The oldest written #hummus recipe in the world is 776 years old...

It was written in Aleppo, Syria in 1250 CE by a historian named Ibn al-'Adeem. Not a chef. A historian. Who also happened to document one of the most extraordinary cookbooks of the medieval period.

The base of the recipe is identical to what you make today. Chickpeas, tahini, lemon, garlic, salt. That part has not changed in 776 years.

@histories_arch #globalmuseum #recipes

"Our view is that #reliability lags #capability and that reliability will remain a barrier to deployment unless researchers and developers focus effort on improving reliability as a separate dimension from accuracy."

https://www.normaltech.ai/p/new-paper-towards-a-science-of-ai

#llm #ai

Recently, the application of AI tools to Erdos problems passed a milestone: an Erdos problem (#728 https://www.erdosproblems.com/728) was solved more or less autonomously by AI (after some feedback from an initial attempt), in the spirit of the problem (as reconstructed by the Erdos problem website community), with the result (to the best of our knowledge) not replicated in existing literature (although similar results proven by similar methods were located).

This is a demonstration of the genuine increase in capability of these tools in recent months, and is largely consistent with other recent demonstrations of AI using existing methods to resolve Erdos problems, although in most previous cases a solution to these problems was later located in the literature, as discussed in https://mathstodon.xyz/deck/@tao/115788262274999408 . This particular case was unusual in that the problem as stated by Erdos was misformulated, with a reconstruction of the problem in the intended spirit only obtained in the last few months, which helps explain the lack of prior literature on the problem. However, I would like to talk here about another aspect of the story which I find more interesting than the solution itself, which is the emerging AI-powered capability to rapidly write and rewrite expositions of the solution. (1/5)

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#KnowTheSigns #Report #Scams

EuroStack Foundation: Europe's tech industry founds a sovereignty initiative.

Leading European technology companies have founded the EuroStack Initiative Foundation to advance Europe's digital sovereignty through coordinated industry actions.

With the EuroStack Foundation, European tech companies aim to reduce dependence on US cloud providers in particular.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251030-eurostack-foundation-europes-tech-industry-founds-a-sovereignty-initiative?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Eurostack #Nextcloud #Proton #IONOS #Ecosia #Tech #Europe #DigitalSovereignty

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/