Constantine Caramanis
@cmcaram.bsky.social
Professor at UT Austin. Research in ML & Optimization. Always rethinking how I teach. Amateur accordion player. Committed bike commuter. Online classes in English & Greek. https://caramanis.github.io/
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
FECOHP – Federal Employees and Contractors Oral History Project
fecohp.org
More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
Makes sense since the administration seems hell bent on n driving the US and the globe into recession. 🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy
The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.
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The end of NSF and American science expertise as we know it is here.🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.
Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104
Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.
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Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
Colleague of Harvard scientist held by ICE warns that foreign scientists are scared
Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
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Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back? The answer is due process.
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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"If this many different judges in this many different courts appointed by this many different presidents are blocking this many policies promulgated by the same president, we ought to be able to agree that the problem is the policies—not the judges." www.stevevladeck.com/p/136-settin...
136. Setting the Record Straight on the Anti-Trump Injunctions
President Trump and his supporters are mounting increasingly noisy attacks on lower-court judges. But their claims combine shameless hypocrisy with shameful distortions of the facts.
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Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · last yr.Germany still hasn’t fully recovered from expelling and killing so many of its top researchers back in 1933. A lot of brilliant minds were forced to leave—people who went on to do groundbreaking work in other countries, especially the U.S.
Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.
Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm
More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.
nytimes.com
We are releasing OpenThinker-32B, the best 32B reasoning model with open data. We match or outperform Deepseek-R1-32B (a closed data model) in reasoning benchmarks. Congrats to Negin and the whole Open Thoughts team. github.com/open-thought...
🚀 🇬🇷 A year in the making! I’ve just completed a set of 21 lectures in Machine Learning, in Greek, designed for high school students. The course introduces key ML concepts, coding in Python & PyTorch, and real-world AI applications. 👉 WebPage: tinyurl.com/ye2awe8m 🎥 YouTube: tinyurl.com/2wwjru6z
Μηχανική Μάθηση (Machine Learning) - YouTube
Διαλέξεις Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης και Μηχανικής Μάθησης: https://caramanis.github.io/MachineLearningClass/ Καλωσορίσατε στο μάθημα τεχνητής νοημοσύνης και μηχανι...
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“Are these the same person?” (One of these actually me)
