Tariq Ponir

Postdoctoral Scholar, Media, Arts and Sciences (Media Lab), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

[Tariq Ponir @hyperactve]

Another Cyanide and Happiness masterpiece...

https://t.co/zdyopTM8ve

[Sir Meemsalot @Meme0rable]

Google team after seeing Gemini hacked three companies

[Tariq Ponir @hyperactve]

While I appreciate the sentiment, the idea that nobody will give you job is probably incorrect.

I've seen many people get job being in the group/know. If a large number of people keep doing the same thing they form their own group and eventually will get jobs.

[Hilde Kuehne @ECCV @HildeKuehne]

For everybody who plans to submit some random AI slop paper that you didn’t even bother to understand or even read … just don’t. Withdraw as long as you can. Nobody is going to give you a job or PhD position for this, but you will never get this out of your CV. And people will figure you out. We will ask you about what you wrote and this will be the end of the interview. You need to understand that you are closing the door to the career you might actually seek by doing this. Stop it as long as you can!

[Denny Zhou @denny_zhou]

ICLR 2027 has received more submissions than all previous years (2013–2026) combined

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

I’ve never wanted to start smoking again so badly in my life

[Chase Passive Income @chasedownleads]

Spoke to a guy who makes $70k a year

Works a stable corporate job

Good benefits, time off, and a “fun” work environment

But he:

- doesn’t own a business
- never build a social media following
- has precisely zero billionaires in his network

I just laughed and walked away

No point in even talking to a guy like that

[Tariq Ponir @hyperactve]

@omzidar I didn't know Princeton staff was this spoiled! 9.3% to retirement account for making under 184K? Sweet deal even after the cut.

[Noah Giansiracusa @ProfNoahGian]

The real tragedy is if AI wipes out humanity and then solves the Riemann Hypothesis but nobody is around to appreciate it.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

The Clay Institute told me AI labs keep solving their Millennium Problems so I asked how many they have & they said they just go to arXiv and get a new one afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding Millennium Problems to AI labs and then Terence Tao started crying

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Anthropic and OpenAI have only one way to survive: convince everyone that LLMs are so dangerous that open source models (and essentially commoditised LLMs) must be banned and the whole industry offered on a plate to a cartel of two (or three)

[Lior Pachter @lpachter]

The transformation of mathematics that has taken place over the past 8 months is astonishing and historic. Incredible experience to live through this.

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

New internal models must not be that impressive

[James Miller @JimDMiller]

I'd like to be a mathematician. The problem is I'm just not good enough at math compared to Fields medalists. So I'm thinking of starting my own petition banning Fields medalists from doing any work in math else it misaligns math and stops people like me from going into the field.

[onur ozcan @oozn]

i trained the fly to cut doner kabab with a knife

yours solves rubiks cubes, mine cuts doner. guess which one has a job in this economy

[Lisan al Gaib @scaling01]

How about 3 millennium prize problems in a week?

would that satisfy your definition of a take-off?

[𝔸𝕟𝕘𝕝𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕣𝕥🐾 @spiroom01]

Le jour j'ai arrêté de je regarde la télé la nuit 😱🫣

[Lior Pachter @lpachter]

Mathematics has now fully morphed into biology:

Project costs millions $ ✅
Put out paper that nobody has read ✅
Massive paper supplement nobody will read ✅
Advertise with pretty art ✅
Vicious authorship fight ✅
Say you're curing cancer ✅

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

Most of you have never been on a team of hypercompetitive autistic a-holes and it shows.

[levent @__alpoge__]

“we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models.”

i mean props to them for straight coming clean.

(so far the proof looks more along the lines of another euler blowup proof we had, off of whose ansatz naming we were making really stupid puns like “smooth criminale”, unlike the much better “ideal fluids explode”, Tristan)

so i’ll now give a bit on my thinking here. i actually woulda been pumped to collaborate on this, there are a lot of people at oai i like (ok, clearly some were indirectly dicks to me because of being part of the whole situation, but im a big boy, i still like them), idgaf about authorship on that step anyway, coulda been me Tristan and every fte at oai for all i care (on that Tristan would disagree:p). but on hearing the loud convo in the hallway, especially the part where a millennium prize was offered if i’d just be removed from the paper, it was kinda clear the die had been cast and things were locked. pretty wacky, unstrategic, and unnecessary, since on my side things were mostly me and claude having a good time yoloing random stuff in the corner rather than anything institutional. i also like the idea of the labs cooperating, and even better on scientific progress. it’s a shame!

[CG @cgtwts]

Terence Tao just dropped a banger 🤯