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🔢 Manneken Pis wordt weer Manneken Pisthagoras!
Over exact 1 maand, op zondag 29 november 2026, haalt onze bekendste Brusselaar zijn @VUBrussel - Vakgroep Wiskunde kostuum, ontworpen in het academiejaar '20-'21, opnieuw uit de kast! 1/3
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Kom en bewonder ons Manneken Pisthagoras!
📍 Manneken Pis, Brussel
📅 Zondag 29 november, van 9 tot 18 uur
#MannekenPisthagoras #Wiskunde #VUB #Brussel #Pythagoras 3/3
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“The core algorithm was found on October 16 by an internal Claude research model with 14M output tokens and no human input. Anthropic researchers worked with Claude to improve the presentation, resulting in this paper.”
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Ann Dooms retweeted
Op 2 december is er een tweede studiedag in deze reeks voor BaO. Deze keer met focus op vakinhoud wiskunde. Keynotes @timsurma en @FilipMoons Initiatief van @platform_wis_VL #iSTEM #Technopolis #STEMvoordeBASIS #VVWL en de onderwijskoepels. technopolis.be/nl/scholen/st…
Ik kijk enthousiast terug op dit initiatief van #iSTEM en #Technopolis. Heel blij dat dit kon met medewerking van álle onderwijskoepels! Dank ook aan de lesgevers van #STEMvoordeBASIS voor de inhoudelijke invulling. @onderwijs_Vl @Zu_Demir nieuwsblad.be/regio/antwerpe…
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I’m excited to announce that I will be working at the Mathematical AI Safety Institute (MAISI) full-time as its founding Scientific Director! This means I will not be joining OpenAI as an employee, though I will still be collaborating with them, and I’m happy to announce that OpenAI will be supporting MAISI. They have offered us $10MM in API credits, and access to their latest models for our research use. Moreover, they will be participating in a multi-lab AI safety workshop we are organizing for next year with other frontier AI labs.
As an independent research institute, we are also in conversations with other labs and AI safety orgs about how MAISI can collaborate with them and contribute quickly to AI safety research across the industry. As we’ve seen over the past few weeks, the need for action on AI safety is extremely urgent. Research is an important part of that, and mathematicians have an important role to play!
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‘Dit is het perfecte moment om wiskundige te worden: the world needs you’
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Ann Dooms retweeted
I’m excited to announce that I will be working at the Mathematical AI Safety Institute (MAISI) full-time as its founding Scientific Director! This means I will not be joining OpenAI as an employee, though I will still be collaborating with them, and I’m happy to announce that OpenAI will be supporting MAISI. They have offered us $10MM in API credits, and access to their latest models for our research use. Moreover, they will be participating in a multi-lab AI safety workshop we are organizing for next year with other frontier AI labs.
As an independent research institute, we are also in conversations with other labs and AI safety orgs about how MAISI can collaborate with them and contribute quickly to AI safety research across the industry. As we’ve seen over the past few weeks, the need for action on AI safety is extremely urgent. Research is an important part of that, and mathematicians have an important role to play!
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Peter Hinssen | Liever een raket dan een brandend bushokje tijd.be/opinie/column/peter-…
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On my way ✈️
🔢 #BMD2026 starts today!
For the next three days, Barcelona will bring together the mathematical community to share research, knowledge and new ideas.
📅 7–9 October.
📍 Institut d’Estudis Catalans · Barcelona.
Check out the full programme: scm.iec.cat/congres/bmd-2026…
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If guided wisely, AI will not diminish the mathematician’s role but will broaden it: mathematicians will become designers, curators & interpreters of intelligent
systems that, in turn, help humanity deepen its understanding of the
mathematical universe.
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Bedankt @Zu_Demir om het belang van een bekwaamheidsbewijs te erkennen in de commissie. Het is wel onduidelijk of dit gaat om een vereist of voldoende geacht bekwaamheidsbewijs.
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Not to be missed!
Why should mathematicians care about European PISA results?
Join Professor Nuno Crato (University of Lisbon) tomorrow, 9 October, at 16:00 CEST for a lecture and discussion.
Organised by @soccatmat & @euromathsoc Education Committees.
Join via Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/8759268063…
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Ann Dooms retweeted
Absolutely! This is the PISA paradox: designed to assess competences, it reveals that training students in applied problem-solving falls short, while building deep knowledge leads to good results
“In short, PISA is a screen-based test of problem-solving skills that requires limited specific curriculum knowledge. If you wanted to design a test that would be *least likely* to reward England’s educational approach, and *most likely* to reward the approach in Scotland & Wales, it would be PISA.
And yet, England are still doing better on it.”
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