I guess my takeaway from the maths OpenAI saga, by also taking into consideration how mathematicians respond to the situation (as everyone should), is: If it cannot reason, and therefore the humans still need to do all the verification/correction/deciphering, then tell it to shut the fuck up.

DINOv2 has never seen a caption, and Qwen3 has never seen an image. We still aligned their embedding spaces without a single image-caption pair. It even works when the images and the captions come from different datasets. Project page: dominik-schnaus.github.io/unpaired-rosetta ⬇️

This is a result I’ve dreamt about for many years: *unpaired translation between images and text* I thought it might be only slightly possible, the kind of thing you have to really squint at. But Dominik proved this wrong. You don’t have to squint. Worth looking for yourself:

“We’re now expected to either (1) check all this garbage that OAI is producing or (2) concede that all of these conjectures have been proven,” one algebraic topologist wrote to me. “I believe in politics this is known as ‘flooding the zone.’ We simply don’t have the resources to correct the record.”

Another lovely and funny from the anti-ai people 😆

You can including trimmed audio from Eminem's The Slim Shady which starts literally with "May I have your attention please?"

Dude what happened to Bezos. Some time ago he was trying with the "Alpha Male" look and now he looks like he just got out of prison where he spent the last 20 years.

I am keeping my academic job season cover letter fairly brief this season: “Wrote dissertation before arrival of LLMs. Can also tell jokes.”

FUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave.

Fucking ACAB

Στιβαρη κατασκευη δεν την λες, κακα τα ψεμματα.

Halo effect

Modelled after the Mila program, Vector has launched a grad app portal. I’m a participating faculty member and am looking for PhD students to join my group starting Fall 2027. Check it out!

abolish the death penalty