Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Worth reading.

What universities will the government extort / blackmail next?

Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) has written a thread on Mastodon about the impact of the federal grant freeze to UCLA, particularly to his own field of Mathematics. UCLA's IPAM (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) could shut down entirely

mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...

Loser stuff

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

Left prompt: "show three little boys enjoying their birthday with friends". Right: "convert this to caricature and make the boys south Asian"

I am going to wish people "Hippy berritay" from now on.

Last night, I wish I had this book to share with a friend. I can’t wait for it to come out.

This is a stupid argument.

ZKPs aren’t bad because they’re not confidential enough.

Worry instead because people can ask you to prove anything, at any time, to provision or deny you access to services, while saying ‘privacy is solved’! Rules, not disclosure, are the risk.

Do better @eff.org.

Spot on. Unfortunately.

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

Five hours and 50 thousand two-factor authentications later, I can finally log into a slack workspace on computer and mobile. Still attempting to login to a microsoft workspace. these are perhaps not unconnected:)

Some Asian people posted a photo of themselves having dinner. It reads: "Went to a fancy dinner in SF and everybody went to Harvard (or Stanford)" The next day, the followed up with a tweet that reads: "Almost all of us are Americans. FWIW, More of us are Americans than Asian."

Two quote tweets. The first has a racist drawing of Asian people and it says "I rent to fancy dinnah and everybody rent 2 Havah (or Stanfah)." The other shows Yale's Skulls and Bones society in the 1940s, where a bunch of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant men in suits are composed for a group photo. An Italian man writes: "This is what Ivy Leaguers are supposed to look like."

Two quote tweets. The first reads: "Foreigners post stuff like this and then act surprised that GenZ males are so far right they'd make Rush Limbaugh blush. I hope they realize Trump is their last chance for a moderate solution." The other reads: "I’m so glad that 17 Americans didn’t get to go to Harvard or Standford because these peoples parents spent $10,000 on SAT prep"

Two quote tweets. The first reads: "Living exclusively around these people for over 15 years is what turned me into a nazi. They're like this all the time." The other reads: "Not going to lie, very depressing to see our hallowed western university system turn into a network of Striver Universities for intellectually incurious exam maxxing Kumon monsters"

Interesting how much resentment this photo created from white conservatives who assumed that the dismantling of DEI meant elite schools would return to the 1940s.

The French Method

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?

Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

If you don't measure bias, lack of safety, or misinformation in tech systems we won't have any problems.

This is how I learned it's August 1st

Yes we did

I think of it like making a cutter mold with 4k arms and then deciding where to place it. Then the theorem starts to sound more plausible. Otherwise I thought it was some kind of multi round fair division argument

And for those keeping track at home, you don't need AI for any of these things to do them well.

Ah the theorem is more specific than I thought. It's a very special cut

Do We Collaborate With What We Design? This article critically assesses the accuracy and desirability of using terms like “collaboration” to describe interactions between humans and AI systems. This article concludes that we cannot collab...

You might like this onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/2

I like being "Coffee Suresh". And as for memes my kids and students already have made enough of me :). I agree that the coffee cup missing in the picture is a criminal offense

Yes but they imply a degree of control and reliability anyway. I think as a design concept it's a good one to work towards, but it might lead to something a little different from the current chatbots

Why Your Energy Bill Has Gotten So Expensive (and What Can Be Done About It) KQED's Forum · Episode

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Energy experts @costasamaras.com and @michaelwara.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the steps we can take to make California's electrical grid more sustainable.

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I very much like this idea. Consider this vision:

Brown University to lead national institute focused on intuitive, trustworthy AI assistants A new institute, based at Brown and supported by a $20 million National Science Foundation grant, will convene researchers to guide development of a new generation of AI assistants for use in mental a...

Excited to be a (very tiny part) of this new AI Research Institute, led by the amazing Ellie Pavlick. Looking forward to doing some human factors and education work, and getting to hopefully nerd out with some cognitive scientists!
www.brown.edu/news/2025-07...

Deal details here:
www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

"Brown also agreed to adopt Trump’s definitions of a male and female." 🙄

true true. but I was required to insert photos of Dear Leader in it. Ruins the folds

that is only a minor consolation