Kevin Slote
@kevinslote.bsky.social
Applied Mathematician
Macro data refinement scientist
https://kslote1.github.io
Everyone should care.
My opinions are my own
Macro data refinement scientist
https://kslote1.github.io
Everyone should care.
My opinions are my own
Reminds me of the one puppet from Puppet Master. Ironically a movie about Nazi puppets.
October 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Reminds me of the one puppet from Puppet Master. Ironically a movie about Nazi puppets.
How it feels accepting a postdoc in upstate New York
September 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
How it feels accepting a postdoc in upstate New York
Just published in PNAS Nexus!
Using high-resolution, time series from 2012–2020 and applying the PCMCI+ causal algorithm, we find:
The Twitter posts by groups like the NRA is another direct causal driver of firearm acquisition.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Using high-resolution, time series from 2012–2020 and applying the PCMCI+ causal algorithm, we find:
The Twitter posts by groups like the NRA is another direct causal driver of firearm acquisition.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
June 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Just published in PNAS Nexus!
Using high-resolution, time series from 2012–2020 and applying the PCMCI+ causal algorithm, we find:
The Twitter posts by groups like the NRA is another direct causal driver of firearm acquisition.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Using high-resolution, time series from 2012–2020 and applying the PCMCI+ causal algorithm, we find:
The Twitter posts by groups like the NRA is another direct causal driver of firearm acquisition.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Shameless self promotion
April 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Shameless self promotion
That’s not what this paper says though. Maybe I’m confused. Do you have anything else? Transformers equal brains seems like a big claim. Correlation isn’t causation and so on.
March 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
That’s not what this paper says though. Maybe I’m confused. Do you have anything else? Transformers equal brains seems like a big claim. Correlation isn’t causation and so on.
Wow. I made this meme so long ago.
February 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Wow. I made this meme so long ago.
This is what I think of when I hear about “radical ideals.”
February 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is what I think of when I hear about “radical ideals.”
It’s concerning that all of our research energy is being funneled into this fundamentally false advertised and broken technology.
February 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It’s concerning that all of our research energy is being funneled into this fundamentally false advertised and broken technology.
I’m kind of worried that my new kitten is turning towards evil
January 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I’m kind of worried that my new kitten is turning towards evil
I recently made my acting debut. That makes me one of the few to have an erdos number and a Kevin Bacon number.
January 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I recently made my acting debut. That makes me one of the few to have an erdos number and a Kevin Bacon number.
Supposedly, spotted at NeurIPS this year
December 16, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Supposedly, spotted at NeurIPS this year
I see so many cool plots on here. This one is not one of them. But oh well, I think modular forms are cool.
December 13, 2024 at 3:39 AM
I see so many cool plots on here. This one is not one of them. But oh well, I think modular forms are cool.
I got a private tour of the Brain Room at Yale this weekend and it was super cool.
December 9, 2024 at 4:19 PM
I got a private tour of the Brain Room at Yale this weekend and it was super cool.
Don’t ask me to explain, but I associate this image with topological data analysis
November 22, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Don’t ask me to explain, but I associate this image with topological data analysis
Elon Musk and the DOGE braintrust using LLMs to eliminate federal employees is at least an opportunity to point out to people that LLMs have created a vortex of advertising and industrial-funded science, making an epistemological and ethical blanket for egregious socially harmful applications.
November 22, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Elon Musk and the DOGE braintrust using LLMs to eliminate federal employees is at least an opportunity to point out to people that LLMs have created a vortex of advertising and industrial-funded science, making an epistemological and ethical blanket for egregious socially harmful applications.