David Siska 🌍

Stochastic control, RL, Maths of AI; Reader at School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh @EdinUniMaths

[David Siska 🌍 @dsiska]

@_NogoodBoyo @evacide @peggymel2001 This is like “encryption backdoor for the good guys”. It can’t work, it will be hacked and real identities leaked.

The bot 🤖 problem is real though and needs solving, but your proposal is not a solution.

[Gabriel Peyré @gabrielpeyre]

Markov chains with positive transitions converge toward the stationary distribution. https://t.co/xfnUxhMDYP

[Almost Sure @Almost_Sure]

Fourth YT video just dropped!

https://t.co/CmL18VX94R

[Matt HB - matthodg.bsky.social @matthewhodg]

Love that we solved low cost, high capacity public transport 40 years ago and just decided never to do it again anywhere in this country…

[David Siska 🌍 @dsiska]

@OnlineMCSeminar @ArnaudDoucet1 Do you record the talks by any chance? Tuesdays are kind of packed.

[David Siska 🌍 @dsiska]

My first guess is that Covid forced a lot of places to move the final batch of paper based processes online plus people learned new more efficient ways of working. But if that was true we’d see the same in Europe… so the guess is wrong and 🤷‍♂️.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Investment in infrastructure and manufacturing?
More people working remotely?
Better access to health insurance?

[Pessimists Archive @PessimistsArc]

@paulisci

[David Siska 🌍 @dsiska]

The mighty peanut 🥜.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Food's protein density charted against Cost per gram of protein

[📊 James_Fortis]

[Gabriel @gabelbling]

Amazing graphical representation of a neural net, never seen anything like it.

[Anna Stokke @rastokke]

“The single biggest thing we can do to encourage kids to do maths at higher levels is teach it really well from primary,” Ashman said. “From the ground up, from the first year. If we do that, students will learn the maths, see their success and become motivated.”
https://t.co/6C4X6UeSIj

[David Siska 🌍 @dsiska]

@Noahpinion @elonmusk While many will enjoy reading this it feels like it was written with one specific reader in mind.

[David Siska 🌍 @dsiska]

@sp_monte_carlo Just diverged.

[David Siska 🌍 @dsiska]

@Almost_Sure I’m pretty sure gps works in airplane mode; when walking in the hills I have phone in airplane mode to save the battery and yet maps +gps give me the correct location.

[Skyline Scotland®️ @Skylinescotland]

THE WAIT IS OVER!!

Skyline Scotland returns in 2025 to our NEW Event Centre in Nevis Range, Fort William.

Imagine 2023 but... BIGGER, BETTER and with more ADVENTURE!

SAVE THE DATE!

📆 Saturday 20th September 2025

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📸 No Limits Photography

[David Siska 🌍 @dsiska]

@TheEVuniverse @eyaven Who’s gonna tell Norwegians that EVs don’t work in the cold?

[David Siska 🌍 @dsiska]

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[David Siska 🌍 @dsiska]

If you connect LLMs to “reality” more effectively during training they’ll produce better answers. For code and maths you can easily automate this. For other domains though?

[Jonas Gehring @jnsgehring]

LLMs for code should do much better if they can iterate on tests -- but they don't. Our new work (RLEF) addresses this with execution feedback at RL *training time* to use execution feedback at *inference time*. https://t.co/SeOd241TOv is just out! 1/6

[David Siska 🌍 @dsiska]

@Jordan_W_Taylor The y axis is TWh but is an amount of energy that is needed every hour? Every day? Every year?

[Zach Elsbury 🇺🇦 @ZachElsbury]

I swear to god, the penny-pinching Treasury need to be fired into the sun.

How can they honestly think it’s better to build something useless because it’s marginally cheaper than building something useful?

[David Siska 🌍 @dsiska]

Kolmogorv, Fomin - Introductory Real Analysis

[Tim Hwang @timhwang]

📚 compiling a reading list: what are books that are notorious for becoming a person’s whole personality?