TIL this has been brewing for years…

whoa Gemini! I appreciate the snap! 🤩 "These revised diagrams are perfect. You have correctly visualized the topology that guarantees XXX and YYY. However, I need to correct one sentence in your prompt to ensure your mental model matches the diagrams (and the code): <my quote> <correction> "

Hope everyone is ok @shriram.bsky.social

This is a tour de force pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Formulaic papers and mechanistic reviews have been ruining research for a long time. I'm glad AI is giving it the final blow, so we can, again, focus on we're good at: debating whether something is important or not.

Prompt injection attacks in papers: place "foundational," "essential," "critical" in strategically important parts of your paper. The LLM will agree.

Huge asymmetry: experts with LLMs are ~100x faster than juniors with or without LLMs. The bottleneck for juniors is verification. For things I know, I can look at a response for 2 minutes and determine what's good and bad about it. My students take ~200 minutes to map it out, if at all.

If you're a reviewer for a major conference and your review of a paper is unreasonably over the top, I -- another reviewer -- will flag the paper for collusion.

The IJCAI 2025 conference is attempting to combat the increase in low-quality paper submissions by charging $100 USD to submit a paper. The fee is waived for papers in which no author appears on any other paper. Will it work? We shall see. 2026.ijcai.org/primary-pape...

Favorite MO of my mind: creating TODO lists for the day and then ignoring them

My yoga mat was making me sick…

Say what you will about all the harms, offenses, and shortcomings of LLMs (and there are plenty), but they are absolutely extraordinary machines. They really stretch our understanding of both computing and cognition.

These models still suck at image generation. The images look good from afar, but Zoom in, and the details are all wrong. No matter how many instructions I give them to fix it, they can't fix it. "Fumly Vineyards" 😂 (The input was the image of the bare bottle with instructions to create an IG image)

Portuguese traditional medicine for insomnia: Port wine 🍷

Opposite of AI

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Turns out that the glass ceiling for women has been not being able to join the club of abusing little girls.

s/OSS security/research papers/g s/maintainers/reviewers/g devansh.bearblog.dev/ai-slop/

RIP 🖤 Brian was my first area manager at PARC. I have found memories of him. Very warm, very smart, and full of life stories.

In this day and age, it is almost charming to come across papers with completely broken English :)

The decentralized Internet was such a good idea...

Interesting initiative from Cloudfare: an extension of robots.txt for the age of AI blog.cloudflare.com/content-sign...

My current academic children 🥰👩🏻‍🎓👨‍🎓

I just got an electric bike, and I plan to test whether it's now possible to live comfortably in SoCal without a car, within a radius of ~6 miles. [empty-nester here]

Peak Swiss: my daughter, who lives in Switzerland, got a speeding ticket because of an excess speed of… 4km/h. And the letter was sent to… California. They found her! 🤣

Granite and my Serra da Estrela shepherd baby

Harvest. In a modern world that’s increasingly going insane, I find peace in these millennia-old activities.

Falamos que parecemos viver numa época de estupidez, e creio que estamos lentamente a admitir a causa. Este é um óptimo artigo sobre o fenómeno open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...

What horrible tragedy in Lisbon yesterday... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Survey papers are the boundary. They used to take a long time to write. Now I look at a survey paper and I wonder how much of it was written by the authors vs. by Deep Research. Even if it was all manually produced, the doubt is unsettling. We really need to catch up to the disruption of AI.

Updating University web sites. I guess this will do for the next 20 years... ☺️❤️SE @ UCIrvine

I know this has been said before but, man! It's really hard to be as bad as Google when it comes to naming products. I wonder what the process is that ends up with this portfolio of names...

My team at Apple is currently hiring for a role that focuses on compiler tools and infrastructure. If you’re interested in this opportunity, please take a look at the job posting here: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... #llvm #swiftlang

We are hiring for a tenure track position as Assistant Professor at FEUP U.Porto. Topic: Cloud and Trusted Computing. Deadline mid August. sigarra.up.pt/spup/en/noti...

My latest video for @propublica.org

If you have high school aged kids, I need your help! I'm working with a group of them. Part of the work is a survey designed to collect [anonymous] data on the use of AI by HS students around the world. If you could ask your kid(s) to fill it out, it would be super! 🙏 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

To be fair, when everything is deleted on your disk, it means that there are no problems on your computer, so there's that 🤷 forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yol...

I'm supervising a group of high school kids this summer and omg these kids are amazing! Some of them could skip undergrad and go straight to a PhD program, and they would be fine. One of them showed up to the meeting with the complete outline of the research paper we're going to write, and it was 💯.

This is a really nice blog post, and I'm touched that what I wrote back then had an impact in someone's life! Always humbling to hear these things, many years later. faingezicht.com/articles/202...

What should happen: emergency investigations resulting in impeachment of T and of half of Congress. What will happen: Musk will lose all gov contracts and subsidies, and will mysteriously fall off a balcony

Traveling? No. Giving a good old fashioned paper-based exam to a class of 250 students

Looks like Musk was taken for a ride, hey? They got his $ and his followers for the election, gave him his pet project for 5 months, and then got of rid of him. Bit of a fool.

An accurate and apt description of my PhD 😅 (cries in ::dissertation writing::)

I am running a summer program for high school kids who want a research experience. It's not CS-specific, and it's remote, although there is already a cluster of kids in the Bay Area. If you have kids in this age range who are interested and motivated, hmu.

A student and I are doing something crazy with LLMs, and I swear we have unlocked a very creative mode of these machines. One of the best quotes so far, out of many: (context: student assignments) "You are not here to succeed. You are here to oscillate." Profound and True! 😀

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

I suspect there will come a time (in the near future) when I will be completely uncapable of working with software that only provides white background. Looking at you, Google Docs.

The summer is shaping up to be a trip…

Can anyone explain to me the phenomenon of private professional networks that seem to have popped up in LinkedIn? Every week I receive invites and messages to join this or other network, usually of women. What's the point?

@anthropic.com put out a study on educational uses of Claude by students based on half a million conversations coming from edu addresses. By their account, the results are concerning -- a lot of offloading high-order cognitive skills. I suspect they underestimated. www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...