Chen Avin

Cool episode with Steven Strogatz about science and creativity pca.st/episode/f0b5fe…

Finally our paper at CACM is out. Enjoy and please share. I highly recommend watching the interviews with experts.

Cool! Our paper "On the impossibility of breaking the echo chamber effect in social media using regulation" Got to the "Top 100" Downloaded articles 2024 in  Scientific Reports. Do check it out. doi.org/10.1038/s41598… Thanks Hadassa Daltrophe & Zvi Lotker.

Revolutionary datacenter networks based on reconfigurable topologies: video interviews with Manya Ghobadi, Amin Vahdat, and George Papen, and upcoming CACM article. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2502.16228 @chenavin @CNSUCSD @CACMmag @ERC_Research @TUBerlin @ACMSIGCOMM @ACMSigmetrics

Very interesting spotify.link/OgfXrw6xpOb

A fascinating lecture by Stuart Russel on "AI: What if we succeed?" (25 April 2024), full of creative examples, poetic expressions and lots of knowledge about AI systems. Not to be missed by anyone concerned with AGI. youtube.com/watch?v=UvvdFZ…

ראיון מצמרר של טליה דנציג בת ה18, נכדתו של אלכס דנציג שנהרג בשבי חמאס לאחר שנחטף בחיים מקיבוץ ניר עוז ל@usegal .

6/ while obeying the core values of democratic societies (freedom of expression and user privacy) does not exist. This result leaves us with hard future choices to make.

5/ The fundamental question we try to answer is: how and can a regulation “break” or reduce the echo chamber effect in social media? Sadly, the paper’s main result is an impossibility result: a general regulation function that achieves this goal (on our social media model)

Excited to announce that our recent work on social media regulation and the echo chamber effect is finally out! Thank you @vardi for the initial inspiration. Check it out, see comments for the abstract. nature.com/articles/s4159… @ZviLotker @HadassaDaltrophe

To my non-Israeli followers: What would your country do if more than 120 of its citizens were kidnapped from their homes and hurled into a neighboring quasi-state of jihadi terrorists, then kept in cages, tortured and sexually molested? Would it, for example, allow support to the citizens of that quasi-state (who generally back their regime) with food, aid, and fuel? How do you think your country SHOULD respond, and how WOULD it respond? I'm asking this not to provoke political arguments, but to genuinely understand different perspectives.

A Moral Rot at Rice University. A confession of a distinguished professor: @vardi/a-moral-rot-at-rice-university-86440aede302" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@vardi/a-moral…

@boaz2904 הלב איתכם בועז. משתתף בצערכם.

מה שיגורנו, בא. אבא זלמן שנחטף בשבעה באוקטובר, נרצח בייסורי גוף בנפש בידי בני העוולה. הלב נקרע לחתיכות, נתגעגע. יש להחזיר את החטופים כולם ואת הקשישים והחולים שזמנם קצוב בראשם.

Kfir Bibas, a 10-month-old Baby, and the youngest infant being held by Hamas, was not released tonight.

Lost? "Now been found and returned". Emily was taken by the monstrous Hamas, kidnapped. Her stepmother was murdered, and her friends were slaughtered. This tweet is insane. It's worse than a lie. Is the PM of Ireland afraid of the Pro-Hamas crowd in his country? Disgraceful.

שרדה את השואה שרדה את החמאס עדיין מחייכת צריך לעשות מיגונים לבתי ספר מהחומר שממנו יפה אדר עשויה

This is beyond parody. We are deeply entrenched in the realm of nonsense, having arrived there via a trail of antisemitism. Israel would be happy to agree to a 1:1 ratio. The terrorists won't have it.