Dad · Geometry ∩ Topology ∩ Machine Learning
Professor at University of Fribourg 🇨🇭
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Bastian Grossenbacher-Rieck
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New blog post: Some Comments on “Magnifica Humanitas”
In which I comment on the recent encyclical by Pope Leo XIV from the perspective of a machine learning researcher.
bastian.rieck.me/blog/2026/ma...
After a certain age, discovering new music gets harder. Siri didn't understand my query, said "Hold my beer!", and served me "Birdie" by "NOVA Rei."
(Can you guess what I wanted to listen to originally?)
With more and more proofs being coauthored by AI, I am often reminded of this wonderful short story:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/proo...
Did anyone else notice a move of generic AI slop to platforms like Zenodo? I used to get endorsement requests for arXiv, which I did not feel comfortable with, and now I am noticing more and more "weird stuff" (consciousness + topology + quantum whatever) hosted on Zenodo.
📣 LOGML'26 Speaker Series
🎤 @PascalWelke (Lancaster University Leipzig, TU Wien)
He combines graph mining and graph theory to develop expressive graph representations.
📍Imperial College London
📅13–17 July 2026
🔗 logml.ai
#LOGML #SummerSchool #GeometricML
The hike vs helicopter framing assumes choice. For dyslexics & ADHDers like me, AI is the wheelchair, not the helicopter; not skipping the climb, making the climb possible. Your 'cannot abdicate responsibility' line holds. carlmfreeman.substack.com/p/nobody-kno...
some more media spots from which I feel obliged remove the previews because they're using the same enormous picture of my face but if you want to read about me or listen to me talk here you go
Jesuits profile: www.jesuits.org/profile/shan...
AMDG Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/6xfS...
New blog post: Scholarship in the Age of AI
In which I use the recent debate on arXiv policies to ponder what it means to be a scholar now. Feedback always welcome!
#Academia #AI
bastian.rieck.me/blog/2026/sc...
