invention of printing press has revolutionized our civilization and contributed to the accelerated pace of Renaissance. it has also eliminated the artists who scribed the books. the paradigm-shifting effect of printing books far outweighed this downside. AI will soon eliminate

i tore my right bicep recently. i have a wonderful surgeon who fixed it. i had to swear to him that i wont use my right hand for anything for 6 weeks (whom am i kidding, im totally gonna cheat). this poses an interesting challenge: what i can or cannot do with my left hand. what

its a national tailgate day. feel free to tailgate anyone and honk at them to celebrate

Paper Alert: A new theoretical framework for olfaction. Joint work with Hamza Giaffar, Sergey Shuvaev, and Alex Koulakov journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

happy halloween!

What do we think of the “Dead Classroom Theory”? “Teachers are using AI to create assignments that students are completing using AI. Afterwards, teachers use AI to grade the assignment. And AI to verify whether the students used AI and to punish them for such use.” Source:

my rant at NAIsys ... it was an awesome meeting!

Our DeepNose paper is in arxiv. In it, we present an equivariant CNN which can predict human olfactory perception based on molecular shapes, including mixtures. Comments/suggestions are very welcome. arxiv.org/abs/2412.08747

moment from the Rosalind Picard talk

1. If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you'll only see one color, pink. 2. Green Catastrophe: If you stare at the "+" in the center, the moving gap turns to green. 3. Reality Shatter: Now, concentrate on the +. Soon, many of the pink dots will slowly

my talk about deep learning in olfaction at NAISys 2024 is posted on youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=RRo5Z6…

it is beginning to make sense

my simple breakfast today

feel unhappy about an unelected person controlling your government just because he is the reachest? i guess this is how the rest of the world feels about America

we enter the era of full-blown cult of personality

Trump can get elected again and again without changing the constitution, if he runs as a vice president and the president resigns. Putin did a similar thing in 2007. Its called castling

my talk last May at a physics workshop about the work with Tony Zador and Sergey Shuvaev on genomic bottleneck. Any comments on the triple inheritance theory are appreciated m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zDHT…

boxing is like jazz, the better it is the less ppl appreciate it. RIP George Foreman, you will be missed

andrey kolmogorov was a math genius who shaped modern probability theory. he was also a remarkable teacher who, with his team, developed math textbooks for kids. textbooks like this, written by experts, commissioned by the soviet government, was the secret sauce for soviet school

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon referred to AI as “A1.” We’re ruled by the stupidest, most incompetent people in the world.