"Got yet another Google Scholar alert for a hallucinated citation of a paper I didn't write. This is the second time this has happened. Please don't use LLMs to write your related work section" @taliaringer.bsky.social on X xcancel.com/TaliaRinger/...

Had way too much fun playing Publish or Perish with my lab today. The best part of the game by far is the 1-minute "defense" speech everyone has to give at the end. There were many laughs

@taliaringer.bsky.social mentioned!

IDE for validating specifications It uses #LeanLang #LeanProver blog.atlascomputing.org/p/ide-for-va...

thx to @taliaringer.bsky.social and @natolambert.bsky.social for their sharp insights on the mechahilter incident as a turning point for AI norms and accountability www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

🤖 At #ICML? Come check out our position poster "Stop treating ‘AGI’ as the north-star goal of AI research", wherein we challenge the “it goes without saying” narrative that AGI is a great goal for AI research. Tomorrow (Thursday the 17th) between 11 and 13:30. I’ll be there with @graziul.bsky.social

ITP Matcha & Jenga

Proud that "Proof Repair across Quotient Type Equivalences" with Cosmo Viola and Max Fan was conditionally accepted to OOPSLA 2025! The current version is below; will post again when we have the camera-ready

Congrats to my incoming PhD student Jasper Lee on the NSF GRFP! siebelschool.illinois.edu/news/illinoi...

I know it's a really tough time for research funding right now, but does anyone have openings for computer science postdocs in the US? Especially in formal proof, possibly (but not necessarily) intersecting with AI? I have two really great researchers looking

Why are OOPSLA and ICSE rebuttals literally the same exact time period? Seems silly, there is substantial overlap in both the author and the reviewer pool

Took Sarah to a lab event yesterday and she gave my student Hannah a hug 😭🥰😍

Fun fact: at least three authors of this paper became parents to new babies over the course of this project

Our work deconstructing AGI as a concept is also now a reference in www.aisnakeoil.com/p/agi-is-not.... If you're a podcast person, other coverage includes this podcast from @techpolicypress.bsky.social! www.techpolicy.press/should-agi-r...

I liked the title "Stop treating `AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research"

6) Normalizing exclusionary practices of who counts as the "most important people" for defining how technology is developed. 4/

3) Presuming a tech system can be value neutral or value all-inclusive (benefitting all) 4) Progressing as though there's deep intellectual+societal merit behind who gets to define how "AGI" is developed 5) Relying on the vagueness of "general" to avoid defining what's actually being learned 3/

...AI researchers fall into when they set "AGI" as a north-star of research. This includes: 1) Assuming there's consensus on what "AGI" means 2) Grounding research on positive vibes and hype rather than scientific rigor 2/

Our new work deconstructing the concept of "AGI", led by the brilliant @borhane.bsky.social in collaboration with @graziul.bsky.social , Hananel Hazan, @shiridoshi.bsky.social +more co-authors below, has been accepted to ICML. 🤗 We discuss the many "traps" that... 🧵 1/ arxiv.org/abs/2502.03689

Authors include @struthious.bsky.social @elmhamdi.bsky.social @evijit.io @kat-heller.bsky.social Jacob Metcalf, Fabricio Murai, @eryk.bsky.social @andrewthesmart.bsky.social Todd Snider, Mariame Tighanimine and @taliaringer.bsky.social ! /end

I've had a visiting PhD student from China this year and so far it has been really amazing for everyone. Like, good for the student, good for me, and good for my lab. Mutually benificial for everyone. Very sad that this kind of thing might get harder under Trump.

how many courts need to rule your actions are unconstitutional before democratic leadership lets impeachment move forward

Coming to an ICML near you arxiv.org/abs/2502.03689

It was a really good year for recruiting at Illinois Theorem Provers. We have five awesome PhD students joining in the fall! Going to do lots of collaborative projects and coadvising for sure; potential coadvisors feel free to reach out!

My Amazon book recommendations

Illinois Theorem Provers: We're so back

This is the main tracker I know about: scienceimpacts.org

As PIs, we should make a list of any grants we know of or are PIs for that have lost funding due to the Trump administration, for public benefit and accountability. Does such a list exist yet? I don't think government workers are in a position to make it from their end

Last Friday, "France’s constitutional council [...] ruled that politicians can be barred from office immediately if convicted of a crime." Today, "Marine Le Pen and eight MEPs were found guilty of embezzlement of EU funds." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

This is really concerning, not just the raid but that Indiana University has literally disappeared XiaoFeng Wang (a full professor with a named chair position) from their web sites. The attacks on Chinese-born faculty were bad in Trump 1, but this I worry is way way worse.

Bottle aversion progress: Turns out our 5.5 month old now wants to be in control, so we have to use a breastlike bottle nipple that she can control the flow of and easily latch onto herself (the Philips Avent Natural Response works well so far).

Not enough people talk about how cute the "I'm going to show you that I'm happy by blowing raspberries" phase of baby development is

5.5 month old is suddenly unable to drink from a bottle after just one week of no bottles. Not sure how to help her learn this skill again? We need to for daycare EOM

PSA: Breastfeeding during takeoff and landing is both permitted by the FAA and recommended by the CDC (to help prevent ear pain in babies from the changing air pressure, since babies don't naturally pop their ears)

*tap tap* Is this thing on? Yes? Ok, we are SIGPLAN AV and we're looking forward to seeing you all at @sigplan-pldi.bsky.social in Seoul and remote! (This is our new centralized channel for communications, updates and announcements)

Happy PLDI decision day! Got the classic rejection with four "weak accept" reviews lol

People say having a baby is like having a part of you outside yourself. But I can't imagine loving a part of me quite this much. It's something more

Five month old discovered the keyboard in WhatsApp when she grabbed the phone during a video chat with my parents ("hi" and "you are a cutie" are me)

My baby had trouble falling back asleep this morning because she just wanted to blow raspberries at me. Five months is a hilarious joy of an age

My baby daughter just unlatched mid-feed to blow a raspberry on my boob

Cute little birdy keeps trying to fly into our window. Any idea what kind of bird it is? Sorry the photo is far away; when I get too close it flies away

Yeah, definitely starting to look like DOGE is just organized crime

It would not surprise me if these contracts are eventually replaced with Musk companies or companies of Musk allies It would not surprise me if some DOGE-affiliated person is right now starting a company to capture these contracts when their true need becomes apparent

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

How am I supposed to decide between purees and baby-led weaning

We're excited to join Bluesky! The Lean FRO develops Lean, an interactive theorem prover and functional programming language advancing mathematics, formal verification, and AI. Follow us for updates on our roadmap and community. #leanlang #leanprover #mathematics #formalverification #ai

10/10 wow www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaZD...

Do all babies shift to the magical mythical 7-7 sleep schedule, or are some babies just night owls? I can't imagine putting my 4.5 month old to sleep at 7, and if I do she just treats it like a nap anyways. Sweet spot is like 930 PM right now. Wondering where 7 PM comes from lol

Ask and ye shall receive...this paper on "stop treating 'AGI' as the north star goal of AI research" is BRILLIANT. 🙌 bsky.app/profile/jkac...

feels like you might enjoy “Stop treating 'AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research” c/o @struthious.bsky.social, @taliaringer.bsky.social, et al. arxiv.org/abs/2502.03689