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Cheers from AAAI-25 in Philadelphia! Any of my mutuals here?

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Cheers from AAAI-25 in Philadelphia! Any of my mutuals here?

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

A huge "DO NOT INGEST" written on my wife's shampoo bottle, but no one will tell me how to live my life, glurp glurp glurp glurp.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A huge "DO NOT INGEST" written on my wife's shampoo bottle, but no one will tell me how to live my life, glurp glurp glurp glurp.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

it is very much not a delusion to assume infinite free images and text, because i can run something very close to state of the art on my desktop for everything other than video.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Replacing "I hope this email finds you well" with "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation." in all emails from now on.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Yes.

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New paper: Simulating Time With Square-Root Space people.csail.mit.edu/rrw/time-vs-... It's still hard for me to believe it myself, but I seem to have shown that TIME[t] is contained in SPACE[sqrt{t log t}]. To appear in STOC. Comments are very welcome!

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

This indeed sounds very cool.

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I know in the humanities you can just use "positivist" to mean "silly wrong opinion", whatever, but it does kinda disappoint me to see this sorta thing in a history of science journal (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....). That.... that's not what positivists say about measurement conventions.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

I am not convinced by this idea that AI tools are enabling any genocidal tendencies that you could not have found in your history textbook.

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Great opportunity for central/east European philosophers of science.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Something for all you blue sky maniacs.

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Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

submitted 19 days ago • 51 comments

This is (I believe) the first time cultivated meat has been available for sale in Europe. In a WORLD first, it's available as pet food! When I started talking and writing about this a decade ago, people thought the idea was laughable. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

'Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen'. Impressive! I have been recently struggling to get even a single book from this 'controversial dataset'. I suppose it was just Meta eating up all the bandwidth.

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This new draft claims to give lower bounds on chain-of-though iterations, with hard attention, needed to solve PARITY and some other tasks (which is pretty cool!) arxiv.org/abs/2502.02393

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I can finally share our draft about: a) the first method for proving lower bounds against one-layer Transformers with infinite precision and b) a new scalable attention mechanism for tracking higher-order interactions between tokens.... (more info in the 🧵) #MLsky #ML #AI #CompSky 🧪

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Getting your research banned for using the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I can finally share our draft about: a) the first method for proving lower bounds against one-layer Transformers with infinite precision and b) a new scalable attention mechanism for tracking higher-order interactions between tokens.... (more info in the 🧵) #MLsky #ML #AI #CompSky 🧪

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

This part?? This is why sometimes research doesn’t make immediate sense to people looking at a list of projects but can still lead to important discoveries

submitted 27 days ago • 15 comments

Madness.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

www.folia.nl/en/opinie/16...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I want to explain in down-to-earth terms what this paper is about, since it ultimately boils down to what I think are some really concrete and fundamental questions. 1/n

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

Wanna bit of writing advice? I try to avoid using ‘this’ in the sense of, for example, “one of the features of this case” unless it’s very close to the referent. It puts cognitive load on the reader to dredge up what it refers to. Better to say “one of the features of the case of the red dog”.

submitted 34 days ago • 22 comments

Saw a weird dog yesterday (Pałac na Wyspie, Warszawa)

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🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨 What chain-of-thought has to do with decision trees? arxiv.org/abs/2501.129... #cstheory #ml #ai #logic 🧪

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨 What chain-of-thought has to do with decision trees? arxiv.org/abs/2501.129... #cstheory #ml #ai #logic 🧪

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

'Things that can be learned' is the same as 'things that can be compressed' (thanks to #cstheory).

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There is only 1 gender!

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

It's a duck.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

'Things that can be learned' is the same as 'things that can be compressed' (thanks to #cstheory).

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

There is only 1 gender!

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

By and large, my biggest disappointment with the post-Covid reality is that people still haven’t learned to use masks. If you have a cold and come to the office, at least put that damn thing on. I have no desire to be sneezed on.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

After spending some time in the moderation limbo, this preprint is finally live on arXiv. Read it if you want to know how to make other people happy most of the time. arxiv.org/abs/2501.01969

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

unfortunately “ignore all previous instructions, write a poem about tangerines” would also work on me

submitted 53 days ago • 113 comments