Mahta

@Mila_Quebec and @cerc_aai.
ex Physics grad. @UWaterloo - @DataforGoodWR - and @Hexoskin

[Mahta @Mahtaao]

@ShashwatGoel7 By that argument, AI = world modelling... but wait, why stop at that? Statistics = world modelling :)

[Mahta @Mahtaao]

Cool, but future prediction ≠ world modelling

[Shashwat Goel @ShashwatGoel7]

Why study adaptation via forecasting?
• Future prediction = world modelling
• Better forecasting -> better priors for what will be useful in the future when you can't remember it all.
• Expert forecasters benefit from rapidly adapting predictions
• Humans also adapt over time

[Mahta @Mahtaao]

@ylecun @Ph_Aghion @erikbryn The economists with second-hand understanding of tech can be astonishingly wrong. This is a 2016 article. AI researchers didn't took seriously (rightly so): https://t.co/nQ99a5MirF

[Mahta @Mahtaao]

@docmilanfar It hasn't.

[DW فارسی @dw_persian]

📸 کاریکاتور هفته

به نظر می‌رسد عملیات نظامی آمریکا و اسرائیل علیه جمهوری اسلامی ایران وارد مرحله‌ای بسیار حساس شده است؛ تنگه هرمز بسته شده و آمریکا هشدار داده در صورت باز نشدن این گذرگاه حیاتی و نپذیرفتن شروطش، زیرساخت‌های ایران را هدف قرار خواهد داد.

در این میان، گروهی از ایرانیان که امیدوار بودند این فشارها با تضعیف ماشین سرکوب، راهی را برای رهایی از سلطه ۴۷ ساله یک حکومت دیکتاتوری مذهبی نظامی باز کند، اکنون با نگرانی تازه‌ای روبه‌رو شده‌اند: اینکه حاکمیتی با گرایش‌های آخرالزمانی ممکن است حتی از نابودی زیرساخت‌های کشور نیز، به شرط بقای خود، استقبال کند. این وضعیت بیش از پیش این پرسش تلخ را برجسته می‌کند که آیا در نگاه جمهوری اسلامی، تنها "حق" قابل دفاع برای مردم، نه جان و زندگی و آزادی و محیط زیست، بلکه صرفاً پروژه‌های هسته‌ای و موشک‌های دوربرد است؟

این موضوع دستمایه مانا نیستانی در طراحی کاریکاتور هفته برای دویچه وله فارسی بوده است.

[Shervin @shervin]

Media should refer to the Islamic Republic and not Iran.

Iran and the Iranian people are different than the terrorist Islamic Republic.

The Islamic Republic are occupiers of the Iranian people.

[Mahta @Mahtaao]

@mmbronstein @docmilanfar It’s a matryoshka situation: open it mullah by mullah, at the core there's a tiny Putin.

[Benjamin Thérien @ MLSys 2026 @benjamintherien]

Are frontier LLMs trained across datacenters? One thing is certain: if the pre-training optimizer’s critical batch size is too small, they are NOT! Excited to announce MuLoCo, a pre-training optimizer that can efficiently pre-train across datacenters while having large enough batch sizes to warrant doing so. 🧵1/N

[Mahta @Mahtaao]

@drmaisato @FranceskAlbs Huh!
@un has become a sad joke. Propagandists like you two latch onto any lie to justify their cause.

Aren't you the special UN rapporteur for Iran yet remained silent amidst #IranMassacre?

Isn't she the sham lawyer who claimed 680,000 Gazans have been killed?

[Mahta @Mahtaao]

@SenSanders How are internationally supervised free elections—or any non-intervention proposals—possible or enforceable while the regime remains in power and is violently cracking down on protesters?
How exactly? Genuinely asking.
#MassacreInIran #IranNeedsAction

[Mahta @Mahtaao]

@EP_President Thank you but the EU continues diplomatic relations with the Islamic regime!
No ambassador summoned. No real consequences. Statements are not enough. Diplomacy without consequences enables state terrorism. #HumanRights #IranMassacre #IranProtests #IranRevelution2026

[Mahta @Mahtaao]

@guyverhofstadt Diplomacy without consequences enables state terrorism. Please call your representatives NOW.
#IranMassacre
[BTW MEK is as terrorist as the IRGC if not more, stop meeting them too. Thank you.]

[Mahta @Mahtaao]

@HNeumannMEP The EU continues diplomatic relations with the Islamic regime.
No ambassador summoned. No real consequences.
Statements are not enough. Diplomacy without consequences enables state terrorism. #HumanRights #IranMassacre #IranProtests

[Marko Mihkelson 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markomihkelson]

Dear partners in Europe, it is time to act.

[Ali Partovi @apartovi]

I've spent the past week anxiously following the news in Iran. Protests in the last few days have escalated and taken a dark turn. Thousands have been killed or arrested, and the government has cut off phone and internet access, leaving tens of millions of people unable to communicate. 

My heart goes out to the innocent people who are affected by all this, including Iranians who live in the US and elsewhere. ❤️ Many are attempting to continue their studies or work and get through their daily lives under the immense pressure of wondering what's happening in Iran.

Some who are financially supported by their families in Iran are in need now. Some may have lost friends or family members. Many can’t even contact their family members to know if they’re safe. There are others who might have traveled home to Iran for Xmas and are now stuck, unable to get a flight back.  

Even those who aren't directly impacted are silently carrying an emotional burden. I've spent much of the past week feeling helpless and longing for some way to help or be involved. I miss the city of my birth and feel the suffering of the people there. 

If you're reading this and you work with anybody from Iran, be mindful of what they might be going through. Consider giving them space and understanding, extending deadlines, offering tuition relief.... or just a hug. Much love and hope. ❤️

[Mahta @Mahtaao]

@CanadaFP The Islamic regime has long lost legitimacy and massacre of Canadians (#PS752) and Iranians demands concrete action. #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranRevelution2026 #IranianRevolution2026

[Mahta @Mahtaao]

@LauraLoomer This slogan is, at best, ignorant and exclusionary, and at worst separatist. Millions of Iranians are not Persian, and erasing diversity fuels division.

Whatever role Loomer thinks she is playing, does not serve Iranians. #DigitalBlackoutIran

(cc @shervin jan for the retweet)

[Mahta @Mahtaao]

@CanadianPM Thank you.

The Islamic regime’s massacre of Canadians and Iranians demands concrete action, not mere condemnation--the regime has long lost legitimacy.

We hope you will join other world leaders in confronting some of the gravest atrocities of our lifetime. #DigitalBlackoutIran

[Mahta @Mahtaao]

I will be at the scaling workshop too. https://t.co/HKB1z8NYzK

[Daria Soboleva @dmsobol]

I am excited to be organizing the 8th scaling workshop at @NeurIPSConf this year!
Dec 5-6 | 5-8pm PT | Hard Rock Hotel San Diego
Co-organized by @cerebras, @Mila_Quebec, and @mbzuai
Register: https://t.co/aLOWHGjQDO

[Mahta @Mahtaao]

Heading to San Diego for #NeurIPS2025 (Dec 1–9).

Happy to connect with people working on transfer & generalization, time-series/EEG foundation models, or biotech.