Mike Guerzhoy

Personal account.

Teaching-Stream Assoc. Prof, @UofT EngSci and @uoftmie . Ex-: @Princeton, @inria_grenoble, @EpsonCanada, affiliate scientist @UnityHealthTO

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

This is the moral equivalent of Q-tip manufacturers telling people not to stick Q-tips in their ears:
(1) It's a very sensible statement but
(2) Why else would you buy Q-tips and
(3) How else are you supposed to clean your ears?

https://t.co/jGsWRnfauF

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

Further, NeurIPS is like BBC News, visiting Paris itself is like watching EiP, season 1 of EiP genuinely good, later ones tedious bullshit

[Anna Gát @TheAnnaGat]

The great Terence Tao in the @NewYorker:

'Tao compared learning mathematics to watching “Emily in Paris,” a show that he and his wife enjoyed. “It’s completely ridiculous fluff, but it’s also fun. You learn the tropes, and you can kind of see how it’s going to go,” he said. “But if you’re just given a synopsis of the plot, like, ‘Here’s the premise, and this is what happens’—that’s not the point.” And, if you want to learn how to write your own show, “then it’s not helpful at all.”'

https://t.co/M8EoxqKfGo

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

@mbeisen The canonical Freud answer is coke

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

@tallinzen According to a Lean-formalized secret proof by Fable, this is true for everyone for k>1e11

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

@alz_zyd_ It's useful for knowing that there are things for which there are complicated but correct formulas. That's about the only semi-transparent example!

(Semi b/c IMO 5-10% is off by an order of magnitude. I'd guess middle school olympiad level)

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

https://t.co/P1uDNUv5kE

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

@CSProfKGD Are residual connections warp speed or wormholes

[Ferenc Huszár @fhuszar]

I heard OpenAI are testing GPT-7 Astra inside vim so the agents can’t escape.

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

@ShriramKMurthi Memory-safe Rust code in action ;-) (j/k)

https://t.co/MavofgWLf9

[🥥🌴Lars the Viking 🇳🇴🇺🇦 #NAFOCatsDivision @Norwegian_Lars]

Cat wheel

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

@krismicinski TOO MANY TOKENS

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

@SoloGen Of the reasonable reasons, (1) continuity of care and (2) someone has to do the night shift.

I am sorry to report that I thought about it and both apply to grad students/agents

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

Nathan Fielder really commits to the bit. But if you think about it, every one of us is committed to *a* bit. The only difference is Fielder commits to more bits.

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

@alz_zyd_ Correct. Life works like violin. Years of sounding terrible; no one cares about your solos even if you're not terrible.

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

@alz_zyd_ It's not obvious to me that there is a trade-off between sentence-level elegance and general clarity.

I think one thing that's going on is Claudese sounds like it might be dense prose but actually isn't, which makes it hard to read.

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

(re: discourse on this)
1. OK Solomon, you're horny, what else is new? Real poetry rhymes and scans! They'll just publish anything when you're king

2. NYer did Carson dirty, the full poem makes much more sense

3. I thought about it for 1/2 hour. I don't like it that much

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

A poem by Anne Carson, who was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read it in full: https://t.co/rtwdOUgu5e

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

I don't know about Claude, but p-Claude does not feel pain.

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

@alz_zyd_ Same here so far! I just have no confidence I'll stay outside the jagged frontier forever.

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

@alz_zyd_ Right and the job of the pure mathematician is to learn new math, so no change at all, just better math; all financed by service calculus sections.

As long as no one asks any questions and it doesn't turn out everyone's sending an AI agent to work instead of them it's fine :)

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

@alz_zyd_ I think more likely some number n < N of current scientists will be useful in some sense s for time t < T. We can only hope n >> 0 and T->\inf.

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

@CSProfKGD I'm quitting the ICLR reviewer roulette and getting a job in high-frequency trading of ICLR futures derivatives

[Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy]

OK Solomon, you're horny, what else is new? Real poetry rhymes and scans! They'll just publish anything when you're king.