Sariel Har-Peled

That would have been SAD = Self Assured Destruction....

Terry Tao on AI and IMO.
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1148814...

The new programming paradigm should be : Don't trust and definitely verify programming.

Or you get the following ...

What's next? Including GPA in student application to college? Is there no limit to discrimination in UCLA???

Here you go ... A pink pony on a teaching relief.

Surely you mean laplace. Napoleon said on Laplace that he "carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration".

I believe RAGING AGAINST is already known to be ATM complete...

What is one or two extra zeros among friends?

Wow. So important that they discuss East Jerusalem, which is the burning issue of the moment. These people can not help themselves.../s

"We, the signatories listed below, come together with a simple, urgent message: the war in Gaza must end now. "The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. The Israeli government's aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazans of human dignity. We condemn the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food. It is horrifying that over 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid. The Israeli Government's denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law. "The hostages cruelly held captive by Hamas since 7 October 2023 continue to suffer terribly. We condemn their continued detention and call for their immediate and unconditional release. A negotiated ceasefire offers the best hope of bringing them home and ending the agony of their families.

"We call on the Israeli government to immediately lift restrictions on the flow of aid and to urgently enable the UN and humanitarian NGOs to do their life saving work safely and effectively. "We call on all parties to protect civilians and uphold the obligations of international humanitarian law. Proposals to remove the Palestinian population into a "humanitarian city" are completely unacceptable. Permanent forced displacement is a violation of international humanitarian law. "We strongly oppose any steps towards territorial or demographic change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The E1 settlement plan announced by Israel's Civil Administration, if implemented, would divide a Palestinian state in two, marking a flagrant breach of international law and critically undermine the two-state solution. Meanwhile, settlement building across the West Bank including East Jerusalem has accelerated while settler violence against Palestinians has soared. This must stop.

"We urge the parties and the international community to unite in a common effort to bring this terrible conflict to an end, through an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire. Further bloodshed serves no purpose. We reaffirm our complete support to the efforts of the US, Qatar and Egypt to achieve this. "We are prepared to take further action to support an immediate ceasefire and a political pathway to security and peace for Israelis, Palestinians and the entire region.

A new statement on the war in Gaza from the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

The outrage continues... While starving billionaires are waiting for their tax cuts, flood survivors expect service from a federal agency in charge of helping people after a natural disaster...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

Laura Loomer is currently referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi as “Scam Blondie”

Why 20 million and not 20 trillion? Same chance of getting anything...

True friendship....

Nobel seems like a heavy lift, but the "Ig Nobel Peace Prize" seems perfect...

Early research on LLMs...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

That just confirms my suspicion that you are a rogue large language model....

Supposedly "delve" is a word that LLMs use but nobody else uses them. Of course all my future reviews are going to use the word delvishly often...

A pdf version without the stupid typo in the arxiv version (which would hopefully be updated shortly....).
sarielhp.org/misc/blog/25...

All the people writing this would be the first to stand to the wall when the LLM revolution happens...

An Easy Proof of a Weak Version of Chernoff inequality We prove an easy but very weak version of Chernoff inequality. Namely, that the probability that in $6M$ throws of a fair coin, one gets at most $M$ heads is $\leq 1/2^M$.

An easy proof of a very very very very very weak form of Chernoff's inequality...
arxiv.org/abs/2507.02759

If you are curious how to make it yourself - using Gemini "deep research" to write a report about something, and then ask for an audio summary.

Gemni talking about my recent paper about the Frechet distance...
sarielhp.org/misc/blog/25...

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a regressive tax code." - Matthew 10:34-36 (Updated GOP Version)

I think the TCS community (with some notable exceptions) is doing very poor job of implementing their stuff. That is not good as far as staying relevant.

Exactly.

There are now many publications on LLMs appearing on the arxiv, and in a few weeks get more citations than a typical STOC paper. I don't see why somebody that want to be relevant in this field publish in STOC....

I am of course exaggeratin, but not completely....

Report: National Science Foundation headquarters to be taken over by HUD, displacing 1,800+ employees | ALXnow The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will reportedly take over the National Science Foundation (NSF) headquarters building (2415 Eisenhower Ave.), displacing more than 1,833 NSF emplo...

NSF building to be turned into a palace for HUD secretary Turner and his family. NSF staff to be moved to an undisclosed location where they will undergo reeducation...
www.alxnow.com/2025/06/24/r...

Report: National Science Foundation headquarters to be taken over by HUD, displacing 1,800+ employees | ALXnow The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will reportedly take over the National Science Foundation (NSF) headquarters building (2415 Eisenhower Ave.), displacing more than 1,833 NSF emplo...

www.alxnow.com/2025/06/24/r...