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@digammabroccoli.bsky.social
math philosophy and other stuff
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the US if Tylenol actually caused autism
September 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
the US if Tylenol actually caused autism
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What do you call colonialism in the heart of a traditionally colonialist country again
The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers.
That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
June 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
What do you call colonialism in the heart of a traditionally colonialist country again
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The DOGE mindset, perfectly encapsulated in one tweet. Destroy incredible public assets for a short term sugar high that would not come remotely close to ending the national debt
May 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The DOGE mindset, perfectly encapsulated in one tweet. Destroy incredible public assets for a short term sugar high that would not come remotely close to ending the national debt
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unironically: the realization that being a "fake man" was an option in my early twenties was among the most personally rewarding decisions I've ever made. highly recommend
May 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
unironically: the realization that being a "fake man" was an option in my early twenties was among the most personally rewarding decisions I've ever made. highly recommend
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A new report shows how little has changed for Black victims of police killings five years after George Floyd's murder www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Report: Police killings rose in the five years after George Floyd's murder
An analysis shows how little has changed for Black victims of police violence in America.
www.motherjones.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A new report shows how little has changed for Black victims of police killings five years after George Floyd's murder www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Gender is mostly about doing bits
May 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Gender is mostly about doing bits
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This is the Weierstrauss function, a “monster” that is continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere. First published in 1872, it prompted scrutiny of assumptions in calculus. Similar functions are used to study random motion and analyze risk. www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-m...
May 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is the Weierstrauss function, a “monster” that is continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere. First published in 1872, it prompted scrutiny of assumptions in calculus. Similar functions are used to study random motion and analyze risk. www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-m...
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They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.
May 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.
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it also could mean they're smoking a nice brisket, settling in for a long weekend with the boys
BREAKING: Black smoke emerges from Sistine Chapel, meaning no new pope yet
May 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
it also could mean they're smoking a nice brisket, settling in for a long weekend with the boys
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Exciting news! We were just named a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Explanatory Reporting alongside The Center for Public Integrity and @revealnews.org for our “40 Acres and a Lie” investigation into how formerly enslaved people were given land—only to have it taken back: 40acresandalie.com
May 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Exciting news! We were just named a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Explanatory Reporting alongside The Center for Public Integrity and @revealnews.org for our “40 Acres and a Lie” investigation into how formerly enslaved people were given land—only to have it taken back: 40acresandalie.com
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"Trump...has effectively given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say...The return to full-fledged war would come after Israel already cut off all supplies of food, water and medicine"
this era is so bleak
www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...
this era is so bleak
www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...
Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip
Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.
www.axios.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"Trump...has effectively given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say...The return to full-fledged war would come after Israel already cut off all supplies of food, water and medicine"
this era is so bleak
www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...
this era is so bleak
www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...
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I asked "on the other platform" what were the most important improvements to the original 2017 transformer.
That was quite popular and here is a synthesis of the responses:
That was quite popular and here is a synthesis of the responses:
April 28, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I asked "on the other platform" what were the most important improvements to the original 2017 transformer.
That was quite popular and here is a synthesis of the responses:
That was quite popular and here is a synthesis of the responses:
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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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My new paper "Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different": arxiv.org/abs/2503.02113. Generalization behaviours in deep learning can be intuitively understood through a notion of soft inductive biases, and formally characterized with countable hypothesis bounds! 1/12
March 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
My new paper "Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different": arxiv.org/abs/2503.02113. Generalization behaviours in deep learning can be intuitively understood through a notion of soft inductive biases, and formally characterized with countable hypothesis bounds! 1/12
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"Gaza development plan" is such an Orwellian turn of phrase, such an abuse of language to normalize a proposed ethnic cleansing
February 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
"Gaza development plan" is such an Orwellian turn of phrase, such an abuse of language to normalize a proposed ethnic cleansing
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How to compute Hessian-vector products?
(for instance used in TRPO, predecessor of PPO)
an @iclr-conf.bsky.social 2024 blog post.
iclr-blogposts.github.io/2024/blog/be...
(for instance used in TRPO, predecessor of PPO)
an @iclr-conf.bsky.social 2024 blog post.
iclr-blogposts.github.io/2024/blog/be...
How to compute Hessian-vector products? | ICLR Blogposts 2024
The product between the Hessian of a function and a vector, the Hessian-vector product (HVP), is a fundamental quantity to study the variation of a function. It is ubiquitous in traditional optimizati...
iclr-blogposts.github.io
February 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
How to compute Hessian-vector products?
(for instance used in TRPO, predecessor of PPO)
an @iclr-conf.bsky.social 2024 blog post.
iclr-blogposts.github.io/2024/blog/be...
(for instance used in TRPO, predecessor of PPO)
an @iclr-conf.bsky.social 2024 blog post.
iclr-blogposts.github.io/2024/blog/be...
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DO NOT MEMORY HOLE THE NAZI SALUTE!
Elon Musk did it not once but twice, and with vigor!
It’s been 3 weeks, and there’s been no accountability. Institutionalized Judaism has let him off the hook. It is up to us to remember, to never forget the ancestors who deserve better, and to make it stick.
Elon Musk did it not once but twice, and with vigor!
It’s been 3 weeks, and there’s been no accountability. Institutionalized Judaism has let him off the hook. It is up to us to remember, to never forget the ancestors who deserve better, and to make it stick.
February 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
DO NOT MEMORY HOLE THE NAZI SALUTE!
Elon Musk did it not once but twice, and with vigor!
It’s been 3 weeks, and there’s been no accountability. Institutionalized Judaism has let him off the hook. It is up to us to remember, to never forget the ancestors who deserve better, and to make it stick.
Elon Musk did it not once but twice, and with vigor!
It’s been 3 weeks, and there’s been no accountability. Institutionalized Judaism has let him off the hook. It is up to us to remember, to never forget the ancestors who deserve better, and to make it stick.
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@xtimv.bsky.social and I were just discussing this interesting comment in the DeepSeek paper introducing GRPO: a different way of setting up the KL loss.
It's a little hard to reason about what this does to the objective. 1/
It's a little hard to reason about what this does to the objective. 1/
February 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
@xtimv.bsky.social and I were just discussing this interesting comment in the DeepSeek paper introducing GRPO: a different way of setting up the KL loss.
It's a little hard to reason about what this does to the objective. 1/
It's a little hard to reason about what this does to the objective. 1/
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now that DeepSeek has completed AI, we hope that Silicon Valley will turn its attention to the next best thing: investing in rural history museums
January 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
now that DeepSeek has completed AI, we hope that Silicon Valley will turn its attention to the next best thing: investing in rural history museums
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Professor: you have a 10-page essay on odysseus due tomorrow
Me [under breath]: motherfu-
Professor: no you're thinking of oedipus
Me [under breath]: motherfu-
Professor: no you're thinking of oedipus
January 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Professor: you have a 10-page essay on odysseus due tomorrow
Me [under breath]: motherfu-
Professor: no you're thinking of oedipus
Me [under breath]: motherfu-
Professor: no you're thinking of oedipus
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Why would Trump make eggs so expensive on his first day?
January 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Why would Trump make eggs so expensive on his first day?
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this guy went on the Joe Rogan podcast to accuse other companies of insufficient innovation
January 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
this guy went on the Joe Rogan podcast to accuse other companies of insufficient innovation
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"New Year" is pretty optimistic framing. Should just be called Next Year. Happy next year
December 31, 2024 at 9:39 PM
"New Year" is pretty optimistic framing. Should just be called Next Year. Happy next year