Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 03/05/2026It's always a "back to normal" check when you have to remove the conference marker from your handle 120
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 26/04/2026Today at ICLR 2026: where does differential privacy actually start working on small tabular data? We mapped the boundary across six datasets. Sharp transition at N/d ≈ 50–300. DATA-FM Workshop, Rio. Come find me. #ICLR2026 010
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 23/04/2026First day of @iclr-conf.bsky.social coming to an end Great conversations, presentations and events A real highlight is the setting, it’s a beautiful venue #ICLR2026 150
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 21/04/2026The Amsterdam to Rio flight should just be called the ICLR express, almost more posters than seats 020
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 21/04/2026Heading to Rio 🇧🇷 for #ICLR 2026 with four papers: 📍 Terminal-Bench, main track (led by Mike & Alex) 📍 DP Viability Boundary (DATA-FM) 📍 Tensorised Multi-Omics Generation (Gen²) 📍 Stability-Aware Prompt Optimization (Trustworthy AI) See you there! #ICLR2026 030
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 23/03/2026Cool to see that EurIPS is now official as “NeurIPS Europe” but EurIPS is such a cool name 070
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 06/03/20263/3 papers accepted to #ICLR workshops and 1/1 to the conference track. See you in Rio! 000
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 31/12/2025Annual tradition: my personal site runs virtual fireworks on Dec 31 / Jan arinbjorn.isarinbjorn.isArinbjörn KolbeinssonMachine learning scientist at UVA and Imperial College London. Research in healthcare AI, foundation models and legal technology. 000
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 12/12/2025Made a thing: an interactive train route mapper for Europe 🚃 Pick your stations, see the actual railway paths, share your routes. No signup, no accounts, no friction. trainmap.apptrainmap.appTrainmap | Track Your Train JourneysCreate beautiful maps of your train journeys across Europe. Track, visualise, and share your rail adventures. 240
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 08/12/2025Back from #EurIPS Copenhagen. The European AI "style" came up a lot, which is less about where research happens, more about how: rigour, efficiency, interpretability over pure scale. Hope it returns in 2026 (offset by a week so we can do NeurIPS Sydney too). Phrase of the conference: Pareto-front 040
Reposted by ArinbjörnGaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Uncertainty in the LLM era - Science, more than scale speakerdeck.com/gaelvaroquau... My #EurIPS keynote, on scale, uncertainty, and narratives in AIspeakerdeck.comUncertainty in the LLM era - Science, more than scaleToday's AI narrative is anchored in scale, and models are far from textbook statistical modeling. And yet, the plague that are hallucination shows us th… 0255
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 02/12/2025Looking forward to an exciting week at the inaugural @euripsconf.bsky.social in Copenhagen 010
Reposted by ArinbjörnEpoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Within two years, the largest data centers may use more power than major cities. We think Microsoft's Fairwater Wisconsin campus will have a peak electrical load of 3.3 GW when its fourth building comes online in late 2027. (Los Angeles used 2.4 GW on average in 2023) 1131
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 31/10/2025It’s always a nice morning when you wake up to a paper acceptance notification 010
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 20/10/2025Iceland's status as utopia has come to an end. No more mosquito-free haven. www.ruv.is/english/2025...ruv.isMosquitoes arrive in Iceland - RÚV.isThree mosquitoes were found in Kjós in recent days. This has been confirmed by the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. It is the first time that mosquitoes have been discovered on Icelandic soil. 000
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 17/10/2025Great conversations at Launch @ethz.ch today on what it takes to scale infrastructure plays in Europe. The speakers highlighted critical new challenges that startups face, especially around timing, market entry and what differentiates category-defining companies from point solutions. 000
Reposted by ArinbjörnEpoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Sora 2 can solve questions from LLM benchmarks, despite being a video model. We tested Sora 2 on a small subset of GPQA questions, and it scored 55%, compared to GPT-5’s score of 72%. 1225
Reposted by ArinbjörnAlexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 02/10/2025Good stuff from @alexmahadevan.compoynter.orgMy journey into the artificial world of Sora 2 - PoynterOpenAI’s new social media platform is filled with AI slop and people scamming for likes 052
Reposted by ArinbjörnJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Those claiming there’s no energy transition only an “energy addition,” are wrong. I told FT: Yes, it’s correct that we are not on track globally to reduce emissions fast enough. But if you look at what’s happening across sectors, technologies, and geographies, you see real transitions underway. 30556104
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 27/09/2025My TV has a bug, either the video plays normally or the video progress bar shows, but never both simultaneously. I think it was designed by Heisenberg. I can observe either the plot or the position in the movie, but I can’t know both at once. 020
Reposted by ArinbjörnCas (Stephen Casper) @scasper.bsky.social · 12/08/2025🧵 New paper from UK AISI x @eleutherai.bsky.social rai.bsky.social that I led with @kyletokens.bsky.social y.social���: Open-weight LLM safety is both important & neglected. But filtering dual-use knowledge from pre-training data improves tamper resistance *>10x* over post-training baselines. 2124
Reposted by ArinbjörnNeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025NeurIPS is endorsing EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present NeurIPS work in Europe concurrently with NeurIPS. Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n... eurips.cceurips.cceurips.ccA NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark 112439
Reposted by ArinbjörnThe Economist @economist.com · 10/07/2025A founding NATO member, Iceland has relied mainly on America for its defence. But as Europe rearms and the Americans call out laggards, it is feeling the heatecon.stIceland has no armed forces, but that could changeThe NATO member is reconsidering its defences in the age of Trump 1235
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 17/06/2025Iceland's National Day! 🇮🇸 June 17th Last week I did the "pilgrimage" to #Iceland commemoration sites in all Baltic capitals - first to recognise their independence in 1991 Islandijos gatvė, Vilnius 🇱🇹 Islandes skvērs, Riga 🇱🇻 Islandi väljak, Tallinn 🇪🇪 030
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 06/06/2025Taking an epic train ride Switzerland → Finland via the Baltics 📍 7 countries 🚊 5 major train rides ⛴️ 1 ferry 🏛️ 7 capital cities 🌍 2,200+ kilometres The adventure starts now! Thread below… 180
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 17/05/2025A vote in #Eurovision costs as little as €0.13 and as much as €1.50, depending on where you are #Eurovision2025 041
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 29/04/2025On my way back from #ICLR2025 in Singapore, I get to tick off one of my bucket-list flights – flying direct from SIN to HEL 060
Reposted by ArinbjörnICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social · 28/04/2025That's a wrap for #ICLR2025! See you all next year in Brazil! Please all welcome @bharathhariharan.bsky.social as the new Senior Program Chair! (With @cvondrick.bsky.social continuing on as General Chair.) 0537
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 26/04/2025Only one person managed to train their production AI #ICLR2025 130
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 24/04/2025Excited to present Composable Interventions for Language Models at #ICLR2025! 🕙 10:00 📍 Hall 3, Poster #311 Dive into modular interventions and their impact on LM behaviour. Read more 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2407.06483 040
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 22/04/2025Working on an #ICLR2025 Pack with those attending and accounts connected to the conference go.bsky.app/AusRuod Let me know if you would like to be added 362
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 18/04/2025Why does the Wikipedia link in Google Search have the price as if Wikipedia is selling Airpods? 000
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 17/04/2025"The phase 3 trial found the drug lowered blood sugar by an average of 1.3 to 1.6 per cent and reduced body weight by an average of 8 per cent" Safety profile is similar to Wegovy/Ozempic Looks promising www.ft.com/content/1de9...ft.comEli Lilly’s new obesity pill lowers blood sugar and aids weight lossPromising late-stage trial results lift US pharmaceutical group’s shares 000
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 16/04/2025OpenAI releases are on a roll this week new o3 and o4 models but o1 has been limited to pro users only openai.com/index/introd...openai.comIntroducing OpenAI o3 and o4-miniOur smartest and most capable models to date with full tool access 000
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 11/04/2025Two P-8 Poseidons circling around KEF with some strange-looking tracks today @flightradar24.com 111
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 07/04/2025Does anyone track tokens per second rates for chatGPT, Claude et al.? Maybe it's just me but chatGPT feels much slower now than a few weeks ago, with the same model selected 010
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 01/04/2025Testing if the new character limit is actually right or if this is an April Fools. The new characters will have a chance to be in the new season of stranger things and then they can get their own new character. Next word prediction on ios is not that great but we are almost at the limit. This is it 010
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 01/04/2025New volcanic eruption just started in Iceland 🌋 Nearby area evacuated Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/kXD4A9u... #volcano #icelandyoutube.comGrindavik - MosaicYouTube video by RÚV 000
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 22/03/2025I was not expecting chatGPT’s alignment to suggest this while researching Meta’s current copyright case 010
Arinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 21/03/2025Google is on a roll. After weeks with a bricked Chromecast they now send an email saying they’ve remotely wiped 10+ years of my Maps timeline which was saved locally on my phone. These products are becoming unusable. 000