↑Lionel Yelibi↓ @ neurips 2025

One thing about PCA/embeddings/political-leaning that should get more attention is the role of zero or “the origin”. It’s often special in a way that depends upon how you do the embedding.

This post is a good example of that.

Once you accept that the origin is special, then….

please get a time travel machine and go live in the 1800s and early 1900s then.

Timeline full of people losing their minds because markets are tanking.

That's the spirit! /s

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What people are actually trying to say: Natural data distributions live near a low-dimensional tame geometric object. Neural networks can represent functions whose images are also tame. PS: This implies learning is possible because both sides reside in the same o-minimal universe.

wait, that's actually good!

Slowly learning that if you want to be a theoretical physicist it's not a bad idea to befriend a pure mathematician.

Yeah we don't need another rate cut at this point.

I also have a small project on graph construction I could submit. Related to the triangular maximally filtered graph. Originally wanted to use it as part of my PhD but it kinda lost its momentum a little. It's also very hacky.

I will probably attend my first netsci next year.

I wonder if you're allowed to have children without an adult riding in a waymo car? Anybody knows?

Could be a game changer for parents.

I am really excited to try @waymo.bsky.social in houston! over the past 1-2yrs I've waymo and Cruise cars drive around downtown. It's good to have confirmation.

new kid on the block not necessarily the hero we're looking for.

What happens when a network is neither perfectly ordered nor completely random? Watts & Strogatz’s 1998 “small-world” insight: add a few random shortcuts to a local network, you keep the clustering but gain short paths.
𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙚𝙙, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡-𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙩𝙎𝙘𝙞 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣…

I... dont think the quantum computing firms we currently have warrant any of this at all. It's almost self-evident unless you pay attention to the ionq/dwave/rigetti etc...

Shocker

not you too

Stop by this afternoon to chat about community structure in the 🪰connectome!

📍ZZ2/PSTR368.03

all in on gold then?

You had me at RFK Jr's girlfriend.

"Show some class. Show some real leadership." oh I see she wasn't there in 2016. We've beeeen through that already.

Who is Olivia Nuzzi and why is the timeline full of tweets about her

Wish we had more finance ( #fintwit) heads on here. Anybody know a starter pack I can check out?

This timeline really needs new characters.

It's okay to admit that the Witcher show in Netflix is just a bad show. It's super slow, nothing ever happens, boring. The replacement for Henry Cavill is also meh.

a bunch of nasty people on these websites these days...

The issue is Kim Kardashian can't act and as a result has a small number of lines which feels super awkward whereas the other actresses are acting their asses out because they are experts at their job.

I just gave my two weeks notice. Bye bye Capital One. I watched a bunch of good people quit over the past year. And others being mistreated and devalued just because they're not nlp researchers. Which makes no sense. It stops for me. Onto better things.

Liouville*