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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 1d

It looks like I have to add Wiley to the list of publishers I refuse to publish with or review for 🤷🏻‍♂️

Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Pier Luigi Dragotti @pdragotti.bsky.social · 2d

We are hiring. We have a post-doc position on machine learning for large-scale shared representations of dynamic environments with a focus on
developing novel neural distributed compression algorithms. Please spread the news, opening here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 7d

184 years earlier than predicted, London has met the legal limits for toxic NO2 for the first time.

This historic milestone proves that bold action like expanding ULEZ works, protecting children’s health and giving millions cleaner air to breathe.

London Ulez reduced nitrogen dioxide to legal limit, mayor says

The mayor of London says the fall in airborne toxins is due to the Ultra low emission zone expansion.

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Pier Luigi Dragotti @pdragotti.bsky.social · 19d

very happy that our paper on memorization in diffusion models: "Tracing the Roots: Leveraging Temporal Dynamics in Diffusion Trajectories for Origin Attribution" has been accepted at #NeurIPS2025

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Pier Luigi Dragotti @pdragotti.bsky.social · 20d

I have only one but I'm going to brag about that anyway 😉

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · Aug 17

I suppose this is the point when I should say again that:

the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*

what this country is really good at is producing culture

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · Aug 17

yes. yes yes.

the UK is (not just the originator but) the setting for some of the most popular culture in the world. there is a whole genre of videogames that are set in an imagined Britain. 'soft' power is real economic and even political power.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Aug 16

Agree. One thing that I really liked about @jpspencer.bsky.social’s Labour Together report is it included culture in “growth spending”. So much policy about regional development in the UK basically regards culture, tourism, etc. as distractions from the real work of building trains to nowhere.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · Jul 19

#BookSky

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Pier Luigi Dragotti @pdragotti.bsky.social · Jul 18

where did you take this picture?

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Pier Luigi Dragotti @pdragotti.bsky.social · Jul 16

If you are at #ICML2025 come to our spotlight poster "LotteryCodec: Searching the Implicit Representation in a Random Network for Low-Complexity Image Compression" on Thursday: eedavidwu.github.io/LotteryCodec/

LotteryCodec

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Pier Luigi Dragotti @pdragotti.bsky.social · Jul 16

as someone only able to use the left hand, I'm really looking forward to attending this concert (is it too late for me to become a great pianist like Nicholas McCarthy? 😏): www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Left turns: How a terrible war injury led to the birth of one-handed piano music

After losing his arm in the first world war, pianist Paul Wittgenstein commissioned extraordinary new works that he could perform with just his left hand. I’m aiming to keep his incredible legacy aliv...

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Pier Luigi Dragotti @pdragotti.bsky.social · Jun 11

new preprint on diffusion posterior sampling using invertible neural networks is available here: arxiv.org/abs/2505.12935

LatentINDIGO: An INN-Guided Latent Diffusion Algorithm for Image Restoration

There is a growing interest in the use of latent diffusion models (LDMs) for image restoration (IR) tasks due to their ability to model effectively the distribution of natural images. While significan...

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Pier Luigi Dragotti @pdragotti.bsky.social · Jun 10

Ingrid Daubechies' Bakerian lecture is now available here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk0Y...

How mathematicians are helping art historians | The Royal Society

YouTube video by The Royal Society

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · Jun 7

There's a lot of big news today/this week, but Apple just dropped a nuke of a paper about LLMs & LRMs, specially around "high-complexity tasks where both models experience complete collapse." This is the biggest sign yet that if AI ever lives up the hype, it won't be via those approaches:

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

machinelearning.apple.com

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Pier Luigi Dragotti @pdragotti.bsky.social · Jun 1

I am very happy that The Bakerian Medal and Lecture 2025 is awarded to Ingrid Daubechies and I am looking forward to attending her lecture tomorrow: royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...

Bakerian Medal and Lecture | Royal Society

This prize lecture is the premier lecture in the physical sciences.

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Pier Luigi Dragotti @pdragotti.bsky.social · May 26

I thoroughly enjoyed the EEE Alumni Event organized by @imperialeee.bsky.social It’s inspiring to hear successful young professionals with a PhD with us speak openly also about their personal failures and rejections. When such honesty comes from accomplished individuals, it feels even more powerful.

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Gabriel Peyré @gabrielpeyre.bsky.social · May 25

I have cleaned up the notebooks for my course on Optimal Transport for Machine Learners and added links to the slides and lecture notes. github.com/gpeyre/ot4ml

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · May 20

This is a good article. It's so easy to generate results with AI tools that we are rushing to publish them without doing the hard work of checking that they really hold up. This problem predates AI though. So much computational modelling has the same problems

www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fool...

I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me

I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.

www.understandingai.org

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Pier Luigi Dragotti @pdragotti.bsky.social · May 21

Agree and truly enjoyed reading the article.

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Gabriel Peyré @gabrielpeyre.bsky.social · May 13

I have cleaned a bit my lecture notes on Optimal Transport for Machine Learners arxiv.org/abs/2505.06589

Optimal Transport for Machine Learners

Optimal Transport is a foundational mathematical theory that connects optimization, partial differential equations, and probability. It offers a powerful framework for comparing probability distributi...

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Pier Luigi Dragotti @pdragotti.bsky.social · May 9

The 2025 call for the Imperial College Research Fellowships (ICRFs) is now open (www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and...). Any top researcher with less than four years of Post-doc experience and interested in computational imaging is welcome to contact me.

Imperial College Research Fellowships

The Imperial College Research Fellowship (ICRF) scheme is designed for outstanding early career researchers looking for an opportunity to focus on re...

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Pier Luigi Dragotti @pdragotti.bsky.social · May 8

just back from the party to celebrate the reopening of the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery. The Gallery in the evening is as stunning as ever. The new wing will open to the public on Saturday.

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Aurelien Lucchi @alucchi.bsky.social · May 3

Our research group in the department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel (Switzerland) is looking for several PhD candidates and one post-doc who have a theoretical background in optimization and machine learning or practical experience in the field of reasoning.