Guillaume Desjardins

As with most things, Elon didn't invent it. He just bought it from someone else.

Let’s take a moment to remember that the founders of Google were once supported by NSF. Google invented the Transformer, the backbone of the AI Vance touts.

The next major breakthrough could be forming in the head of a student of a professor about to get their NSF grant pulled.

Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information.

🚨 SCOOP 🚨

The acting Social Security commissioner has left the agency after a clash over providing DOGE access to sensitive data

It follows our reporting that DOGE is seeking access to personal financial data at the IRS for every taxpayer, business and nonprofit.

No one person should get to rebuild government, unilaterally, without checks and balances. *That* is the road to fascism.

Sec. 5. Initial Assessment and Strategy from the Make America Healthy Again Commission. (a) Make our Children Healthy Again Assessment. Within 100 days of the date of this order, the Commission shall submit to the President, through the Chair and the Executive Director, the Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment, which shall: (i) identify and describe childhood chronic disease in America compared to other countries; (ii) assess the threat that potential over-utilization of medication, certain food ingredients, certain chemicals, and certain other exposures pose to children with respect to chronic inflammation or other established mechanisms of disease, using rigorous and transparent data, including international comparisons; (iii) assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs; (iv) identify and report on best practices for preventing childhood health issues, including through proper nutrition and the promotion of healthy lifestyles;

Trump’s latest executive order (that was no doubt written by psychopath RFK Jr.) goes after antidepressants.

As someone whose life was saved by them, you will pry my prozac from my cold dead hands.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I would love to agree with you, but if China can't pull it off (despite welding people's doors shut), this does not seem like a realistic goal (via interventions), and likely requires huge scientific breakthroughs.

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

The ABA supports the rule of law It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...

An important message from the ABA:

"We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party ... change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less."

Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything? Yes. And You Can Too.

My new one is up.

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Outrage after JD Vance claims judges are not allowed to check executive power Vice-president accused of threatening constitution after saying judges have no right to restrain president’s agenda

When are reasonable, rational but conservative Americans going to admit this isn't business as usual and do something? They are ignoring or spitting on everything that defines your democracy.

Outrage as JD Vance claims judges not allowed to check executive power www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law ProPublica’s reporting provides new details about what legal risk officials were prepared to take and what laws they may have violated on their way to creating a “constitutional crisis.”

What happened to USAID foments a constitutional crisis the likes of which most Americans haven't seen in their lifetimes.

You can't just eliminate it. When/if courts say so, will Trump/Musk defer? Courts don't have armies.

The story I've been waiting to read: www.propublica.org/article/usai...

We should not be allowing non-government employees to waltz in to government offices, and illegally get access to sensitive government and personal data, and get read and write access to critical software systems in multiple government agencies.

www.npr.org/2025/02/08/g...

Research Engineer, Generative AI London, UK

Our team is looking for an ML hacker extraordinaire. make the TPUs hum with the sound of AGI. Job description: make intelligence = f(compute) unbounded : boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

🚨 Petition to get NeurIPS to join Bluesky 🚨

I just wrote the NeurIPS board requesting them to consider joining Bluesky.

It took about 2 minutes. I invite you to do the same. neurips.cc/Help/Contact

If they changed the name of the conference for the greater good, there's a chance!

Please repost!

@bsky.app Can you bring back Google Circles plz? I want to easily switch between browsing work related, world news, tech news, etc.

Physics of Language Models: Part 3.1, Knowledge Storage and Extraction Large language models (LLMs) can store a vast amount of world knowledge, often extractable via question-answering (e.g., "What is Abraham Lincoln's birthday?"). However, do they answer such questions ...

I think you'll find this paper interesting. They show how CoT allows the LM to first retrieve and then apply some function on the retrieved knowledge.
arxiv.org/abs/2309.14316