Ertuğ Karamatlı

ML/AI researcher & consultant. Shipped ML systems used by millions. Former principal engineer & applied ML research lead. PhD from @Bogazici_CmpE

[John D. Cook @JohnDCook]

Richard Feynman said "nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough."

This morning I wrote a blog post about Excel column labels.

[Ertuğ Karamatlı @ertug]

Write-up: how it works, the nftables policy, the full agent pentest summary, and kvm-jailbox, a tool that builds a jailbox in one command and verifies the boundary holds:

https://t.co/qKoB1r0EGk

[Ertuğ Karamatlı @ertug]

I gave an AI agent root inside my sandbox VM and told it to escape: reach my host, my LAN, anything private.

It couldn't.

The sandbox is a plain, hardened KVM VM: internet yes, private addresses no. My whole dev environment lives in one.

[Ertuğ Karamatlı @ertug]

Letting an AI agent manage your emacs config is fantastic: low risk + huge convenience

[Ertuğ Karamatlı @ertug]

The full descent from helpful to done:
6 clicks → "Yes, yes. What can I do for you?"
13 → "Are you still doing that?"
19 → "Alright, alright, you have my attention!"
25 → "Ugh, well you can't do that forever"
Did Claude build this easter egg itself? 🤔

[Ertuğ Karamatlı @ertug]

Stumbled upon a little easter egg in Claude.
Click the logo at the end of a chat enough times and it slowly starts losing patience with you. Watch:

[François Chollet @fchollet]

In software, complexity is a tax you pay on every future change. You might think, "as long as it works, I'm good, I don't care about aesthetics", but elegant code is about maintainability, not aesthetics. Elegant code is deeply practical.

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

“In programming, if someone tells you “you’re overcomplicating this,” they’re either 10 steps behind you or 10 steps ahead of you.” — Andrew Clark

credit: @CodeWisdom

[Ertuğ Karamatlı @ertug]

@cerkut1 I am humbled and grateful. I greatly appreciate the valuable feedback you provided in the defense meeting and am looking into keeping this repo up-to-date. Thank you so much for being a part of my thesis jury!

[Ertuğ Karamatlı @ertug]

New paper!

MixCycle: Unsupervised Speech Separation via Cyclic Mixture Permutation Invariant Training

Paper: https://t.co/ENtxQK57I8
Code: https://t.co/jGUgemNHyq
Demo: https://t.co/01T9TbheYQ

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

As the years go by...

(comic v/@_workchronicles)

[Taylan Cemgil @TaylanCemgilML]

'How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?' E. Dijkstra

[Taylan Cemgil @TaylanCemgilML]

How do I learn the mathematics and theories behind machine learning algorithms in order to fully understand them and implement them? by Taylan Cemgil https://t.co/h02W0u6eKZ

[İlker Birbil @sibirbil]

Ben de tarihe not düşmüş olayım: Geçen hafta bir mühendisi, bir hocayı, bir hak savunucusunu kaybettik...

[StartersHub @StartersHub]

Tomorrow @ertug will share his experiences at Elasticsearch with @selimseynur Join from here https://t.co/3FziUpeH0f

[İsmail Arı @ismailari]

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