Sometimes I just wanna go be a farmer.

I'm excited to teach a Cybersafety class this quarter at UCR. In this first iteration, it'll be offered as a seminar class, but we will switch to a regular class next year.

Preliminary syllabus: spalab.cs.ucr.edu/teaching/26s...

Looking forward to comments and feedback!

Uncovering simultaneous breakthroughs with a robust measure of disruptiveness An embedding-based disruption measure not only robustly captures disruptive works but also reveals simultaneous discoveries.

The Higgs mechanism was proposed in 1964 by three independent teams.

But here is the puzzle🤔: the "disruption index" says Higgs's paper is among the least disruptive ever.

So what is going on?

In our new paper, just out in #ScienceAdvances, we take up this puzzle: doi.org/10.1126/scia... 👇

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Claude tells me 5x+ a day that "the fix is simple: use the code path that we just spent the past month optimizing and is less than 50% the performance of the optimized path!"

I wonder how many people are taking these statements seriously and how much $ it's going to cost in wasted GPU/CPU cycles.

Man, claude is legit stupid when it comes to log levels. It _loves_ to make everything INFO and then when you tell it "that shit is too noisy" it says "Ok, i'll set RUST_LOG=warn to suppress the spam!" and I have to waste tokens on "No, debug level logging should be DEBUG level logging."

Organized with love with @yang3kc.bsky.social @frapierri.bsky.social @yelenamejova.bsky.social @ugurkursuncu.bsky.social @mrjimmyblack.com

Together with @mrjimmyblack.com (and Claude) we developed a tool that helps detecting hallucinated references in academic papers! This evolved from a simple python script into a full system written in Rust to quickly go through thousands of citations. Check it out!

github.com/gianlucasb/h...

Wow, that happened fast.

The dopamine hit when you find hallucinated cites in recently published papers is amazing.

(Precompiled binaries from rust rewrite will be available "soon")

github.com/gianlucasb/h... :)

Been working on a thing. Getting close.

A pro-Trump PAC has aired a Trump Accounts advertisement during the Super Bowl.

A 30-second Super Bowl ad costs roughly $7 million.

Fuck. ASKING to be reported for unethical and illegal behavior?! I've only seen this kind of thing when a Jarvan goes 0-20. Wow.

I'm officially an agentic coding expert.

Latest batch of the Epstein files has plenty more physicists. Going through them slowly, in no particular order.

So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.

Just had an incredibly fun day of working with the clanker. Maybe even productive!

Sources: Bill Belichick will not be a first-ballot Hall of Famer Bill Belichick, the eight-time Super Bowl-winning coach, will not be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, sources told ESPN.

NFL: “Quick, how can we out clown the FIFA Peace Prize?!”

HoF Selection committee: We got you fam. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

New paper accepted to ICLR. arxiv.org/abs/2505.11839

Hasan tier denialium

Hellscape irl.

Is this guy paraphrasing Nuremberg defense?

It had “Miku” in it. I’m cooked.

The kids made me listen to a song and I like it. It’s fucking over.

ICE killed some guy that was exercising his 1st (and 2nd?) amendment rights.

זִכְרוֹנוֹ לִבְרָכָה god damnit.

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now