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Solal Nathan

@solalnathan.com

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PhD student @ U. Paris-Saclay / Inria, AI for social good, fairness, RecSys, congestion avoidance, optimal transport. ENS PS 2018. Free software advocate, linux user, cat owner. asso @ auro.re and crans.org. Bicyle, Bouldering, improv. solalnathan.com

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Solal Nathan @solalnathan.com · 25/09/2026

It's even worse than I imagined.

Screenshot of a web page reading:

The Education of a Libertarian
Peter Thiel • April 13, 2009 •

I remain committed to the faith of my teenage years: to authentic human freedom as a precondition for the highest good. I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual. For all these reasons, I still call myself “libertarian.”

But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible. By tracing out the development of my thinking, I hope to frame some of the challenges faced by all classical liberals today.

With the sentence "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" highlighted

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Solal Nathan @solalnathan.com · 14/10/2025

The Wikipedia page about "False or misleading statements by Donald Trump" is so long that Wikipedia contributors are discussing to split it for legibility. This is hilarious and very sad at the same time.

Screenshot from the Wikipedia page "False or misleading statements by Donald Trump" with two cards on top stating:

It has been suggested that this article be split out into articles titled False or misleading statements by Donald Trump (first term), False or misleading statements by Donald Trump (between terms) and False or misleading statements by Donald Trump (second term). (Discuss) (October 2025)

This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (September 2024)

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Solal Nathan @solalnathan.com · 27/09/2025

Let's start sharing a few posters/papers I found interesting at #RecSys this year. 1. Leveraging Geometric Insights in Hyperbolic Triplet Loss for Improved Recommendations Very interesting. Some further work needed to convince me 100%, like a Figure 2 but for the original Euclidian Triplet Loss.

"Leveraging Geometric Insights in Hyperbolic Triplet Loss for Improved Recommendations" poster

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Solal Nathan @solalnathan.com · 24/09/2025

Took less than 10 minutes (on the actual clock) including downloading the original image and font. No gen AI required. 100% human work.

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Solal Nathan @solalnathan.com · 14/05/2025

When someone is payed to give updated every 30 minutes, regardless of new information or not. status.overleaf.com #overleaf

4 updates every 30 minutes saying "our team if still working on identifying the source of the issue" in slightly different phrasing.

from the overleaf status page.

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Solal Nathan @solalnathan.com · 08/03/2025

When you have a tab open with Anywhere on Earth (AoE) open it can only mean one thing

screenshot from time.is Anywhere on Earth timezone showing 21:35:15

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Solal Nathan @solalnathan.com · 06/03/2025

Rough correlation, but not perfect. I use mlflow + pynvml to measure this. mlflow.org/docs/latest/...

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Solal Nathan @solalnathan.com · 24/01/2025

I've been using this #tool for years, but I think more people should know about it. It makes it easy to find a #LaTeX symbol in a few seconds! #TeXLaTeX 🔗 detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

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Solal Nathan @solalnathan.com · 10/12/2024

Just discovered this new tool for #Typst detypify.quarticcat.com It's not perfect yet, but a very cool of the detexify tool!

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Solal Nathan @solalnathan.com · 03/12/2024

Tomorrow I am leaving for 3 months of collaboration @ #UGent in #AIDA group aida.ugent.be I've heard that the #cycling infrastructure is amazing so of course I'm bringing my bike! #gent #ghent

Picture of a bike with two large bags in front.

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