Objectively Random

Algo Trading, Strat, Macro. Math PhD (Erdős 3). Hon Reader@UCL. Created MSc Algo Trading (‘17-now), & teaching online. Too much street-side experience to list.

[Objectively Random @ObjRandom]

[2601.22200] Adaptive Benign Overfitting (ABO): Overparameterized RLS for Online Learning in Non-stationary Time-series - Ontaneda & Firoozye https://t.co/RbXftnLg7y

[Vasily Ilin @IlinVasily29521]

1/n Today I am releasing Lean Pool - the result of 100+ human hours and 1000+ agent hours.

Lean Pool is a repo for preserving substantial sorry-free formalizations that are valuable but do not fit naturally into mathlib’s scope.

[R @shibadad8]

BREAKING: Randy Fine attempts to board flight to Tel Aviv

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

'We were ordered to kill': The 1967 Nakba that Israelis don't know about https://t.co/Hq6AfRP5kr

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

COUP 53 is a must-watch investigative documentary. It’s made by independent British-Iranian filmmaker Taghi Amirani.

For a brief period of time Iran was moving towards democracy. It’s Prime Minister was Mohammad Mossadegh who served for a total of a little over two years, across two consecutive terms, from April 1951 until the coup of August 1953 (with a brief interruption of five days in July 1952).

That coup was orchestrated by British & American secret services. I urge you to watch this compelling and important piece of film making which is in cinemas now . @tagz23

[Luke Heeney @heeney_luke]

We've lost an absolute giant today. RIP Dimitri Bertsekas. His probability and optimization books got me through my masters. Massive loss for the MIT community and the field.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

The House voted today on a new measure to fuse elements of the Israeli and US militaries, particularly on the cyberweapons front. Section 224, as its known, is included in the National Defense Authorization Act. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., introduced an amendment to strip it from the bill. Watch as a stream of Republicans and Democrats stand up in support of the enhanced cooperation. Only Rep. Sarah Jacobs (D-Calif.) joined Khanna, and the measure failed in a voice vote. Watch:

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@SoundDobad I know this may sound petty, but I can’t stand it when people put photoshop a meth pipe in my mouth. A crack pipe doesn’t have that little bowl at the end. This is why we can’t trust AI. Please make the appropriate edit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔UC Berkeley's computer science department just posted its worst failure rates in years. 35.3% of CS 10 students got F's in spring 2026, up from under 10% in prior semesters. Professor Dan Garcia says the primary driver is a "vast increase in academic dishonesty" through LLMs. Students use AI to complete assignments, never learn the material, then fail exams. His office hours, once full, are now empty.

My Take
Companies are firing experienced engineers while the pipeline that produces new ones is being gutted by the same technology. Students use AI to bypass the hard part of learning, show up to exams without the understanding, and fail. One professor discovered a student's linear algebra class had an "open AI" policy for homework and exams. That student then couldn't do basic linear algebra in the next course.

Both ends of the workforce are eroding at the same time. Senior engineers are getting cut to fund AI spending. Junior engineers are graduating without the skills because AI did their coursework. And the companies spending trillions on these tools haven't connected those two facts yet.

Hedgie🤗

[Dave Collum @DavidBCollum]

This is the most sober and sobering analysis of AI investing that I have seen. The cannibalizing the passive flows in idices has been buzzing in my head for weeks now...

https://t.co/DNHnWSUUsr

[Objectively Random @ObjRandom]

@Lim38878197 @karaokecomputer Iran is full of art and artists. Film makers whose films are banned. They criticise all the time. It has nuance.

[Objectively Random @ObjRandom]

@CarlZha Crowd control was not their thing. It borders on extremely dangerous.

[Objectively Random @ObjRandom]

@Lim38878197 @karaokecomputer She validates western “intellectuals” orientalist view of Iranians as strange others. One step removed to Homeland.

[Objectively Random @ObjRandom]

@HamjaAhsan She did vilify and justify it to western “intellectuals” - “we just need to bring them freedom”! Typical diaspora.

But @karaokecomputer was wrong - if she died heartbroken after her husband died, only a heartless asshole would say what he did.

[Objectively Random @ObjRandom]

@HamjaAhsan I was profoundly disappointed by her books on the first read, only later realising it was from the POV of a schoolgirl. She didn’t know. There was no nuance. The new govt was truly reactionary and her Tudeh party uncle was killed.

She did spawn an industry. And it did vilify.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

On June 8, 2026, I’ll speak on the floor of the House to honor and memorialize the brave crew of the 🇺🇸 USS Liberty who died and were wounded in an unprovoked attack by 🇮🇱 Israel on June 8, 1967. Catch my speech on @cspan.

[Gautam Kamath @thegautamkamath]

Honoured that our 2016 paper, Robust Estimators in High Dimensions without the Computational Intractability, w/ Ilias Diakonikolas, Daniel Kane, Jerry Li, Ankur Moitra, Alistair Stewart, was awarded the 2026 Gödel Prize

This is the highest award for papers in theoretical CS. 1/7

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

He doesn’t like Ai!

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

Barely a month ago this man was imprisoned for the violent rape of a Sikh woman believing that she was a Muslim. No Douglas Murray articles in the Spectator, no Baroness Fox speech in the Lords. No riots. Two tier? Too right https://t.co/8wABWe3bww

[Objectively Random @ObjRandom]

@IndiScipio @policytensor I agree, but I also believe that Bremmer stands out as amongst them.