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David Marx

@digthatdata.bsky.social
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I read a lot of research. Mostly ML. Currently reading: dmarx.github.io/papers-feed Statistical Learning Information Theory Ontic Structural Realism Morality As Cooperation Free Culture, Open Access YIMBY, UBI Research MLE Frmr FireFighter

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1h
lock-in
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1h
after some cursory googling, looks like that book would pair nicely with:
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The Lady Tasting Tea - Wikipedia
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1h
not sure what's catching my eye more: the meal or the book. tell me more about that book
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1h
Alef Alpha needs to get gud. Below report is from Hopper, but it looks like roughly the same gap is still there (or has possibly gotten even worse).
coreweave.com
CoreWeave Drives 20% Higher GPU Cluster Performance | CoreWeave
CoreWeave enhances AI infrastructure efficiency with up to 20% higher Model FLOPS Utilization (MFU), accelerating AI model training and reducing inefficiencies
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1h
they should be able to get higher MFU than that out of B200s (IMHO)
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1h
youtube.com
Happy Birthday to the Mystery Farter
YouTube video by Found Footage Fest
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1h
s/sens/espere/
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1h
but are we ready for memes that only work in French?
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 7h
isn't the convergence necessarily memory?
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 7h
those other models are fakes or something, this is the one and only.
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 7h
Actually, way better (and earlier) citation: here's the DINO paper.
arxiv.org
Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers
In this paper, we question if self-supervised learning provides new properties to Vision Transformer (ViT) that stand out compared to convolutional networks (convnets). Beyond the fact that adapting s...
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 7h
oh look, an excuse to share a compvis paper (demonstrates segmentation learning emerging implicitly from masked prediction)
arxiv.org
[MASK] is All You Need
In generative models, two paradigms have gained attraction in various applications: next-set prediction-based Masked Generative Models and next-noise prediction-based Non-Autoregressive Models, e.g., ...
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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy birthday CERN! 🎉 #OnThisDay 72 years ago, CERN officially came into being, bringing together 12 founding Member States with a shared vision for science and international collaboration. Discover the story behind 72 years of science: home.cern/about/who-we...
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 21h
I still struggle
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 21h
by all means, please: start a fight with her. she has a lot of bad takes and gets way more attention than she should.
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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So excited that our work is now published in PLOS Biology!! 🎉 Check out the final version here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... And for a bit more context and what we found, here’s our earlier thread: bsky.app/profile/goli...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22h
The Supreme Court’s majority gave no reason for its literal life-and-death decision to wipe out an appeals court order issued earlier today and which was, on its face, intended to be temporary in nature. Sotomayor wrote tonight’s dissent. Order and dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The Court's decision to vacate that stay interferes with the Sixth Circuit's routine administrative handling of a capital case and unnecessarily prevents that court from giving due consideration to Pike's claim. Worse, the Court grants such extraordinary relief solely to allow the State to execute Pike before litigation over her conviction has properly run its course in the lower courts. I see no reason to short-circuit the ordinary process of appellate review, particularly in light of the grave consequences of an erroneous de-cision. Tennessee's desire to expedite Pike's execution by a few days or even weeks cannot outweigh her "fundamentalinterest in [her] own life." Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U. S. 1,
9 (1985).
In capital cases, "[a]ppreciation of our own fallibility, and respect for the judgment of an appellate tribunal," demand caution before "acting irretrievably." Bowersox v. Williams,
517 U. S. 345, 347 (1996) (Ginsburg, J., dissenting). Indeed, this Court often states that it is "'a court of review, not of first view?" McLane Co. v. EEOC, 581 U.S. 72, 85 (2017) (quoting Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709, 718, n. 7
(2005)). Today, the Court, as it has too often lately, chooses to overlook that principle precisely when it matters most.
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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 30/09/2026
Beautiful article about math and AI by Dan Rockmore. The connection to art and photography via Walter Benjamin was very fresh -- definitely worth reading, even if you're tired of reading about math and AI.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In our Nature paper, we introduce the first superhuman Stratego AI, which we built using general techniques that we developed for RL & test-time compute under imperfect information. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Scalable decision-making for games of imperfect information - Nature
Ataraxos, an AI for the board wargame Stratego, establishes a design pattern for reinforcement learning and search that is effective under large amounts of hidden information, a longstanding desiderat...
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22h
just remember: it only gets worse from here
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 22h
Absolutely insane, & I'm saying this as someone who has zero sympathy for Pike. They're not even giving *reasons* for blowing up a lower court's one & only chance to decide an important justiciable question because they want to execute ppl as fast as humanly possible. Legit courts aren't like this!
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 22h
The law in its magnificent equality enables the courts to both ensure that the government can maroon immigrants, and that it cannot pause a killing.
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 22h
xkcd.com/386/
xkcd.com
Duty Calls
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 23h
no "weirdos", just, you know, perfectly normal people who kill other people for a living.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the original action at the Supreme Court, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama — lacking all sense of irony or knowledge of history — accuse New York, Massachusetts, and California of "one of the most serious interstate aggressions in our Nation’s history" because of their abortion shield laws.
documentcloud.org
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is another big story today. I was waiting on @kelciemmorris.bsky.social's report, excellent as always, as I knew she was on it. —>
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I haven't been active on discord for a while now, but here's an interesting compling paper I've been trying to get in front of tokenization people. Goldberg & Shirtz, 2025. "The English phrase-as-lemma construction: When a phrase masquerades as a word, people play along"
muse.jhu.edu
Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our large-scale study of memorization of books in open-weight LLMs (e.g., Llama, Qwen) will appear at the 2026 Conference on Language Modeling as an oral. We made a website for exploring our results on 200 books and 14 models: books-memorization.github.io
books-memorization.github.io
How much do open-weight LLMs memorize specific books?
Open-weight LLMs memorize books far more than previously believed. Memorization varies by model family, model size, and book. In extreme cases, entire books are memorized, and we can generate them eff...
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Breaking - The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to restart its program of removing migrants to countries other than their homeland without giving them an opportunity to raise human rights concerns… will hear arguments later this year www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/p...
cnn.com
Supreme Court allows Trump to restart controversial deportations to countries they have no connection to | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to restart its program of removing migrants to countries other than their homeland without giving them an opportunity to raise human right...
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the future belongs to the people who know how to ask the right questions.
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 30/09/2026
🏹 Job alert: PhD Position in Mathematical Foundations of Deep Learning at TU Darmstadt 📍 Darmstadt 🇩🇪 ⏰ 22 October 🔗 bit.ly/4dzSuaG
bit.ly
www.career.tu-darmstadt.de
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
old: turn it off and back on again now: /clear
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hmm
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wonder if there's an ATProto opportunity here? logged-in-DID-as-token?
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
symbolic regression + boosting = interpretable decompositions of chaotic systems
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Jen Lawrence's Expressive Moment
ALT: Jen Lawrence's Expressive Moment
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
> the court: "... you're now talking about three members of the panel, but there's eleven of us." lmao
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
shumate stepping up for rebuttal: "hold my beer."
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️
cls-lab.com
CLS Lab — Culture, Language, & Systems | University of Colorado Boulder
The Culture, Language, & Systems Lab at CU Boulder studies the language systems that transmit and shape modern culture, from internet platforms to literary archives to language models.
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
female voice from the bench making statements that may as well have come from the DOJ themselves: probably Rao.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 29/09/2026
Public Citizen files a complaint opposing the broadcasting of Trump’s ads as violating laws against taxpayer-funded propaganda. Full complaint buff.ly/kYCsKEW
Public Citizen urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and broadcasters individually, to end airing recent campaign commercials by President Trump and the White House that appear to be in breach of federal law. At least three campaign ads, paid for by taxpayer dollars, appear to violate the federal law against using taxpayer funds to finance propaganda (5 U.S.C. §3107) and related provisions of the appropriations laws as well as the Hatch Act (5 U.S.C. §7324).
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
also @lawfaremedia.org and team
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh shit, I hadn't heard about this.
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rao is a woman.
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is pure schadenfruede
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
rao can go eat a turd
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.justice.gov/civil/staff-...
justice.gov
Assistant Attorney General
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NOW: DC Circuit en banc aguments over Judge Boasberg’s contempt proceedings have now begun at the DC Circuit. Brett Shumate is now arguing for DOJ. www.youtube.com/live/4A1BwFh...
youtube.com
YouTube
Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wanna make a joke along the lines of "of course the french have to do their own version of the thing", but no, good for you. American research infra can't be trusted to sustain indefinitely and redundancy is good for robustness. Is there much submission overlap with arxiv?
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