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Suresh Venkatasubramanian
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Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian is an Indian computer scientist and professor at Brown University. In 2021, Prof. Venkatasubramanian was appointed to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, advising on matters relating to fairness and bias in tech systems. He was formerly a professor at the University of Utah. He is known for his contributions in computational geometry and differential privacy, and his work has been covered by news outlets such as Science Friday, NBC News, and Gizmodo. He also runs the Geomblog, which has received coverage from the New York Times, Hacker News, KDnuggets and other media outlets. He has served as associate editor of the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications and as the academic editor of PeerJ Computer Science, and on program committees for the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, the SIAM Conference on Data Mining, NIPS, SIGKDD, SODA, and STACS. .. more

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Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 11h
Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins

A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…
Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights.
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 21h
apropos of nothing at all.... www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-...
A Nobel Prize cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred - Nobel Peace Prize
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 1d
How much is Slack paying you :):)

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 1d
is it a fancy LLM? and is it something that provides useful and relevant feedback? how is it being trained to do that? and is there a non-deli paper that describes said process of training?

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 2d
I don't know if it is. Presumably the ICML organizers do. The structure of these interventions is basically to address "authors as DDOS attack on ICML" :), with the hope that this will free up reviewers.

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 2d
The new policy on deli papers (aka thinly sliced:)) seems quite strong and new. I wonder how it will play out. In brief, authors have to disclose all papers they are submitting as prior work to the one under review. I'm also not encouraged by the "use our LLM to review your work"

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 3d
I am seen.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 4d
Here are some otters hammock hugging - Enjoy!

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Kyle Lo @kylelo.bsky.social · 5d
some citation graphs data pipelines will create new "paper" nodes based on extracted bibstrings from PDFs

so in 2026 the papers we hallucinated in 2025 might end up being "real" papers on gscholar or sthn lol

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 5d
given the way fast bowlers are breaking down, I'd guess they are NOT using PEDs because that's one value add there - for recovery from injury (unlike the EPO stuff that seems cycling specific)

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 5d
This is beginning to sound like an episode of Wait Wait Don't tell me where you have to identify the true news story from the fake ones :)

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 6d
Not sure why that would help. Some amount of adrenaline is a good thing for a batsman :)

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 7d
One aspect of SVMs that are enduring is the idea of high dimensional representations that allow for simple classifiers. You see a lot of that emerging in LLM land as well.

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 10d
Yes. A standard measure might be the ranking distance (number of swaps needed to go from one order to the other). I don't have data on prior years though.

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 10d
Why it's hard to predict NFL standings. This is a comparison of preseason and current standings.
A graphical comparison of preseason and current NFL rankings with preseason on the left and current on the right, with color coded curved connecting each teams position.

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Joshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 11d
Oh, but did you know that b/c of the number-theoretics of 2026, the year allows us to give a dynamical reformulation of the P vs NP problem (A Millennium Prize Problem, worth $1M), thereby showing both that it is the wrong question to ask and that P is different from NP. (10 pages, written with AGI)

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 13d
Oof. At least they should get the definitions right.

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 14d
I'd like to propose the following norm for peer review of papers. If a paper shows clear signs of LLM-generated errors that were not detected by the author, the paper should be immediately rejected. My reasoning: 1/ #ResearchIntegrity

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18d
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Mustapha Kharbouch, the Palestinian student who was falsely accused last week of being the Brown University shooter by various racists and conspiracy theorists.
X.com Last week, online conspiracy theorists wrongfully blamed Mustapha Kharbouch, a young Palestinian student at Brown University, for the horrific shooting in early December because of a photo of him wearing a Keffiyeh. In the days since, Kharbouch has faced death threats and unimaginable Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. Today, I had the privilege of speaking with Mustapha. I learned about his life as a bright-eyed scholar interested in international relations and Anthropology. He shared stories about his summer living in Sunnyside while he pursued an internship. He is considering a PhD and thinks about moving back to New York City one day if he can afford it. And I learned about his Palestinian heritage, the very heritage he was doxxed for. I told Mustapha that we would love to have him back in New York City, where — as Mayor — I will make it my job to cherish, protect, and celebrate all New Yorkers and combat Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism at every corner.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 18d
In the late 1830s, Karl Weierstrass dropped out of university. He is said to have spent his school years drinking and fencing. Decades later, he published a function that threatened everything mathematicians thought they understood about calculus. www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-m...

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Sophie Bushwick @sophiebushwick.bsky.social · 18d
Really enjoyed this roundup of fun animal stories from 2025 🧪 And the bone-collector caterpillar is still my favorite!
These are our favorite animal stories of 2025
From clever cockatoos to vomiting spiders, these cool critters captivated us this year.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 19d
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 19d
Very accurate observations. ML and petter recognition were not regarded as mainstream AI from the late 1960s through early 1980. The ML community had trouble getting thei papers accepted in AI journals.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 19d
Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 21d
this is the way. Next thing he'll be calling you 'Clem-o' :)

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 21d
New post by @michelleding.bsky.social on resources for the Brown community in the aftermath of the shooting. open.substack.com/pub/michelle...
Caring for yourself and each other
Resources for the Brown community, friends, family, loved ones and how to support us
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21d
Those who speculated wildly about the Brown shooter without knowing any facts got things wrong—and it is important that they lose their credibility because of it, Graeme Wood argues.
How to Treat Purveyors of Baseless Speculation
Don’t log off. Keep score.
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 22d
I'll call it IvyPath.com

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 22d
that didn't work. they got caught. MY startup idea....

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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 22d
There will be many lessons to take from the tragedy at Brown. One is this: spreading baseless theories and false accusations online causes real harm.

Innocent young people have had their lives upended by reckless online speculation.

It is damaging, and it must stop.