Ferenc Huszár
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Ferenc Huszár
@inference.vc
Secular Bayesian.
Professor of Machine Learning at Cambridge Computer Lab
Talent aficionado at http://airetreat.org
Alum of Twitter, Magic Pony and Balderton Capital
Simple recipes be like
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
All I see is SeqSalt
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 AM
There are pockets of other stuff. ALT/COLT crowd seem to be content continuing to prove/improve bounds. Causal inference with ML is a bit of a thing (although likely pretending/promising to be AI for science for the money).
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Getting the zucchini right seems to be a nontrivial dependency of this
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
How is this not against the code of conduct?
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
November 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We explain in the supplementary material the process we ran internally (no IRB) There is a nice independent reaction article published in the same issue of PNAS about the ethics of these experiments: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Twitter manipulates your feed: Ethical considerations | PNAS
Twitter manipulates your feed: Ethical considerations
www.pnas.org
October 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Take for example the “time to first head” (TTFH) function whose input is a pseudorandom coin flip sequence. This function’s output (pseudogeometric) will be super sensitive to the random seed. Many machine learning experiments behave a lot more like TTFH than empirical averages.
October 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Problem is, empirical averages is not how pseudorandom are used. For example: Pseudorandom sequence is used to generate a permutation for stochastic optimisation, or to simulate random moves in a sequential game like chess. The whole trajectory depends critically on what happens at the beginning.
October 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
I can certainly imagine causing harm with all of these.

But then by this logic Microsoft Teams and JavaScript should also be on the list🤷🏽
October 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I’m curious what should/could they have done which in hindsight would have worked?
October 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
This seems to assume NGOs in those countries actually developed any productive counterstrategies or actionable insights. My impression in Hungary is that they pretty much barely hold on. I’m not sure what there is to learn other than getting a preview of what’s coming.
October 8, 2025 at 3:44 AM
October 3, 2025 at 6:20 AM
@nsaphra.bsky.social thank you f or your service, keep up the good work
October 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM