No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜 @mmitchell.bsky.social writing on how people dramatically misunderstand the "stochastic parrot" critique. medium.com/@margarmitch...

Si vous n'êtes pas sûr à propos de la ZRR Inria, dîtes vous que ce 18 février, Bardella a demandé à l’État « d’identifier les établissements à la dérive et de procéder à leur mise sous tutelle pour y rétablir la loi, le calme et l’ordre républicain ». (via @themeta.news)

the new year

A thought experiment: What if every sufficiently expensive machine learning model was required to immediately be open-sourced? I explore this in a new blog post: togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/mand...

Academic Solidarity with Palestine is a non-profit, which, among other things, organises online courses for university students in Gaza, taught by a network of instructors from around the world. You can sign up to volunteer as a professor or teaching assistant here:

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It is impossible to put into words what a force of nature Sayan Mukherjee was. The field of TDA is better for having him as a part of it. The world lost a wonderful person this week.

The mushrooms are talking about you, they say you should cover your finger in spore dust and stick it in your ear

The list of accepted papers for SoCG is out. This year was the first time that I got the be on the program committee, it was a very interesting experience to see behind the scenes, and to read some of the very good papers that unfortunately didn‘t make the cut. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Just went live to talk about what is happening, what we can do, and what to expect this week: www.instagram.com/reel/DForuR_...

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Adam Onus, Nina Otter, Renata Turkes Shoving tubes through shapes gives a sufficient and efficient shape statistic https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18452

Antonio Leitao, Nina Otter Time-optimal persistent homology representatives for univariate time series https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08209