They have destroyed beautiful country

Ben Raichel: The Road to the Closest Point is Paved by Good Neighbors www.youtube.com/watch?v=yih_...

I posted two "new" chapters for my online book: 1. Coresets for clustering: sarielhp.org/book/chapter... 2. No dimensional geometric algorithms: sarielhp.org/book/chapter... The webpage of the book is here: sarielhp.org/book/

A more advanced procedure that doesn't even require fedex Is 'putting your paper on the arxiv'...

A formal apology regarding the composition of this letter sarielhp.org/misc/bloge/2...

SOSA 26 has the same acceptance rate as FOCS (~27%). SODA has an acceptance rate of ~30%. While SoCG seems to be ~35%. Machine learning conferences with way higher rate of junk submissions, and way way higher impact, have similar acceptance rates (high 20s-low 30s). It does not make any sense.

As usual, my paper got accepted to the complement of SODA.

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

Accept more papers! sarielhp.org/misc/bloge/2...

No mushrooms detected this time around.

The Road to the Closest Point is Paved by Good Neighbors arxiv.org/abs/2509.23966

BTW, to avoid the captcha on overleaf, login using orcid.

It turns out that computing the closet point and computing the closest point are not the same problem. To begin with, in the former, it is not clear what the point is doing in the closet.

Gemini can now create an audio summary of a paper, and the summary it generates is surprisingly good. Here is an example: sarielhp.org/p/23/fat_sep... For this paper: sarielhp.org/p/23/fat_sep/

That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting All going really well

Really bad logic. Most of the Palestinians fighters killed in Gaza either their Identity is not known because their body was taken by the IDF. Or are just badly and freshly trained dudes that never got officially registered. So not 83% but probably 50%.....

If it was a Google product it would already have been canceled.

That would have been SAD = Self Assured Destruction....

Terry Tao on AI and IMO. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1148814...

The new programming paradigm should be : Don't trust and definitely verify programming. Or you get the following ...

What's next? Including GPA in student application to college? Is there no limit to discrimination in UCLA???

A new statement on the war in Gaza from the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.

The outrage continues... While starving billionaires are waiting for their tax cuts, flood survivors expect service from a federal agency in charge of helping people after a natural disaster... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

Laura Loomer is currently referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi as “Scam Blondie”

True friendship....

Nobel seems like a heavy lift, but the "Ig Nobel Peace Prize" seems perfect...

Early research on LLMs... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

An easy proof of a very very very very very weak form of Chernoff's inequality... arxiv.org/abs/2507.02759

Gemni talking about my recent paper about the Frechet distance... sarielhp.org/misc/blog/25...

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a regressive tax code." - Matthew 10:34-36 (Updated GOP Version)

NSF building to be turned into a palace for HUD secretary Turner and his family. NSF staff to be moved to an undisclosed location where they will undergo reeducation... www.alxnow.com/2025/06/24/r...

How packed is it, really? doi.org/10.57717/cgt...

Time zones on earth are completely crazy... upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

BREAKING President Trump says the United States has just completed an attack on three nuclear sites in Iranian territory.

Folks, CBO estimate of the distributional effect of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is out: www.cbo.gov/system/files... It's grotesque

Why call the national guard in LA, when clearly the right thing is to arm the Waymos with automatic machine guns, and let them do the policing... www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

We have a Church street in town. They just need to rename an orthogonal st as Turing, and name the crossing Hypothesis, with a four way Hating signs....

But they are running what amounts to a conspiracy theory fulfillment center with unstocked shelves, critics say. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

Travel ban on 12 countries into the USA (Iran is the main one as far as students are concerned). And ban of international students in Harvard from entering USA . www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Gemini strongly believes today is yesterday.

Day 1193 of my 3 day war. Several billion dollars worth of Russian aircraft were destroyed by several thousand dollars of Ukrainian drones. I remain a master strategist.

The sun's not yellow, it's chicken"

Another veo 3 video that I mad. Not perfect, but still not bad...

Another one...

Make america poor again... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...