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Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nl/@VoordeMus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>VoordeMus</span></a></span> </p><p>&gt;&gt; When ever will these States abandon the USA? Or are they supporting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> in their madness?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Illinois" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illinois</span></a> is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democratic</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chicago</span></a> is solidly Democratic.</p><p>Which is why it is so puzzling to see taxpayer-funded <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChicagoPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChicagoPolice</span></a> performing the duty that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> should have hired private security guards for.</p><p>There are many high-end stores — <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dior</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cartier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cartier</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bloomingdales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bloomingdales</span></a> around the corner. All pay for their own private security service.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeslaTakeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeslaTakeover</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeslaTakeDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeslaTakeDown</span></a></p>
India Weekly<p>Deepika Padukone Dazzles in Black Gown at Cartier’s Dubai Event: “Queen is Back”</p><p><a href="https://www.indiaweekly.biz/deepika-padukone-dazzles-cartier-dubai-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">indiaweekly.biz/deepika-paduko</span><span class="invisible">ne-dazzles-cartier-dubai-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeepikaPadukone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepikaPadukone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cartier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cartier</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dubai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dubai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fashion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fashion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/celebritycrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>celebritycrush</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FashionModel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FashionModel</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>A larger question is whether this is what Grothendieck would have wanted. </p><p>In 1972, during his ecologist phase, <br />concerned that capitalist society was driving humanity towards ruin, <br />he gave a talk at CERN, near Geneva, <br />entitled<br /> &quot;Can We Continue Scientific Research?&quot;</p><p>He didn’t know about AI <br />– but he was already opposed to this collusion between science and corporate industry. </p><p>Considering his pacifist values, he would probably also have been opposed to Huawei’s championing of his work; <br />-- its chief executive, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ren" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ren</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Zhengfei" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Zhengfei</span></a>, is a former member of the People’s Liberation Army engineering corps. </p><p>The US department of defense, <br />as well as some independent researchers, <br />believes Huawei is controlled by the Chinese military.</p><p>Huawei insists it is a private company, <br />owned by its employees and its founding chairman, <br />Ren Zhengfei, <br />and that it is “not owned, controlled or affiliated to any government or third-party company”.</p><p>Lafforgue points out that France’s IHES, <br />where Grothendieck and later he worked, <br />was funded by industrial companies<br /> – and thinks Huawei’s interest is legitimate. </p><p>Caramello, who is the founder and president of the Grothendieck Institute research organisation, <br />believes that he would have wanted a systematic exploration of his concepts to bring them to fruition. </p><p>“Topos theory is itself a kind of machine that can extend our imagination,” she says. </p><p>“So you see Grothendieck was not against the use of machines. </p><p>He was against blind machines, or brute force.” </p><p>What is unsettling is a degree of opaqueness about Huawei’s aims regarding AI and its collaborations, <br />including its relationship with the Grothendieck Institute, <br />where Lafforgue sits on the scientific council. </p><p>But Caramello stresses that it is an entirely independent body that engages in theoretical, <br />not applied research, <br />and that makes its findings available to all. </p><p>She says it does not research AI and that Lafforgue’s involvement pertains solely to his expertise in Grothendieckian maths.</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Huawei" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Huawei</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/topos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>topos</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Olivia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Olivia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Caramello" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Caramello</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Grothendieck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Grothendieck</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Laurent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Laurent</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lafforgue" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lafforgue</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pierre" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pierre</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cartier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cartier</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>In mid-April, dapper Parisians are filing out of the polished foyer of a redeveloped hotel in the seventh arrondissement, heading for lunch. </p><p>The first French TV programmes were broadcast from the building -- now, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Huawei" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Huawei</span></a> is pushing for a similar leap in AI here. </p><p>It has set up the Centre-Lagrange, <br />an advanced mathematics research institute, on the site and hired elite French mathematicians, <br />including Laurent Lafforgue, to work there. </p><p>An aura of secrecy surrounds their work in this ultra-competitive field, <br />compounded by growing suspicion in the west of Chinese tech. </p><p>Huawei initially refused to answer any questions, before permitting some answers to be emailed.</p><p>Grothendieck’s notion of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/topos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>topos</span></a>, <br />developed by him in the 1960s, <br />is of particular interest to Huawei. </p><p>Of his fully realised concepts, toposes were his furthest step in his quest to identify the deeper algebraic values at the heart of mathematical space, <br />and in doing so generate a geometry without fixed points. </p><p>He described toposes as a “vast and calm river” <br />from which fundamental mathematical truths could be sifted. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Olivia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Olivia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Caramello" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Caramello</span></a> views them rather as “bridges” capable of facilitating the transfer of information between different domains. </p><p>Now, Lafforgue confirms via email, <br />Huawei is exploring the application of toposes in a number of domains, including telecoms and AI.</p><p>Caramello describes toposes as a mathematical incarnation of the idea of vision; <br />-- an integration of all the possible points of view on a given mathematical situation that reveals its most essential features. </p><p>Applied to AI, toposes could allow computers to move beyond the data associated with, say, an apple; <br />-- the geometric coordinates of how it appears in images, for example, or tagging metadata. </p><p>Then AI could begin to identify objects more like we do <br />– through a deeper “semantic” understanding of what an apple is. </p><p>But practical application to create the next generation of “thinking” AI is, according to Lafforgue, some way off.</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Grothendieck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Grothendieck</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Laurent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Laurent</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lafforgue" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lafforgue</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pierre" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pierre</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cartier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cartier</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Was this hermit mathematician a forgotten genius whose ideas could transform AI – or a lonely madman? </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Grothendieck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Grothendieck</span></a>’s genius defied his attempts at erasing his own renown. </p><p>The long-awaited publication in 2022 of Grothendieck’s exhaustive memoir, &quot;Harvests and Sowings&quot;, renewed interest in his work. </p><p>And there is growing academic and corporate attention to how Grothendieckian concepts could be practically applied for technological ends. </p><p>Chinese telecoms giant Huawei believes his esoteric concept of the topos could be key to building the next generation of AI, <br />and has hired Fields medal-winner <a href="https://c.im/tags/Laurent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Laurent</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lafforgue" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lafforgue</span></a> to explore this subject. </p><p>But Grothendieck’s motivations were not worldly ones, as his former colleague <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pierre" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pierre</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cartier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cartier</span></a> understood. </p><p>“Even in his mathematical milieu, he wasn’t quite a member of the family,” writes Cartier. “He pursued a kind of monologue, or rather a dialogue with mathematics and God, which to him were one and the same.”</p><p>Beyond his mathematics was the unknown. </p><p>Were his final writings, <br />an avalanche of 70,000 pages in an often near-illegible hand, <br />the aimless scribblings of a madman? </p><p>Or had the anchorite of Lasserre made one last thrust into the secret architecture of the universe? <br />And what would this outsider <br />– who had spurned the scientific establishment and modern society <br />– make of the idea of tech titans sizing up his intellectual property for exploitation?</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/31/alexander-grothendieck-huawei-ai-artificial-intelligence?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/science/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/2024/aug/31/alexander-grothendieck-huawei-ai-artificial-intelligence?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>