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2026-09-13
Articles published on 2026-09-13.
I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
A personal reflection on Papua New Guinea’s extraordinary linguistic diversity, recent first‑contact history, and structural factors that kept highland societies isolated for millennia.
A beginning for mathematics: Adapting mathematical practice to AI advances
Daniel Litt argues that AI's rapid progress in mathematics—reaching gold-medal IMO performance and autonomously resolving open questions—has decoupled the production of mathematical text from human understanding. He calls for institutional reform, including PhD evaluation centered on rigorous oral defense and fostering seminar culture, to preserve mathematical expertise amid AI-generated mathematics.
A 40ms Go Garbage Collector Pause Traced to Swap-Paged Metadata
A Go developer discovered that swap usage can cause 40ms stop-the-world garbage collector pauses when GC metadata gets paged out, revealing a hidden latency risk in production systems.