Constantine Caramanis

This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org

More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.

Congratulations!

The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.

Makes sense since the administration seems hell bent on n driving the US and the globe into recession. 🧪

www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

The end of NSF and American science expertise as we know it is here.🧪

www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

American science in a tailspin

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104 Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.

Colleague of Harvard scientist held by ICE warns that foreign scientists are scared Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back?

The answer is due process.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

136. Setting the Record Straight on the Anti-Trump Injunctions President Trump and his supporters are mounting increasingly noisy attacks on lower-court judges. But their claims combine shameless hypocrisy with shameful distortions of the facts.

"If this many different judges in this many different courts appointed by this many different presidents are blocking this many policies promulgated by the same president, we ought to be able to agree that the problem is the policies—not the judges."

www.stevevladeck.com/p/136-settin...

Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.

Bicycling = independence of the mind.

Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.

Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

Sounds interesting!

Performance of the best known Reasoning models on various Benchmarks. OpenThinker-32B matches the current state of the art.

We are releasing OpenThinker-32B, the best 32B reasoning model with open data. We match or outperform Deepseek-R1-32B (a closed data model) in reasoning benchmarks. Congrats to Negin and the whole Open Thoughts team.

github.com/open-thought...

Thanks Alex!

The class material is based on years of #teaching and #research at @utexasece.bsky.social @cockrellschool.bsky.social

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The lectures alternate between slide-based explanations & Colab-based coding sessions, giving students the chance to learn from real code and apply it on their own.
📚 Lots of hands-on learning!

The course is designed for motivated (high school) students. It introduces key ideas in ML, and quickly develops coding tools in Python and PyTorch so students can design and build neural networks, and use them to address interesting and important real-world problems.

Μηχανική Μάθηση (Machine Learning) - YouTube Διαλέξεις Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης και Μηχανικής Μάθησης: https://caramanis.github.io/MachineLearningClass/ Καλωσορίσατε στο μάθημα τεχνητής νοημοσύνης και μηχανι...

🚀 🇬🇷 A year in the making! I’ve just completed a set of 21 lectures in Machine Learning, in Greek, designed for high school students. The course introduces key ML concepts, coding in Python & PyTorch, and real-world AI applications.
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