Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 18/09/2026Is cheap salination a standalone research problem or is it just downstream of cheap energy 2101
Reposted by Michael SaxonGautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them. 5275110
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 04/09/2026youtu.be/5Cr0p0SmDxUyoutu.beI Am Turning Myself Into a Video Game PlaneYouTube video by Jacob Geller 000
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 04/09/2026guys ace combat 4 was incredible. Ps2 games have an aura modern titles can't touch 100
Reposted by Michael SaxonWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026found an organization for some of you all 516413
Reposted by Michael SaxonJack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comOne Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE DetentionMy husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare. 11835232210
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 11/08/2026Ironically joining oakland would help them meet housing buildout requirements with less change right? 090
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 08/08/2026Minimum qualifications: PhD OR Stanford BS OR high school diploma and 25k twitter followers 090
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 06/08/2026if everyone agreed on the meaning of "just predict" maybe we could agree 🥲 020
Reposted by Michael SaxonNaomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I’m saying this as a routine voluntary user of LLMs: constant questioning and re-evaluation of whether you are interacting with a human does real psychic damage. 2262
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 23/07/2026"Claude, generate and post a promotional animation for my book about the space shuttle. Show the shuttle taking off from above" 000
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 22/07/2026The problem with tesla design is they made one extremely kiki car and the rest are bouba 070
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 14/07/2026I would love to more granularly analyze the insider/outsider distribution. my dream dataset might have anonymized paper scores, decisions, and an ordered list of each author's metadata (qualified rev status, lifetime sub count, etc). answer Qs like "what about single qualified middle author papers?" 130
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 14/07/2026The fool thinks technology is making the world worse The wise man knows technology is making the world better The genius acknowledges these things and still thinks technology is making the world worse 120
Reposted by Michael SaxonOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026feels like a real landmark of impunity that major corporations are making federal crimes part of the interview process 5139841042
Reposted by Michael SaxonKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won. 16270631657
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 28/06/2026Apologizing to the ghost of noah webster for having my name attached to a paper with br*tish english spelling 000
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 24/06/2026See also, western anime fans who think English dubs are bad rather than revealing how corny the dialogue sounds when you hear it said out loud 130
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 22/06/2026Conferences as sites for archiving peer reviewed work as opposed to ad-hoc journal-paced reviewing are the fundamental source of our problems 010
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 22/06/2026get annoyed whenever people use whenever when when is correct 000
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 15/06/2026Got ghosted by a VC on Hinge for sharing my honest opinions about Chalmers and consciousness research 150
Reposted by Michael SaxonMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026The ban is an incredibly successful maneuver if the aim is ham up the drama surrounding supposed ‘snowballing capabilities’ without needing to demonstrate any actual advancement in performance. 2296
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 13/06/2026problem is that language model, unlike a cannon, isn't actually dangerous 000
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 12/06/2026Low key pulling for Spurs because my Yankee hatred has jumped sports 110
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 10/06/2026start from the fact that he is an AI researcher, but he is not a computer scientist (or any other kind of trained scientist) 150
Reposted by Michael SaxonWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 07/06/2026there's actually being chill about your degree or credentials, which is of course totally cool and good, and then there's the whole meta-snobbery thing some people will do where they make a show of humbebragging about how little [prestigous credential] means to them, and I really hate the latter. 1431914
Reposted by Michael SaxonRob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 04/06/2026This was very obviously always the plan, and anyone who believed that Meta had any qualms about maximum privacy invasion is a rube. We must deploy rigorous mockery to fully socially ostracize anyone who attempts to wear these things. We have to go full Scoble on Meta glasses. 722889
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 27/05/2026Got booed on the caltrain for wearing my dbacks jersey. Listen, how about you guys win against us ONCE, and then you get to boo 110
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 25/05/2026I appreciate this tack toward the slop(like) submitters. The point is to gatekeep on whether something is contribution-shaped 030
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 22/05/2026Had a nightmare that arxiv links on twitter started getting indexed as citations by google scholar 2220
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 16/05/2026Many have pointed out that the industry titans of yore used their wealth to build libraries, universities, while today's make megayachts and rockets Robber barons brought infrastructure and industrialization vs software and financialization Maybe they're connected? Builders build, buyers buy 050
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 14/05/2026still, it's absolutely for the best! We need to pull as many emergency brakes on the paper production rate as possible 1120
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 14/05/2026there will be much gnashing of teeth when the slop penalty for an undergrad-prompted related work section which was delegated by a phd student delegated by an absentee advisor hits everyone up the chain and effectively shuts their lab out of arxiv for a year 4401
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 14/05/2026He's from Orange County but he pronounces "housing" like he's from Stockholm lmao 000
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 14/05/2026Had trouble making it through Ezra Klein's California gubernatorial candidate housing forum because he pronounces housing as "how sing" instead of "how zing" (the correct way) 100
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 13/05/2026Ethics reviewing is fun because pretty much all you have to do is remind reviewers that they did not give a legitimate reason to request an ethics review 030
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 13/05/2026Just watched the Michael Jackson movie. It was a bold creative decision to spend 30 minutes of runtime on a shot-for-shot remake of Captain Eo 000
Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 08/05/2026"Stars" by Hear 'n Aid (a bunch of hair bands) is a much worse 80s charity supergroup Bolerolike 000