Microsoft Sharepoint... 😡 😡 😡 I do not how they do it, but universities manage to opt-in for the worst software platforms possible. Avoid Sharepoint at all costs, if you can. Then, never use WISEflow either.

Current state of science in a nutshell: SOTA time series forecasting models that predict a sequence of outputs up to a time step t+H (t: current time step, H: forecasting horizon) evaluate their forecasting accuracy using the entire output sequence.

The quality of our EMNLP reviews (mostly rubbish) can be summarised by the typo the reviewer found in our paper. According to them "e.g." should by followed by a comma as in "e.g.,". My dear reviewer this is not the case for British English. We are paying the price of corporate "science".

This is yet another great lesson that idiots should never be in positions of power. Yet, no smart person wants to govern. Perhaps, it is about time for a change of perspective on this. People might be forced to become political again when less is left to lose, I suppose.

Interesting interview with a sane explanation for Trump's tariffs. Plus a great commentary about AI+tech lords. Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social) certainly gets economics better than many, but he also understands the AI space better than AI "experts". www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax7T...

Talent [?] shows and autotune. Funny! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqrc...

"DeformTime: capturing variable dependencies with deformable attention for time series forecasting" led by Yuxuan Shu Just out @tmlrorg.bsky.social (TMLR) Link: openreview.net/forum?id=M62... Plus a teaser figure comparing SOTA forecasters (e.g. TimeXer, iTransformer) with a persistence model!

Keir Starmer's statement was deeply confusing. He referred to peace without a deal in place. Yet, he mentioned increased defence budgets and NATO arms on the ground (of Ukraine). I'm not sure Russia will go along with this. My fear is that more intense war will follow.

Perhaps we should thank Trump for showing us how the United States of America is bullying other countries into submission. I have never liked bullies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch0q...

The land of the free is now directly governed by a billionaire, whereas in the previous "democratic" iteration, it was only an indirect relationship.

Fascism is fed from oligarchy and vice versa. What's new to learn?

Life expectancy losses in the Gaza Strip during the period October, 2023, to September, 2024 TLDR: Life expectancy was reduced to half in the Gaza Strip area (of Palestine) compared to prewar levels Paper: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. I have now invited successful candidates for an interview and will not be considering further applications (for this particular scholarship).

Nowadays, new PC products tend to be thoroughly tested by the consumers and not the companies that manufacture them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndmo... #Nvidia #RTX5090

One of the guys from DOGE who's been let loose in the Treasury payments system wrote a book about using deep learning to predict the stock market. Over the weekend I wrote a short review of it. magnusross.github.io/posts/sparta...

To time series forecasting people: Can you please stop evaluating forecasts using the entire output series? It doesn't tell much about the accuracy of a forecast at the actual target forecasting horizon. And could you please try to understand a task prior to trying to model it? Thanks!

ChatGPT seems to be a more developed end-user LLM than DeepSeek. However, DeepSeek and its RL/R1 module (DeepThink) is way more fun. The sole existence of DeepSeek that currently contradicts the OpenAI business model is the most fun of all. chat.deepseek.com

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A good reminder for those who have not, do watch a TV series titled "Twin Peaks". www.imdb.com/title/tt0098...

I wrote a slightly controversially titled blog post about benchmarking for time series models. Often the benchmarks don't align with real world problems, which I think is slowing progress! magnusross.github.io/posts/tsf_benchmarks/