"He looks Canadian fr" He definitely does. One of the beautiful things about Canada. Signed, a fellow Canadian who looks Canadian 🇨🇦

Had an amazing time @NewInML @icmlconf giving a talk on "What I Wish I knew before starting a PhD (but learnt the hard way)"! Loved the post-talk discussions and the heart warming messages :) Sharing slides since some people asked, link in the tweet below 👇

Another incredible blog post on the Learning Theory Alliance blog!

Everyone's talking about AI performance on the IMO. Let me highlight 🇨🇦Canadian 11th grader Warren Bei🇨🇦, one of five participants with a *perfect* 42/42. This is his *fifth* (and final) IMO representing Canada, with three golds and two silvers. (➡️ MIT undergrad in the fall)

New post on the Learning Theory Alliance blog, by Arsen Vasilyan. This covers the recently introduced testable learning paradigm of Rubinfeld and Vasilyan, from their STOC 2023 paper. It's a great chance to catch up on all the exciting work that's happened in this area!

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Youtube is borderline unusable on Chrome after adblockers have been disabled. Super annoying ads every 3-4 minutes.

validating ideas at small scales #ICML2025

For years, people have suggested having alternate NeurIPS locations, outside the US. 2025 is the first time it will be done, with satellite locations in Copenhagen and Mexico City. I wonder if this will be a one-off thing, or whether the trend will continue.

This truly means a lot to me.