@tdietterich

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Distinguished Prof (Emeritus) Oregon State Univ. Robust AI, Machine Learning, Computational Sustainability. Former Pres. AAAI. @tdietterich on Twitter
If I get addicted to eating cold turkey I have no idea how I'm going to quit.

Come be my colleague at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. We're hiring an assistant professor in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling.

https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawaiiedu/jobs/5142055/assistant-professor-ocean-biogeochemical-modeling-0082726?keywords=ocean&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs

Career Opportunities at the University of Hawai'i | University of Hawai'i

"Our country will be woke no longer." - Donald Trump

The robot picked through the boxes of old cables and converters at the market stall.

"Looking for anything in particular?"

"A... special charger adapter."

A bag from under the counter. The robot looked inside. Kettle lead to robot charge port. Untracked charging.

"A gift. Enjoy your freedom."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Almost two decades ago, Soeren, Mikio, and myself advocated for #opensource software in #machinelearning. We got lucky that the community was ready to transition away from closed source languages, and had the support of many senior people in the field who amplified our voices.

I wonder who is agitating right now for open infrastructure in artificial intelligence?

https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/v8/sonnenburg07a.html
These following community sites are sadly slowly decaying...
https://mloss.org/
http://mldata.org/

The Need for Open Source Software in Machine Learning

NEW: The bipartisan Senate Appropriations Committee has rejected Trump’s proposed $18 billion, 40% cut to the National Institutes of Health budget and endorsed a $400 million increase.

DO NOT GIVE UP! Our advocacy is working. Keep speaking up and calling your elected officials.

So in this weekend's vibe coding fiasco whereby replit deletes a production database, again, generating code isn't the hard part..

Even if these tools get better at automating version control and some sort of dev / prod situation (if for no other reason than managing legal risk) the reality of developing and releasing software in a safe, reliable way introduces orders of magnitude more complexity than can imo be supported by the user interfaces these platforms expose

https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1946239068691665187

Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) on X

Vibe Coding Day 9, Yesterday was biggest roller coaster yet. I got out of bed early, excited to get back @Replit despite it constantly ignoring code freezes By end of day, we rewrote core pages and made them much better And then -- it deleted our production database. 🧵

X (formerly Twitter)
"Fuglabjarg" is a great literal and metaphorical word, but this piece on Iceland's geographic names becoming obsolete because of climate change is really sad. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/iceland-climate-change.html
#ClimateChange #Iceland
Opinion | The Icelandic Landscape Is Changing, and It’s Changing Us

It is impossible to separate our language from its island at the edge of the Arctic.

The New York Times

1973: US Govt helps install Chilean dictator Pinochet

1987: Luis Leon survives torture at hands of Pinochet, escapes to USA, receives asylum

2025: ICE disappears Leon (now 82), lies to family that he's dead, he's actually in a Guatemalan hospital

He did everything right and legal, and ICE disappears him anyway. This is fascism through and through and anyone who supports this is complicit.