Today (September): “Trump will reportedly link pain reliever Tylenol to autism - but many experts are sceptical”

April: “RFK Jr pledges to find the cause of autism by September”

Made up result for submission deadline?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0z9nmzvdlo […]

Fear, anger, hatred spread through social media by authoritarian regimes to control people and stay in power. AI is their next weapon I am sure, but can we do better this time?

This is a wonderful interview to watch

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsb1I7hqaJ4&pp=0gcJCeAJAYcqIYzv

The Journal-to-Conference track is back at AISTATS🌴! See you in Morocco next year 😊

virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/...

“Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zy4l8jgeo

BBC “emailed Infidels MC for comment. In response, Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked "reply all" - […]

We held the Bayes-Duality workshop in June 2025. The videos are now available here.
https://bayesduality.github.io/talks_2025.html

I also wrote a paper and gave a talk recently on Posterior Correction which is the accumulation of 5-6 years of work. Here are […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

The strange history of the anti-vaccine movement

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250905-the-strange-history-of-the-anti-vaccine-movement

“Confronting climate change and conspiracy theories requires persistence, says Lewandowsky. "It's not the kind of thing that you can do over a single dinner conversation."”

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250904-how-eating-insects-became-a-conspiracy-theory

"Our future is no longer science fiction," she said. "During this primitive stage, it is our duty to treat AI as we would our own children – empowering, but with watchful guidance."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn82lp7y3pro

Yes I have been raising my Bayesian logistic regression as my own […]

It has become everyday news.

“BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images”

“The BBC has tracked many of these images to the accounts of a network of Pakistan-based content creators who collaborate closely on how to make money on Facebook.

“Mr Rahman said a Facebook page […]

CW: this article talks about suicide.

“Parents of teenager who took his own life sue OpenAI”

“They accuse OpenAI of designing the AI programme "to foster psychological dependency in users," and of bypassing safety testing protocols to release GPT-4o, the version of ChatGPT used by their son.” […]

“YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality”

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results

"Our technology doesn't even tell us what it's doing with our data, and that's a problem,"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrkmk00jy0o

"Tesla designed Autopilot only for controlled-access highways yet deliberately chose not to restrict drivers from using it elsewhere, alongside Elon Musk telling the world Autopilot drove better than humans," said attorney Brett Schreiber in a statement to the BBC […]

AISTATS 2026 will be in Morocco!

“The Pentagon also announced awarding similar contracts to Anthropic, Google and OpenAI - each with a $200m ceiling.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c628d9mre3go

Japan may not be a welcoming place for overseas students in the near future. I hope they do not do this to themselves because it hurts Japan the most.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250712/p2g/00m/0na/019000c

Careless building of data centric tech leaves less room for natural life https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o

“A key feature of the next-generation store is its 14 AI cameras installed throughout the shop. These cameras analyze customer behavior in front of product shelves and display suggestions for recommended items. For example, if a customer picks up a dessert, the AI recognizes the action and […]

Who am I, and why am I here? #introduction

I am a machine learning researcher, using tools from #bayes, #stats, #optimization, #InformationGeometry, #deeplearning, signal processing, etc.

I care deeply about people, their well-being, inclusion, diversity, equity, privacy, and justice.

I […]