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Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · 3d

Does that make the OpenAI erotic chatbots... metrosexual?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

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Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · Sep 30

TFW you open a new browser tab and your fingers automatically type "overleaf.c" + tab.

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Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · Sep 18

The line between satire and reality has blurred even further

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · Sep 2

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

Google AI search result for “was 2010 fifteen years ago?” returning: “No, 2010 was 14 years ago, not 15 years ago. The current year is 2025, and to find the number of years ago 2010 was, you subtract 2010 from 2025, which equals 14.
Current Year: 2025
Past Year: 2010
Years Ago: 2025 - 2010 = 14 years”

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Laurent Duval (research amateur) @laurentduval.bsky.social · Sep 1

Worn, vintage yet precious to my heart. Souvenir: a mousepad from #ISIT 1998, the International Symposium on Information Theory, in honor of Claude E. Shannon 1948 paper, "A mathematical theory of communication", where I was a lucky voluntary student.

Mousepad from #ISIT 1998, the International Symposium on Information Theory, in honor of Claude E. Shannon 1948 paper, "A mathematical theory of communication"

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Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · Aug 29

There is a lovely set of choral pieces by Britten, the flower songs, and The Evening Primrose is a balm:

youtu.be/fCEr1tIvDe4?...

The evening primrose from Five Flower Songs - Benjamin Britten, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers

YouTube video by John Rutter & The Cambridge Singers

youtu.be

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Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · Aug 28

This. Actually this.

www.argmin.net/p/the-banal-...

The Banal Evil of AI Safety

Chatbot companies are harmful and dishonest. How can we hold them accountable?

www.argmin.net

Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · Aug 12

The scansion doesn’t work for singing it to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody.

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Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · Aug 1

Really sad to hear about their recent fire!

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Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · Jul 18

Evergreen! Also: "drones helping save people after natural disasters" vs. "drones killing anyone else who survived after we bombed them."

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Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · Jul 18

"Do you need an accelerant? Maybe some kindling?"

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antonio vergari ⚔️ short-circuiting @nolovedeeplearning.bsky.social · Jul 14

by applying a QR decomposition, any matrix can be written as a QR code multiplied by an upper triangular matrix

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Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · Jul 10

Ah posted to the wrong post, will delete.

Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · Jul 9

You mean kids from 2005-2016 were not 50% smarter than everyone else???????????

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Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · Jul 9

Wow, my SAT score was waaaaay lower. How am I a full-ass professor?

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Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · Jul 9

ALIGNMENT is all that there is for you
Sorry that there's all this bullshit too
ArXiV's full of crap
So good luck finding just a scrap
ALIGNMENT's hard to waaaade through...

(h/t Nat King Cole)

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Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · Jul 9

A is altruism, ethically
L is large because it has to be
I is very, very, inferenc-iary
G is for the generative
N-onsense for your query

M is for the manifolds, you see
E is 'mergent (no emergency)
N is nous, it has it (don't deny it, just embrace it)
T is trite palaver, best to skip even a whit

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Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · Apr 29

I've created a new AI assistant called Bartleby that politely refuses to do any task you ask it to do.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Jul 9

Went to go look at Grok but got distracted by this quite funny burn on Continental philosophy.

Tomieinlove tweets:

"(Continental philosopher): Without 5, we could not count to 6.

(Me): Yes.

(Continental philosopher): It could be said 6 is consequently in the 5-shadow, the forthcoming of 6 is 5-heralded, that 5 springs necessarily from the recapitulation of 6.

(Me, checking my watch): Yes."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jul 5

The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.

capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · Jul 4

The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · Jul 4

The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/

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Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · Jul 3

Do I stay up until midnight AOE and hope they have their shit together or just assume they will be gracious about it? Their language suggested the former. It's a holiday weekend and I don't have the time to deal with their BS.

Anand Sarwate (he/him) @ergodicwalk.bsky.social · Jul 3

OpenReview's servers appear to be borked so I can't upload my already written reviews and I've planned to be off the next few days. NeurIPS appears to be very dire about deadlines but also don't have the infrastructure up.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Jun 29

While I've expressed a number of disagreements w Mamdani, Sen. Gillibrand's lacerating and tendentious attacks on him just cement my longstanding belief that's she's a self-seeking opportunist of the worst order. I fully respect those who think Al Franken was right to resign. But Gillibrand ...

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