mathstodon.xyz is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A Mastodon instance for maths people. We have LaTeX rendering in the web interface!

Server stats:

2.8K
active users

#computerscience

23 posts17 participants1 post today

I really enjoyed @Felienne's narrative about narratives about Computer Science yesterday. She applied some of the ideas presented in the Glaciers, Gender and Science paper (journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1) to her experiences in the Computer Science / Programming Languages communities. She's also starting a reading club to brainstorm the meaning (and the name?) of the field of "Computer Science".
















How one man created 6 million Wikipedia articles, and why he stopped
By Ellen Phiddian

A single bot generated and published millions of articles on the largest non-English version of Wikipedia. The results caused a rift among editors — and a glimpse of what the online encyclopedia might face from AI.

abc.net.au/news/science/2025-0

ABC News · Wikipedia's largest non-English version was created by a bot. Generative AI poses new problemsBy Ellen Phiddian