Physicist and professor at a school on the north side of Chicago. Black holes, quantum gravity, cosmology. Rocky Top, Tar Heel. Science, dogs, lake photos. Faves are spooky action at a distance, boosts are Lorentz transformations to another inertial frame. Opinions are mine, not my employer’s. #Physics #BlackHoles #Gravity #SciComm #Dogs
Level 14 Prof of Physics, Neutral Good, S:11 I:16 W:15 D:11 C:12 Ch:11, HP: 68, THAC0: 11, Equipment: Vorpal Chalk, Periapt of Tenure, Tweed Jacket (Cursed)
If you can get past the paywall, this is exhibit number 4,937,825,116.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/technology/argonne-joins-ai-arms-race-allies-nvidia-and-oracle
If you ever want to make an scientist happy, cite an old paper of theirs that nobody ever seemed to care about, and call it "pioneering". 💗
I got my one and only permanent job based on my work on nonlinear wave equations. Among other things I wrote a paper on scattering for classical Yang-Mills theory: you send fields in, and you study how they go out. But I just didn't love proving the estimates needed to prove hard results on nonlinear wave equations - so I switched to other topics as soon as I got tenure.
It's wonderful how much work has advanced since then:
• Nicolas and Taujanskas, Global finite energy solutions of the Maxwell-scalar field system on the Einstein cylinder.
This is a marketing trick that helps the Sam Altmans of the world steal Machine Learning valor to prop up a bunch of gross plagiarism machines that have all our worst biases and failings baked in.
Do not help them!
Machine learning (umbrella term, I know) is a useful, sometimes transformative tool in the hands of trained researchers who understand how to deploy it and critically assess the results.
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
“But I am a hater, which is a kind of integrity. It means I am willing to disagree with anyone, even if it is rude. “But I only use it to–” “Actually if you just—” “The new models–” “I was making fun–” Stop. You’re embarrassing yourself. I am embarrassed for you.”
This is so good.
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
The app icon is a little golden calf.
“Look, this is completely normal. We hold all our meetings in the Situation Room when we’ve reached PEDCON 1.”
Steve Lieber
John Carlos Baez