iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜 @mmitchell.bsky.social writing on how people dramatically misunderstand the "stochastic parrot" critique. medium.com/@margarmitch...

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No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜

I’ve recently come across a new flavor of AI denialism making the rounds.

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SNCS-FSU Inria @sncs-inria.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Si vous n'êtes pas sûr à propos de la ZRR Inria, dîtes vous que ce 18 février, Bardella a demandé à l’État « d’identifier les établissements à la dérive et de procéder à leur mise sous tutelle pour y rétablir la loi, le calme et l’ordre républicain ». (via @themeta.news)

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Pour un moratoire sur le passage total de l'Inria en ZRR

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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 05/01/2026

the new year

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

A thought experiment: What if every sufficiently expensive machine learning model was required to immediately be open-sourced? I explore this in a new blog post: togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/mand...

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Mandatory open-sourcing

A thought experiment: What if every sufficiently expensive machine learning model was required to immediately be open-sourced? This would me...

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Nina Otter @nina-otter.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Academic Solidarity with Palestine is a non-profit, which, among other things, organises online courses for university students in Gaza, taught by a network of instructors from around the world. You can sign up to volunteer as a professor or teaching assistant here:

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It is impossible to put into words what a force of nature Sayan Mukherjee was. The field of TDA is better for having him as a part of it. The world lost a wonderful person this week.

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Leipzig University and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences mourn the passing of Sayan Mukherjee

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The mushrooms are talking about you, they say you should cover your finger in spore dust and stick it in your ear

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Patrick Schnider @schnpatr.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The list of accepted papers for SoCG is out. This year was the first time that I got the be on the program committee, it was a very interesting experience to see behind the scenes, and to read some of the very good papers that unfortunately didn‘t make the cut. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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SoCG 2025 accepted papers.docx

Accepted Papers of SoCG 2025 Rapid mixing of the flip chain over non-crossing spanning trees Konrad Anand (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh); Weiming Feng (ETH Zürich); Graham Freifeld...

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arxiv math.AT @arxiv-math-at.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Adam Onus, Nina Otter, Renata Turkes Shoving tubes through shapes gives a sufficient and efficient shape statistic arxiv.org/abs/2412.18452

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arxiv math.AT @arxiv-math-at.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Antonio Leitao, Nina Otter Time-optimal persistent homology representatives for univariate time series arxiv.org/abs/2412.08209

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