Winner winner chicken dinner

youtu.be/fTa_T2pVwuk?si… One of the best presentations of Chinese food categories.

$200 to fly from SFO to JFK $100 to uber from JFK to Manhattan Something is deeply wrong here

I do feel most projected growth trend (in AI, for instance) are logistic functions disguised as exponentials

I've recently started my job as an asst professor at NTU, Singapore. If you are ever in town come say hi :)

I have yet to see RL succeeds with negative rewards in high dimensions of observation and action space. Do we know of a method that works well while using ONLY negative rewards? OTOH, humans learn very well from negative rewards, we just call them 'lessons'. what gives?

Industry only engages with academia in areas that are: 1) poorly understood 2) tantalizingly profitable 3) threaten extinction Engage industry through mystique, lust, and fears

for fun I went through all my papers and tallied how many times I submitted each. note how it follows a geometric distribution, modeling the policy of "yolo submit until accepted". "but each submission's outcome are not independent coin tosses!!" or is it? plot yours.

cleaning the whiteboard in my office, I noticed in the upper left corner, in faded ink, "I'd rather be feared than be loved". some previous prof really wrote that down, and it refused to fade. I don't know what to make of it

Thrilled to join the UMich faculty in 2026! I'll also be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle. If you're interested in AI and formal reasoning, consider applying!

youtu.be/8rABwKRsec4?si… So, people are beginning to realize to what programs actually are.