Eugene Brevdo

If they were getting closer they'd be blue dots

Looking forward to the Sparse Indian Buffet Auto Encoder.

I also have funds for a PhD student in physical oceanography; this would be in the Physics Department. Further information about the PhD program and a link to apply is here: www.brandeis.edu/gsas/program...

Renormalization is “the mathematical version of a microscope,” said Astrid Eichorn, a physicist at the University of Southern Denmark. Here’s how it works: www.quantamagazine.org/how-renormal...

to safely dispose of these hats, eat them. natural fibers — such as cotton, wool, silk, and linen — breakdown in the digestive track. synthetics do not. thus, if you eat your hat, the synthetics will pass through the other side. smush through the poop to find the synthetic fibers and recycle them.

🔥 WANTED: Student Researcher to join me, @vdebortoli.bsky.social, Jiaxin Shi, Kevin Li and @arthurgretton.bsky.social in DeepMind London. You'll be working on Multimodal Diffusions for science. Apply here google.com/about/career...

The same segregationists that filled public pools with concrete rather than integrate. www.melaninbasecamp.com/trip-reports...

I'm hiring a student researcher for next summer at the intersection of MARL x LLM. If you're a phd student with experience in MARL algorithm research, please apply and drop me an email so that I know you've applied! www.google.com/about/career...

i'm also rly proud of writing up the User Guide for this T&S reasoning model: cookbook.openai.com/articles/gpt... It includes how this could work with @roost.tools first public tool, Osprey! cookbook.openai.com/articles/gpt...

Sexy metric tour

Details here: blog.fsck.com/2025/10/24/c...

Also links to jax-based differentiable plasma simulator TORAX.

Very excited to be able to talk about something I've been working on for a while now - we're working with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, IMO the leading fusion startup in the world, to take our work on AI and tokamaks and make it work at the frontier of fusion energy. deepmind.google/discover/blo...

Cc @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social re torax

Amazing!

BlueSky, you da real Slickdeals.

I remember a weird speech by Shinzo Abe when I moved to Japan: he said there was two ways to avoid labour shortage, immigration and AI. Thus, he wanted to invest massively in AI to avoid immigration. The world in 2025: ChatGPT writing shitty reviews about your papers, and fruits rotting on trees...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

@simonwillison.net this means you

Also: sites.research.google/gr/contrails/

The Google AdTech monopoly trial is a really big deal, bigger in my mind than the search monopoly. https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/its-groundhog-day-for-a-google-breakup #google #adtech #antitrust

I'm getting better

Me talking about the Heat Death

I always thought that habitual offender laws and three strikes laws emerged in the 1990s as part of the tough-on-crime era. But then I was looking through old state codes and I saw a three strikes law from 1923. Then I found dozens from around this time, and wondered (naively) what was going on.

"Google and Massachusetts-based [CFS] announced a deal Monday in which the tech company bought 200 megawatts of power from [their] first commercial fusion plant, the same amount of energy that could power roughly 200,000 average American homes." Read more @cnn.com #FusionEnergy

PSA: Going to the beach isn't just for Instagram users. Bluesky users are allowed to go to the beach, too.

Code review tool used by Chromium, Android, ChromeOS is built by Google and is open source www.gerritcodereview.com It has been open source and supported for like 10 years. Yes, this is likely different from the one mentioned in the tweet, but Gerrit is way better than GitHub PR reviews.

my other observation: ml is pretty fucking hard. if you want to help make things better, we are hiring a feed algorithmics engineer.

Historic news for CFS: We’ve signed a landmark agreement with Google that dramatically advances our commercial fusion energy mission. This partnership involves power purchasing and a new corporate investment in CFS. 🧵1/4 blog.cfs.energy/google-deal-... #FusionEnergy #PowerMoves

Commonwealth Fusion lands in the ballpark of $2B of new funding from Google, and a purchase agreement for 200MW from ARC (half of the total). www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjKM... (For those not following, the base plate in SPARC is installed, and they're nearing the start of magnet integration ).

@caseynewton.bsky.social met his future husband at Anthropic?

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I thought this was too unreal to be true. But the numbers are real.. archive.today/uDSWt

Mindscape Ask Me Anything | June 2025. We talk about the anthropic principle, AI and copyright, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the current disaster in science funding, and more. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Help me solve all 24,976,511 5x5 nonograms puzzles! pixelogic.app/every-5x5-no... Oddly satisfying. Get it?

The Natural Philosophy Symposium is underway! I had some idea of live-skeeting, but the real-time event is too absorbing. www.naturalphilosophyhopkins.org/natural-phil... Anyway, we've had: (cont)

SPARC is more than 60% complete. So far, most of that progress has taken place outside of the central hall that’s the future home of our star-of-the-show SPARC tokamak.

“The growth trajectory is continuing, especially on the enterprise side. For a top Japanese bank like MUFG, they want to work with the top company that can move the needle, develop new things, not just copying or reimplementing existing ideas.” No paywall link to Bloomberg article: archive.is/2qJ4M

What did Galileo do after he invented his version of the telescope? 🔭 Theoretical physicist Roberto Trotta illuminates how the stars have influenced the development of human society in many surprising ways. 🧪 Watch the full talk: youtube.com/watch?v=CnaAk411284&t=3105s

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? LM researcher: You're right to wonder about the gaps in my resume! They are more common than people think, and there are many valid reasons why someone might have them. Here are some of the most frequent reasons you might see a gap:

Reminder to check your public library to borrow stuff for free like video games, books/ebooks, movies (including digital/streaming), and possibly even free museum passes and other goodies

Schindler's Lit Indian Jones Jurassic Ark Requiem for a Dram Pup Fiction Easter promises Scarfae

A paper from my time at Google was accepted for a spotlight presentation at ICML! In “Mastering Board Games by External and Internal Planning with Language Models”, we show how language models can achieve grandmaster-level play using a search budget on par with humans. arxiv.org/abs/2412.12119

“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”

mmmm me every time I use chatgpt. now I'm hungry

i've been using codex and its predecessors for the past couple months. it's now written far more code than i have, and i can't imagine going back to a world without it. download today and give it a try! github.com/openai/codex