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dad | husband | quant | information theorist

Views my own.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Hugo Duminil-Copin, French mathematician and 2022 Field Medalist told me he never participated in math competition and was very bad at it.
Innovative mathematics requires creativity, intuition, intense concentration, and long reflections, sometimes spread over several years.
Good performance at a math olympiad merely tests fast problem solving abilities. AI can do that nowadays.
One of the big activities of a researcher, in mathematics and elsewhere, is not to answer questions but to ask the right questions.

[D W @adgnaw]

Well said.

[VraserX e/acc @VraserX]

Yann LeCun says the real AI risk isn’t extinction or killer robots, it’s power concentration.

If AI becomes our main source of information, whoever controls it controls reality. That’s why he argues for open-source AI. A free future can’t be built on black boxes owned by a few. Open source is digital free speech.

[D W @adgnaw]

Not a comfortable read but whoever interested in AI should read it.

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

The Adolescence of Technology: an essay on the risks posed by powerful AI to national security, economies and democracy—and how we can defend against them: https://t.co/0phIiJjrmz

[D W @adgnaw]

@karpathy Right. With Claude Code I actually work longer hours because it never gets tired😂

[D W @adgnaw]

@TheAhmadOsman That'd be great. Why though?

[D W @adgnaw]

@randomjohnnyh Great improvement from 50%, but 99% not good enough for serious finance use yet. Invest in data quality and keep up the good work!

[D W @adgnaw]

@Barcafemenifoto @SongFinderBot this music is great. Congrats Barca!

[MIT Mathematics @MITMath]

Prof. Gil Strang's last lecture is ... Monday! Watch it via live stream: https://t.co/crToqS9gKq

[D W @adgnaw]

@profkuang @yufeizhao Is that Walker's memorial? I took an exam there but can't remember for what.

[D W @adgnaw]

@SteadyCompound Thank you so much for sharing!

[D W @adgnaw]

Respect. Last time I read from him was probably on source-channel coding...

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

I respectfully sent this email to @ForbesTech to let them know my perspective on "net worth", which they are compiling the list for this year and they contacted us to value Zoho.

Full text in the screenshot.

[D W @adgnaw]

I don't see much data in the original STAT article. The tone of the article is indeed suggesting that we are over-reacting, but that tone is hardly backed up by any data points.

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

This is a super important read. There is a human cost to all decisions and “relative” costs matter.

[D W @adgnaw]

And from an "Exponential Entrepreneur"

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Another blue check mark who doesn't understand 1) multiplicative processes, 2) risk, 3) other stuff.
Yet spreading danger.

Another one.

[D W @adgnaw]

@liu_mingyu @NVIDIADesign @junyanz89 @gavriilklimov @tcwang0509 @chrisjhebert @goodfellow_ian Congrats Ming-Yu!

[D W @adgnaw]

#python #pandas pd.Timestamp(...) is much faster than datetime.datetime.strptime(...)

[D W @adgnaw]

Indeed very peculiar... https://t.co/x897oWHmZO

[@fastml_extra @fastml_extra]

The Peculiarities of Training Neural Networks:
https://t.co/p3wJAuwSDH

"A lot of these tricks are well kept secrets in the industry"

[Charles Bergquist @cbquist]

Suspecting Carl Sagan had either a time machine or a crystal ball.

Ok, probably the time machine.

[MIT Alumni @MIT_alumni]

A view that never gets old ⛵⛵ #aroundMIT https://t.co/bhqXVgopkN