Jasper Lee

Assistant professor at UC Davis. Theoretical computer scientist, working on the foundations of data science and stats.

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@LinkofSunshine The machine version is cooler though

https://t.co/M8zb6fMYQL

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@thegautamkamath @eatcs_secretary Big congrats Gautam! Very well deserved.

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@ShriramKMurthi @ben_golub True, but doesn't she already have a known history of bad-faith "research"? I might be misremembering though.

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🥁 Announcing the 2025 TMLR Outstanding Certification! This year, the committee decided upon one recipient and three finalists. Read on to learn what they are!

Committee: @pcastr @pinyuchenTW @dumoulinv @SoloGen @BlackHC @jasperchlee Colin Raffel and Chang Xu 1/n

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@ShriramKMurthi Do they still sell on Waterman? I remember seeing their cart near the food truck area

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@sp_monte_carlo Interesting! Is there a tl;dr insight on how substantial the difference is (in terms of analytical easy-ness or in terms of tightness) between using uniform-in-sphere averaging vs standard Gaussian averaging (as in the Hsu et al. [7] paper)?

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Details + submission instructions here:

https://t.co/8DvkupY0qF

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📢 Call for AAAI-26 Doctoral Consortium Submissions
(Deadline: September 30 AoE)

We invite doctoral students in the AI community to apply to the Doctoral Consortium at AAAI-26, held on January 20-21 2026 in Singapore!

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Invited participants will get mentorship on their research + career development, and partial travel support (subject to total funding).

Everyone else (including non-students) is also welcome to attend the event.

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@minilek This current cycle I caught an MS applicant with a fraudulent transcript too

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@sp_monte_carlo The PCP theorem in complexity theory perhaps?

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@ShriramKMurthi I guess nothing can help in a non-temporary sense? There's finite resources (e.g. entropy) in the universe. People will always exploit (or even create) scarcity...

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@Adam235711 Is it a lecture-based course or a paper-presentation course? In the former case, would you post materials online?

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@ShriramKMurthi But if you hadn't been on sabbatical and had been on faculty meetings, would that result in a different set of confusion?

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@aryehazan Poisson binomials?

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@madsjw Congratulations Steve!

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@shortstein For bounded i.i.d. vectors, Talagrand's/Bousquet's inequality for bounded empirical processes is really tight IIRC.

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@ccanonne_ @Eng_IT_Sydney @Sydney_Uni Congrats Clément!

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@ccanonne_ Missing from the proposal is a plot of the number of biryanis you can make in terms of the fraction of a goat you get. Reviews say this is a critical flaw in research methodology. Strong reject.