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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So..... seems like NeurIPS publication has become closer to DDOS attack than scientific work

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This to me was mind blowing actually!

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sorry 2 pm Amsterdam time! You're invited to Thesis Defense Wed Sep 23, 2026 16:00—17:30 (GMT+04:00) teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi... Tap on the link or paste it in a browser to join.

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My amazing student @samuelnellessen is defending his thesis today! Come and listen if you want to hear all about adversarial jailbreaking and reinforcement learning for autonomous red teaming. The defense will be online today at 4 pm AMS (10 am EST). DM me for the link. arxiv.org/abs/2602.023...

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

David spivak has some awesome learning materials on it and julesh is here as well

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just submitted an ICLR abstract. ..... Number 17907........ 13 days before.....

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So what did I miss with this fly brain simulation?

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

OPT is not like h1b. It's one of the strongest mechanisms we have to keep good people. It's one of the strongest mechanisms we have for people to do their internships it's an economic engine........

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Never forget. Always take it with you, and always, always remember. 25 years, and it still feels like yesterday...

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And that kids. Is how I met your mother.

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Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am leading a new lab in Oxford: come join us if you don’t trust corporate AI labs to govern themselves www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb/bgl/

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Bayesian Governance Lab

Bayesian Governance Lab, University of Oxford. Probabilistic machine learning for the assurance, monitoring, and governance of AI systems.

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Amazing amazing lab! Almost a year ago we ran a large scale experiment of multi LLM agent interaction www.mindgamesarena.com a lot of the trajectory data is on hugging face (and there's some scary things there ...) but a lot were still working on releasing. More then happy to help if you want infra!

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MindGames Arena Hub - NeurIPS 2025

Theory-of-Mind Challenges for LLM Agents - Four strategic games testing AI collaboration and competition

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Academia is friggen broken. Days like this I really do ask myself what's the point www.linkedin.com/posts/maksym...

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One year at the ELLIS Institute! | Maksym Andriushchenko

One year at the ELLIS Institute!

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ohhhhhh exactly what I needed before a 15 hour flight

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Any comments about starting all of this while he was in deepmind ?

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So math problems are going to be the new bounty reward system for neolabs ?

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In today's list of things I never thought can workout. Century egg on a burger....

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

By far one of my favourite Terry Gilliam movies, with time bandits being a close second. Also. O hai, shana tova! There's a chance I am in Tokyo soon :)

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Did someone unleash Astra on nethack etc already with a combination of NPC and human players ?

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think this is where we start to differ in the sense of it's not the result its a use case. I think smashing these two together is part of what's making us as a field stagnate a bit.

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think we had a similar conversation at the GDM offices not too long ago :D Definetly different strokes to different folks :) I will say it's always interesting to see the difference in perception between the different communities :)

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So.... Neurips tickets are all out in less then a minute you say?

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's one of the strongest things I agree with what jurgen schmidhuber is doing. Give clarity so we know where we are going and where we were in the past.

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

More and more, especially in CS I see that we have completely lost track of what led us to our current state which is completely shutting down out innovation. Closing the loop, it's only been a decade since transformer is discarding the 20+ years of everything that led up to it.

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Grad student descent is being lost, that is horrendous from an educational perspective for our next generation of scientists. Perspective BTW, being the important point. When one approaches science in the above manner the perspective of where we are going where we went and what led us there is key.

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is also why I always tell my grad students that negative results are as important if not more than, positive ones cause they are all setting up the stepping stones for us to be closer to the next breakthrough, the next discovery, the next frontier. Which sadly in today's landscape of ....

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very early in my career, especially as a PI, I was asked by one of my first students, Why are you doing this, and what's science to you? It took me a minute to formulate my reply, which was a combination of both. In my mind, doing science is laying the stepping stones for the next discovery

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I am always baffled and feel really uncomfortable with these kind of statements. It's basically completely demolishing the modern perspective of science. Long thread and rant incoming 🤌🧵👇

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I didn't know this at all! Looks awesome!

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So....... How does one be one of the cool kids and get access to Astra ?

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I mean phone camera. Filters have just become built in at this stage

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am sorry/not sorry. Sticking to my guns on this one

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So GPT 6 is out. GPT 5.6 suddenly becomes cooked ? Today its hardly usable

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And who can forget Captain america's excellent rendition of it youtu.be/gFlZQBKVfLA?...

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The Losers: Don't Stop Believin'

YouTube video by Flipped

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am wondering who here remembers a softer world. I have been thinking about recreating it with my own photos recently...

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talkachman.bsky.social @talkachman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

No no. Not Forgotten and not gone! A softer world still haunts me to this day. To the point that I have been thinking about doing the exact thing with my own photos recently ...

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