Cosign. The developers I know have also mostly been game. I think a lot about that old Theophite post (paraphrasing: my TL is mostly devs who are actually threatened by AI defending it against artists and writers, who mostly arenβt).
Company Lacks Manpower To Complete Newest Round Of Layoffs
Company Lacks Manpower To Complete Newest Round Of Layoffs https://theonion.com/company-lacks-manpower-to-complete-newest-round-of-layo-1819574660/
Rust is a good language for LLMs not because it codes in it the best (that goes to typescript or python) but because it eliminates certian classes of errors and forces more correctness at compile time. "Rewrite it in rust" becomes a weekend project not an unclimbable mountain
RustWeek really makes it sound very salacious
MIT graduate student council "calls for adoption of preprints...to
accelerate communication of scientific discoveries, and restore healthy incentives" drive.google.com/file/d/1KLbj...
I expect to see "Claude walker" hiring ads soon.
You get used to it, but it was a shock to the system at first.
βI end each day exhaustedβnot from the work itself, but from the managing of the work. Six worktrees open, four half-written features, two βquick fixesβ that spawned rabbit holes, and a growing sense that Iβm losing the plot entirely.β
Released ads-bib-tools: fetch your full publication list from NASA ADS by ORCID, clean up MathML in
titles, and tag refereed/non-refereed entries. One command to a website-ready .bib file.
Works great with Quarto for academic homepages.
michaelaye.github.io/posts/ads-bi...
The first talk of our meetup is live now: In the keynote, we tell-all about our journey from scrappy upstarts to a professional open source project.
New uploads every weekday (Mo-Fri) at 17:00 UTC on YouTube. Subscribe so you don't miss the 10 talks!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOQX...
ποΈ The February 2026 arXiv articles are now in ar5iv.
If you really want people to read what you wrote, you will give it away for free, like a Jehova Witness that is handing out bibles.
Now, this is just a milestone on that path, but it's already something worth sharing, so thanks to arXiv you can read about it arxiv.org/html/2603.02..., and thanks to uPET github.com/lab-cosmo/up... and metatomic, you can try already a universal MLIP trained on it.
A while back, we realized that one can (1+Ξ΅)-approximate the Hausdorff distance between point sets in β^d, in linear time. Unfortunately, this was already done implicitly in a remark in a published old paper. So, we updated the arXiv version:
arxiv.org/html/1409.74...
13 years ago, Aaron Swartz came to visit the Internet Archive during his case. I had time with him, got a picture with him, told him that if they were stupid enough to send him to candy jail he'd become a folk hero and he could write a book that would change the world. He said he appreciated it.
I need an AGENT.md file automating step 3
I see the shortcut, but where's the final monetization coming from?
π·Spring cleaning for arXiv's HTML Papers
1οΈβ£ The header on new articles is now collapsible and a bit more compact on mobile.
2οΈβ£ We've also moved the warnings and caveats out of the way, in favor of focused reading.
Let us know what you think? #arXiv
arxiv.org/html/1709.07...
TeX Live 2026 is released - mirror updates are running! #TeXlive www.preining.info/blog/2026/03...
A picture of Joe Halpern smiling in green shirt in front of a blue background.
Today arXiv remembers our colleague Joe Halpern, who was instrumental in founding arXiv's CS section.
Joe's passions ranged far & wide and we're lucky that arXiv was one of them. Joe, thank you for giving so much to arXiv - you are missed.
blog.arxiv.org/2026/02/27/remembering-joe-halpern
If you find pieces of open infrastructure valuable - especially fledgling ones - remember to voice your support in forums that matter.
And send kudos to their maintainers when you can. A couple of encouraging words can make a real difference.
We're looking for a Senior Software Developer (frontend) to join Crossref.
Remote, full-time.
Deadline: March 10, 2026. https://www.crossref.org/jobs/2026-02-17-senior-software-developer-frontend
#jobs #hiring #remote #remotework
Swinging by to happily note upgrades landed in both tracks, as everyone was hoping. Here's the Nov blog post that announced xelatex support:
blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/05/a...
Wonderful to see this replication effort in the physical sciences using the models of many labs, preregistration, and transparency that have benefitted other fields.
And, an investment of $9.5 million to do it!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"For open infrastructure, the burden of AI harvesting is existential...a swarm of AI scrapers mirror entire collections, the cost of being open rises sharply...degraded performance for legitimate users, polluted metrics, staff time diverted to firefighting" www.digital-science.com/blog/2026/02...
Eminem's still faster.
Especially science. It's so sad to be publishing so many papers that you're too busy to do science.
Care about preparing people to contribute responsibly to building the next generation of AI and technology?
Full-time (or at least 50%) lecturer position at Cornell Tech just posted, teaching computer science or related topics.
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31698
We want to evaluate $$ \sum_{\color{red}k=0}^\infty (\color{red}k+1) \color{blue}p^{\color{red}k}\,. $$ Introduce the function $f$, for $|\color{blue}x|<1$: $$ f(\color{blue}x) = \sum_{\color{red}k=0}^\infty \color{blue}x^{\color{red}k}\,. $$ That's a nice geometric series, and we easily get $f(\color{blue}x) = \frac{1}{1-\color{blue}x}$. So we can differentiate that: $$ f'(\color{blue}x) = \frac{1}{(1-\color{blue}x)^2} $$ But $f$ was defined as a power series, and we can also differentiate *that* termwise: $$ f'(\color{blue}x) = \sum_{\color{red}k=1}^\infty \color{red}k \color{blue}x^{\color{red}{k-1}} = \sum_{\color{red}k=0}^\infty {(\color{red}k+1)} \color{blue}x^{\color{red}{k}}\,. $$ Well, $f'(\color{blue}x)= f'(\color{blue}x)$ (!), so we can use both expressions, and evaluate them at $\color{blue}p$: $$ \boxed{\sum_{\color{red}k=0}^\infty {(\color{red}k+1)} \color{blue}p^{\color{red}{k}} = \frac{1}{(1-\color{blue}p)^2}} $$
Let's say you want, e.g., to compute the expectation of a Geometric r.v. That'll involve, at some point, evaluating a series of the form "Ξ£ (k+1) p^k" which looks like what Lovecraft may have done to a geometric series. How to do it?
One trick I enjoy: differentiate the same function, in two ways!
