Strong gusts of wind, comet at 11° altitude - but very good transparency Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks Location: Martinsberg, Lower Austria Courtesy Gerald Rhemann.

The IBM 1401 was the most popular computer of the early 1960s, with over 10,000 built. Renting for $2500 a month, it made a computer affordable to medium-sized businesses. You can see one in operation Computer History Museum. But what if the computer suddenly stops turning on? 1/10

Sixty years ago today, IBM announced the System/360, a line of computers that took over the computer industry. The big idea was that all the systems were compatible and supported all applications (a 360° range from business to scientific). 1/9

Can you train a generative model using only noisy data? If you can, this would alleviate the issue of training data memorization plaguing certain genAI models. In exciting work with Giannis Daras and Alex Dimakis we show how to do this for diffusion-based generative models.

Proofs for a price: Tomorrow’s ultra-rigorous mathematical culture. ~ Silvia De Toffoli. ams.org/journals/bull/… #Math #ITP