Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
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Working on particle physics, quantum sensors, dark matter. Associate Prof at @IPPP_Durham @durham_uni, FLF @UKRI_News, Science board member @STFC_Matters
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Joined July 2021
In other news: 100% of children not fed as toddlers showed no sign of autism in adulthood at all
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Breast & Formula Fed Toddlers Linked to Autism Diagnosis 🚨
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Anomalies are global properties of the theory, because a gauge symmetry is an all-scale consistency condition (also at E>>m). They must be independent of particle masses Changing the net gauge anomaly is like changing the number of holes in a manifold, not a smooth deformation
@JosephPConlon Come again. Sir. In a non-chiral Dirac like equation: (m(t) D_A. ) (Ψ_+) (0) ( ) ( ) = ( ) (D_A m(t) ) (Ψ_- ) (0) Q: What happens on a slice when m(t) —> 0 Doc? A: You get two separate chiral Weyl equations from one non-chiral
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Hardly embarrassing for GPT-5 though In fact it is doing remarkably well for literature search now, so I’m not surprised it found these answers. It can also handle mathematical cross-checks reliably now where previous models hallucinated
At first, I thought GPT-5 had cracked those math problems on its own. Turns out (as Demis pointed out) GPT-5 just looked up the answers via web search. We really need better peer review for these “AI discovers science/math” claims.
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The first passenger-carrying vehicle ever to use flux pinning a.k.a quantum levitation, was a high-temperature superconducting maglev train prototype built at Chengdu University in 2000
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Blackboards and chalk have contributed more to education than all AIs combined. Show them some respect!
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Anyone who has ever had a math lecture on slides and on blackboard agrees with that
@martinmbauer Maths on Chalkboard is better than slides
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Why do students still read books?
Interesting... 'Why do Stanford math professors still use chalk?' https://t.co/jh9f0QzOzj “if the speaker tried to use slides, people don’t retain as much because [the speaker] goes much faster. Whereas if you write on the chalk, you are forced to slow down.” Academics on my
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Perfect clip to introduce the concept of reference frames!
Man makes it look like everyone around him is walking backwards in a reversed video https://t.co/s7oEwj4ftq
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"..a new explanation of dark energy that's aligned with the recent DESI experiment" If so, how does the vacuum energy density scale with redshift? @edfrenkel @EricRWeinstein
I can attest that @EricRWeinstein is a brilliant mathematical physicist. I recently did a deep dive into his Geometric Unity theory and I think it has the potential to unify all forces of nature in a beautiful & novel way; explain dark matter; and give a new explanation of dark
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Important clarification by @bhavaytyagi :
As an APS Science Advocacy team member, it’s my responsibility to clarify a few details here. The president’s proposed cuts impact all national science agencies (DOE, DOD, NASA, NSF, and NIST) with NSF facing the largest reduction (~57%). Presidents proposed budget is always
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Calculus and classical mechanics courses are also outdated. Doesn't mean we shouldn't teach them. Foundations are important! If you want to know whether AI research is outdated, talk to PhDs and you'll get a different answer
Harvard and Stanford students tell me their professors don't understand AI and the courses are outdated. If elite schools can't keep up, the credential arms race is over. Self-learning is the only way now.
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Reminder that the budget proposed by the trump administration includes the single largest cut in basic research funding in US history Fundamental research grants in astronomy, chemistry, materials, mathematics and physics will be cut by 75% and 100% NSF postdocs will be cut
TAKEAWAY: Blue Sky scientific research is the seed corn of an elaborate machine to ensure American military and economic supremacy. You are letting it die. It’s a 12 alarm emergency. Good luck.
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Don't listen to this. The only correct approach here is
i will never not be short quantum either i will be dead or the stocks will be at book value stop asking
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This is happening already and for a good reason
crazy idea for a frontier ai lab: hire physicists and let them actually do physics
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And yet LLMs can't do maths without numbers, equations, computations or algorithms, but they can do so without understanding
“Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.” - Terence Tao
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No, it's not true that it has become academics write texts that no one will ever read. In fact it's increasingly untrue as the fraction of research that doesn't get cited is dropping And papers are read and not cited, too (to be fair not read but still cited isn't unheard of
It's rather strange that one of the core activities of academia—and, as far as I know, this is true across all its branches—has become the writing of texts that no one will ever read.
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3.14159…
You can’t type a random number and expect people to understand.
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