of-use because large tech companies are funding it. They will not be do so forever.
This isn't a counterpoint to the observation, this further evidences that it is a delusion to assume infinite free images and text.
This isn't a counterpoint to the observation, this further evidences that it is a delusion to assume infinite free images and text.
the stupidest people in the world are the people who think they will be able to make money selling LLM-written text or images. selling water from the infinite free well by the glass.
February 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
it is very much not a delusion to assume infinite free images and text, because i can run something very close to state of the art on my desktop for everything other than video.