First time in East Africa (Uganda) and I am having a good time. I keep being offered fruits (Pineapples and Mangos) but I only have eyes for plantains. Ate roasted plantains off the street, and decent fried plantains too. Having a blast.

Trust me, I already largely do. My default stand is most media are fake unless verified by trusted sources.

I wish I could reach this kind of greatness in my career.

With this logic I should have given up when my ugrad was terrible despite doing well in high school. Life happens, remember that!

phase transitions: since economic systems are dynamical, if pt exist they should be dynamical. I didn't study dynamical pt, are they essentially the same except for the time component? For the 1st order you look at discont 1st derivative, and 2nd order discont 2nd deriv?

honey a new critique of econ mathiness has landed and just like with the last one the girls are fighting.

The rabbit hole arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat...

Noah's Ark. (Hate to say it)

So glad America is now a post-woke utopia

ah yes, turning everybody into

If you don't know who Lisa D. Cook is, you need to read this article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...

He'd love Houston (/sarcasm)🫠

One of my coworkers weekend project: r-franks.github.io/physics-tank... a particle simulator he called physics tank.

This is clearly where this is all going

also this place has empty mall vibes lol (starting to sound like a broken record)

What are the methods you know to compute the normalized mutual information (binary) in python? I used to work with MIC (Maximal information coefficient) but it does not work for later versions of python (and requires fiddling w/ multiple python installations which I would rather avoid at this time)

It's something new everyday with that administration.

Same. Makes you think. Maybe we're not sycophantic enough.

has anyone ever gotten an AI/ML job off this platform ?

Bluesky rolled out "verified" badges which are given to accounts that are trusted. It's a pretty big opposite to Twitter/X where anyone can get this blue tick who pays $10/month - plenty of scam and throwaway accounts use just that trick there.

My dad won't stop sending me TikToks on WhatsApp

ICML found hidden prompts in accepted papers. They have released a statement icml.cc/Conferences/... Yes, it’s unacceptable. So is using an LLM to review a paper. Peer review is so broken.

Recent paper on this by ML/AI leadership at blackrock and JPMorgan: AI-Driven Fraud, Financial and Cybercrime: Emerging Threats and the Evolving Landscape of AI versus AI www.researchgate.net/profile/Eren...

The entire U.S. economy is behaving like a giant multi-level marketing scheme where none of the metrics are connected to reality and every investor thinks they’re the smart one who will get out before it all comes crashing down.

As if non-competes weren’t enough, more banks now demand junior staff sign loyalty pledges swearing they haven’t lined up future PE jobs starting in months, a standard Wall Street practice . Like return-to-office mandates, it’s just another power play by companies to assert control over workers.

On the hunt for the best mushroom coffee out there. So far I have tried these two: left: maxfit $17, right: ryze $41 I somehow like maxfit better, ryze has an interesting smell but saturates 1 cup of water with 2 tsp (I guess that's why it's pricier). both flavors resemble coffee in different ways

Meme of the day

lmao I am so mad I miss twitter pre-Elon, it was such a great community. Fragmentation is really not it.

Okay that's the one I was looking for earlier today lol. Real empty mall vibes and I hate it

A project idea for an aspiring network scientist: We know that a network of investors and traders exists, that significantly shapes which assets are traded and how. Market participants' decision functions likely include interaction terms that reflect peer influence in these social networks.

Weekend project on signal separation: How can we isolate a weak, nonlinear signal when it's mixed with a dominant, linear one?

Hello hello #complexity and #emergence people. I'm getting a complexity+emergence (broadly defined) starter pack going. I've focused on active accounts that often make original posts (not just reposts) and have at least a few thousand followers. Inclusion is not endorsement. go.bsky.app/BLuVyWj

I often run into: Timeseries, estimate a correlation matrix, then extract a graph (sparse matrix) Timeseries, extract jumps, construct cojump matrix, and estimate hawkes parameters. But we often develop techniques for the middle steps that don't start with the original data (timeseries).

does anybody on here know what applied scientists who work in search and recommendations do?

Endogenous Crashes as Phase Transitions arxiv.org/pdf/2408.06433

Texas 🙃

Since I didn't get to praise it here: You should watch andor season 2. You should really watch it. Get immersed into it. The dramaturgy of the whole thing. Its soundtrack. Honestly I was never a fan of star wars but this is just one of the best tv shows out there.

I am doing my part, posting on here 🫠. What happened to the instagram and tiktok app which use the AT Protocol?

How unlucky (or silly): I bought a stock from a company whose CEO dumped a bunch of his shares the very same day. A huge amount of shares sold by an insider which irremediably moved the price downward. I am a mix of annoyed and amused. I hope I will never run into him in real life.

I am never paying to watch a super hero movie again.

Our paper introducing Alternators has been accepted at TMLR. Alternators are a new class of generative models that outperform state-space models, such as Mambas, and diffusion models such as ScoreGrad. Check it out! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2405.11848 Code: github.com/vertaix/Alternators #MLSky #Vertaix

At this point I am a quiet poster.

✨I made a starter pack for complexity scientists on this platform.✨ go.bsky.app/QzMwdrL

working paper I will probably never publish: I’m exploring how agents learn to play multi‐strategy games by estimating win probabilities from past matches. These interactions shape which strategies spread, how skill matters, and whether groups form specializations.

yay! 🫠

Tree Swallow #birds 🪶