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Trump does not consider himself to be the Leader of the Free World. He instead views himself as a member of the Authoritarian Triumvirate that rules the world

My nephew just said his first word to me. His first word ever. It was “bubble.” Short EVERYTHING, now.

Seems like a bad idea to join a startup as an employee when your company can get non-acquired for acquisition money to snipe the execs and take the tech while the company remains

You had a good run 60 minutes!

Are there any pieces on peer review in CS that you like? If so, I'd love it if you'd share them with me :) In particular I'm interested in stuff covering AI/ML/NLP/CV, which does any mix of diagnosing problems with peer review and publication or proposes fixes.

From what I've heard through the grapevine he certainly isn't above saying this in the office

I had a surprisingly nice interaction which on X comma the everything app today Some medium-small nonanonymous MLposter posted a screenshot of one of our colleague's hyphenated names with a "wow you see interesting names in research" caption it was drawing strange racial remarks from the anons 1/3

I'm working on a piece about peer review and conference publication in AI/ML/NLP/CV, and I need YOUR help to understand how the community uses conferences and peer review in paper discovery. Your four short multiple choice answers will help a lot :)

LLMs didn’t move language modeling research from linguists to AI people, they just moved it from computer scientists who thought language was interesting to computer scientists who thought language was boring

Exciting to see the experts in meteorology working on AI openreview.net/forum?id=btt...

I don't understand the point of techno optimism as an ethic or identity. It's owned by "the worst people" in tech (ie, Andreessen) because it was created to shield them from crit. Solution is to be specifically optimistic about specific tech, which no longer makes you an ideological techno optimist

Is intelligence inevitable, and would dinosaurs have become human? Claim here is "no" for reasons like something about mammals making them more likely to develop intelligence, or that the post asteroid predator-free environment bred competition, favoring intelligence youtu.be/8Gh2gycaavI

Here is my re-recording of the "What's Missed" portion of our "Science of Benchmarking" tutorial from NeurIPS 2025. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDhB...

huge news for film history appreciators and nerds www.polygon.com/star-wars-20...

I have bootlegged our panel discussion from our NeurIPS "Science of benchmarking" tutorial to youtube! Featuring @ofirpress.bsky.social @saining.bsky.social @idavidrein.bsky.social @efleisig.bsky.social and Wenda Xu www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zX...

From our summer intern at the Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers: "S-risk is the risk that AGI doesn’t kill us all, but instead enslaves and tortures us for eternity (the ‘S’ stands for suffering). It was awesome to learn about it." directing.attention.to/p/ill-never-...

This is the right way to deal with arxiv slop, not arbitrary restrictions to kinds of papers

I've written many reviews and received several top reviewer awards. I've also written some absolute dogwater critiques based on skimming at the last second with a fever. My point is it's totally random, it's not just whether you rolled a decent reviewer but whether they've had lunch that day

And here is the presentation I gave on networking, self-promo, and how to make the most out of a conference. Hope this helps for everyone at NeurIPS! www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9hG...

In a few hours (11/19, 2PM PST) I will be giving this lecture on "conferencemaxxing" to help students prepare to make the most out of NeurIPS. This lecture is open to the public. If you're interested in joining, here's a GCal invite link: calendar.google.com/calendar/eve...

Trying to decide what to do on the first day of #NeurIPS2025? Check out my, @marstin.bsky.social and @xiangyue96.bsky.social's tutorial, "The Science of Benchmarking: What's Measured, What's Missing, What's Next" on December 2 from 1:30 to 4:00pm. benchmarking.science What will we cover? 1/3

Rolled a custom (read: relatively privacy respecting) custom visitor map stack in 2.5h today with cursor

Normalize questioning the utility of mathiness in ML conference papers! Are the equations supporting an argument or are they just a fancy way to express something simple? Do introduced terms do anything or get referenced anywhere? I find the answer is usually no in the kinds of papers I review

still uncertain whether inviting all of internet to gawk at long-tailed instances of spectacular review outliars is a good productive thing

Our libraries are cutting staff so that Elsevier can have its 32% profit margin

Based. I'm pretty much a full agree on these takes

Humanity is nothing without its humanity

Thanks to @uwnews.uw.edu for covering my + @aylincaliskan.bsky.social's recent work published at AIES 2025! www.washington.edu/news/2025/11...

Guys I'm really worried about the threat of superintelligent AI, and wouldn't you know it, the best way to stop it is gonna be for you to give me a whole lotta money for my startup

More than choosing good project ideas, to me "research taste" means recognizing what the interesting part of a result is and how it connects to a bigger narrative. Almost any nontrivial result can be important within the right lens. More than anything my PhD taught me this.

🆕 from us at #EMNLP: Are LMs better at answering questions about Germany in German than in French? Is national knowledge linguistically contingent? Interestingly, only for some multilingual models is this true. Aya knows China best in Chinese, but LLaMA's best in English always.

Beautiful Blooj tears. Mariners will not have to feel the "should have been us" pain

Hate da Dodgers but also Bloojays need to pay for knocking out Seattle. I'll be smug whoever loses.

Very pro dislike button. I think the asymmetry that comes from being able to leave drive-by approval (likes) but only high-engagement disapproval (comments) raises the temperature of negative interactions, and incentivizes ragebaiting with less visible shame

I didn't realize arXiv is a postprint server

It's #NSF #GRFP application season again so it's time to re-up my GRFP application advice post! Also, check out the cool bsky comment integration I've added to the blog! Engagement with this post will go under the blogpost on my site as comments! saxon.me/blog/2024/gr...

"It's country over club as Aaron Judge will lead team USA in the World Baseball Classic next March, assuming this game will be over by then" 💀

fukuyama was right. history ended. we are stuck inside this game forever

WAITER? ANOTHER INNING OF NOTHING PLEASE

It's live! Here's an example post: saxon.me/blog/2025/la... Turning the replies to a bluesky post into the comment section for a blogpost is a small concrete way to support the ecosystem: future visitors who want to add comments incentivized to interact on the platform Also, it's very easy to do:

Stage four: The sign bears no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is its own pure simulacrum youtu.be/6i2I3dkZ5-M

Prototyping bluesky comment integrations for the blog (gonna need to modify a lot more to make it fully work with my tempalte) Also, I am getting more and more indiewebpilled. Would any other NLPMLAI researcher-bloggers be interested in making a webring?

A big part of why talking about LMs vs humans is hard is interlocutors often don't agree if they're considering idealized, worst-case, or "average" humans or LMs Personally, I think idealized human vs average LM is most germane set to use to think about capabilities

Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire. Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*

Even though it should feel pointless to care about this as our republic crumbles but somehow this shit does still make my blood boil www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

nightmare blunt rotation

🚨New paper: Reward Models (RMs) are used to align LLMs, but can they be steered toward user-specific value/style preferences? With EVALUESTEER, we find even the best RMs we tested exhibit their own value/style biases, and are unable to align with a user >25% of the time. 🧵

Happy to share that I’m presenting 3 research projects at AIES 2025 🎉 1️⃣Gender bias over-representation in AI bias research 👫 2️⃣Stable Diffusion's skin tone bias 🧑🏻🧑🏽🧑🏿 3️⃣Limitations of human oversight in AI hiring 👤🤖 Let's chat if you’re at AIES or read below/reach out for details! #AIES25 #AcademicSky