FIFA Will Award Its Own Peace Prize Next Month in Washington
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
A nice overview of continual learning (i.e., when models learn and evolve after deployment in production).
jessylin.com/2025/10/20/c...
jessylin.com/2025/10/20/c...
The Continual Learning Problem
jessylin.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
A nice overview of continual learning (i.e., when models learn and evolve after deployment in production).
jessylin.com/2025/10/20/c...
jessylin.com/2025/10/20/c...
Got this yesterday at a local used-book sale. I must have been the only computer scientist who didn't already own this book :P
October 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Got this yesterday at a local used-book sale. I must have been the only computer scientist who didn't already own this book :P
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I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
October 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
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There is no longer a fourth amendment in America. Act accordingly.
NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.
A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community.
thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...
A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community.
thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...
Feds detain dozens of immigrants in 'massive' South Shore apartment building raid in Chicago • The TRiiBE
An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in the course of the overnight raid in the predominately-Black neighborhood.
thetriibe.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There is no longer a fourth amendment in America. Act accordingly.
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In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs.
He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.
Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.
Why?
He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.
Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.
Why?
September 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs.
He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.
Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.
Why?
He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.
Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.
Why?
But what about 20250927, the best way of writing dates? 😉
Numerologists take note: tomorrow, 27th September 2025, is a square date in both US and Everywhere Else notation.
5205² = 27092025 and 3045² = 9272025
This is the last time this will happen for a thousand years!
(from @EdPeggJr on math-fun)
5205² = 27092025 and 3045² = 9272025
This is the last time this will happen for a thousand years!
(from @EdPeggJr on math-fun)
September 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
But what about 20250927, the best way of writing dates? 😉
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The blue shape is a Reuleaux triangle, and it has a lot of interesting mathematical properties. You might recognize it from drill bits, guitar picks and tamper-proof nuts in fire hydrants. www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicia...
September 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The blue shape is a Reuleaux triangle, and it has a lot of interesting mathematical properties. You might recognize it from drill bits, guitar picks and tamper-proof nuts in fire hydrants. www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicia...
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new: OpenAI is teaming up with Nvidia via a “strategic partnership” that will get the ChatGPT-maker more compute + cash on its road to superintelligence.
Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI “as each gigawatt is deployed.”
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI “as each gigawatt is deployed.”
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Nvidia is partnering up with OpenAI to offer compute and cash
A deal for ‘at least’ 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters
www.theverge.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
new: OpenAI is teaming up with Nvidia via a “strategic partnership” that will get the ChatGPT-maker more compute + cash on its road to superintelligence.
Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI “as each gigawatt is deployed.”
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI “as each gigawatt is deployed.”
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
This is really funny
Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
alignmentalignment.ai
September 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This is really funny
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Darkly amusing that the president who pardoned Ross Ulbricht also says illicit drugs are such a threat to national security that he can use the military to assassinate suspected drug dealers with no due process.
September 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Darkly amusing that the president who pardoned Ross Ulbricht also says illicit drugs are such a threat to national security that he can use the military to assassinate suspected drug dealers with no due process.
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Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
August 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
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The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Homeland Security Dept. Says It Hasn’t Kept Text Message Data Since April
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
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I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...
I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.
The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
August 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...
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Saw a funny Elon-protest bumper sticker today saying "Send Elon to Mars" :D
August 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Saw a funny Elon-protest bumper sticker today saying "Send Elon to Mars" :D
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Good news for Ireland and Austria....
August 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Good news for Ireland and Austria....
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What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine
After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.
www.quantamagazine.org
August 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...
One of my favorite things to do in Greece in the summer is to get a Sunday paper (το Βημα της Κυριακης) and sit down with a coffee and enjoy. Will definitely miss this when I return to the US soon.
July 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
One of my favorite things to do in Greece in the summer is to get a Sunday paper (το Βημα της Κυριακης) and sit down with a coffee and enjoy. Will definitely miss this when I return to the US soon.
Reposted by Dimitris Vardoulakis
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
Here we go again: Over an acerbic dissenting opinion by Justice Sotomayor (joined in full by Justices Kagan and Jackson), #SCOTUS, with no explanation, grants a stay in the Department of Education RIFs case—effectively clearing the way for the Trump administration to dismantle much of the agency:
www.supremecourt.gov
July 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
Reposted by Dimitris Vardoulakis
I gave a talk on our work on verifying the eBPF verifier in the Linux kernel at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management & BPF Summit, March 2025, Montreal, Canada. Daroc Alden from Linux Weekly News has written a nice summary article on the talk. Here is the link: lwn.net/Articles/102...
Formally verifying the BPF verifier
The BPF verifier is an increasingly complex and security-critical piece of code. When the kind [...]
lwn.net
June 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I gave a talk on our work on verifying the eBPF verifier in the Linux kernel at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management & BPF Summit, March 2025, Montreal, Canada. Daroc Alden from Linux Weekly News has written a nice summary article on the talk. Here is the link: lwn.net/Articles/102...
Reposted by Dimitris Vardoulakis
The facts are simple and devastating: Aid cuts have already cost lives, and the number of deaths will continue to rise. Here’s the evidence.
July 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The facts are simple and devastating: Aid cuts have already cost lives, and the number of deaths will continue to rise. Here’s the evidence.
