Today I scrolled through Daikanwa, and there was one thing that catched my eye. It was the 西夏語 "Tangut language" word out of nowhere. So I think it's time for a short thread. /1

Excited to share our ICLR 2025 oral “Residual Deep Gaussian Processes on Manifolds”! Together with Viacheslav Borovitskiy & Andreas Krause, we introduce manifold-to-manifold GPs that can be composed together, generalising deep GPs to manifolds. With applications to wind prediction & Bayes opt! 1/n

Postscript: Michael Frank Martin gave my question to Gemini 2.5 Pro, got a bad answer which I corrected w/ suggested sources, then asked it again to answer w/ those sources--and it gave a great answer. Problem is, you have to know the answer to get a good answer. x.com/riemannzeta/st…

This is such a great tip!!! 💙 Made a quick Codepen so you can play around with it codepen.io/una/pen/gbaWdmy

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I wrote a piece for the Guardian about the real reason the UK houses asylum seekers in hotels. Since this website is now dominated by racists and fascists, I thought it would be helpful to post the key points below, for anyone who wants to know the truth.

📣 Please share: We invite submissions to the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (#AISTATS2026) and welcome paper submissions at the intersection of AI, machine learning, statistics, and related areas. AISTATS Conference [1/3]

#HBD to arXiv!🎈 On August 14, 1991, the very first paper was submitted to arXiv. That's 34 years of sharing research quickly, freely & openly! Some baby pictures to show how far we've come . . . when we were just a computer under desk . . . & in our 1994 punk phase . . . 👶💾

Super happy to share the news on behalf of the team for the Sally T. WongAvery Digital Collection of Chinese Materials at Cambridge University Library: our Hopkins Oracle Bones (2D set CUL1–610) and 50 3D images are now freely accessible to the world. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/wo…

The #AISTATS2026 Call for Papers is out! Abstract Deadline: Sep 25, 2025 (AoE) Full paper Deadline: Oct 2, 2025 (AoE) Supplementary Deadline: Oct 9, 2025 (AoE) It is a privilege to serve as a Workflow Chair alongside YJ Choe and Program Chairs Aaditya Ramdas and Arno Solin

JJ Ashoka Wong ☸️🏴 there's an interesting book called _the art of not being governed_ that touches the phenomena of tribes converting en masse to christianity. To summarise its argument, these tribes are not primitive people that were somehow left behind by civilisation, but people...

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WTF?! NeurIPS sneakily edited their website AFTER the deadline to say papers whose authors only have virtual passes will be desk rejected, and in person registration is needed Why do all the conferences want to screw over disadvantaged researchers? They're already rich!

Looking at the thread. The common frame to look at the more general phenomenon involves an eigenproblem of the form Oƒ = λƒ, where the operator O encodes either: a symmetry (translations, rotations, general group transformations), or a a statistic (e.g. covariance, correlation),

A delegada liderou a trágica operação Ouvidos Moucos. Acusaram o reitor da UFSC de desviar R$ 80 milhões - que, a rigor, era o valor total do programa de ensino à distância Luiz Carlos Cancellier era inocente. A única "prova" contra ele: depósitos na conta do filho no valor de

Lecture 1 from this semester's "Introduction to Formal Real Analysis" is posted: youtube.com/watch?v=TN51-1… We first go over why "Real Analysis" is even needed (why is "Calculus" insufficiently rigorous), and then the first steps in using Lean. We're following "Real Analysis, The

The surge in AI-written speeches in Britain's House of Commons visualised:

The last digit of a year, in the Common Era/ Anno Domini corresponds to its Heavenly Stem/Tiangan in the Chinese calendar, as shown in the table below. For example,1848, 938,1988, 2008 all end in 8, and so they are years whose heavenly stem is Wu 戊