Dr. Evgeniy

My paper with @DanTGilbert is out today in Nature: people believe that people are less kind than they used to be, they're probably wrong about that, and we have an idea where this illusion comes from. nature.com/articles/s4158…

thanks for the context, book shop

He departed, recalled a colleague, "in a final fanfare of fucks"

the most flattering spam email in my life (please do not anticipate my gracious presence)

Our main result: no. There is a *trilemma* between privacy, bias, and variance of a mean estimator: essentially, one can not simultaneously have strong privacy, low bias, and low variance. This shows the clip-and-noise algorithm is optimal. 5/n

Kinda interesting that Wolfram Alpha could pass a calculus exam when I was in college and no one had this kind of reaction.

#ChatGPT obtains SoTA accuracy on the Tuebingen causal discovery benchmark, spanning cause-effect pairs across physics, biology, engineering and geology. Zero-shot, no training involved. I'm beyond spooked. Can LLMs infer causality? 🧵 w/ @ChenhaoTan

why are there no Berlin wall shaped piñatas? anyway, happy holiday to all my bad German bitches

Being an immigrant is when you leave your country to find a better life and end up sampling different models of state failure.

We’re all just living in this Berkeley student’s universe

он и его новый друг грузин с соседнего сиденья пьют водку за хороших пацанов; грузин говорит, шашлыка в Лондоне нет

мы успели узнать, что у него сломано три ребра и суд в понедельник, но потом он перешёл на итальянский

Еду в автобусе с вором в законе, погоняло Хуёвый, поёт мурку на весь второй этаж, уайтчэпелские школьники смеются и кричат мур мур

Science is hard because statistics is simultaneously the most boring subject but also the most important.

I'm laughing already, or, if not, then soon I'll be laughing already

my new favourite news program: youtu.be/biWldCT0irI

Try @LoveOpenWaterUK in Canary Wharf! Water is +19 and crystal clear. You can see seaweed on the bottom. There's a school of tiny fish. You swim between skyscrapers. It's excruciatingly beautiful. Life is good.

an interesting research direction – thanks Google!