Yigit Aydede

SMU & Novastorms AI - Lead Researcher

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Our thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty.

1. Your AI sovereignty dictates your institution’s future. Sovereignty is the precondition for choice. Relinquishing sovereignty transfers the future choices of your institution to others, who are likely to exploit it for their gain and your loss.

2. Data retention is your treasure. Transfer it at your own peril. Your ability to win is dictated by your ability to recognize and use your unique edges, and you keep winning by compounding the underlying data to generate new insights. Transferring that data hands over access to your pre-existing winning plays and yields the means of production for new ones.

3. Tokenmaxxing hijacks your value orientation and decreases your institutional fortitude and intelligence. The pursuit of high token usage incentivizes disposable scripts over robust software — with the addictive feeling of false progress. There is a reason why those selling tokens refuse to charge based on value.

4. Controlling your weights is controlling your fate. Weights are the distilled form of hard-won, accumulated institutional knowledge. If you let others control your weights, you are allowing them to migrate the alpha of your business to theirs.

5. There is no contradiction between sovereignty and alpha. The architecture that maximally preserves sovereignty is one that enables institutions to own their tribal knowledge, and to compound it as alpha.

6. Politicizing the technical issues involving sovereignty is what your adversary wants. Techno-politicization is the wellspring of false sovereignty. Techno-politicization drives decisions that seem to reduce dependency, but ultimately limit agency — especially on the battlefield in the West.

7. Real expertise is existential. Allowing politics or favoritism to determine your technical decisions rewards whoever is best at politics, not whoever is right. Listen to those closest to the problems, not those speaking most compellingly about them.

8. Learn from institutions that are winning or that have consistently delivered. Institutions facing existential threats do not have the luxury of making technical decisions based on political preferences.

9. Only listen to institutions, countries, and people who have a proven record of being right. A track record of correctness is the best and only signal for future correctness. Judging something as right or wrong based on who you like is exceedingly misguided.

[Yigit Aydede @yaydede]

@erkanagaslan Çok faydalı bir uygulama. Elinize sağlık

[Yigit Aydede @yaydede]

It arrived today.

The hard copy of Causal Inference and Machine Learning in Economics, Social, and Health Sciences is finally here.

Written for applied researchers who want to use modern ML without losing the causal framework that matters for economics, health, and policy.

📖 https://t.co/GllHgX7nmr
🌐 Free HTML: https://t.co/yB7hoZ7SSh

#CausalInference #MachineLearning #Econometrics #DataScience #statistics

[Yigit Aydede @yaydede]

AI data analysis at 35,000 feet. ✈️

Watch our In-House Insights tool run completely offline. No internet means your sensitive data never leaves your device.

This is true data security.

Learn more: https://t.co/rhsie99aU1

#AI #DataSecurity #Privacy #OfflineAI

[Yigit Aydede @yaydede]

Forthcoming in December: My second book with Dr. Yuksel—Causal Inference & Machine Learning in Economics, Social & Health Sciences (Routledge). It bridges ML for prediction with causal inference for policy evaluation. Pre‑order: https://t.co/TgPW0HnVDz
#CausalInference #MachineLearning #Econometrics

[Yigit Aydede @yaydede]

Unlock hidden insights in your confidential data without compromising security: In-House Insight. Analyze sensitive documents securely & drive data-driven decisions. Learn more: https://t.co/ir7GHkvqXE

#DataSecurity #AI #Halifax #NovaScotia #AtlanticTech #CdnTech #HalifaxBusiness #StartupNS #InnovateNS #TechEast #BusinessIntelligence"

[Yigit Aydede @yaydede]

@HopeEcon Bhahahhaaa

[Yigit Aydede @yaydede]

Check out this HRM Crime Dashboard! https://t.co/QitELaMf0g

[Novastorms @novastormsAI]

Meet Safe (https://t.co/J7BSKvCs4K), our public-facing tool that delivers real-time crime analytics in the Halifax Regional Municipality.

Features:
• Interactive Map by HRM, area radius, or postal code
• Analytical charts
• AI Insights
• Comparison Tab

[Yigit Aydede @yaydede]

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to innovate at https://t.co/ojc2xoNqMo!
#AI #AgenticAI #DataAnalytics #Innovation #MachineLearning

[Yigit Aydede @yaydede]

Check out Dynamic Nonparametric Smoothing Visualization app that I developed for my students: https://t.co/DF9g0TpoES
🔍 Experiment with smoothing methods
📈 Real-time animations of data smoothing
💡 Bridging theory & practice in AI/ML
#AI #MachineLearning #DataScience #ShinyApp #RStats

[Math Cafe @Riazi_Cafe_en]

Stanford's "Reinforcement Learning" by Emma Brunskill (Spring 2024)

📽️ Lecture Videos: https://t.co/3Eb8e27RLI
🗒️ Course Website: https://t.co/Zix0aNR1Nr

[Yigit Aydede @yaydede]

I had the pleasure of leading a great two-day workshop for the faculty on NLP and Large Language Models at SMU! #NLP #AI #MachineLearning @SMUHalifax

[Yigit Aydede @yaydede]

We completed our 3rd WORKSHOP OF APPLIED ECONOMICS between 22-23 August 2024

[Yigit Aydede @yaydede]

@HopeEcon Holly sh%t! Stop doing this, losing myself as I look at those 30min:-)

[Umut Oğuzoğlu @HopeEcon]

It’s hay time in MB.

[Yigit Aydede @yaydede]

@HopeEcon Jesus !!!!