1/14 Yesterday I was asked if there was experiment that changed my mind on right theoretical questions to ask. One such case is paper w @whybansal & Kaplun arxiv.org/abs/2010.08508 Experiment is this gif. This 🧵 is not about results but how it changed my thinking & open problems

I have a free ICLR 2026 registration as a reviewer. I’d like to effectively pass this on by paying for someone’s registration who otherwise may not be able to attend. Please DM if interested or feel free to retweet :)

Introducing mip-NeRF! By casting cones instead of rays, and by positionally encoding volumes instead of points, mip-NeRF (à la "mipmap") fixes big problems NeRF has with aliasing and scale. 60% lower error than NeRF and 22x faster than supersampling NeRF. jonbarron.info/mipnerf

Madgrad: not an angry graduate student, but a new stochastic optimization method for Deep Learning.

Microsoft was founded #otd in 1975. Time since these launches/acquisitions... 38 yrs: Word 36 yrs: Windows 31 yrs: Office 26 yrs: Internet Explorer 20 yrs: Xbox 12 yrs: Bing 10 yrs: buys Skype 9 yrs: Surface 8 yrs: buys Nokia 7 yrs: Cortana 5 yrs: Teams, buys LinkedIn #MSFT

A 1989 photo of some of the members of the Adaptive Systems Research Department at Bell Labs, known internally as BL11315. The photo was taken in mid-1989 on the grounds of the Bell Labs building in Holmdel, New Jersey. 1/N

As part of our ongoing efforts to help surface fairness issues in #AI systems, we’ve open sourced a new data set of 45,186 videos to help evaluate fairness in #computervision and audio models across age, gender, apparent skin tone, & ambient lighting. ai.facebook.com/blog/shedding-…

I couldn't resist. With contributions from Max Kleiman-Weiner