Amir Vaxman
@amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social
Geometry processor, discrete differentiator of geometry, mesher, directional fielder, finite elementor, and reconstructor. Reader (Associate professor) @ School of Informatics @ University of Edinburgh
If I had papers accepted but didn't write about them here did I truly have papers accepted,
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
If I had papers accepted but didn't write about them here did I truly have papers accepted,
I mean it's fun to show cases where LLMs hallucinated stuff as a sort of auto da fe to the human rationale but honestly we can do a bigger demonstration of places where ppl of power and authority (at all levels) have been tear-inducingly stupid whereas LLMs gave reasonably balanced answers,
November 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I mean it's fun to show cases where LLMs hallucinated stuff as a sort of auto da fe to the human rationale but honestly we can do a bigger demonstration of places where ppl of power and authority (at all levels) have been tear-inducingly stupid whereas LLMs gave reasonably balanced answers,
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October 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Interesting visual artifact I just (think I) created: Which do you think is the wider image?
*Both exactly 533 pixels wide
*Both exactly 533 pixels wide
October 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Interesting visual artifact I just (think I) created: Which do you think is the wider image?
*Both exactly 533 pixels wide
*Both exactly 533 pixels wide
No.... just... no
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October 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
No.... just... no
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Instead of preparing our IPAB workshop(=seminar) about any of my recent research topics, I decided to give a lecture about Linear Least Squares and all its subtleties (the four subspaces, weak solutions, pseudoinverse etc.). I feel this is something we never quite learn upfront,
September 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Instead of preparing our IPAB workshop(=seminar) about any of my recent research topics, I decided to give a lecture about Linear Least Squares and all its subtleties (the four subspaces, weak solutions, pseudoinverse etc.). I feel this is something we never quite learn upfront,
Fight the power <<< embrace the weakness,
September 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Fight the power <<< embrace the weakness,
In Cambridge for the week let's avoid each other up,
September 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
In Cambridge for the week let's avoid each other up,
Grant rejections
September 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Grant rejections
Is OpenReview down? I'm getting "upstream request timeout". This is AAAI Review deadline day...
September 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Is OpenReview down? I'm getting "upstream request timeout". This is AAAI Review deadline day...
"Want to access advanced AI features"? ok there's a "no" option but where's the "NO" option,
August 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
"Want to access advanced AI features"? ok there's a "no" option but where's the "NO" option,
Is there any (preferably UK-based) scientist (University or company, doesn't matter) who researches AI methods to mediate between high-skill and steep-learning-curve technology and users who might need it, but do not possess the skill, the understanding, or even the idea of what to look for?
August 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Is there any (preferably UK-based) scientist (University or company, doesn't matter) who researches AI methods to mediate between high-skill and steep-learning-curve technology and users who might need it, but do not possess the skill, the understanding, or even the idea of what to look for?
I often find chatGPT to be more reliable than wikipedia. Especially for non-mathematical topics. History and politics Wikipedia should be avoided as they are 100% hallucinations and forced agenda,
August 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I often find chatGPT to be more reliable than wikipedia. Especially for non-mathematical topics. History and politics Wikipedia should be avoided as they are 100% hallucinations and forced agenda,
I'll be at SIGGRAPH 2025! Please avoid me,
August 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I'll be at SIGGRAPH 2025! Please avoid me,
Urban overfitters,
August 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Urban overfitters,
Two dimensional trivial solutions can be parameterized by platitudes and plongitudes,
July 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Two dimensional trivial solutions can be parameterized by platitudes and plongitudes,
ppl are concerned that ChatGPT uses too many em-dashes, but what about it using too many "++x"? Who even uses this? It's an "intro to C" trope,
July 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
ppl are concerned that ChatGPT uses too many em-dashes, but what about it using too many "++x"? Who even uses this? It's an "intro to C" trope,
The really bothersome thing about the promptgate is that LLMs don't automatically know to ignore this simple hack even in the context of "review this paper" command,
July 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The really bothersome thing about the promptgate is that LLMs don't automatically know to ignore this simple hack even in the context of "review this paper" command,
I think one of the things that more "tradionalists" (like me?) struggle with is that ML ppl may not consider the training of the model to be the "methodology", but rather the inference. Like they train a model and then the trained model *is the algorithm*,
July 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I think one of the things that more "tradionalists" (like me?) struggle with is that ML ppl may not consider the training of the model to be the "methodology", but rather the inference. Like they train a model and then the trained model *is the algorithm*,
If AI produces slop hallucinations concealing entire wrong statements with proper phrasing what's wikipedia's excuse,
July 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If AI produces slop hallucinations concealing entire wrong statements with proper phrasing what's wikipedia's excuse,
Degenerative AI,
Who the hell called it AI Animation instead of Slop Motion
July 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Degenerative AI,
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Who the hell called it AI Animation instead of Slop Motion
July 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Who the hell called it AI Animation instead of Slop Motion
Machine Learning/AI pipeline figures have a very creative use of arrows. To me an algorithm is a directed graph where every node without incoming arrows is an input and without outgoing arrows it's an output, but I often see random things connected together,
July 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Machine Learning/AI pipeline figures have a very creative use of arrows. To me an algorithm is a directed graph where every node without incoming arrows is an input and without outgoing arrows it's an output, but I often see random things connected together,
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A simple interactive program for drawing on a torus, written in response to a math.stackexchange question. Mathematically, we see the flat plane as a conformal universal cover of a circular torus. Read more:
www.diffgeom.com/blogs/free-o...
#MathSky #ITeachmath
www.diffgeom.com/blogs/free-o...
#MathSky #ITeachmath
July 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A simple interactive program for drawing on a torus, written in response to a math.stackexchange question. Mathematically, we see the flat plane as a conformal universal cover of a circular torus. Read more:
www.diffgeom.com/blogs/free-o...
#MathSky #ITeachmath
www.diffgeom.com/blogs/free-o...
#MathSky #ITeachmath