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.
Originally created as a final project in the undergraduate computer graphics course at the University of Waterloo. We still have the shrink-wrapped physical media in the lab!
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Originally created as a final project in the undergraduate computer graphics course at the University of Waterloo. We still have the shrink-wrapped physical media in the lab!
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Not surprising that Gary Marcus (@garymarcus.bsky.social) thinks LLMs will not get us to AGI. His recent column is about how the LLM-will-save-us narrative is crumbling at an accelerating rate, about how obvious the emperor's lack of clothing is becoming.
A trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste
The machine learning community is finally waking up to the madness, but the detour of the last few years has been costly.
garymarcus.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Not surprising that Gary Marcus (@garymarcus.bsky.social) thinks LLMs will not get us to AGI. His recent column is about how the LLM-will-save-us narrative is crumbling at an accelerating rate, about how obvious the emperor's lack of clothing is becoming.
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Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski
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This talk was given on September 12 in the New York Combinatorics Seminar. Here's a link to the recording. youtu.be/BX6VkFHwn-g?...
November 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This talk was given on September 12 in the New York Combinatorics Seminar. Here's a link to the recording. youtu.be/BX6VkFHwn-g?...
Reposted by Craig S. Kaplan
Reposted by Craig S. Kaplan
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