Jochen Garcke

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding. The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

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...

'It' being going back and forth between LibreOffice and PowerPoint.

The main reason I have a Windows virtual machine one my Linux laptop is PowerPoint. It might work better if you don't use a prescribed template from your employer, as I need to. As in, if your template is simple and not much visuals are used it might be fine.

This is high art

THIS

(Credit to original poster.)

Nö, von skeptischer werden zu sehr aufgeschlossen ist schon noch ein weiter Weg.

Holy cow. Great ending. Must read by Maria & @davidlapham.bsky.social and Hilary Jenkins.

Thanks for the link, I was hoping that there is work in this direction.

Instead of deepfake detection, we might need trustworthy authentication of real human content.

My former student @msalbergo.bsky.social has beautiful papers describing the approach on the right. “Flow matching” and “stochastic interpolants” were concurrent developments of the same core idea.
arxiv.org/abs/2209.15571
arxiv.org/abs/2303.08797

I am collecting examples of the most thoughtful writing about generative AI published in 2024. What’s yours? They can be insightful for commentary, smart critique, or just because it shifted the conversation. I’ll post some of mine below as I go through them. #criticalAI

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.

Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

Saagar Enjeti tweets: "Probably a cold take but IMO Tokyo is the male fashion capital of the world: whether it’s western wear, suits, street wear the aesthetic is refined to the highest possible level From the salaryman to the rebel teen they are impeccably dressed It also helps no one is fat"

Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵

Ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to provide more value for shareholders

Reinhard Kleist zeichnet David Bowie: Mit dem Rad durch West-Berlin Im zweiten Teil seiner Bowie-Biografie zeigt der Berliner Zeichner, wie der Superstar sich in der Mauerstadt von seinen amerikanischen Eskapaden erholt und einen neuen Sound findet.

„Reinhard Kleists „Low. David Bowie’s Berlin Years“ zeichnet eine gut dokumentierte Periode aus dem Leben des Musikers nach. Umso erstaunlicher, dass der Band trotzdem fesselt und überrascht“: Meine Kollegin @nadinelange.bsky.social im @tagesspiegel.de:
www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/reinh...

In response to my own prompt, here's what I've been thinking about - but really curious what concepts other people are engaging with and putting into practice.

As prelude I've been struggling with the common "exploratory vs explanatory" conceit...