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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 07/07/2025

System is so broken: - researchers write papers no one reads - reviewers don't have time to review, shamed to coauthors, use LLMs instead of reading - authors try to fool said LLMs with prompt injection - evaling researchers based on # of papers (no time to read) Dystopic.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This is a very good paper on how methodologies from comparative cognition can help improve AI evaluation: openreview.net/pdf?id=gCPJF... Other papers along the same lines: ⬇️

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Fascinating lecture by Rudin—“Set Theory: An Offspring of Analysis” www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBcW... In brief, it describes how studying the wave equation led to trigonometric series, which eventually led to Cantor’s introduction of limit points and the notion of countable sets.

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Walter B. Rudin: "Set Theory: An Offspring of Analysis"

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Tommy Löfstedt @tommylofstedt.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Nothing says upcoming NeurIPS deadline like Overleaf being down.

Going to www.overleaf.com results in Error: Server Error. The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Are you a mathematics teacher? Would you like a taste of 21st century mathematics? See the link below to join a program for teachers run by Justin Lanier @jlanier.bsky.social —stay for as long as you like, explore with friends, & get your own insights into accessible, deep questions in math

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Today, I'm revisiting (some slides which I made for) a short course which I gave in December on "Geometric Functional Inequalities for Markov Chains", and I'm thinking about other ways of motivating the study of this topic. I want to have a go at re-motivating it, from scratch:

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 96: Nothing you write is ever wasted. It’s all part of your training. That’s why you should never feel bad about the work you cut, or the hours you spend on work that stays unpublished. Every part of the process makes you a stronger writer.

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

There's a nice symmetry to "listen, then read, then write, then tell."

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Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com · 23/02/2025

Part 2 of the collaboration with Terence Tao on the cosmic distance ladder is now out. It covers how we first learned the distances to planets, stars, and galaxies far, far away. youtu.be/hFMaT9oRbs4

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The cosmic distance ladder with Terence Tao, part 2

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Patrick Schnider @schnpatr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This semester I‘m giving „Introduction to Topological Data Analysis“ for the 3rd time. The number of registrations has grown, this year we are at 80 registrations, it‘s great to see more and more students interested in TDA! We have lecture notes on our course webpage ti.inf.ethz.ch/ew/courses/T...

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TDA 2025 (Theory of Combinatorial Algorithms, ETH Zürich)

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Modern supply chains don't look like trade theory 101! They involve constant border crossings, each now hit by tariffs. Tariffs raise prices, but the more important thing they do is disrupt supply relationships. 1/

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I've realised a couple of times over the break that when you're able to set aside a block of time for free research (even just e.g. a full afternoon), the benefits of having that unconstrained time are super nice in some quite specific ways.

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Finally compiled and refined this a bit; do take a look if you're curious! A more TeX'd version is attached in the screenshots. hackmd.io/@sp-monte-ca... 'Some Intuition Boosters'

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Owen Biesel @owenbiesel.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Calling #MathSky: I'm teaching a sophomore-level class this spring called Geometry and the Arts, and I'm looking to round out my list of topics / activity ideas / materials. The goal is "Here are lots of ways that geometrical ideas come up when people are pursuing their artistic practices."

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Lots of great ideas and resources in this thread!

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Francis Bach @bachfrancis.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

My book is (at last) out, just in time for Christmas! A blog post to celebrate and present it: francisbach.com/my-book-is-o...

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Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

i recently gave a talk about questions like this at a workshop organized by the amazing "learning theory alliance" (let-all.com), and several students reached out to tell me how much my talk resonated with them. link to the slides here: docs.google.com/presentation...

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Research styles: “fast” or “slow”? Some thoughts by Gergely Neu

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Reposting with alt text!

@stimmyabby:
“Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use
"respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority"
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person"
and they think they're being fair but they aren't, and it's not okay.”
@do-as-youre-told:
“this is so well put I am stunned”

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Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The Gaussian is a nice bumpy shape, but sometimes we hope for a smooth (i.e. C∞) function like the Gaussian that is 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 compactly supported. One such class of functions is called "Bump functions" 1/6

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 13/12/2024

Found slides by Ankur Moitra (presented at a TCS For All event) on "How to do theoretical research." Full of great advice! My favourite: "Find the easiest problem you can't solve. The more embarrassing, the better!" Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/15VaT... TCS For all: sigact.org/tcsforall/

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Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Releasing lectures and notes for an intro course on Statistical Detection & Estimation I used to teach. The core material hasn't changed (was an EE class) but it is as relevant today to AI researchers as ever before Lecture notes drive.google.com/file/d/1Zl_p... YouTube youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Dylan Foster 🐢 @djfoster.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

As my first post on this platform, allow me to advertise the RL theory lecture notes I have been developing with Sasha Rakhlin: arxiv.org/abs/2312.16730 (shameless repost of my pinned tweet)

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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I wrote a Part IV postscript to my job market blog post to add what I've learned as faculty. TL;DR: No one is out to get you. For anything not going your way, it's probably due to people being busy or bureaucracy. And there are probably people working very hard for you behind the scenes regardless.

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The Job Market (Parts I, II, III, & IV)

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 27/10/2024

That's it! All 12 lectures* for my course on “Randomised and Advanced Algorithms” are up. Lectures, along with slides**, tutorials (recitations) and their solutions. 🔗 ccanonne.github.io/teaching/COM... Feedback welcome!

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Content for the COMP4270 and COMP5270 Course on “Randomised and Advanced Algorithms” at the University of Sydney ##

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