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I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636
Every week, I tell myself I won’t do yet another post about the asteroid striking American academia, and then every week events force my hand otherwise.
No one on earth—certainly no one who reads this blog—could call me blasé about the issue of antisemitism at US universities. I’ve blasted the takeover of entire departments and unrelated student clubs and campus common areas by the dogmatic belief that the State of Israel (and only Israel, among all nations on earth) should be eradicated, by the use of that belief as a litmus test for entry. Since October 7, I’ve dealt...
My most rage-inducing beliefs
A friend and I were discussing whether there’s anything I could possibly say, on this blog, in 2025, that wouldn’t provoke an outraged reaction from my commenters. So I started jotting down ideas. Let’s see how I did.
Pancakes are a delicious breakfast, especially with blueberries and maple syrup.Since it’s now Passover, and no pancakes for me this week, let me add: I think matzoh has been somewhat unfairly maligned. Of course it tastes like cardboard if you eat it plain, but it’s pretty tasty with butter, fruit preserves, tuna salad, egg salad, or chopped liver.
Central Texas is...
про цветы (и животных)
сегодня я буду пыльной розой, сказала я детям, выходя из ванной в майке соответствующего цвета, - сегодня я не чувствую себя цветком сакуры; ну почему же пыльной? - растерянно спросили они
цветком сакуры я была вчера, и это было прекрасно, но сегодня, вместо того, чтобы пойти в сауну, я снова была просто мамой, а в результате превратилась в пыльную розу; но это все еще лучше безумного енота (да, того самого, полоскуна), в котором я пребываю регулярно
Опять весна!
Наконец-то! Опять весна!
Пошла фотографировать вербу. Не тут-то было,...
Tidbyt without the company
Remember the Tidbyt? It’s a super low-resolution, internet-connected, wood-paneled display that I wrote a review of it back in 2022. It’s been on my shelf for years now, showing the time, weather, warning me when the UV is going to be high. In 2023 I used it as an excuse to learn some Rust, to render custom graphics. It’s a toy, a distraction, a worry stone for me to work on when I need something open-ended and low-stakes.
Anyway, the company that made the Tidbyt is no more. They got acquihired by Modal, a company that makes...
Памятка по печати PA12
Недавно мы познакомились с TPU-95A. Не менее интересным материалом для 3D-печати является нейлон. Давайте же изучим свойства нейлона, попробуем печатать им, а также полюбуемся моделями из данного материала. Нейлон интересен по нескольким причинам. Во-первых, он склонен «спекаться в монолит». Детали из нейлона получаются практически изотропными, то есть, они одинаково прочны как вдоль слоев, так и поперек. [...]
Ремонтонатюрморт
Несколько натюрмортов от человека, утомленного ремонтом.
...Theoretical Computer Science for AI Alignment … and More
In this terrifying time for the world, I’m delighted to announce a little glimmer of good news. I’m receiving a large grant from the wonderful Open Philanthropy, to build up a group of students and postdocs over the next few years, here at UT Austin, to do research in theoretical computer science that’s motivated by AI alignment. We’ll think about some of the same topics I thought about in my time at OpenAI—interpretability of neural nets, cryptographic backdoors, out-of-distribution generalization—but we also hope to be a sort of “consulting shop,” to whom anyone in the alignment community can...
Undeterred
The churn of experimental AI development, to push innovation and hype attention, perpetually grinds out fresh LLM models that thrill speculators and surprise skeptics. Beyond the hype of DeepSeek, Ollama and Manus etc. global anxieties peek with realisation of energy needs.
Media has never been more thoroughly homogenised, distorted and counterfeit at our expense. Shattered context fragments and crumpled shells litter the disinformation pathways. Exploitation of natural resources is on a runaway course in pursuit of unbridled capital gain, whilst a whirlwind of environment catastrophe makes landfall. The daily drama of oligarch drawn maga corporate and transnational capital gorging, depresses our...
Гремячий ключ
Метельным апрельским утром началось у меня «водное» путешествие...