Raffaele Mauro

Tolkien’s Dragons and Ours Oligarchy’s Blasted Heath

Tolkien’s Dragons and Ours - Great post by @timothysnyder.bsky.social snyder.substack.com/p/tolkiens-d...

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf,
" ... and so do all who live to see such times.
But that is not for them to decide.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Gödel’s Warning How Democracy’s Own Rules Can Be Used to Destroy It

Gödel’s Warning: How Democracy’s Own Rules Can Be Used to Destroy It www.criticalcontext.org/p/godels-war...

Proteins are compressed time: millions of years of evolution distilled into a molecular machine, exquisitely refined to carry out its function with precision

La nuova corsa (ad ostacoli) allo spazio

Facciamo Luce sulla New Space Economy: con Roberto Battiston e Raffaele Mauro open.spotify.com/episode/56nu...

Tecnologie psichedeliche Un database gratuito per mappare l’universo psichedelico

Porta Sophia lancia un nuovo servizio online per la ricerca di strutture chimiche nell’ambito psichedelico aegle.beehiiv.com/p/tecnologie...

The legendary cyberpunk anthology “Mirrorshades” published online by Rudy Rucker: www.rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades...

Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an
8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

MSEP: A Platform for Molecular Systems Engineering MSEP is a free, open-source platform for designing and simulating atomically precise nanomechanical systems — a tool for exploring the foundations of future physical technologies.

MSEP: A Platform for Molecular Systems Engineering
open.substack.com/pub/aiprospe...

AI4Research: A Survey of Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Research Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI-o1 and DeepSeek-R1, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex domains such a...

AI4Research: A Survey of Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Research
arxiv.org/abs/2507.01903

Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming - Nature Geoscience The duration of long heatwaves increases at an accelerating rate with warming such that a large increase in the risk of long-lasting heatwaves results from relatively modest warming, according to an a...

Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Studio Aegle Alla scoperta degli psichedelici: educazione e notizie. Trials clinici ed articoli scientifici spiegati e commentati.

Studio Aegle - Archivio tematico: Trial clinici e articoli scientifici sugli psichedelici spiegati e commentati aegle.beehiiv.com

A Lean companion to “Analysis I” Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a textbook in real analysis called “Analysis I”. It was intended to complement the many good available analysis textbooks out there by focusing more on foun…

A Lean companion to “Analysis I” terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/a...

Nuova presentazione “monster” di 340 slide, focalizzata su AI trends, dalla leggendaria Mary Meeker www.bondcap.com/reports/tai

De Novo Protein Design from Natural Language
www.denovo-pinal.com
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.

“Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable LEGO Designs from Text
avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/

@matteoscurati.bsky.social

Optimism vs Optimization Candide in Silicon Valley

"Optimism vs Optimization: Candide in Silicon Valley" New article from Francesco Maria De Collibus - Critical Context www.criticalcontext.org/p/optimism-v...

“Ci sono soltanto due possibili conclusioni:
se il risultato conferma le ipotesi, allora hai appena fatto una misura;
se il risultato è contrario alle ipotesi, allora hai fatto una scoperta.”
(Enrico Fermi)

"Humility is the ladder through which one can grasp every other good thing." (Cit.)

Modern Warfare and Mathematics Throughout the centuries, the art of war has been at the forefront of technological innovation and has anticipated profound trends in economics and society.

Modern Warfare and Mathematics - New article published on Critical Context Substack with @matteoscurati.bsky.social
www.criticalcontext.org/p/modern-war...

The Promise of American Higher Education No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

Finally, some good news www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

3,500% Returns In 3 Hours: The Extreme Case of April 9, 2025 At 12:58 pm EST on April 9, 2025, someone placed perhaps the most perfectly-timed options bet in recent market history. Just 32 minutes before Trump's surprise tariff announcement, thousands of SPY ca...

3,500% Returns In 3 Hours: The Extreme Case of April 9, 2025 www.dataandpolitics.net/3-500-return...

AI 2027 A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

AI 2027
By Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, Romeo Dean
ai-2027.com

Can the dollar remain king of currencies? The greenback’s dominance was forged on trade, alliances and institutions — now that era is at risk of drawing to a close

Can the dollar remain king of currencies? on.ft.com/43xSJim via @financialtimes | Barry Eichengreen

"The Future of Mathematics in a World of Machines"
by Simone Severini
www.linkedin.com/pulse/future...

Premio Gabriella Sparvoli La mission del progetto

Anche nel 2025, dopo il successo delle prime due edizioni, abbiamo costruito il nuovo bando per il premio Gabriella Sparvoli. Si tratta di un’iniziativa dedicata alla memoria di mia madre, costruita dalla nostra famiglia assieme al Soroptimist Club Pescara sites.google.com/view/premios...