"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide."
Roving Through Books@roving_thinker
Without naming the book, tell me a line that readers of it will instantly recognize.
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Ativ Joshi
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Ativ Joshi
@ativsc
संसारोऽयम अतीव विचित्रः | CS Ph.D. Student @UMassAmherst | Online Optimization, ML Theory | Prev: Research Assistant @TIFRScience, CMI, @ahduniv
Ahmedabad, India Katılım Aralık 2013
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hot take i know many friends will disagree with me on: this is a deeply selfish act of theft from civilization
if you’re a smart capable young person, society poured millions of dollars into raising you
you have a moral obligation to pay it back with the surplus of your labor
shani 🌱 (sf)@sha_zng
my smartest friend in college left tech & is now a farmer at a buddhist monastery his days are: harvesting & meditating & walking through the forest & cooking his meals he could excel at anything he wanted. he chose a life that is simple and good, with all his intelligence
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With recommender systems becoming extremely powerful, using social media feels like being watched by a human suggesting content based on overall activity.
Feels creepy 😐 particularly when the recommendations are based on personal chats.
Privacy needs a revision in the LLM era.
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We are thrilled to announce that the work of Sreejata Bhattacharya, a graduate student in the School of Technology & Computer Science at #TIFRMumbai, has jointly won the Best Student Paper Award in the upcoming Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS 2025) conference.
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This is a beautiful illustration of an apparent paradox in deep learning that ~the weights don't move~
I think we resolved this paradox in prior work, so I just want to share our perspective. And before you ask: yes, it's a question of norms 😅
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Nora Belrose@norabelrose
If you make a drawing in the weight matrices of your neural network at initialization, it will likely still be visible at the end of training arxiv.org/abs/2012.02550
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Postulates are believed to be known to be true while axioms are known to be believed to be true.
The distinction is subtle and often blurred in our mathematical treatment. It took me a good while to appreciate this.
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Happy to share that two of our papers have been accepted to the ICML workshop on "Foundations of RL and Control" (rl-control-theory.github.io). Details below.
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of course this will be bad, but i feel the need to comment specifically on why, pre-emptively.
although it reads like the 'to be fair, you have to have a very high IQ' rick and morty post, its easy to misunderstand king of the hill.
its not a sitcom, or a comedy.
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DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
Pamela Adlon says “a new generation of young writers” are working on the ‘KING OF THE HILL’ revival. She adds that they are adapting “sweet spots of the classic” into the new era. (Source: @Variety)
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For the past few years, I've been putting my (LaTeXed) math notes on my website (sharmaeklavya2.github.io/notes.html) so that I can access them from any device and share them with others if needed.
Turns out they're getting 4K hits per month on Google search! 😱 Totally unexpected.
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Interesting exchange here with evolutionary biologist and ornithologist (bird expert) Richard Prum: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/richa…
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Do stop by at booth 1001 during the evening poster session today at #NeurIPS23! This is joint work with @sinha_mit, @mhajiesmaili and @CameronMusco.
Rajarshi Bhattacharjee@_rajarshiB
We give an online policy for fairly allocating resources among a number of agents in an adversarial setup. Our problem setup is very general and can be applied in a wide variety of settings like online caching, job scheduling etc.
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We give an online policy for fairly allocating resources among a number of agents in an adversarial setup. Our problem setup is very general and can be applied in a wide variety of settings like online caching, job scheduling etc.
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My coauthor Ativ Joshi and I will be presenting our work on no-regret algorithms for online fair resource allocation today at booth 1001 at #NeurIPS23 from 5-7 pm CST! nips.cc/virtual/2023/p…
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I once wanted to enroll in a course called Graph Theory thinking it will teach cutting edge dashboard tools like ggplot2 and Tableau or at least advanced Excel. Instead it was telling how many ways one can draw lines between many points and how to cross the bridges in some random town called Konigsberg. No wonder the youth is demotivated to study these days
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Thrilled to announce that my colleague Rahul Vaze and I have been honored with the Google India Research Award 2023 for our joint proposal, "Online Convex Optimization with Online Constraints".
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This NYT piece is an endless stream of bangers.
I swear, one of the more destructive recent cultural trends has been the combined push to frame all distress or discomfort as mental illness, and then to encourage people to form their identity around being “mentally ill.”
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Still blows my mind a bit that one of the Futurama writers came up with an entire original theorem in group theory just so he could present the proof in-universe to resolve the plot of an episode.
Science fiction: you're doing it right.
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