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Kristian Lum
@kldivergence.bsky.social
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Research Scientist at GDM. Statistician. Mostly work on Responsible AI. Academia-industry flip-flopper.

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Jun 26
Anyone at #facct2025 want to go to the acropolis this afternoon?

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Jun 16
Fine with me! I don’t even remember this!

Reposted by Kush R. Varshney, Kristian Lum

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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · May 16
Announcing our keynote speakers for #FAccT2025! 🎉

Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown)
Nathalie Smuha (KU Leuven)
Kristian Lum (Google DeepMind)
Molly Crockett (Princeton)

And the plenary panel will be on “Pathways of Change and the Future of Responsible AI"

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Feb 12
Sorry I guess? Others came in with a lower bid??

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Feb 12
Lost in the woods and next right thing are both on my personal playlists lol

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Feb 12
lol ok I guess I should put my money where my mouth is. I’d definitely pay the equivalent of taking someone out for lunch (or just take them out for lunch) for a conversation of this type in person. On here? Seems like at least some people are willing to provide it for free so…

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Feb 10
I’d be really interested to know more about how airlines pick which movies to include in their onboard catalogues and why Almost Famous makes the cut 100% of the time.

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Feb 10
Haven’t seen it in a while. But I’ll go out on a limb and say yes. The songs in frozen 2 are excellent.

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Feb 10
I took my 6 year old to see Moana 2 in theaters. I thought it was decent but not as good as Moana. Best ever Disney sequel is frozen 2… arguably better than frozen.

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Feb 8
I would pay actual money to have a conversation about something that isn’t US politics or AI and at no point brings those topics up. Wanna talk about the Roman Empire? Let’s go. Paw Patrol? Great. Your latest sourdough recipe? Amazing. Just please, a nice weekend break from politics and AI.

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Jan 11
thank you! Unfortunately I already paid for the other but immediately canceled after I saw the auto reply from the original.

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Jan 11
Yes! Thank you!

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Jan 11
Has anyone built a utility to automatically export your following list from other social networks and search here for the same handle?

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Jan 11
I’ve been trying to find a service that helps you go over various homeowners insurance policies and talk through which is best for me. Surely this must exist, but…

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Nov 22
I’m hoping to get someone in a bit sooner than that.

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Nov 22
I’m hiring a research engineer to join my team at Google DeepMind to work on AI evals. Please pass the job ad on to anyone who might be interested!

boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

Note: it is a fixed term, 12 month contract.
Research Engineer, Responsibility - 12 month FTC
London, UK
boards.greenhouse.io

Reposted by Kristian Lum

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Robin Ryder @robinryder.bsky.social · Nov 21
Bayesians!
Are you a member of ISBA? Are you into applications in the Social Sciences?

We are starting a new ISBA section on Bayesian Social Sciences. This requires a petition, signed by at least 30 ISBA members. You can add your name here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Petition to form a Bayesian Social Sciences section at ISBA
Petition to form a Bayesian Social Sciences section at ISBA The following members of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) wish to petition the ISBA board to be recognized as the IS...
docs.google.com

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Nov 20
Not entirely sure I’m grumpy or in ML but at the very least I am grumpy-ML-adjacent. And eager to rebuild a network off of X/twitter so…. Let me in? 😄

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Nov 20
I hear we’re doing the thing over here now.

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Nov 20
And while I’m delighted by the idea of a community of dogs in statistics, as indicated by emojis in profiles, I’m confused by the connection to Data Science for Delight, which I still feel absolutely must happen.

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Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social · Nov 20
I have found the thread, aaron! But now I am more confused… “dog in statistics”??!?