E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 07/09/2026One may not be able to extract insights from AI generated proofs in the same depth, if at all. The issue is the intimate nature of discoveries. When you struggle for a long time, the leap that finally pushes you over the hump holds great psychological weight. So you will remember the insight. 100
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The youtube ads think one of the following 1) either I am one of the 3 million Americans living abroad, and oh boy did I know that I can vote 2) or can only function when the deadline is on fire 3) or have an urge to be unrecognizable by day 28 while doing calisthenics/articulation 15 minutes a day 000
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I can see one clear possible benefit of AI for math, for its culture. Mathematics expertise is now rather dispersed, last century brought extreme specialization. Most of us are incapable of reading, judging, or even appreciating results in even neighboring fields. Now with AI we perhaps can. 110
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 21/08/2026On my way to Sado island to see a Taiko drum festival. Got on the shinkansen and cracked open a beer as is customary. I thank all the right wing governments (the only kind here) that built this infrastructure. 020
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Snakes have been superseded by decorations. 000
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Evde birisi tansiyon aletini çıkarınca herkesin sıradan bir posta baktırması gerçeği. 000
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Not the right message to be giving in a country with a birthrate crisis. Also perhaps you should have worked more and checked the web address before buying wall-side advertising. morkmore? 020
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I'm going to go to Korea for ICML. If you are too, then check if you need a K-eta. This is (güya) not a visa, which in effect is worse than a visa on arrival. 1) it's not listed in a search "do I need a visa to enter". 2) you need to apply 3 days in advance. 3) it didn't accept my card for payment. 010
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 12/05/2026A new release from my second favorite Japanese band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHAj... The video is cool as hell as well.youtube.comヨルシカ - あぶく(OFFICIAL VIDEO)YouTube video by ヨルシカ / n-buna Official 110
Reposted by E. Mehmet KIRALPierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 14/04/2026French media are very honest about the state of the world. 2202
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 15/04/2026A middle aged guy would rather go on a murder spree and live the rest of his days in a basement rather than take a shower. #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 010
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 13/04/2026When being beta was at worst a faint praise. 010
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 24/03/2026You should get a prime day, about twice a month. This is because the density of primes in this century is about 1-in-ln(20260101)~16.8. But this coming april has none. It is a very composite month. www.ishotihadus.com/next_prime_d...ishotihadus.comNext Prime Day | ishotihadus.comIshotihadus Official Website 020
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 18/01/2026The S of RSA cryptography came to RIKEN for a talk. 020
Reposted by E. Mehmet KIRALZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end. 8313630711248
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 14/11/2025internet of things, in which we are the things. 110
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 03/11/2025— I see your tuberculosis, and I'm raising you one cancer. 030
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 23/10/2025you can find a sequence of dıstrıbutions q_n such that KL(p||q_n) --> 0 whereas KL(q_n||p) --> 1. So even though forward and backward KL-divergences have the same unique minimizers when q = p, the notions of convergence under them are not the same. 010
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Wittgenstein ağlıyordu. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenV...youtube.comPart of the Lion Pride - Dean Schneider living with lionsYouTube video by Dean Schneider 010
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 09/09/2025What if, and hear me out here, pandas are actually extremely racist and the reason they don't mate in captivity is because we keep pairing pandas with different shades of black in their eye patches and they're having none of that race mixing. They'd rather stay horny in order to keep the race pure. 000
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 09/09/2025French people saying "I don't know/understand economics" is such a cop out. And just when I'm about to convince them that 64 is a reasonable number. 010
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Catchy song, I don't really understand the lyrics, I think it's a lovesong to some bomber jacket. youtu.be/hNOedumLWJ4?...youtu.beELIF – BOMBERJACKE (Official Video)YouTube video by ELIF 010
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 04/09/2025GEMINI™ espirileri. Gemini sıkı tut GEMINI™ azıtmasın. Gemini yürütüyorsun jeton jeton hey GEMINI™. 000
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Statistical mechanics: An ensemble of tradesmen, who on average will be able to fix your car, but otherwise are maximally entropic. 030
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Yellow watermelon. Now you can't say I haven't seen it. 020
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Speedrunning Erdoğan's Turkey. Eight months in and we have the TÜİK (turkstat) debacle. 010
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Gonna keep populating this site, until my tutorial in Montreal IJCAI 2025. And hopefully afterwards as well. ekiral.github.io/blog/blog-in...ekiral.github.ioBlog Posts - E. Mehmet Kıral 043
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 28/07/2025I think my generation will make the most out of these AI chatbots. It might, however indeed be detrimental to the thinking process of anyone who hasn't already developed a thinking discipline, and a writing style. 010
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 25/07/2025The gradient of f(Ax) with respect to A is rank one. It is the outer product of f(y) with respect to y and x. 220
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Lâlelim, lâl elim, Tözü söz olan bir öz. Bu LLM pek elim. Sahi, neydi sahici. Neydi yapay. Biz etten miydik safi Yoo, bizim de ruhu yoğuran söz aslen. 010
Reposted by E. Mehmet KIRAL06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Created a quick graphic to show how the CHP have been put under pressure in Istanbul since their district council victories last year 0137
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 06/06/2025The Musk-Trump fallout ended up happening on an auspicious day. Happy Eid everyone. 000
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Devlet stratejik pirinç rezervlerini açmış. 2,000-Yen Govt-Stockpiled Rice Reaches Consumers in Japan url:https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2025053100158/ 010
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 17/05/2025My highschool friend has become an artist. Singing at Babylon and stuff. youtu.be/wrSJmoEfvRA?...youtu.beSelin Baycan - Aşina | Live at Babylon ( "AŞİNA" Albüm Lansman Konseri)YouTube video by Selin Baycan 020
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 14/05/2025People say stupid things like "love is just a bunch of chemicals". This is like saying, "literature is just a bunch of letters" putting gibberish and Shakespeare and Quran in the same bin. 010
Reposted by E. Mehmet KIRALEkrem İmamoğlu @ekremimamoglu.com · 08/05/2025Ben rakibinden bu kadar korkan, kontrolünü kaybeden ve panikle aynı anda bütün tuşlara basan başka siyasetçi ne gördüm ne duydum. Beni hapse de atsan, sosyal medya hesaplarımı da engellesen unuttuğun bir şey var; bu ülkede milyonlarca Ekrem var. #İmamoğluHerYerde 13455851711
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 05/05/2025CatGPT: general purrrpose transformer. It transforms any object into a scratch toy. 000
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 03/05/2025It's not as difficult as it looks, the water does most of the heavylifting. 020
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 02/05/2025An alleged coconut grater. (From the anthropology museum in Manila) 010
Reposted by E. Mehmet KIRAL🦋 Stephan Aitch 🇺🇦🇪🇺 @stephanaitch.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Is this true? Have you restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey amid government pressure? @bsky.app 001
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Yanlış değil ama keşke tek nefeste diktatörlük örneği olarak gösterilmeseydik, koyuyor hala biraz. 120
Reposted by E. Mehmet KIRALKarel Valansi, PhD @karelvalansi.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Why Turkey’s democratic future matters for the world - Ekrem İmamoğlu writes for Financial Times www.ft.com/content/4bf4...ft.comWhy Turkey’s democratic future matters for the worldMy arrest in the government’s attempt to crush dissent shows how important the stability of my country is 092
E. Mehmet KIRAL @emehmetkiral.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Forget crypto, the dude is pumping and dumping with the world economy. 000
Reposted by E. Mehmet KIRALCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 04/04/2025🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure. 223135795779