Research money in Canada is harder to come by; a basic research grant is roughly ~5x-10x lower than a comparable American grant (students are cheaper here, so its not completely proportional, but equipment, travel, etc doesn't scale).

The example for money for poaching international researchers also comes with the asterisk that while they found ~$2B for this, they also are cutting the base funding of the federal granting agencies by a few percent at the same time, atop of that funding being anemic for decades at this point. A big "fuck you" to the Canadian research community in my opinion.

"On following the references, it seems that the result in fact follows (after applying Rogers' theorem) from a 1936 paper of Davenport and Erdos (!), which proves the second result you mention. ... In the meantime, I am moving this problem to Section 2 on the wiki (though the new proof is still rather different from the literature proof)."

> The team came up with a use case the teaching team hadn’t thought of – using AI to critique the team’s own hypotheses. The AI not only gave them criticism but supported it with links from published scholars. See the demo here:

But the video just shows Claude giving some criticism but then just says go look at some journals and talk to experts (doesn't give any references or specifics).

> Claude was also able to create a list of leaders with the Department of Energy Title17 credit programs, Exim DFC, and other federal credit programs that the team should interview. In addition, it created a list of leaders within Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Management and Budget that would be able to provide insights. See the demo here:

and then there is a video of them "doing" this. But the video basically has Claude just responding saying "I'm sorry I can't do that, please look at their website/etc".

Am I missing something here?

   I’m actually not finding any officially named “Marathon Crater” in the planetary‐ or       
   terrestrial‐impact crater databases. Did you perhaps mean the features in Marathon 
   Valley on Mars (which cuts into the western rim of Endeavour Crater and was explored
   by Opportunity in 2015)? Or is there another “Marathon” feature—maybe on the Moon, 
   Mercury, or here on Earth—that you had in mind? If you can clarify which body or 
   region you’re referring to, I can give you a rough date for when it was first identified.

I think that's a bit telling on their motivations (esp. given their recent large institutional deals with universities).

I really don't understand the level optimism that seems to exist for LLMs. And speculating that people "secretly hate LLMs" and "feel threatened by them" isn't an answer (frankly, when I see arguments that start with attacks like that alarm bells start going off in my head).