once again being driven insane by ML conference submissions

Structuralism and literary theory might/not meet the semantic needs in the world of language-bearing machines. Had been thinking this year that modeling cliche/doxa will become more prevalent in the coming decade, and here it seems to call it "symbolic order" and "culture". Book looks promising.

A new paper with Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gomez-Serrano, and Adam Zsolt Wagner: "Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale" arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864. Further discussion is at terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/m...

In a future where the rich kids are being raised with a digital Cyrano beside them to sweet-talk their way into the best jobs, four friends train together for a battle to prove that other kinds of minds might still have the edge.

My new story “Understudies” in Clarkesworld.

‘This is our revolution. It’s our turn now’: Nepal’s ‘gen Z protesters’ speak out against corruption

They really are going thru with it. Now Reddit, Linkedin and Whatsapp also unavailable in addition to Facebook and Instagram from yesterday. Youtube and Gmail when? Absolute madness.

kathmandupost.com/money/2025/0...

If a writer writes a narrator (who writes for closure) going for pathos by punishing a vulnerable character, is it the writer using a tired trick to draw out said pathos or is it the narrator coming to terms with his feelings? Conflicted about this one. I'd've forgiven if longer and fleshed out.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Would be fascinated to learn how this paper came into being given the authors on it: arxiv.org/abs/2412.05747

Excited to share our work at Wiseyak Inc. on adapting Meta's Llama 3 to Nepali using synthetic data. We explore the potential of domain-adaptive continual learning to circumvent the infamous data-compute bind for low-resource languages/tasks.

Blog: medium.com/@sharad.duwa...

#NepaliNLP #COLING25