Replacing "I hope this email finds you well" with "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation." in all emails from now on.
A huge "DO NOT INGEST" written on my wife's shampoo bottle, but no one will tell me how to live my life, glurp glurp glurp glurp.
This sweet pup on a train visits passengers, one by one, to give them some love 💛 🎥goldies
Would I ever be right again? Could I ever trust myself not to be wrong? - Joan Didion
After spending some time in the moderation limbo, this preprint is finally live on arXiv. Read it if you want to know how to make other people happy most of the time. arxiv.org/abs/2501.01969
Optimal bounds for dissatisfaction in perpetual voting
In perpetual voting, multiple decisions are made at different moments in time. Taking the history of previous decisions into account allows us to satisfy properties such as proportionality over period...
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Tomasz Steifer@steifer.pl · 2y agoCan we make group decisions in such a way that each person is unhappy only a small number of times? We know the answer*, we wrote a paper about it and it just got accepted to the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
22 December 1947 | The Polish Supreme National Tribunal gave the verdict in the so-called First Auschwitz Trial of 40 former SS members of the German Auschwitz camp garrison: 23 death sentences & 16 imprisonments. One person was acquitted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_trial
Can we make group decisions in such a way that each person is unhappy only a small number of times? We know the answer*, we wrote a paper about it and it just got accepted to the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
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People often talk about sounds having this or that frequencies, but what does it *really* mean? To explain it, one needs to understand some Fourier analysis. Come to my tutorial, in which I will explain what Fourier transform does and what it has to do with music, brain and blood.
Dariia Mykhailyshyna@dariia.bsky.social · 2y ago❗️Our next workshop will be on August 15th, 6 pm CEST on Basic Fourier analysis with SciPi by @tsteifer.bsky.social . Register or sponsor a student by donating to support🇺🇦! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicTwitter #EconTwitter #Python
Since I left Chile last week, there have been massive fires in Viña del Mar, a helicopter crash with ex-president Piñera on board and just yesterday, a metro train went off the rails on Línea 1 in Santiago. Is God sending me signs, I wonder.
17 January 1945 | The evacuation of Auschwitz began. The Germans marched ca. 56 thousand prisoners out of the Auschwitz camp system. At the last roll-call, the number of prisoners was 67,012 people: 48,340 men & 18,672 women. Read about final days of Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_11_wyzwol...
it should be easier to rent a dog. It should be cheaper to rent a dog
En caso de que haya alguien aquí que hable español: mi columna sobre el aparente uso de la IA en Gaza acaba de ser publicada por CIPER.
El rol de la IA en el bombardeo sobre Gaza
Medio de investigación periodística independiente en Chile, enfocado en reportajes de actualidad y brindar información de calidad a la ciudadanía.
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We entered the Year 2024 watching 'Leave the World Behind' and yes, it really made me hold my breath. Btw, my partner likes 'Friends', so she found the last scene comforting, while for me, naturally, it was the most unsettling part of the movie...