I'm going to go to Korea for ICML. If you are too, then check if you need a K-eta. This is (güya) not a visa, which in effect is worse than a visa on arrival. 1) it's not listed in a search "do I need a visa to enter". 2) you need to apply 3 days in advance. 3) it didn't accept my card for payment.

A new release from my second favorite Japanese band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHAj... The video is cool as hell as well.

Hakem raporları gelmiştir.

French media are very honest about the state of the world.

A middle aged guy would rather go on a murder spree and live the rest of his days in a basement rather than take a shower. #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly

A tarsier on my margherita.

When being beta was at worst a faint praise.

You should get a prime day, about twice a month. This is because the density of primes in this century is about 1-in-ln(20260101)~16.8. But this coming april has none. It is a very composite month. www.ishotihadus.com/next_prime_d...

Kokmuyo, korkmayın.

The S of RSA cryptography came to RIKEN for a talk.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

internet of things, in which we are the things.

— I see your tuberculosis, and I'm raising you one cancer.

you can find a sequence of dıstrıbutions q_n such that KL(p||q_n) --> 0 whereas KL(q_n||p) --> 1. So even though forward and backward KL-divergences have the same unique minimizers when q = p, the notions of convergence under them are not the same.

39 = 40-1

Wittgenstein ağlıyordu. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenV...

What if, and hear me out here, pandas are actually extremely racist and the reason they don't mate in captivity is because we keep pairing pandas with different shades of black in their eye patches and they're having none of that race mixing. They'd rather stay horny in order to keep the race pure.

French people saying "I don't know/understand economics" is such a cop out. And just when I'm about to convince them that 64 is a reasonable number.

Catchy song, I don't really understand the lyrics, I think it's a lovesong to some bomber jacket. youtu.be/hNOedumLWJ4?...

GEMINI™ espirileri. Gemini sıkı tut GEMINI™ azıtmasın. Gemini yürütüyorsun jeton jeton hey GEMINI™.

Statistical mechanics: An ensemble of tradesmen, who on average will be able to fix your car, but otherwise are maximally entropic.

Yellow watermelon. Now you can't say I haven't seen it.

Speedrunning Erdoğan's Turkey. Eight months in and we have the TÜİK (turkstat) debacle.

Gonna keep populating this site, until my tutorial in Montreal IJCAI 2025. And hopefully afterwards as well. ekiral.github.io/blog/blog-in...

I think my generation will make the most out of these AI chatbots. It might, however indeed be detrimental to the thinking process of anyone who hasn't already developed a thinking discipline, and a writing style.

The gradient of f(Ax) with respect to A is rank one. It is the outer product of f(y) with respect to y and x.

Lâlelim, lâl elim, Tözü söz olan bir öz. Bu LLM pek elim. Sahi, neydi sahici. Neydi yapay. Biz etten miydik safi Yoo, bizim de ruhu yoğuran söz aslen.

Created a quick graphic to show how the CHP have been put under pressure in Istanbul since their district council victories last year

The Musk-Trump fallout ended up happening on an auspicious day. Happy Eid everyone.

Devlet stratejik pirinç rezervlerini açmış. 2,000-Yen Govt-Stockpiled Rice Reaches Consumers in Japan url:https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2025053100158/

My highschool friend has become an artist. Singing at Babylon and stuff. youtu.be/wrSJmoEfvRA?...

People say stupid things like "love is just a bunch of chemicals". This is like saying, "literature is just a bunch of letters" putting gibberish and Shakespeare and Quran in the same bin.

Ben rakibinden bu kadar korkan, kontrolünü kaybeden ve panikle aynı anda bütün tuşlara basan başka siyasetçi ne gördüm ne duydum. Beni hapse de atsan, sosyal medya hesaplarımı da engellesen unuttuğun bir şey var; bu ülkede milyonlarca Ekrem var. #İmamoğluHerYerde

CatGPT: general purrrpose transformer. It transforms any object into a scratch toy.

It's not as difficult as it looks, the water does most of the heavylifting.

An alleged coconut grater. (From the anthropology museum in Manila)

Is this true? Have you restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey amid government pressure? @bsky.app

Yanlış değil ama keşke tek nefeste diktatörlük örneği olarak gösterilmeseydik, koyuyor hala biraz.

Yallah Türkiye'ye diyorlar

Why Turkey’s democratic future matters for the world - Ekrem İmamoğlu writes for Financial Times www.ft.com/content/4bf4...

Forget crypto, the dude is pumping and dumping with the world economy.

Her canlı bir gün ölümü tadacaktır.

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Yeni gelen arkadaşlara merhabalar. Eğer sizi diğer mekandan tanıyorsam ve takibe takip yapmam gerektiğini düşünüyorsanız, özelden yazın lütfen.

Asgari ücret konuşulmasın Emekli maaşı konuşulmasın Çarşı pazardaki fiyatlar konuşulmasın Kira fiyatları, barınma sorunu konuşulmasın Eğitimin, sağlığın, adaletin durumu konuşulmasın Otoyollara, köprülere yapılan zamlar konuşulmasın Ne yaparsanız yapın KONUŞULACAK

I’ve never seen such clampdowns in Istanbul. Turkey’s democracy is fighting for its life | Orhan Pamuk www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The claim is a bit overblown. But comrade pika was never bound to the PokeBall, and nor will it now succumb to police crackdowns.

Pikachu successfully evades police in Turkey

Protests have raged on for a fourth night in Turkey following the arrest of Istanbul's mayor. BBC. In Türkiye, to run for the Presidency, you need a degree. Erdoğan has been trying to get Imamoglu's degree revoked. www.bbc.com/news/article...

My Turkey feed is a bunch of actual turkey feed related information interleaved with reports on the death of a democracy.