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aminkarbasi.bsky.social
Chief scientist at Robust Intelligence and professor at Yale (on leave)
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A letter of support for the NIH funding of biomedical research, and the damage wrought by imposing severe caps on indirect costs: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Agz...

New guarantees for approximating attention, accelerating SGD, and testing sample quality in near-linear time

To all sleep-deprived researchers: The ICML submission site is open, and the abstract deadline looms on Jan 23. Yes, this Jan 23. Don’t be that person drinking cold coffee at 11:58pm realizing “Oops, I forgot the abstract!”

ICML 2025 is calling for Tutorials! Perfect chance to show off that latest breakthrough you can’t stop talking about. If you can teach it without tears or meltdown, you can definitely give a tutorial!

New year, fresh slate! Time to turn those ‘brilliant workshop idea’ resolutions into reality. #ICML2025 is calling for workshop proposals—let’s make 2025 the year we finally follow through. Submit now! #CallForWorkshops #HappyNewYear

I love this quote from Benjamin Franklin: ‘Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.’ @upenn.edu

We are so back. I will be communicating to you about ICML 2025. Stay tuned.

A short recent interview: Induction of Social Contagion faculti.net/induction-of...

In 2024 work in @pnas.org, @amir-ghasemian.bsky.social and I explore “The Structure and Function of Antagonistic Ties in Village Social Networks.” At the population level, the existence of antagonism has important implications for the overall structure and function of human groups. #HNL 1/

following a recommendation from @wattenberg.bsky.social I read "On Proof and Progress in Mathematics" and it is FANTASTIC. I think everyone who is doing some sort of science and/or publishing should read it, think, and adjust to their own discipline. arxiv.org/pdf/math/940...

If you missed the Nobel Lecture by Drs. Hinton & Hopfield, Nobel Foundation has posted the (updated?) video www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPIV...

The list of accepted workshops for ICLR 2025 is available at openreview.net/group?id=ICL... @iclr-conf.bsky.social We received 120 wonderful proposals, with 40 selected as workshops.

If you really want to understand the proof of a theorem, assume that it is wrong until you are convinced otherwise.

Ia there a way to bookmark posts for later reads?

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