diagamma function respecter

A map titled United States High Speed Rail System showing a theoretical high speed rail system in the United States. Some lines also connect north to Vancouver or the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, or south to Tijuana or Monterrey. The map is credited to First Cultural Industries AKA Alfred Twu, dated from February 2013, and is downloadable at www.californiarailmap.com

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

What do you call colonialism in the heart of a traditionally colonialist country again

The DOGE mindset, perfectly encapsulated in one tweet. Destroy incredible public assets for a short term sugar high that would not come remotely close to ending the national debt

unironically: the realization that being a "fake man" was an option in my early twenties was among the most personally rewarding decisions I've ever made. highly recommend

Report: Police killings rose in the five years after George Floyd's murder An analysis shows how little has changed for Black victims of police violence in America.

A new report shows how little has changed for Black victims of police killings five years after George Floyd's murder www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Gender is mostly about doing bits

This is the Weierstrauss function, a “monster” that is continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere. First published in 1872, it prompted scrutiny of assumptions in calculus. Similar functions are used to study random motion and analyze risk. www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-m...

Photo of soup with vegetables. Caption: you started water-based cooking and now your skin is clear and your stomach healed

They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.

it also could mean they're smoking a nice brisket, settling in for a long weekend with the boys

Exciting news! We were just named a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Explanatory Reporting alongside The Center for Public Integrity and @revealnews.org for our “40 Acres and a Lie” investigation into how formerly enslaved people were given land—only to have it taken back: 40acresandalie.com

Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.

"Trump...has effectively given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say...The return to full-fledged war would come after Israel already cut off all supplies of food, water and medicine"

this era is so bleak

www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

I asked "on the other platform" what were the most important improvements to the original 2017 transformer.

That was quite popular and here is a synthesis of the responses:

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

My new paper "Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different": arxiv.org/abs/2503.02113. Generalization behaviours in deep learning can be intuitively understood through a notion of soft inductive biases, and formally characterized with countable hypothesis bounds! 1/12

Trump Says He Could Cut Aid to Jordan and Egypt Over Gaza Development Plan

"Gaza development plan" is such an Orwellian turn of phrase, such an abuse of language to normalize a proposed ethnic cleansing

How to compute Hessian-vector products?

(for instance used in TRPO, predecessor of PPO)

an @iclr-conf.bsky.social 2024 blog post.

iclr-blogposts.github.io/2024/blog/be...

Congrats!

DO NOT MEMORY HOLE THE NAZI SALUTE!

Elon Musk did it not once but twice, and with vigor!

It’s been 3 weeks, and there’s been no accountability. Institutionalized Judaism has let him off the hook. It is up to us to remember, to never forget the ancestors who deserve better, and to make it stick.

Also note that, instead of adding KL penalty in the reward, GRPO regularizes by directly adding the KL divergence between the trained policy and the reference policy to the loss, avoiding complicating the calculation of the advantage.

@xtimv.bsky.social and I were just discussing this interesting comment in the DeepSeek paper introducing GRPO: a different way of setting up the KL loss.

It's a little hard to reason about what this does to the objective. 1/

now that DeepSeek has completed AI, we hope that Silicon Valley will turn its attention to the next best thing: investing in rural history museums

Professor: you have a 10-page essay on odysseus due tomorrow

Me [under breath]: motherfu-

Professor: no you're thinking of oedipus

Why would Trump make eggs so expensive on his first day?

this guy went on the Joe Rogan podcast to accuse other companies of insufficient innovation

"New Year" is pretty optimistic framing. Should just be called Next Year. Happy next year

One Hundred Probability and Statistics Inequalities Herein we present one hundred inequalities culled from various corners of the probability, statistics, and combinatorics literature. We welcome new suggestions.

A paper a day, episode 15.

You liked the matrix cookbook? You’re gonna love this one. 100 statistics inequalities just for your personal enjoyment. As they say in French, moi j’ai Bienaymé cet article !

arxiv.org/abs/2102.07234

me showing up to the hot sauce store

labor theorists of value in absolute shambles

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

For the past year, @propublica.org has been reporting on the toll when a city "sweeps" an encampment. We handed out cards so folks could write in their own words what it meant to have their belongings trashed.

We're publishing dozens of those stories here:

projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...