Don't write CUDA kernels from scratch! Use our accelerated libraries instead. #GTC25

The OG blog on how PyTorch actually works Internally.

Lebesgue differentiation notes from Terry Tao terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/245…

Geometry 📐and a view at CIMAT

Only a few will get this

Very happy to announce that my PhD student Fan Jiang (Fan Jiang) successfully defended yesterday, on "Inertially-Aided Navigation with Ultra-Wideband Wireless Ranging". Fan did some cool work with factor graphs and also built a rust-powered UWB ranging device in the process.

This lesson makes better leaders too. It should be a prerequisite for politicians. nytimes.com/2025/05/02/opi…

Calling c the "speed of light" completely misses the point. Rather, c is the "spacetime exchange rate": how many units of space you can exchange for one unit of time. In actuality, everything travels at the "speed of light", just not necessarily through space alone... (1/4)

"Floods", by Dev Patel, is one of the more astounding Big Data econ papers I have ever seen. Machine learning can be used on satellite data to essentially do magic. How damaging are floods? How much do they affect human capital attainment? A thread on the paper 1/

You don't _need_ a PhD (or any qualification) to do almost anything. A PhD is a rare opportunity to grow as an independent thinker in an academic environment, rather than immediately becoming a gear in a corporate agenda. It's definitely not for everyone!

To be clear, academia is not inherently "better" or "worse" than industry. In fact, I believe there are amazing opportunities in industry! But, despite its many imperfections, it's hard to find a better option than academia for open-ended curiosity-driven research.

'The history of transistors is the history of solving Schrödinger's equation in various materials.' -- Leon Lederman

I knew that picture looked familiar...

It turns out the Turing Award is actually a silvery bowl from Tiffanys.

Uncertainty is rarely/never exogenous! Certainly not in games when you need to gauge whether your opponent is playing cooperative, min-max, or Nash or… ?!? 📄Paper alert: Strategically Robust Game Theory via Optimal Transport lnkd.in/drXa5pDE

I’m humbled to announce I received the EECI PhD Award for the best PhD thesis in Europe in Systems and Control, for my work at @diis_uz Universidad Zaragoza @i3aunizar. This recognition also belongs to my collaborators, supervisors, and my wife @stepzr for her support and care all these years

(From arxiv.org/abs/1301.3191)

“Everyone knows” what an autoencoder is… but there's an important complementary picture missing from most introductory material. In short: we emphasize how autoencoders are implemented—but not always what they represent (and some of the implications of that representation).🧵

Visualizing Hyperbolic Honeycombs hyperbolichoneycombs.org