“As Americans increasingly turn to chatbots for political information, experts warn that this AI feedback loop could quietly distort the information voters receive, seeding errors about candidates and elections across the internet and into the hands of millions of people.”

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Mathematician Karl Weierstrass was born #OTD, Halloween, in 1815. The fools at The Academy all said that he was mad, but he showed them in 1872 when he revealed he had created a MONSTER. Let's learn about the terrible thing he made in his laboratory. 🧪 🎃 Image: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

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In 1931, Stefan Banach proved that differentiable functions constitute a "meager set" of continuous functions. Differentiability is a fairy tale we tell our students to protect them from a horrible fact: most continuous functions are monsters. Mathematically speaking, monsters are everywhere.

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Do you know the amount of paranoia serious people have about losing user data — the amount of rational analysis and empirical work we put into everything. We have an ethical duty to understand systems to the best of our ability, something that cannot possibly be satisfied with just an LLM's output

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