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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

11 months

One of my professors told me that you can measure your growth as a researcher by how recently somebody else had your "brilliant idea. I'm proud to say that nowadays, my best new ideas were thought of only in the last decade.

François Fleuret

@francoisfleuret

11 months

As a researcher, I have two kinds of ideas: the bad ones, and those that other people had 5y ago.

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Kartik Sreenivasan

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🥹🥹🥹 I got really really lucky to be surrounded by amazing people. I'm beyond honored that the legendary @madsjw @SharonYixuanLi and Jerry Zhu were on my committee. And somehow I managed to get the best advisor in the world - @DimitrisPapail #PhDone

Dimitris Papailiopoulos

@DimitrisPapail

10 months

Congratulations to Dr. @KartikSreeni for successfully defending his PhD! What an incredible journey these past 4 years was. I learnt so much from you, and was incredibly rewarding to serve as your advisor. You're amazing! I can't wait to see your next steps at @MosaicML 🚀🚀🚀

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

1 year

"Give me a context length long enough and enough GPUs to run it and I shall move the world" - Archimedes We may not have fixed hallucination yet at @MosaicML , but we sure just released an amazing model with an 8k context length! Go play with MPT-30B now!

Mosaic Research | Databricks Blog

Latest blogs from the team at Mosaic Research

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

1 year

Hey folks, I'm here at #ICML2023 to present our exciting new work at the TEACH workshop on Saturday (thread below). Meanwhile, DM me or wave me down if you want to talk about LLMs, pruning, @MosaicML , @databricks or just wanna get coffee. Sometimes, I go on hikes to get coffee

Dimitris Papailiopoulos

@DimitrisPapail

1 year

1/ Our paper is out! Teaching Arithmetic to Small Transformers We investigate several factors that control the emergence of basic arithmetic in small transformers (e.g., nanoGPT). paper: Work led by: @nayoung_nylee & @KartikSreeni Thread below.

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

Our paper is finally out! We wanted to use basic arithmetic as a lens to better understand the phenomenon of emergence in transformers. I thoroughly enjoyed working on this project with my amazing collaborators @nayoung_nylee , @jasondeanlee @Kangwook_Lee @DimitrisPapail

Dimitris Papailiopoulos

@DimitrisPapail

1 year

1/ Our paper is out! Teaching Arithmetic to Small Transformers We investigate several factors that control the emergence of basic arithmetic in small transformers (e.g., nanoGPT). paper: Work led by: @nayoung_nylee & @KartikSreeni Thread below.

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

3 years

Passed my PhD quals today! Enjoying a beer with a friend on the lake. On days like this, grad school feels pretty great

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@KartikSreeni

10 months

Goodbye Madison :') I'm gonna miss a lot of things about you, but the winter isn't one of them.

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@KartikSreeni

2 years

@rdnowak after hearing @jefrankle say "Don't listen to your advisor" 😂

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

I got to catch up with my Integer Programming TA after so many years! So nice to catch up with @silviadigre who put up with all my stupid questions, and taught me many of the elegant proof techniques in discrete optimization :) Thank you #ICML2023

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

1 year

Hey folks, I got on a podcast with my friend @schematical ! It was sort of impromptu, casual and really fun! We discussed a bunch of things primarily about LLMs, what they do, and how to train them. Also, there were puppies in the room.

Matt Lea

@schematical

1 year

Demystifying Large Language Models with Kartik Sreenivasan( @KartikSreeni ) #LLMs #MachineLearning #AI

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

10 months

This is really foolish and problematic advice. A good advisor will be overjoyed and proud if you come up with a great idea. A good advisor is also not petty enough to want "credit" for your ideas. You're a team. Stop playing political games and focus on doing good research.

Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

@MushtaqBilalPhD

10 months

Never appear smarter than your supervisor. If you come up with a great idea – and you will come up with plenty – always attribute it to your supervisor’s mentorship even if they had nothing to do with. This will make your supervisor feel smarter than they actually are.

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

1 year

A very productive lab meeting today! #isthisphdlife

Dimitris Papailiopoulos

@DimitrisPapail

1 year

SAIL!

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

2 years

It's so good to be in a conference that's not icons on gathertown. #NeurIPS2022 #MyFirstInPersonConference

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@KartikSreeni

11 months

I remember sitting beside @aditi_jh as she relentlessly evaluated a massive number of models in pursuit of the ultimate fine-tuning dataset. This work shows that a small IFT dataset, if carefully chosen, can get you to the promised land of instruct models - Exquisite Vibes.

Aditi Jha

@aditi_jh

11 months

Excited to share work from my internship with the amazing people at @MosaicML ! 🎉 How should you finetune a Large Language Model for general purpose instruction following? Check out LIMIT: Less Is More for Instruction Tuning Across Evaluation Paradigms!

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

Lesson Learned. Do not walk down the Trader Joe's frozen food aisle on an empty stomach.

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@KartikSreeni

2 years

Lunch with my favorite collaborator - the legendary @HongyiWang10 !

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

Llama2-70B-Chat is now available on our Inference service! I know our team has been working really hard to make sure this works seamlessly, so I'm excited to see that it's live!

Databricks Mosaic Research

@DbrxMosaicAI

1 year

New Blog Post 📢 Llama2-70B-Chat is now available on MosaicML Inference and @databricks MLflow AI Gateway. Learn more:

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

If you're a University, hire this guy. He's awesome :) I doubt you're gonna find another person as passionate, knowledgeable and hard working as Hongyi!

Hongyi Wang

@HongyiWang10

1 year

1/ I am currently on the academic job market, applying for Assistant Professor positions in any field related to CS! My research focuses on ML & Systems, specifically on computation- and communication-efficient distributed ML, efficient computing in LLMs, and federated learning.

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

1 year

+1000 Everyone should just listen to @DimitrisPapail . That's basically been my strategy during my PhD and it's working out pretty well!

Dimitris Papailiopoulos

@DimitrisPapail

1 year

Let me remind y’all Plus people are on vacation. just give everyone including yourselves a break.

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

8 years

“Losing My Religion” by @jenmoodybrown

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

My amazing collaborator @nayoung_nylee gave a great short talk on our recent work at @SimonsInstitute . Check it out!

Dimitris Papailiopoulos

@DimitrisPapail

1 year

Nayoung ( @nayoung_nylee ) gave a great short talk on our work at the recent LLM workshop at @SimonsInstitute

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

The one and only @giannis_daras is giving a talk at UW-Madison in our MLOpt idea seminar series! I can't wait to pick his brain about all the cool stuff he's been working on

Giannis Daras

@giannis_daras

1 year

📢: Tomorrow, at 12:30 Central Time, I am giving a talk at UW-Madison. I will present two accepted papers at NeurIPS 2023 🥳: Consistent Diffusion Models (not to be confused with Consistency Models🤷‍♂️) and Ambient Diffusion. Feel free to join us remotely or in person 👇

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

1 year

This! @landanjs and I were just talking about this earlier today. Glad to see even the legendary @peter_richtarik agrees

Peter Richtarik

@peter_richtarik

1 year

A good theory paper does not need experiments. A good empirical paper does not need theory. Why do most #NeurIPS2023 reviewers not understand this?

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

This actually blows my mind

non aesthetic things

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

2 years

@_BrettLarsen 1/2 We recently showed in "Rare Gems: Finding Lottery tickets at Init" ( with @jysohn1108 @Yang_Liuu @HongyiWang10 @AlliotNagle @ericxing @DimitrisPapail ) that you can compete with IMP performance even while pruning at initialization.

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

1 year

@nayoung_nylee and I will be at the at the TEACH workshop in #ICML2023 tomorrow presenting our new paper on teaching transformers arithmetic. We'll be at both the 10-10:30am and 3-3:30pm poster sessions. We're very excited about this work and would love to hear what you think!

Dimitris Papailiopoulos

@DimitrisPapail

1 year

1/ Our paper is out! Teaching Arithmetic to Small Transformers We investigate several factors that control the emergence of basic arithmetic in small transformers (e.g., nanoGPT). paper: Work led by: @nayoung_nylee & @KartikSreeni Thread below.

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

4 years

Please read and share. I desperately want to believe that this story will end well and end soon, but I don't know how.. I was extremely worried when covid first hit but somehow, magically, India seemed okay. Now, the nightmare has begun. #CovidIndia

Sibin

@sibinmohan

4 years

I’m seeing a massive disconnect (more so than usual) between the two twitter worlds I usually inhabit — the US and India. It is important to bridge the two now for a very important reason: #CovidIndia Please read the whole thread and amplify. THREAD 1/17

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@KartikSreeni

10 months

@miniapeur

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@KartikSreeni

2 years

Shashank is easily one of the most brilliant people I've ever met in my life. Congratulations @shashank_r12 on an amazing PhD!

Shashank Rajput

@shashank_r12

2 years

Thank you @DimitrisPapail for being such an amazing advisor!!! Your help and guidance have been invaluable throughout my phd! I am also extremely lucky to have had the opportunity to collaborate with some really brilliant researchers from various universities and organizations!

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

I feel seen.

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@code_star

2 years

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

@DimitrisPapail One of the many lessons you taught me in my PhD - "Life is too short to be drinking bad coffee". I think about this almost ever day while I brew.

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

@docmilanfar "Here starts my thinking." This person is a true researcher!

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

2 years

I'm at #NeurIPS2022 in New Orleans. Come talk to us at our poster presentation tomorrow at 4pm in Hall J to talk about pruning at initialization! Or hmu to chat about anything ML, DL or Beignets!

Dimitris Papailiopoulos

@DimitrisPapail

2 years

Rare Gems won the NeurIPS lottery, see you in New Orleans! #NeurIPS2022

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

10 months

Accurate. *continues mindlessly scrolling*

Mathieu Alain

@miniapeur

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@KartikSreeni

2 years

Every. Single. Time.

Gautam Kamath

@thegautamkamath

2 years

When your collaborator's @overleaf cursor jumps to where you're writing

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

1 year

As always, excellent summary by @davisblalock ! Going forward, I want to think about how to nudge models to learn "addition in general" and I don't have a good answer yet. I think of this as trying to choose data such that bad shortcuts no longer lead to 0 loss.

Davis Blalock

@davisblalock

1 year

4 points stood out to me: 1) Models only learn to add the number of digits they saw during training, not how to do addition in general. 2) Models are way better at adding if you let them output lower digits first instead of higher ones; this lets them compute the answer one

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@KartikSreeni

2 years

P.S: For those who don't know Rob, it was purely a coincidence. And it was he who suggested I post it on Twitter to get some laughs!

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

3 years

@ccanonne_ Commonly used phrases of the "devil": - It is clear that.. - Proof is left as an exercise.. - Obviously.. - Due to space constraints..

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

@roydanroy @DimitrisPapail @jefrankle @abhi_venigalla @BlackHC @gkdziugaite We'd love to! I'll reach out over an email :) Also, I'm going to be joining @MosaicML ( @databricks ) full-time in a few months so I can team with the original LTH crew including @jefrankle and @mcarbin !

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

10 months

Cats. All I want for Christmas is cats. Not you, Mariah. I'm sorry. I just want cats.

smol silly cat

@Catsillyness

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

2 years

Come talk to us at #NeurIPS2022 to hear about our super cool project on pruning at initialization and the LTH!

Dimitris Papailiopoulos

@DimitrisPapail

2 years

Rare Gems won the NeurIPS lottery, see you in New Orleans! #NeurIPS2022

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

@aditi_jh Here's your bugfix. Let there be cats.

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

Okay this got me 😂

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1 year

If you've used PyTorch, you know @ptrblck_de is truly a superhero and for sure have been saved by him when you thought it was impossible to do something.

ptrblck

@ptrblck_de

1 year

Thanks a ton for awarding me the @PyTorch superhero award at the conference! It really made my day, and it was great seeing so many community members in real life. You all are amazing!

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

Congratulations Dr. @akhileshsoni_ ! Ngl, grad school is gonna feel different without you around to help me with my homework.

Akhilesh Soni

@akhileshsoni_

1 year

Excited to share that I successfully defended my PhD earlier this week. Immensely thankful to my advisors @JeffLinderoth & @jim_luedtke for their exceptional guidance and making research fun. Looking forward to the exciting opportunities that lie ahead.

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@KartikSreeni

3 years

It's going to be a good day #42 #AnswerToTheUniverse #FridayNight

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@KartikSreeni

10 months

@Kangwook_Lee Thank you Prof. Lee! Let me know when you're back in town. I need to take a picture with you - my secret second advisor ;)

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

I really don't understand why analysis gets such a bad rap. I think it helped for me that I had a fantastic instructor. But it's also such a beautiful subject. And it really taught me how to think formally. It is still probably my favorite course.

Mathieu Alain

@miniapeur

1 year

😢😢

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

Retweeting for visibility. Please read Giannis's reviews and accept his work so he can enjoy the beach in Ikaria the way it deserves to be enjoyed.

Giannis Daras

@giannis_daras

1 year

Dear NeurIPS Reviewers, This is me writing my rebuttal in a beach in Ikaria, Greece. I would appreciate it if you could read it 🥺 Best, Giannis

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

Was just feeling like the world was moving a little too quickly, so I sat down and listened to @corywong 's Ellie: I imagined myself to be like that little kid, calmly enjoying herself in the stroller while the chaos of NYC rages by. It worked!

Ellie - Live

Cory Wong, Metropole Orkest · Live in Amsterdam · Song · 2020

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

@mvpatel2000 Fine. No point in staying in SF. I'm leaving.

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

@roydanroy @DimitrisPapail @jefrankle @abhi_venigalla @BlackHC @gkdziugaite Very cool! I'd love to have a better theoretical understanding of the limits of pruning and linear mode connectivity seems to be key. Thanks for giving me an opportunity to talk about our research!

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

Also, shoutout to @mvpatel2000 for being excited about this paper even before he knew it existed!

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@KartikSreeni

3 years

Is it possible that Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld was just high all the time? Rewatching Seinfeld for the 17th time, I think I see it. Giddyup! #Seinfeld #Netflix

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@KartikSreeni

4 years

Everybody dance now

Papers with Code

@paperswithcode

4 years

🎉 Papers with Code partners with arXiv! Code links are now shown on arXiv articles, and authors can submit code through arXiv. Read more:

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@KartikSreeni

10 months

@code_star @aditi_jh @maxisawesome538 Definitely. And I'm probably gonna take flak for this, but I think it's incredibly overpriced for fairly mediocre coffee. Nowhere near the pareto frontier. So I try to avoid it. I don't like the vibes either.

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

@TaliaRinger I agree completely with this! The day I realized math was "just" a very unambiguous formal language used to represent knowledge was a very happy day for me. It didn't change my ability to learn it, but it did make me love it so much more. .

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@KartikSreeni

3 years

I just saw a ninja run across the street out of my window. #halloween2021

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@KartikSreeni

2 years

I've read this 15 times and it still blows my mind

Sara Hooker

@sarahookr

2 years

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” Emerson M. Pugh

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@KartikSreeni

3 years

I was surprised by how well rested I felt! And then I realized DST gave me an extra hour of sleep.

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@KartikSreeni

3 years

Two gentlemen just got on the bus with golf clubs. In peak winter. In Wisconsin. I am intrigued.

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

@untitled01ipynb @jefrankle @code_star The world model.

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@KartikSreeni

2 years

This is indeed true.

Amit Goldenberg

@Amit_Goldenb

2 years

Why do academics love the word "indeed" so much???

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4 years

Damn you Phil. You had one job.

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@KartikSreeni

2 years

@jefrankle @DimitrisPapail @MosaicML Now I'm even more intrigued because I'm going to be there in a few weeks!

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@KartikSreeni

3 years

I'm lost for words. I have tears in my eyes but I feel helpless. We need to find a way to stop this madness.

Patrick Moelleken 🇺🇦

@PMoelleken

3 years

. @ZelenskyyUa 's tv address to the Russian (!) people might be the most moving speech that I've ever seen in my entire life. The whole world needs to see, understand and share this crucial Ukrainian message. #StandWithUkraine #Ukraine #Україна #Russia #Россия

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1 year

@code_star This has never happened to me because I only go to Chipotle. #youcantmakeeveryonehappy #yourenotchipotle

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@KartikSreeni

1 year

@code_star I feel seen

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2 years

Ngl, I actually clicked it thinking "okay what BS is this now". So glad that it was /s

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@KartikSreeni

2 years

@thegautamkamath @DimitrisPapail I agree that reviewing shouldn't be independent of previous rounds. But I'm worried that an "unfair" review in the past will bias future reviewers. Because occasionally, critique is subjective

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10 months

Awww lidul theta

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@code_star That must have been embarrassing. *runs away

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3 years

About damn time that he starts getting penalized for reckless driving.

David Croft

@CroftyF1

3 years

Breaking News - Stewards decision

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@KartikSreeni

3 years

“Truth in mathematics means you convince the experts that your proof is correct. Then it becomes true,” - Peter Teichner I often think about the difference between "truth" and a "proof". Is it how easy it is to convince others?

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@KartikSreeni

3 years

Is it disrespectful to fall asleep in a coffee shop?

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

10 months

P.S: While academia isn't perfect, there are plenty of extremely good advisors who fit the above criterion. I had the pleasure of working with several such folk. If you feel the need to resort to such strategies, I'm sorry, academia has failed you :(

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

2 years

An amazing new paper from one of my favorite authors! Can't wait to sit down and read it properly with a pot of coffee!

Ankit Pensia

@subGaussian

2 years

[📜New preprint] Interested in statistical inference under communication constraints 📡? Let's look at the basic problem, (simple) binary hypothesis testing: Given n iid samples known to be sampled from either distribution p or distribution q, identify the true distribution 1/x

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1 year

@mvpatel2000 Can we start calling our office an AI hacker house? :P

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1 year

This.

Murat Kocaoglu

@murat_kocaoglu_

1 year

The day after submitting your rebuttals #NeurIPS2023

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1 year

I used to always struggle with grasping the concept of higher dimensions until I heard Gilbert Strang say "Well.. It's going to be hard to visualize that. I don't pretend to do it. But somehow, pretend you do."

MIT Mathematics

@MITMath

1 year

Prof. Gil Strang's last lecture is ... Monday! Watch it via live stream:

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Kartik Sreenivasan

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@_BrettLarsen This is really interesting! I've always been curious what the optimization landscape looks like in the mask domain. Do you think this analysis is specific to IMP or something more general? I'm also curious how much this analysis has to do with the "warm-up" period

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Kartik Sreenivasan

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I agree completely with @ylecun here and I'm so excited that a titan of my field is also standing up for a music form that I love :) If I could add a far less eloquent comment to an already excellent response: "Haters gonna hate."

Yann LeCun

@ylecun

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It's not a controversial opinion. It's just wrong. People who say a particular kind of music or painting is "formless and meaningless" simply do not understand its structure. They simply cannot fathom how other people can understand and appreciate the structure they can't grok.

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Kartik Sreenivasan

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:( Hawaii is nice, but I was looking forward to going back to Seoul! #icml

Gautam Kamath

@thegautamkamath

2 years

This tweet didn't age well... well, ICML 2026 in Seoul, Korea! In the mean time, ICML 2023 in Honolulu, Hawai'i! At

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

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@akhileshsoni_ Thanks Akhilesh :) That is for damn sure! We should plan to meet up on the west coast. I'll try to sneak a stash of spotted cows in my luggage.

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

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"This isn't what I meant to do" - words spoken by every programmer who ever lived.

🔥Kareem Carr | Statistician 🔥

@kareem_carr

3 years

This would actually be an amazingly effective way to teach people how computers work and what computer programming is.

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

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@thegautamkamath Intellectual curiosity has been my main motivation as well! Although, I find that it's not always up to the task of fending of the challenges of grad school. Some say it's better if the motivation is more tangible - like a career.

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

9 years

Finally finished breaking bad. I've completed my quota for #awesome things in #2016

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

4 years

Random thought. Is the backbone of Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood (the whole truth/gate thing) and it's ending based on Franz Kafka's Before the law?

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Kartik Sreenivasan

@KartikSreeni

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Heart broken that I couldn't get to see @nishadota win, but glad I could see @teamliquiddota live. Ggwp lads. #TI12 #nishadoto #dota #Dota2