OpenAI blogs about a new advisory group for math and AI. On their new internal model:

In addition to resolving the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem⁠, this model has now resolved more than 100 long-standing open problems across most areas of mathematics. The pace of its progress⁠ in mathematics has surprised the mathematicians within OpenAI.

I think OpenAI realized they rushed out Navier–Stokes, creating controversy that overshadowed the achievement. This post sounds like a good reset.

Caleb Hailey responded to my comment about a MacBook Neo-class Mac:

When the redesigned Mac Mini was announced I had hoped for it to be USB-C powered. But a Mac Nano (or Mac Neo) would be an even better fit for a USB-C powered Mac that could be used in all the ways you can use a Raspberry Pi. I bet they could beat the old Mac Mini pricing for a device like this, and ship it at $299-399.

I wouldn’t expect Apple to go that low, but even $499 would be great. It could literally be the same components as the Neo except no screen, no keyboard, and no battery.

Yesterday when I was clicking around checking the social web — Micro.blog, Bluesky, Threads, and X — it was only on Threads that I saw the news about ICE in Austin. I don’t want to read too much into one example, but Meta often does seem the most likely to show divisive, outrage-amplifying topics.

From Jason Snell’s review of the new Mac mini:

… at $599, the Mac mini was about as close to an impulse buy as a Mac desktop could get. At $899, it’s crossed an invisible threshold. I can understand it, but I don’t have to like it.

Maybe there’s a missing product in Apple’s lineup: a Mac with the guts of the $699 MacBook Neo. Call it a Mac nano.

The release notes page for Micro.blog for Mac is now so long, going back 9 years, that I hit Discourse’s default 32k character limit today. Had to bump the setting.

“Your feedback is important to us…” [delete]

Federico Viticci has an exhaustive review of the new Mac Studio with M5 and 256 GB of RAM. Lots of cool charts on performance. It sounds like a great Mac. The problem is that config will set you back $9k! For me, a $100/month subscription for frontier AI over many years is still better.

A man is in the hospital after being shot by ICE in Austin today. I watched some of the press conference… APD and the Texas Rangers are going to investigate.

If and when Democrats take the House, there is a long list of things to do. Oversight of ICE and pressure for reform has gotta be in the mix.

Elon Musk today again teased a hyperloop tunnel between Austin and San Antonio. Doesn’t seem likely to me. And it’s a major failure that we still have no usable train connecting literally any combination of Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Whenever there’s small progress, it stalls.

Servers getting hammered today by hackers. Sigh. Whenever I noticed this, I add some more blocking rules, but it’s such a waste of everyone’s time.