@joft
New father. Also: Prof. of #Statistics, #machinelearning / ethics for #datascience @LSE. Unschooled to community college to PhD @Stanford Technology, institutions, and ideas should serve people, but much of humanity is stuck with this upside-down.
The singularity is here: exponential growth of “agents” to automate checking the error prone hallucinations of other “agents”
(Not even a joke, just paraphrasing Anthropic’s Jack Clark on the Ezra Klein podcast)
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POTUS is a billionaire installed in office by the world’s richest man, but sure, socialism is the problem
Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.
It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.
Most Americans believe in at least one conspiracy theory
For podcasters it's probably closer to 100% of them
-> Democratic political candidates won't be able to "go on the podcast circuit" because of guilt by association (Fisherian vampire castle)
As an expert, I can confidently say that my field is basically the most important one. it’s OK to get things randomly wrong in other fields, but not in mine.
Walking and transiting around London with a napping baby and I will now vote for anyone who promises a total war on noise pollution
Important reminder of the devastation wrought by the Musk/DOGE dismantling of USAID. Hundreds of thousands dead, many more to come. The greatest crime of the 21st century (so far).
Bender is right, but people can stil disagree about whether that matters for certain outcomes
Let’s keep spending trillions of dollars to put this technology into absolutely every data, information, and communication system in the world. It has to be done, obviously, no questioning that
We simply don’t really need to do that much Computing. We need to do a lot more actual work (in the sense of physically changing the world rather than rearranging information about it)
I think this assumes functionalism or some kind of teleology for evolution, which is of course an illusion
who said bipartisanship is dead?
Remember, detaining children is something ICE did when Obama and Biden were in office. Republican leadership is worse by far, but the point is we cannot start looking the other way once the Incarcerator-in-Chief has a (D) next to their name
A succulent Chinese meal
trump is still slandering Alex Pretti while the New York Times runs propaganda pieces trying to reconcile him with centrists
Not only will they not dismantle the infrastructure (*gasp* degrowth!) but they won't even hold any people accountable
None of this deporting people to concentration camp prisons would be happening if the Bush administration had been held accountable for "extraordinary rendition" (thanks Obama!)
So many outlets were going with this narrative and I would click through to find out wtf they're talking about and it was... he's sending homan to MN, and he had... a meeting with noem? are these outlets just republishing one random low-level WH press officer's texts?
It is good they published this, but we also should not be in the condition of learning about this from them. Our educational institutions could have found this earlier instead of hyping/buying these products
Submissions are now open for UAI 2026 in Amsterdam. Deadline is February 25th, 2026 (23:59 AoE). Call for papers here: www.auai.org/uai2026/call...
Gonna leave this up because... Baby's first post
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"But résumé studies only measure callbacks. They don’t tell us who actually gets hired."
These authors of this brand new preprint wanted to know whether discrimination measured in résumé studies shows up in real hiring.
So they linked a large résumé audit experiment to actual employment data.
There’s also no reason to believe that “markets” or bond investors or whoever are actually opposed to fascism. The already wealthy and powerful have no need to save us
All this hard work and integrity under pressure to continue to legitimize a regime that’s trying to accelerate the actual destruction of the world
Ready to bike along the canals? 🚲
The 42nd Conference on Uncertainty in AI will be in Amsterdam, August 17-21! 🇳🇱
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🚨 Feb 25: Paper submission
🗣️ Apr 23–May 2: rebuttal period
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I'm a one issue voter
Lazily googling to find the title of a Poe story instead of going to my bookshelf
Instead of directing me to A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (good), google generates an imitation of a Poe story (🫥)