David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1hafter some cursory googling, looks like that book would pair nicely with:en.wikipedia.orgThe Lady Tasting Tea - Wikipedia 000
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1hnot sure what's catching my eye more: the meal or the book. tell me more about that book 100
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1hAlef 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.comCoreWeave Drives 20% Higher GPU Cluster Performance | CoreWeaveCoreWeave enhances AI infrastructure efficiency with up to 20% higher Model FLOPS Utilization (MFU), accelerating AI model training and reducing inefficiencies 010
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1hthey should be able to get higher MFU than that out of B200s (IMHO) 100
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1hyoutube.comHappy Birthday to the Mystery FarterYouTube video by Found Footage Fest 010
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 7hthose other models are fakes or something, this is the one and only. 010
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 7hActually, way better (and earlier) citation: here's the DINO paper.arxiv.orgEmerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision TransformersIn 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... 021
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 7hoh look, an excuse to share a compvis paper (demonstrates segmentation learning emerging implicitly from masked prediction)arxiv.org[MASK] is All You NeedIn 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., ... 110
Reposted by David MarxCERN @cern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Happy 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... 8475131
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 21hby all means, please: start a fight with her. she has a lot of bad takes and gets way more attention than she should. 040
Reposted by David MarxGolia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026So 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... 03416
Reposted by David MarxChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22hThe 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... 22663162
Reposted by David MarxSteven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 30/09/2026Beautiful 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. 02010
Reposted by David MarxEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In 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.comScalable decision-making for games of imperfect information - NatureAtaraxos, 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... 1224659
Reposted by David MarxSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22hjust remember: it only gets worse from here 3823
Reposted by David MarxZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 22hAbsolutely 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! 69222
Reposted by David MarxWandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 22hThe law in its magnificent equality enables the courts to both ensure that the government can maroon immigrants, and that it cannot pause a killing. 1226
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 23hno "weirdos", just, you know, perfectly normal people who kill other people for a living. 210
Reposted by David MarxChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In 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 720258
Reposted by David MarxChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is another big story today. I was waiting on @kelciemmorris.bsky.social's report, excellent as always, as I knew she was on it. —> 825498
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I 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.eduProject MUSE -- Verification required! 010
Reposted by David MarxA. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Our 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.iobooks-memorization.github.ioHow 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... 26132
Reposted by David MarxJamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Breaking - 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.comSupreme Court allows Trump to restart controversial deportations to countries they have no connection to | CNN PoliticsThe 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... 3317388
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 30/09/2026the future belongs to the people who know how to ask the right questions. 010
Reposted by David MarxELLIS @ellis.eu · 30/09/2026🏹 Job alert: PhD Position in Mathematical Foundations of Deep Learning at TU Darmstadt 📍 Darmstadt 🇩🇪 ⏰ 22 October 🔗 bit.ly/4dzSuaGbit.lywww.career.tu-darmstadt.de 051
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I wonder if there's an ATProto opportunity here? logged-in-DID-as-token? 110
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026symbolic regression + boosting = interpretable decompositions of chaotic systems 020
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026static.klipy.comJen Lawrence's Expressive MomentALT: Jen Lawrence's Expressive Moment 020
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 020
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026shumate stepping up for rebuttal: "hold my beer." 120
Reposted by David MarxMaria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'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.comCLS Lab — Culture, Language, & Systems | University of Colorado BoulderThe 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. 07052
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026female voice from the bench making statements that may as well have come from the DOJ themselves: probably Rao. 080
Reposted by David MarxAdam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 29/09/2026Public Citizen files a complaint opposing the broadcasting of Trump’s ads as violating laws against taxpayer-funded propaganda. Full complaint buff.ly/kYCsKEW 5324114
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026www.justice.gov/civil/staff-...justice.govAssistant Attorney General 110
Reposted by David MarxChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026NOW: 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.comYouTubeShare your videos with friends, family, and the world 22431108
David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I 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? 100