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Fantastic #neurips keynote by Arnaud Doucet! Really like this slide tracing back many of the modern flow-matching / stochastic interpolants ideas to a 1986 result by probabilist Istvan Gyongy describing how to "Markovianize" a diffusion process (eg. having coefficients depending on all the past)

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

The SlidesLive team deserves a lot of credit for streaming (a number of sessions in parallel) these conferences with incredible efficiency. Their behind-the-scenes team are like firefighters who deserve pats on the back for enabling all this. 👏

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

The RL book by Kevin Murphy is finally online (copied shamelessly from the other place) arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

Highly recommend (long) read for anyone who's been leading a lab 10+ years!

submitted 80 days ago • 8 comments

The extraordinary recent takeover of ML/AI by #NLP is well-known but insufficiently reflected on. Look at the @neuripsconf.bsky.social tutorials in 2024! neurips.cc/virtual/2024... 14 tutorials; 6 have "LLM" in the title; 4 more cover foundation models, with large NLP coverage. That's > 70% 😲

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.

submitted 83 days ago • 388 comments

Alhamdulillah, Syria is free and @neuripsconf.bsky.social is starting. Exciting days ahead!

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

It's appalling to see how these "advanced" countries continue to deny visas to paper authors. Saw an oral author in ECCV being unable to present and now whole team (again an oral) is unable to present in NeurIPS since their visas were refused.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Democracy wins!! #SouthKorea

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

قَالَ رَسُولُ اَللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم إِنَّ رَبَّكُمْ حَيِيٌّ كَرِيمٌ, يَسْتَحِي مِنْ عَبْدِهِ إِذَا رَفَعَ إِلَيْهِ يَدَيْهِ أَنْ يَرُدَّهُمَا صِفَرًا

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Opened Twitter after ages to check updates on the brutal crackdown on protestors in Islamabad. It turns out that Twitter has become too much managed to be feared by the authorities anymore.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Recommended! arxiv.org/abs/2403.14606

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

Joined Bluesky to follow Academics and now I am having the same anxiety/inferiority complex (its not imposter's syndrome as it's based on facts) which I do when opening LinkedIn. 🫠

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

While Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network. I blogged about it here:

submitted 94 days ago • 255 comments

What's an oppressor's dream? Everyone would become an innocent bystander. Being silent on human rights (or any) issues is never an option.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Blocking @bsky.app within a couple of weeks of "Xodus" shows the terrible state of mind Pakistan currently is. Look at the internet freedom status (which will keep on getting worse with time) where Pakistan is having almost same score as monarchs like Saudi Arabia freedomhouse.org/explore-the-...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

I had left X and joined Bluesky as X is blocked in Pakistan. But now it's blocked too? Wow! Blocking @bsky.app within a few days of its launch shows how much Pakistan is failing as a state. I have never seen this level of unnerving before.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Been a year since travelled in the skies #OhWell

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

@madelonhulsebos.bsky.social Thank you for introducing this. Thanks to your curated list of ML people, this forum seems scary like X again :D

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments