Lenore Blum
@BlumLenore
60 years ago, 7/30/61, and we’re still going strong! 😍 That’s Warren & Rook McCulloch at the table with us and Manuel’s & my parents standing behind. #neuroscience #neuralnets #AI #ML @cstheory @MIT bit.ly/3rI0jSC
Stephen Colbert is the best in the business. He always told truth to power and pulled no punches. We need more of that, not less.
"Apropos the Long-Lost Letter from Levinson to Smale, Now Found!", fascinating story about what prompted the discovery of the Smale Horseshoe on the beaches of Rio, by Jair Koiller & Indika Rajapakse in the Notices of the AMS, bit.ly/4kNlL2t https,://lnkd.in/grmpFtH9
Hope you found the talk interesting! 🙏
Looking forward to the @BlumLenore keynote at @ASSC2025 in Crete 😎
Join us next week in celebrating #mathematician Steve Smale on his 95th birthday at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computation in Berkeley, July 21-22, 2025: simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/smal…
Thank goodness for daughters!
My daughters, who practice medicine and social work in rural New Hampshire made me realize that a focus on macroeconomics, while valid, misses the human brutality that I now see as the most problematic aspect of the OBBB legislation. This round of budget cuts in Medicaid far…
A good question to ask on this, the eve of the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence
My fellow Americans…. What have we become?
BREAKING: The Catholic Church enrages MAGA world by coming out forcefully against the "big, beautiful bill" as twenty bishops sign an interfaith letter stating that its "passage would be a moral failure for American society as a whole." There is nothing less Christ-like than…
1/6 We are still thrilled at the success of the 2025 AWM Research Symposium that took place recently in Madison, Wisconsin. This Symposium had one of the highest registration and attendance rates to date with over 400 attendees participating in the event!
check out our growing open-source contribution MultiNet v0.2 - a comprehensive open-source benchmark for training and evaluating multimodal vision-language-action models on agentic and embodied tasks. think multimodal robotics and AI agent platforms - but with all data…
Incredibly excited to announce the release of MultiNet v0.2 - a major update to our comprehensive open-source benchmark suite for evaluating Multimodal Models on Action tasks. Read on for several paper announcements, details on the evaluation harness and platform, and more!…
To support Helen's Children. Every bit helps. gofund.me/fe222305
NEW: ICE cancels deportation hearings after San Diego Bishop Michael Pham — Pope Leo’s first US appointment — showed up at court with his brother priests in a show of solidarity.
War does not solve problems; on the contrary, it amplifies them and inflicts deep wounds on the history of peoples, which take generations to heal. No armed victory can compensate for the pain of mothers, the fear of children, or stolen futures. May diplomacy silence the weapons!…
BREAKING: A federal judge appointed by Reagan rules that many of Donald Trump’s cuts to grants for the National Institutes of Health are now “void and illegal” and declares: “Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?" And he was just getting warmed up… "I am hesitant to draw…
Today, the Russians launched a stone-cold, combined attack on our energy infrastructure. This is a spit in the face of everything the international community is trying to do to stop this war. It happened right after Putin’s conversation with Trump. After the Americans asked us…
That's what we #maths folks do!
This is the divorce complaint of Richard Feynman's second wife. She literally hates calculus. 👀
The Oxford 2025 Breakthrough Discuss talks ("Life as we don't yet know it") are now posted. I was thrilled to be included amongst such amazing presenters. (See lnkd.in/gJmuvkdM for links to talks). Here is mine, bit.ly/4kRpdth .
The mind can rehearse a future that has not yet happened, as if to test its emotional and logical consequences before we act. This simulation power may be the hallmark of conscious cognition.