Craig S. Kaplan
@isohedral.ca
Mathematics, Computer Science, Art, Design, Music, Soup, Pedantry. he/him/anything
Mainly over at @[email protected], but happy to follow people here and might check in occasionally.
Mainly over at @[email protected], but happy to follow people here and might check in occasionally.
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Oreoboros
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Oreoboros
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The Cheriton School of Computer Science is recruiting!
We invite applications for multiple positions in data management and data systems, as well as in other areas of CS — ML, robotics, computer vision, bioinformatics, and computer systems and architecture.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/open-p...
We invite applications for multiple positions in data management and data systems, as well as in other areas of CS — ML, robotics, computer vision, bioinformatics, and computer systems and architecture.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/open-p...
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Cheriton School of Computer Science is recruiting!
We invite applications for multiple positions in data management and data systems, as well as in other areas of CS — ML, robotics, computer vision, bioinformatics, and computer systems and architecture.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/open-p...
We invite applications for multiple positions in data management and data systems, as well as in other areas of CS — ML, robotics, computer vision, bioinformatics, and computer systems and architecture.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/open-p...
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There is a lot of fuss today over whether chatbots can replace human participants in social sciences research when the solution is obvious: ask chatbots to simulate the views of social scientists and survey them on attitudes towards chatbots as substitutes for human subjects.
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
There is a lot of fuss today over whether chatbots can replace human participants in social sciences research when the solution is obvious: ask chatbots to simulate the views of social scientists and survey them on attitudes towards chatbots as substitutes for human subjects.
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A little thread on how the crisis around GenAI in academia is also a crisis of confidence, and it makes me quite sad. [1/n]
October 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
A little thread on how the crisis around GenAI in academia is also a crisis of confidence, and it makes me quite sad. [1/n]
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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It's not actually a metaphor. I just think of that scene.
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/asteroid
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/asteroid
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It's not actually a metaphor. I just think of that scene.
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/asteroid
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/asteroid
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
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Here's a recording of my talk on the role of computers in making art, including so-called "AI", which was presented as the opening keynote of SIGGRAPH 2025, incorporating lessons from the history of computer graphics, photography, modern art, and philosophy of art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2YR... 1/
Can Computers Create Art? Lessons from art history
YouTube video by Aaron Hertzmann
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Here's a recording of my talk on the role of computers in making art, including so-called "AI", which was presented as the opening keynote of SIGGRAPH 2025, incorporating lessons from the history of computer graphics, photography, modern art, and philosophy of art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2YR... 1/
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025
Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...
ised-isde.canada.ca
October 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
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There's a nice article by Siobhan Roberts about the Bridges 2025 conference in Eindhoven in the NY Times. I can now say that I am in The NY Times! (A photo credit for the shot of Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Edmund Harriss,... but still!) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/s...
Every Artist Has a Favorite Subject. For Some, That’s Math.
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There's a nice article by Siobhan Roberts about the Bridges 2025 conference in Eindhoven in the NY Times. I can now say that I am in The NY Times! (A photo credit for the shot of Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Edmund Harriss,... but still!) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/s...
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This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.
October 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.
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Submissions are now being accepted for the Exhibition of Mathematical Art to be held as part of the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, DC, in January of 2026. Apply online through October 15 at gallery.bridgesmathart.org. pic.x.com/MGSEyexSzo
September 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Submissions are now being accepted for the Exhibition of Mathematical Art to be held as part of the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, DC, in January of 2026. Apply online through October 15 at gallery.bridgesmathart.org. pic.x.com/MGSEyexSzo
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I heard AI and its relationship to the economy recently described as “The wasting is masked because the tumor is growing so fast that the body isn’t losing weight.”
September 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I heard AI and its relationship to the economy recently described as “The wasting is masked because the tumor is growing so fast that the body isn’t losing weight.”
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As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.
September 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.
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Grant Sanderson was scheduled to speak at Bridges 2025, but couldn't make it. Instead, he filmed a special behind-the-scenes and sneak preview of this video, which was partly finished, for the conference. I look forward to watching the final product! (Topic: Sol Lewitt + Burnside's lemma)
New video about a piece by the modern artist Sol LeWitt, and the group theory behind it.
youtu.be/_BrFKp-U8GI
youtu.be/_BrFKp-U8GI
September 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Grant Sanderson was scheduled to speak at Bridges 2025, but couldn't make it. Instead, he filmed a special behind-the-scenes and sneak preview of this video, which was partly finished, for the conference. I look forward to watching the final product! (Topic: Sol Lewitt + Burnside's lemma)
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Hegseth is now the Secretary of War, which is fitting I guess as RFK jr is basically the Secretary of Pestilence. We just need Famine and Death to round it out.
September 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Hegseth is now the Secretary of War, which is fitting I guess as RFK jr is basically the Secretary of Pestilence. We just need Famine and Death to round it out.
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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Nice oveerview of tiling notation from Craig Kaplan isohedral.ca/isohedral-ti... @isohedral.ca
Isohedral Tiles, Tilings, and Notations – Isohedral
isohedral.ca
September 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Nice oveerview of tiling notation from Craig Kaplan isohedral.ca/isohedral-ti... @isohedral.ca
RIP Graham Greene. To me he will always be Leonard, the shaman who came to town from time to time in Northern Exposure. I just rewatched my favourite episode in which he appears: “Three Doctors” (s5e01). bsky.app/profile/jord...
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
September 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
RIP Graham Greene. To me he will always be Leonard, the shaman who came to town from time to time in Northern Exposure. I just rewatched my favourite episode in which he appears: “Three Doctors” (s5e01). bsky.app/profile/jord...
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Montreal bagels > New York bagels. I will not be taking questions at this time.
August 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Montreal bagels > New York bagels. I will not be taking questions at this time.
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I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
I love this idea and also want a list of academic murder books. Please reply with recs
Hear me out: a dark academia murder book that opens at a department beginning-of-the-year celebration on a boat (I know a department that does this) and a professor goes overboard. The intrepid department chair must figure out who did it. Everyone is a suspect, including the chair herself.
August 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
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It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
August 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!