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The first $1.048 million progress prize for the Artificial Intelligence Mathematical Olympiad #AIMO Prize has now launched! https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/ai-mathematical-olympiad-prize/overview The challenge is to submit (by June 27) an #AI model that can perform well on a set of 50 test questions, each of which has an answer that is a 3 digit number. (The benchmark model that we tested on was only able to correctly answer 3 of the 50 questions; prize winners will have to beat this benchmark as a minimum requirement.)

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"Mathematics has a triple purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But that is not all: it has a philosophical purpose and, I dare say, an aesthetic purpose."– Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
#quote #mathematics #maths #math

This otherwise sensible proposition is still mired in 17th century thinking. In any sensible, modern publishing system, "replicated" would be a stage any publication would go through, among, e.g., "peer reviewed", "open data/code verified", "cited", etc.

"Peer-replication model aims to address science’s ‘reproducibility crisis’"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00796-0

Are you looking for #OpenScience global environmental data sets to use for modeling or decision making? We are putting terrabytes of global COGs on https://OpenLandMap.org, part of our Horizon Europe #OpenEarthMonitor project and with many thanks to @gilabrs and colleagues from the OEMC project. To download data or analyze smaller parts in #qgis please use the oemc QGIS plugin (all explained in the GIF below). Let us know if you have problems accessing the data or ideas what we could add next!

It occurs to me that, since the demise of Twitter and the half-hearted move to Mastodon, most of my communication on social media is only with people I know. My brain is currently actively calculating if this is a good or a bad thing.

I do miss old Science Twitter, however. Is that still a thing here or elsewhere in another form? Is everyone partying without me? Leads welcomed. #Science #SciComm

🗺️ 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘔𝘢𝘱 3𝘋 🧊

https://demo.f4map.com

Zoom in to street level to see the 3D features.

#map #maps #OpenStreetMap #3D #topography #world #WorldMap #cities #landscape #environment #data #tools #OpenSource #FOSS

UN issues ‘red alert’ after all major global climate records were broken last year

UN weather agency says 2024 could be worse as report details significant plunge in Antarctic sea ice

https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2024/03/19/un-issues-red-alert-after-all-major-global-climate-records-were-broken-last-year/

#climateCrisis #humanCrisis

There may be rain on the way, but right now it’s a glorious spring morning in #Maynooth with the Daffodils in full flower.

"Being Neurodivergent in Academia" https://elifesciences.org/collections/73e48266/being-neurodivergent-in-academia ht @pierre_bellec

You wanted to add your *verified* ORCiD to your GitHub profile? Now you can do that :-) https://github.blog/changelog/2024-03-13-authenticate-orcid-id/

#opensource #openscience #orcid

Since January 1st, our department has an official Research Engineering and Infrastructure Team that helps out researchers with all kinds of software engineering matters. I'm really happy that we are putting a serious effort to improve the quality of research software and taking off some of the load from researchers!

If you or someone you know would be interested to join this team, there are currently two open positions (deadline: April 15): tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/werken-bij-tu-delft/vacatures/details?jobId=16774&jobTitle=Research%20Software%20Engineer%20

For some other cool stuff, see the timeline at the Computer History Museum; their website is always worth a visit! https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1983/

Also in 1983, Lucasfilm (later Pixar) made the first high-resolution computer-generated image that was supposed to be near-photorealistic and "a single-frame movie".

"The Road to Point Reyes" took a month to render.

#retrocomputing

"The Cost and Price of Public Access to Research Data: A Synthesis"

a new NSF-funded report from @investinopen https://investinopen.org/blog/the-cost-and-price-of-public-access-to-research-data/