Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social
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🇳🇱 Postdoc in Quantum moduli spaces, QFT, TQFT & CFT, Algebraic Geometry, Differential Geometry. Maths/Physics/Logic – Please talk 🇩🇰🇮🇹🇩🇪🇲🇫 to me
THREAD: Resurgence or: How do physicists keep getting away with ignoring infinitely big things? I've been learning about this for a few weeks and I think it's really cool and want to share it with you 1/20
The health ministry has released a new 1,000-page document with the names, ages and other info, of 52,959 Palestinians killed in Gaza. For the first 100 pages (over 5,000 names), the age is listed at 5 years or younger. The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year)
Megyn Kelly, who endorsed and campaigned for Trump in the 2024 election: “I didn’t expect the corruption to be quite as widespread as it has been. The self-dealing, the lining of his and his family’s pockets. It’s shocking… You look across the board at the Trump family, I’ve never seen a family get so rich off the presidency.”
Homer is the original Great Man Theorist of history. He’s not telling you the Trojans lost the war because of climate change. He’s telling you the tale of Hector, Odysseus, and Achilles.
just quick napkin math on how long this took (unless i missed where they said): the published CoT summary is 111,145 tokens long. it's really hard to say how much they summarized, assume 3x-20x reduction in tokens? and i'm assuming this is gpt-5.6 pro, so taking Artifical Analysis' benchmark of 51ms tok/sec at 100k input for gpt 5.5. underestimate prob hard to say this seems a bit low so going to multiply all of this by 2x then this probably took anywhere between 5 hours to 32 hours. so like $120 - $1000 in gpt 5.5 pro tokens whole point is not that long for a result of this magnitude!
JUST IN: Google DeepMind says its AI solved 9 open Erdős problems — considered among the hardest unsolved questions in mathematics.
