Objectively Random
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Hon Prof @ UCL - 8 PhD students & Algo Trading Class. Long time sell and buy-side quant/strat/ trader (LEH, GS, DB, NOM, Citadel, etc). Fintwit @firoozye. Finance, Quant, stats & ML as main interests. Many side interests.
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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?, by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani
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Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?, by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani
Anatomy of a credibility crisis
harpers.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?, by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani
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harpers.org/archive/2025...
Israel’s killing of journalists follows a pattern of silencing Palestinian media that stretches back to 1967
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Israel’s killing of journalists follows a pattern of silencing Palestinian media that stretches back to 1967
Since October 2023, Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed nearly 200 journalists. But the targeting of media predates the current conflict.
theconversation.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Israel’s killing of journalists follows a pattern of silencing Palestinian media that stretches back to 1967
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Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Monopoly, Catan and learning through play: how board games can teach us starkly different economic models
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Monopoly, Catan and learning through play: how board games can teach us starkly different economic models
Humans learn and understand the world through play.
theconversation.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Monopoly, Catan and learning through play: how board games can teach us starkly different economic models
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theconversation.com/monopoly-cat...
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music www.openculture.com/2017/04/the-...
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common.
www.openculture.com
July 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music www.openculture.com/2017/04/the-...
The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis review – bright wrong things | Books | The Guardian
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The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis review – bright wrong things
From Picasso to Joyce, we’re hopelessly in thrall to the fallacy of the all-conquering intellect. Or are we?
www.theguardian.com
June 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis review – bright wrong things | Books | The Guardian
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[1806.05635] Self-Imitation Learning arxiv.org/abs/1806.05635
Self-Imitation Learning
This paper proposes Self-Imitation Learning (SIL), a simple off-policy actor-critic algorithm that learns to reproduce the agent's past good decisions. This algorithm is designed to verify our hypothe...
arxiv.org
June 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
[1806.05635] Self-Imitation Learning arxiv.org/abs/1806.05635
‘A huge loss.' In remote Nagasaki islands, a rare version of Christianity heads toward extinction apnews.com/article/japa...?
'A huge loss.' In remote Nagasaki islands, a rare version of Christianity heads toward extinction
On the rural islands of Nagasaki a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links to a time of samurai, shoguns and martyred missionaries and believers.
apnews.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
‘A huge loss.' In remote Nagasaki islands, a rare version of Christianity heads toward extinction apnews.com/article/japa...?
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Ruizhuo Song, Beiming Yuan: Johnny: Structuring Representation Space to Enhance Machine Abstract Reasoning Ability https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01970 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.01970 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.01970
June 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Ruizhuo Song, Beiming Yuan: Johnny: Structuring Representation Space to Enhance Machine Abstract Reasoning Ability https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01970 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.01970 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.01970
We have ‘surrendered more to the machines’, says quant fund titan Cliff Asness on.ft.com/3SCHcHX
We have ‘surrendered more to the machines’, says quant fund titan Cliff Asness
After years of scepticism, co-founder of AQR has embraced AI when determining investment strategies
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June 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
We have ‘surrendered more to the machines’, says quant fund titan Cliff Asness on.ft.com/3SCHcHX
Heart attacks, fainting and falls: the perils of pooping @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/heart-attack...
Heart attacks, fainting and falls: the perils of pooping
Why toilet deaths are not uncommon, and how to avoid them.
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June 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Heart attacks, fainting and falls: the perils of pooping @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/heart-attack...
Why have so few atrocities ever been recognised as genocide?
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Why have so few atrocities ever been recognised as genocide?
Why have so few atrocities ever been recognised as the ‘crime of crimes’?
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May 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Why have so few atrocities ever been recognised as genocide?
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[2109.05578] Kernel PCA with the Nyström method arxiv.org/abs/2109.05578
Kernel PCA with the Nyström method
The Nyström method is one of the most popular techniques for improving the scalability of kernel methods. However, it has not yet been derived for kernel PCA in line with classical PCA. In this paper ...
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May 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
[2109.05578] Kernel PCA with the Nyström method arxiv.org/abs/2109.05578
Optimal Online Change Detection via Random Fourier Features
arxiv.org/abs/2505.17789
arxiv.org/abs/2505.17789
Optimal Online Change Detection via Random Fourier Features
This article studies the problem of online non-parametric change point detection in multivariate data streams. We approach the problem through the lens of kernel-based two-sample testing and introduce...
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May 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Optimal Online Change Detection via Random Fourier Features
arxiv.org/abs/2505.17789
arxiv.org/abs/2505.17789
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The level of hatred these AI bros have for creative people I just do not understand
May 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The level of hatred these AI bros have for creative people I just do not understand
We can’t tell if we’re being persuaded by a person or a program’ pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/we-...
‘We can’t tell if we’re being persuaded by a person or a program’
When researchers secretly used AI bots on Reddit to study how AI can influence human opinion it became a landmark moment for research ethics, say University of Melbourne experts.
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
May 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We can’t tell if we’re being persuaded by a person or a program’ pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/we-...
Opinion | Harvard Derangement Syndrome | Steven Pinker - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
Opinion | Harvard Derangement Syndrome
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May 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Opinion | Harvard Derangement Syndrome | Steven Pinker - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
Building A Prosocial Media Ecosystem www.noemamag.com/building-a-p...
Building A Prosocial Media Ecosystem | NOEMA
There’s never been a better time to make social media what it always should have been: a tool to strengthen rather than strip-mine the social fabric.
www.noemamag.com
May 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Building A Prosocial Media Ecosystem www.noemamag.com/building-a-p...
America Is In A Late Republic Stage Like Rome www.noemamag.com/america-is-i...
America Is In A Late Republic Stage Like Rome | NOEMA
History suggests republics don’t last more than 250 years.
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May 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
America Is In A Late Republic Stage Like Rome www.noemamag.com/america-is-i...
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Welcome to the AI trough of disillusionment www.economist.com/business/202...
Welcome to the AI trough of disillusionment
Tech giants are spending big, but many other companies are growing frustrated
www.economist.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Welcome to the AI trough of disillusionment www.economist.com/business/202...
Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment | Nature Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment - Nature Communications
Here, Bignardi et al. report on a study of over 9,000 Swedish twins that indicates the ability to enjoy music is influenced by multiple partly distinct genetic factors.
www.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment | Nature Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41...