Mohammad Sekhavat

[Mohammad Sekhavat @mohammad7t]

Usually, there is a solution that satisfies one's all critical moral principles. But sometimes, the solution space shrinks. Even closest friends and family members tend to prioritize principles very very differently in those rare situations with restricted solution space.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

It's an unimpressive-sounding word, but one of the most powerful motivations is the motivation of the hobbyist. That's what keeps successful founders working on their companies long past the point when they've made enough to quit. It's their beloved project.

[Amir Joudaki @AmirJoudaki]

Neural nets don’t just forget. Sometimes, after long training, they lose the ability to learn at all.

In our #ICLR2026 poster, we model Loss of Plasticity as gradient dynamics trapped in invariant manifolds: 🔴 frozen units, 🔵 cloned units.

The video makes the traps visible.

[Saurabh Kumar @drummatick]

crazy results

In digital logic, you know that a single NAND gate can build any Boolean circuit.

AND, OR, NOT, XOR... all reducible to NAND. Nobody had found the equivalent for continuous math, the stuff on scientific calculators: sin, cos, log, exp, sqrt, etc.
This paper shows that one binary operator does it:

for example eml(1, eml(eml(1,x), 1)) = ln(x) and eml(x, 1) = exp(x) - ln(1) = exp(x) - 0 = exp(x)

once you get ln(x) and exp(x), you can get anything from using same operator again and again

[Amir ebrahimi @Amir60118403]

اولین سکانس از حضور قالیباف و همراهانش من را بیاد جشن تولد و رقص کودکان در هنگام مرگ «اسماعیل » در آخرین سکانس فیلم‌ برادران لیلا انداخت ، اولین حضور هیئت ایرانی در این سطح نشان داد که کشته شدن خامنه ای شرایط را در تقابل با امریکا و امریکا ستیزی تغییر داده و دیگر آن پدر لجوج و بدخلق و مانع بر سر راه فرزندانش نیست که به بچه هایش امر و نهی کند که مذاکره غیر مستقیم بکنند و یا بگوید مذاکره نمیکنیم و جنگ نمی‌شود و یا به قیمت اینکه بمیرند نباید واکسن امریکایی بزنند ، من به مذاکرات اسلام آباد برای اولین بار خوشبینم بنظرم بزرگ‌ترین مانع عادی سازی روابط با امریکا دیگر نیست و روابط دو کشور طی سال‌های آینده و بعد پنج دهه خصومت عادی خواهد شد

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

In my chat with @ziv_ravid I spoke to how denoising evolved from a "digital janitor" to the heart of modern diffusion models. It's a powerful reminder that breakthroughs, even in practice, often come from long-term foundational work, not just the latest trends. link to episode👇

[Mohammad Sekhavat @mohammad7t]

Can mid-level autocrats finance their independence from a hegemon by extorting subordinate dictators under the threat of democratization?

[Mohammad Sekhavat @mohammad7t]

#LGBS = LLM Generated Bullshit

[Mohammad Sekhavat @mohammad7t]

@mahmoudmamut راست میگی! اصلاحیه:
۱.نفوذ موساد در سپاه ⇐ بازدارندگی اتمی تا سالها محال است
۲.جنگ دیرتر=توسعه بیشتر سپاه
۳. ۱و۲⇐جنگ دیرتر=بمب بیشتر
۴.نفت ارزان = لازم و کافی برای رشد چین
۵.شتاب زیاد چین و۴ ⇐ حمله آمریکا به ایران زیر ۵ سال
۶. ۳و۵ ⇐ جنگ دیرتر=رنج بیشتر «نسل امروز» مردم ایران

[Mohammad Sekhavat @mohammad7t]

از نظر من بیشتر لیوان ایران خالی است. اما نیمه که نه، چند قطره انتهایی پر لیوان این هست حتی اگر جنگ نمیشد، قطعا نفوذ اطلاعاتی اسراییل در سپاه اجازه نمیداد ایران به بازدارندگی اتمی برسه. و قطعا هرچی ج ا بیشتر ادامه پیدا میکرد رنج بیشتری به مردم وارد میشد.

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

The Iranian regime will collapse when the basij are more afraid of America than the Iranian people are of the basij.

[Bashir Sadjad بشیر سجاد @BashirSadjad]

"Obliterating" Iran's power plants has nothing to do with "rescuing peaceful protesters" (which never happened, BTW). The vast majority of the Iranians oppose the Islamic regime, but most of those Iranians also oppose targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure.

[Mohammad Sekhavat @mohammad7t]

An effective way to grow is to choose your fights.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ A dominant entity maintains power not by eliminating opposition, but by manufacturing deliberately weakened versions of potential threats, creating the illusion of conflict while ensuring the outcome.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

⚠️ Update: Metrics show the internet blackout in #Iran has entered its thirteenth day with the incident surpassing 288 hours.

The regime's measure presents a direct risk to the safety, health, and security of civilians who have a right to receive information needed for survival.

[Mohammad Sekhavat @mohammad7t]

If the war stops without a regime change, we will have to wait for the next round of a deadlier war within months: https://t.co/eSDOqtgDDT

[Mohammad Sekhavat @mohammad7t]

Interesting extension of prisoner's dilemma and explanation of difference between rational individuals vs rational society : https://t.co/F9EhJBc1l0

IMV, religion can be viewed as a rational choice for people who choose to live in a rational society

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

Our allies in Israel have shown amazing capability when it comes to collapsing the murderous regime in Iran. America is most appreciative.

However, there will be a day soon that the Iranian people will be in charge of their own fate, not the murderous ayatollah’s regime.

In that regard, please be cautious about what targets you select. Our goal is to liberate the Iranian people in a fashion that does not cripple their chance to start a new and better life when this regime collapses. The oil economy of Iran will be essential to that endeavor.

https://t.co/OS8hYfXkWB

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

blowing up oil depots is a pointless - it yields no political or strategic gain, while inflicting environmental and humanitarian pain on the local population

[Mohammad Sekhavat @mohammad7t]

No military or political objective justifies bombing oil depots near civilian neighborhoods. Toxic chemical fallout endangers millions of civilians with cancer and other deadly diseases

[Andrew Day @AKDay89]

I attended schools located on US military bases throughout my childhood. Luckily no AI model ever told a powerful state to blow those schools up.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

One day before the first bombs fell on Iran, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security. The classification is reserved for foreign adversaries. The last company to receive it was Huawei.

The next morning, Anthropic’s Claude, running inside Palantir’s Maven platform on classified military servers, identified and prioritized over a thousand Iranian targets in the first twenty four hours of Operation Epic Fury. What previously required days of human analysis was compressed into hours.

The same artificial intelligence the Defense Secretary tried to ban on Thursday selected the targets his bombers hit on Friday.

That is not a contradiction. That is the architecture of this war. Three nations are building three separate AI kill chains in real time, each shaped by its own constraints, and none of them fully control what they have built.

On the American and Israeli side, Claude works alongside an Israeli system called Lavender that scores individual human targets, a companion called Gospel that generates structural target lists, and a tracker called Where’s Daddy that times strikes for when scored individuals are at known locations. Together they produced roughly nine hundred strike packages before the first sunrise. The speed compresses days of deliberation into hours of machine output. A commander approving targets at that tempo is not conducting the proportionality assessment that international humanitarian law requires. A human signature appears in the record. The deliberation it represents has been structurally eliminated by the velocity of the system presenting the options.

On March 1, an estimated 165 female students were killed in a strike near an IRGC naval base in Minab. Neither the United States nor Israel has claimed responsibility. No AI targeting review has been announced.

On the Iranian side, the AI is primitive and strategically perfect. IRGC drones carry basic computer vision and Chinese BeiDou satellite navigation that resists American jamming, supplied under a twenty five year partnership. A twenty thousand dollar drone with enough machine intelligence to force the expenditure of a fifteen million dollar interceptor. Iran does not need AI that thinks. It needs AI that costs less than the missile that kills it.

Behind both, a third AI actor. MizarVision, a Shanghai satellite company assessed by Western analysts as an intelligence front, published free AI annotated imagery of American military positions before the war began. F-22s in Israel. AWACS in Saudi Arabia. THAAD batteries in Jordan. Iran subsequently struck the THAAD radar at the published coordinates.

The surveillance monopoly that gave American operations a structural advantage for decades was not defeated by a rival space programme. It was eliminated by commercial satellites costing less than a single interceptor.

Three nations. Three AI architectures. America compresses the kill chain from days to hours. Iran compresses the cost of attack below the cost of defense. China compresses the information advantage that made American power projection possible since 1945.

And a school in Minab sits in the gap between machine speed and human accountability, ten years of satellite imagery showing it was a school, and nobody willing to say whose algorithm put it on the list.

https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8