Kameron Decker Harris

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Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree.

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We are hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in computational biology at USC! area: AI method development and its applications in biology. Do you combine quantitative research with a drive to develop innovative approaches for tackling biological questions? usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Professoring

I'm delighted to announce that I'll join MIT EECS as an Assistant Professor next Fall! I will be recruiting graduate students this cycle, please apply if you're interested in the science of deep learning! Despite the ambient doomerism, now is a great time to do research.

Thinking about how much mathematics I can learn by interacting with AI makes me less sad about the state of maths in this brave new world. I still worry about the students at all levels, though.

(1/2) I’m starting a NeuroAI and comp neuro lab at the University of Toronto! How do brains and AI learn from ongoing experience? How do they connect delayed outcomes to past actions, adapt to change, and retain what matters? Recruiting funded PhD students for Fall 2027. Links in the reply 👇

Terribly guilty

In the 1980ies, Umberto Eco anticipated having hundreds of arxiv papers in Chrome Tabs ...

How much representational diversity exists around a trained network? A lot, it turns out! Moving a ViT’s weights by 1.3% while preserving its predictions, its representations end up less similar to the original than a random-init ViT’s ‼️ New paper: Hessian Null Space Continuation (HNC) 💫🧵 (1/12)

An ancient collision may have left three galaxies without dark matter. That spells trouble for alternative gravity theories. @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/triplet-of-g...

1/ 🚀 We’re hiring a PhD student + a Postdoc to build foundation models for behaviour — where large-scale behavioural video meets deep learning. 📍 Douglas Research Centre / McGill + Mila, Montréal 🇨🇦 Apply 👉 l1nk.dev/j1zfg0k 🧵

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This is an excellent interview and perspective on the AI craze/situation right now

Ted Chiang in 'Catching crumbs from the table' – from the year 2000. www.nature.com/articles/350...

Came across the well-known quote of Oppenheimer in a book: “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.” That's the way it is with AI now.

Fall in the dry side

The one and only Michael Jordan was interviewed last week by the French newspaper Libération. Here is an English translation. Enjoy! www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJord...

Hi all, I'm happy to announce that I have started at the University of Oregon as an assistant professor! My group will use computational methods to study learning and synaptic plasticity. I will be hiring grad students this year--please reach out if you're interested! colinbre@uoregon.edu

where have you gone, Herbert Simon, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you etc etc.

We're hiring: tenure-track Assistant Professor in computational or physical applied mathematics at CU Boulder, starting Aug 2027. Nonlinear waves, dynamical systems, applied PDEs, numerics. ML/quantum ties a plus. Full consideration by Nov 8. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Here is a nice field experiment on LLM induced opinion convergence. My office did a press conference and I've been monitoring responses on LinkedIn for the past few days. Not counting those directly involved in the presser, there are ca 50 people who have posted supposedly their own opinion on it

I have no idea if this one is true, but all this result proves is the absurdity of big-O notation.

Mathematicians have been writing in a language that's easier for machines to understand than humans #hottake

I enjoyed Rockmore's essay on AI & math, especially the points in the end about dehumanizing obsession with speed #slowscience www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

In addition to the research findings, this is the type of research I really enjoyed doing 😊 "On Hyperparameter Tuning on the Test Set" arxiv.org/abs/2610.05902

I let my New Yorker subscription lapse and am interested in subscribing to another magazine with excellent long- and short-form writing about all kinds of things. Any recommendations?

The pope just got... schmidhuber'd

In our #NeurIPS2026 spotlight “Parallel-in-Time Training of Recurrent Neural Networks for Dynamical Systems (DS) Reconstruction” (preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2605.12683) we speed up training of nonlinear RNNs on time series from chaotic DS by >100x by combining DEER with generalized teacher forcing.

Good local reporting

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

SIAM MDS '26 registration fees: $625 (member), $425 (1-day), $845 (non-member) 🤦 www.siam.org/conferences-...

Last visit to Allen Inst we were given a tour of open scope by Severine Durand who told us about this wild work

Nice piece, thanks for the gift article. I appreciate the compressed sensing history interwoven. I'm still working in that area!

Preprint time! This is a cool one. Complex systems, be they neural nets, interacting genes, or power grids, can produce diverse dynamics-- things like point attractors, limit cycles, and chaos. The dynamic landscape you get depends on how elements interact. But those interactions can also change!