Michael Bronstein

Otherworldly misty morning in Chisapani forest on a Marwari stallion in a dreamy photo that looks unreal. If equestrian paradise exists, it should look something like this.

@hikingtheglobe0 Gary, Indiana

Guess the city?

Horses of New York

That is, almost always. There are exceptions, naturally.

Noveboracean architecture always pleases the eye even in foul weather.

@egrefen Especially 3 in combination with hard experimental sciences

There will be 3 kinds of scientists in the coming years: 1. The Blenderists, who cover their eyes to ignore the impact of AI. 2. AI scalers like OP(?), who think everything can be solved by making GPUs go brrr. 3. Actual researchers who embrace the tech and explore new frontiers.

Major difference in my mind: - an engineer, given a problem, invents and tries multiple solutions and stops when the solution is good enough. The goal is product innovation and shipping. - a scientist asks new questions, proposes various new solutions, compares them (sometimes with old ones), and writes about it. The methodology must be sound or else peers will sneer. The goal is scientific breakthroughs and technological progress. Both can be called "researchers". Many people can do both: these are activities, not identities. Importantly, most product innovations are built on scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations that happened 2, 5, 10, or 20 years earlier.

We are recruiting multiple postdocs at Oxford: cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2520-full…

1/ How much can you compress an LLM’s KV cache? tl;dr it depends on how you train your model. Many strong context compaction methods, such as Cartridges and attention matching, operate post-hoc: given a fixed model and a context, they try to compress the resulting KV cache. @yoav_gelberg and I ask the complementary question: can we train the model to produce KV representations that are easier to compress? In other words: keep the compression method fixed, and change the representations it sees.

6/ Check out the full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.05971 Code coming soon. Huge thanks to our collaborators @yoav_gelberg* (co-first), @HaggaiMaron, @yaringal and @mmbronstein for making this project happen. This work was heavily inspired by recent progress in KV cache compaction by @AdamZweiger @EyubogluSabri  @ryansehrlich @simran_s_arora

@WildscapeWonder Gary, Indiana

Can you identify this city without Googling?

@paulieboy1 @simonmontefiore Probably the converse is true

@simonmontefiore Fascinating how the pro-Israel/anti-trans movements have aligned

I investigated BBC capture by trans activists. It was worse than I thought thetimes.com/article/817e15…

@academic_la You remind me of a joke about Beethoven and conductor von Karajan

I am currently talking to two sources I really respect. They are both telling me that Trump is backing away from the deal with Iran, likely under extreme internal pressure (i.e. Israel and its domestic allies in the US). This is a terrifying turn of events.

@JackDunc1 At least for once it’s truthful

The BBC will post anything to avoid reporting on Israel's human rights abuses

Zeffirelli’s production of Turandot at the Met with Alagna, Monastyrska, Grigoryan — as good as it gets

@novaramedia He was also a great singer.

Frank Sinatra smuggled an estimated $1m in cash to pay for weapons for a Jewish paramilitary group in Palestine at the height of a Zionist ethnic cleansing campaign, his daughter Nancy has claimed. The My Way singer met Teddy Kollek, the Washington representative of the Haganah militia, at the infamous Copacabana nightclub in New York City in March 1948. Since the pair knew that Kollek was under FBI surveillance, Sinatra was able to use him as a decoy to distract the authorities’ attention, while he went and delivered payment to the captain of a boat packed with munitions set for Palestine, Nancy Sinatra revealed on X last week. The Haganah were the primary underground Zionist militia in British Mandatory Palestine and one of the forerunners of the modern day Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). The group was linked to multiple acts of terrorism, including the 1940 sinking of the SS Patrial, a boat in the port of Haifa containing 1,800 Jewish refugees whom the British authorities were deporting to Mauritius. The Haganah intended to immobilise the boat to stop the deportations, but instead killed 267 people and injured a further 172 after their bomb ripped the steel frame off one side of the ship. The group also served as the primary military force behind the displacement of Palestinians, developing Plan Dalet to take control of Mandatory Palestine and playing a significant role in its execution. The campaign included the siege of Palestinian Arab villages, the bombing of neighbourhoods, forced expulsions, and setting fields and houses on fire. The “Nakba” - meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic - saw more than 700,000 Palestinians displaced from their homes and an estimated 15,000 killed. Nancy shared the post about her father’s smuggling on 15 May, a date known as Nakba Day in reference to the mass displacement. She has previously shared the story on X, describing it in 2023 as her father’s “most gallant and heroic moment”. Frank Sinatra was known throughout his career as a passionate supporter of Israel and the Zionist cause. He visited Israel for the first time in 1962, performing seven concerts, including one for Israeli soldiers.

@aseisfree @gbsumudflotilla I think it was a space laser

Wanna know why Basque police beat @gbsumudflotilla torture survivors? These are the same cops who've taken €1.6M in Israeli security contracts, trained by former Mossad agents, and equipped with Israeli surveillance tech. READ MY LATEST: substacktools.com/sharex/Yw2pN8Y8

@IhabHassane Has the Spanish government summoned the Spanish ambassador?

A horrifying footage of Spanish police brutally attacking flotilla activists. Spain condemned the treatment of flotilla activists by Israeli police, yet now we are seeing the same kind of violence carried out by Spanish police themselves. This deserves the same outrage.

@thiagoavilabr Will Spanish government summon the Spanish ambassador?

OUTRAGEOUS! In front of their families and the entire Basque press, our Flotilla volunteers were attacked by the airport police in Bilbao, Basque Country-Spain, upon returning to their home country.

@IsraelMFA 🤭

We demand an explanation from the Spanish government regarding its treatment of the flotilla anarchists