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Pre-registering my opinion (before my paper's reviews are released) that the AAAI AI reviews are essentially worthless. It's not that they are necessarily bad, but they just have no substance to them. They are at best a long summary with some superficial points pointed out.

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

I can't say I understand why this inkwell from the 16th century was made, but it's well done.

Yesterday, the editorial board of Mathematical Logic Quarterly resigned and announced creation of a new diamond open access journal: Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik. Let's say I am just going to call it ZML.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WELCOME TO HELL, AI INDUSTRY

The disconnect between AI benchmarks and math research (Evaluating AI systems on their ability to be a mathematical copilot). ~ Ralph Furman. sugaku.net/content/ai-b... #AI #LLMs #Math

Victor Cringeban.

A common remark from AI/ML conference reviewers is: "The paper lacks a clear message." This attitude goes opposite to how research is done. Sometimes, the message is the entire paper and it can't be compressed into 140 signs. Simplified messages mislead and are usually false. #academicsky #MLsky

A common remark from AI/ML conference reviewers is: "The paper lacks a clear message." This attitude goes opposite to how research is done. Sometimes, the message is the entire paper and it can't be compressed into 140 signs. Simplified messages mislead and are usually false. #academicsky #MLsky

Possibly the dumbest of the many dumb plagiarism claims nationalpost.com/news/mark-ca...

Yet another LLM-generated review. I knew something was off when they said our results were 'groundbreaking'. 🤨

This might be the best one yet!

Bluesky's gonna really take off once people discover joking

I applied to a grant scheme for establishing a research team and lost due to a lack of experience in leading research teams. The scheme is called 'First Team'. 😂

Another cool example: Commoner's firefighting jacket (hikeshibanten) Japan, 19th c. Cotton cloth w/ indigo dye (sashiko & tsutsugaki), 98x 127cm Seattle Art Museum "The oversized #spider hovering over the go board alludes to Tsuchigumo (Earth Spider)…” samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2017/10/fire...

'My body is a temple' but it's Spain, 1936.

Cheers from AAAI-25 in Philadelphia! Any of my mutuals here?

A huge "DO NOT INGEST" written on my wife's shampoo bottle, but no one will tell me how to live my life, glurp glurp glurp glurp.

A huge "DO NOT INGEST" written on my wife's shampoo bottle, but no one will tell me how to live my life, glurp glurp glurp glurp.

it is very much not a delusion to assume infinite free images and text, because i can run something very close to state of the art on my desktop for everything other than video.

Replacing "I hope this email finds you well" with "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation." in all emails from now on.

Yes.

New paper: Simulating Time With Square-Root Space people.csail.mit.edu/rrw/time-vs-... It's still hard for me to believe it myself, but I seem to have shown that TIME[t] is contained in SPACE[sqrt{t log t}]. To appear in STOC. Comments are very welcome!

people who know me IRL have mostly heard some variant of my inception thesis: the way to get an idea to catch on in these circles is that it has to make you *sound* clever when you repeat it without requiring any deeper knowledge.

This indeed sounds very cool.

I know in the humanities you can just use "positivist" to mean "silly wrong opinion", whatever, but it does kinda disappoint me to see this sorta thing in a history of science journal (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....). That.... that's not what positivists say about measurement conventions.

I am not convinced by this idea that AI tools are enabling any genocidal tendencies that you could not have found in your history textbook.

Great opportunity for central/east European philosophers of science.

Something for all you blue sky maniacs.

Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

This is (I believe) the first time cultivated meat has been available for sale in Europe. In a WORLD first, it's available as pet food! When I started talking and writing about this a decade ago, people thought the idea was laughable. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen'. Impressive! I have been recently struggling to get even a single book from this 'controversial dataset'. I suppose it was just Meta eating up all the bandwidth.

This new draft claims to give lower bounds on chain-of-though iterations, with hard attention, needed to solve PARITY and some other tasks (which is pretty cool!) arxiv.org/abs/2502.02393

I can finally share our draft about: a) the first method for proving lower bounds against one-layer Transformers with *infinite* precision and b) a new scalable attention mechanism for tracking higher-order interactions between tokens.... (more info in the 🧵) #MLsky #ML #AI #CompSky 🧪

Getting your research banned for using the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.

I can finally share our draft about: a) the first method for proving lower bounds against one-layer Transformers with *infinite* precision and b) a new scalable attention mechanism for tracking higher-order interactions between tokens.... (more info in the 🧵) #MLsky #ML #AI #CompSky 🧪

This part?? This is why sometimes research doesn’t make immediate sense to people looking at a list of projects but can still lead to important discoveries

Madness.

I want to explain in down-to-earth terms what this paper is about, since it ultimately boils down to what I think are some really concrete and fundamental questions. 1/n

Wanna bit of writing advice? I try to avoid using ‘this’ in the sense of, for example, “one of the features of this case” unless it’s very close to the referent. It puts cognitive load on the reader to dredge up what it refers to. Better to say “one of the features of the case of the red dog”.

Saw a weird dog yesterday (Pałac na Wyspie, Warszawa)

🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨 What chain-of-thought has to do with decision trees? arxiv.org/abs/2501.129... #cstheory #ml #ai #logic 🧪

🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨 What chain-of-thought has to do with decision trees? arxiv.org/abs/2501.129... #cstheory #ml #ai #logic 🧪

'Things that can be learned' is the same as 'things that can be compressed' (thanks to #cstheory).

There is only 1 gender!

It's a duck.