If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

There will be 3 great workshops at Aistats this year -> consider submitting your work and attending!

🌴📊📈 - AISTATS 2026 workshops For the first time, AISTATS (May 2-5 in Tangier, Morocco) will have a day of workshops! Please submit your best work by Feb. 27th: - calibration-workshop.github.io - optimal-workshop26.github.io - causcale.github.io virtual.aistats.org/virtual/2026... 👇

Helpful speaking tips here--especially for early career academics. Sure, your command of the audience at your next talk may not rival a young, hungry to get noticed/make a mark Bono at Live Aid (YouTube it), but always ways to improve.

Small Language Models (SLMs) don’t have the capacity to remember everything in their training data. Which tokens should they learn to predict, and when should they ask for help? We tackle this question in our new preprint. You can check it out on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2602.12005 🧵1/7

2025 was a blockbuster year for TMLR -- big growth from 2024, but also cementing our J2C partnership with NeurICMLR, and launching Beyond PDF. Also, cutting the cord: with the founding EiCs completing their tenure, I am now the old guy 👴 Check out the annual report for more!

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

This is why I always verify the results when I use AI

Check out the paper 👉 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.087... Looking forward to presenting this work in Rio, and many thanks to @vincefort.bsky.social for his supervision!

I’m pleased to share that our latest paper, “Amortising Inference and Meta-Learning Priors in Neural Networks”, has been accepted to ICLR 2026 in Rio!

++ Major News ++ AABI is now ProbML: the Symposium on Probabilistic Machine Learning! Very excited about this! ProbML will be co-located with ICML in Seoul! Check out our new website: probml.cc!

AABI is now ProbML!!! 🚀 Join us in Seoul (co-located with @icmlconf.bsky.social) and have exciting discussions about research on probabilistic machine learning!

Really excited to see this. I’ve been involved since the early AABI days, and it’s been incredible to see the trajectory — from NeurIPS/ICML workshops, to a symposium, and now to a full conference as ProbML. Huge thanks to the program/general chairs and the whole organizing team!

Probably the best event on probabilistic ML I know 🔥🔥🔥 Highly recommended, especially if you cannot make the UAI deadline (we have a proceedings track published in PMLR!) or are already planning to attend ICML (for example, via the fast track to present an already published paper).

New version of AABI just dropped! Come join us in Korea this year 😊🇰🇷

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Meet @theeimer.bsky.social, Postdoc at @unihannover.bsky.social 🇩🇪, ELLIS Member working on AutoRL, hyperparameter optimization & Reinforcement Learning evaluation. Her challenge at work: bridging #AutoML + RL and sharpening communication to make her work clear to both communities. #WomenInELLIS

The simplex algorithm is super efficient. 80 years of experience says it runs in linear time. Nobody can explain _why_ it is so fast. We invented a new algorithm analysis framework to find out.

Today we’re releasing the International AI Safety Report 2026: the most comprehensive evidence-based assessment of AI capabilities, emerging risks, and safety measures to date. 🧵 (1/19)

AGI confirmed

This is not true; I beg people read the full paper and especially the study design. The conclusions mirror my (and many other practitioners') conclusions: if you use AI critically and engage both with the question and the answer, it has a net positive impact on both learning and productivity

Europe’s future is built on knowledge. For 30 years, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) has supported over 150,000 researchers, including 23 Nobel Prize winners. This programme is built on curiosity, openness and excellence. Happy birthday MSCA!

Best conference with the best people and in the best place 😎 😜 Also the submission deadline is conveniently one month later than #ICML2026, just in case you needed it 😅

We're getting ready to launch - making sure we've got testing, observability and backups all in good order. It's taking a smidgen longer than we hoped but first invites will arrive on the first week of February and roll out throughout the month. Thank you for your patience 🙏

We have to move all major conferences out of the USA. Nobody wants to get murdered by a militia, ergo no one will attend these conferences. I'm looking at you, CVF...

Do not go gentle Into that permanent underclass

NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...

One of the greatest mysteries of computer science is why anything works given the reality of software.

www.eu-inc.org Feels a bit weird to jump on this bandwagon since I'm not European (I'm Australian living in Singapore, for anyone that didn't know), but I think it's a worthwhile movement.

Territorial integrity and sovereignty are fundamental principles of international law. They are essential for Europe and for the international community as a whole.

The TRL vs. LFG Matrix: Mapping Tech Maturity & Organizational Will (1/6)

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

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Good call! I maintain a list of Neurosymbolic folks on Bsky, see here 🦕 go.bsky.app/RMJ8q3i

Seems like a bunch of people are joining BlueSky recently after the whole X situation, so maybe it's worth highlighting this again. Also, if you feel like you should be on this list, send me a message!

Very thought-provoking read: edankrolewicz.substack.com/p/buried-tal...

Finally proceeded to deactivate+delete my Twitter account. I had kept it open but inactive as an archive of sort, frozen and unused, but given what X+Grok have become and now enable *by design*, it has become impossible to justify even that.

In our new work — Complete(d)P — we try to answer 3 questions about hyperparameter (HP) scaling: ● How to transfer across model size, tokens&batch-size?→ Complete(d)P ● Do per-module HPs matter? ✔️2x speed-ups possible ● Do they transfer to larger scale? ✔️ With the right parameterisation

Looks quite interesting!

In 2024, I was a co-author on "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives", covering areas we thought AI would have significant impact on the world. A shortened version appears as the cover article in this month's CACM: cacm.acm.org/research/sha... arxiv.org/abs/2412.02730 See: shapingai.com

google: we have invented agi but have hidden it in such an obscure website no one will ever find it anthropic: through our interpretability research, we discovered claude imagines himself wearing a bow tie at all times openai: we added slot machines

"40 percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"; "Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.” www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

🚨🚨🚨 I have a #postdoc (1+1 yrs) at the School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh to work on 💥 #reliable #LLM #agents with #neurosymbolic #nesy layers 💥 with Huawei Trustworthy Technology and Engineering Laboratory Munich 👉 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... 🙏 please share!

Europe’s holiday wish? More speed, more options, more time for YOU. While many are winding down, Europe is gearing up: a major high-speed rail plan is set to transform travel by 2040. Here’s what’s coming ↓

Santa can keep the toys… What we really want for Christmas: people before algorithms.

We have two PI positions open at Helmholtz Munich. Exciting opportunities for early-career scientists! jobs.helmholtz-muenchen.de/jobposting/8...