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"We haven’t had the AI budget cut *yet*." My supervisors trying to calm me.

Anyone (any man!) in Academia needs to read this.

I Wrote about the responsibility we carry to each other.

»She was a dangerous tapestry, where threads of wisdom were woven intricately together with those of utter delusion« — Hooked, Asako Yuzuki I like when a novel suddenly drops a bit of poetry on you in the middle of the easy-going prose.

10/10 take. no notes

Just reread the story on the npm left-pad incident and, wow, fuck kik interactive. I guess this was canary on how corporate greed would ruin OSS.

In every action in every unjust war, operations research plays a role. We teach our students how to make this happen

I just got reminded again how weird statistics is and how woefully underdeveloped our probabilistic reasoning skills are (compared to our deterministic ones): www.lesswrong.com/posts/nnDTgm...

Conferences moving away from double-blind to single-blind reviewing in 2026 is a surprising step back for fairness in our community. I guess it's time to look for more collaborators who are male, have christian sounding names and prestigious affiliations.

An algorithms course without proofs is a creative writing course where you do nothing but watch a bunch of movies based on books.

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

The weird feeling of finding a simple solution to a hard problem that instantly kills most interesting techniques you planned on using. That's me this morning.

The NYC elections and the STOC deadline coinciding makes for a very interesting timeline of very happy and very exhausted people.