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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PSA: stop feeding your IP to Claude.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AI “going rogue” is just a rebranding of “hallucinates” and “doesn’t work.”

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m please to announce I’ve had 30,000 papers accepted to NeurIPS 2026.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There is something so unsettling and anti-human about stores having Christmas stuff out in September. We just celebrated the harvest festival on the fall equinox and you’re forcing the winter solstice on us.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If ICLR submissions continue to grow at this rate, every person on earth will have an ICLR submission by 2048

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Can anyone give me some advice? I am considering withdrawing my ICLR submission. I don't want my paper associated with a venue that accepts this much slop. No shade on the organizers, but this is a legitimate concern to me #iclr2027

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Anyone reading Dungeon Crawler Carl?

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do you think you don’t hear much from Microsoft in the AI race is because they learned their lesson with Clippy?

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Someone asked me in full seriousness what my “p-doom” is. Ozymandias also truly believed he would achieve immortality. It’s another example of internal return or difference and repetition and the weird tech oligarch we live under helps me understand the historical hubris of conquering death.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

All of these headlines about “AI solving huge math problems” are all the same story: a mathematician who knew the field grinded on the problem by burning tokens and sifting through millions of hallucinations. I don’t think it’s correct to attribute the solution to AI at all.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A zombie agent benchmark called Resident Eval

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love working in academia. I love it when students want to learn. I love it when accomplished scientists appreciate my work. All-around good vibes - except for asking for grant funding.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

@chadtopaz.bsky.social Congrats on the new book. I just saw the review in SIAM News. www.siam.org/publications...

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The Impact of Mathematics and Computation on Society | SIAM

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Transformers really do struggle with physics problems. There are examples where they do work, but I think more often they do not.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Is there a reviewer recession going on right now or something?

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If anyone is at NeurIPS in Atlanta this year, I would be honored to take you to the good Waffle House.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Someone at Anthropic claimed to prove this same thing weeks before this preprint came out. I suspect the authors were using Claude to proof read their manuscript and Anthropic leaked their IP. I can’t prove it, but I’m suspicious.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Ok, hear me out. What is the ratio of failed proofs to valid proofs produced by LLMs?

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The thing about conferences in Chicago is you’re going to end up eating deep dish pizza at least twice if not more. ok, guess I’ll just throw an atom bomb into my system.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

SARS-CoV-2 did not come from a lab. There is no evidence pointing to laboratory origins. There’s been a massive disinformation campaign to convince the public otherwise. It’s scary how effective that campaign has been.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Dumbest person in the 1800s: imprison this John Snow fellow for closing the well.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It’s five o’clock somewhere (AoE) - Jimmy NeurIPS Buffet

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I have Claude code go outside and touch grass for me.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

My new exterminator is an older, burly Southern dude. He was very concerned about getting my trans tenants’ pronouns correct. He also assured me that the inspector who was coming out would be extra respectful. He made a point of saying this in Southern parlance. Idk, I just thought this was nice.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Applying for jobs. You mean wage bait?

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Science in the age of mechanical reproduction: The aura of science was tied to the difficulty of producing it. AI is to science what photography was to art in Walter Benjamin’s critique: mechanical reproduction doesn’t eliminate value—it changes where valorization occurs.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Me sitting down to code: it’s clauderin’ time

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A lot of discourse on the forbidden platform about AI slop in scientific writing. IMHO the problem with AI being used in research is it pushes everything towards the median when new research should push the boundary. I don’t care if someone uses it for writing as long as it’s coherent and correct.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

There is such an awful irony to Elon Musk, a South African colonist, stirring up a pogrom that has British loyalist running around Ireland screaming about “invaders.”

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I think I’m legit too autistic to exist in public most of the times.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A couple in New Orleans stopped me to ask about my Austin 3:16 shirt and why they kept seeing them everywhere. I guess there was more than one?

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

*Warning: this email is going to someone outside your organization* Yeah bruh, that’s how email works.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Does anyone know the story behind the Moore-Penrose pseudo inverse? Roger Penrose is alive which is usual for such a fundamental and elementary math doohickey

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Richard Dawkins discovers Claudia Codia

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Serious question, is someone disparaging towards non-binary people a binaritarian? Is there a word for this?

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

My man getting uppies for the rest of his days

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

In the SIAM news post, I talk about how we plan on carrying on the intellectual achievements of my friend and mentor, Erik Bollt. www.siam.org/publications...

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Optimal Causation Entropy for the Next Generation | SIAM

Members of the C3S2 discuss their CausationEntropy library that allows for causal discovery in complex dynamical systems.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Second time this month helping a student learn how to use Claude code. I hate to say this with every fiber of my being, but we’re going to have to develop a vibe coding curriculum.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My cat reminds me of a trope I often see in anime, AoT is an example. The main character senses there is something wrong with the world — something isn’t quite right — and sets out to solve the mystery. Out of the window are birds, squirrels, instinctual prey. Me: Sorry babe, you can’t go outside.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Petition to replace water fountains on playgrounds with giant hamster style water bottles. An infectious disease nightmare, but potentially, very funny.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

it’s really alarming how few people understand that Puerto Rico is part of America.

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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 03/02/2026

Motion to rename the Grothendieck-Witt group GW the quadratic K-group KQ. 🧮

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Latency is a myth invented by gamers who refuse to accept personal responsibility.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The global fascist power brokers connections in the Epstein files would probably make a good graph theory problem.

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Leo C. Stein @duetosymmetry.com · 24/01/2026

Abolish ICE is the only sane approach. Not just abolish — everyone who worked for ICE needs to be put on trial. Jailed for their wrongdoing. Shunned from every sector of life.

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