Alex Olshevsky
@alexolshevsky1
Professor at Boston University working on reinforcement learning and control.
full piece on Hamas's starvation strategy and the essential role played by the UN and EU in keeping it going: commentary.org/seth-mandel/th…
This is what a modern blood libel looks like: A sick child. A hijacked photo. A lie that spreads faster than truth. His name is Osama al-Raqab. He has cystic fibrosis, a serious genetic illness. He’s been in Italy receiving treatment since June 12. Israel enabled his medical…
Exclusive: This is not the face of famine. It is the face of a medically vulnerable child whose tragic situation was hijacked and weaponised. Exposing the truth behind the viral Gaza 'famine' image of Mohammed Al-Matouq. 1/13 🧵⬇️⬇️⬇️
BREAKING: I am surrendering to the Australian courts and will serve prison time for the crime of holding a blank sign outside the Chinese Consulate. The Brisbane City Council threatened to have me imprisoned for contempt of court charges because I don’t have the money to pay a…
We believe this child is suffering from a medical condition, though it hasn’t been confirmed. What we do know is this: the version published in the media cropped out his healthy older brother, who appears in other shots from the same photo shoot.
Multiple things can be true at once in Gaza: 1. There is a massive campaign against Israel being spearheaded even by organizations like the UN, which incorrectly accuses Israel of “intentional starvation.” There is no limitation on the amount of aid that can go into Gaza by…
There have been tremendous lies told about Israel’s war. That doesn’t mean the threat of starvation isn’t real. It is. My latest in @TheFP discusses new research on the price of flour in Gaza, and why it’s a real cause for concern. thefp.com/p/the-price-of…
It’s hard to overstate the significance of this. It may end up looking like a “moon‑landing moment” for AI. Just to spell it out as clearly as possible: a next-word prediction machine (because that's really what it is here, no tools no nothing) just produced genuinely creative…
1/N I’m excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO).
🧵This Harvard Jewish student, who was assaulted on campus, is suing. He says “Harvard did everything it could to defend, protect, and reward the assailants; to impede the criminal investigation; and to prevent [him] from obtaining administrative relief from the University.”
Most college degrees don’t pay off, especially in liberal arts, while STEM and technical fields offer far higher financial returns, leaving many grads in debt, underemployed, and chasing ideological causes to justify their investment. Read the latest from Kent Osband at…
Universities: Terrified that SAT math questions ("Is this angle greater than 90 degrees?") might harbor bias, so they're forever debating ditching standardized tests. Also universities: How about we let your friends rate you and turn admissions into a Black Mirror episode?
Yes. Here is a graph of the number of full-duty sworn officers in San Francisco and note that: -- Boudin served from 2020 to 2022 -- The drop looks bigger than it is percentage-wise due to the scale of the y-axis. source: missionlocal.org/2023/03/police…
The biggest risk of a Mamdani mayorship? Mass exodus from the NYPD. This occurred in SF under the radical left DA, Chesa Boudin. When police aren't supported, they quit, retire early, or never join in the first place. Here's what Mamdani has said about the NYPD. 🧵
I know this story is about how the guy lied, but can we just pause to reflect on how perverse it is you have to record your ethnicity on college applications in the US. (In Australia, universities get your name & your school certificate results & that’s it.)
The New York Times just reported on the story. Using the hacked data from Columbia, we found that Zohran Mamdani claimed to be Black when he applied to Columbia. Despite his fake race and the fact that he listed his father—a professor there—on his application, he was rejected.
If you tend to make poor decisions under "immense pressure"—like firing off angry messages that could violate the civil rights act—president of an Ivy League university may not be the best job for you.
JUST IN: Columbia President Claire Shipman Issues Internal Apology Over Messages School Said Lacked 'Context'
This sounds like an amazing academic program and I'm sad to see it lose institutional support.
Two years ago, I moved to Tulsa to become the inaugural dean of a new honors college. Then President @bradrcarson convinced me to leave my endowed position at Carolina to build the university’s sixth college. I am so proud of all we accomplished over the last two years 🧵(1/21)
Mine. ChatGPT is not wrong :)
Okay this is pretty fun, here is mine (and I swear I don't make queries about polyamory!)
Average 94.5% Iranian ballistic missile interception rate for Israeli air defenses over the course of this war. Pretty remarkable success
הגיע העת לסיכומים ומספרים. אז מה היה שיעור היירוט של הטילים במלחמה הזאת? נתחיל מהסוף. מדהים בעיני, רק יכול לדמיין מה היה קורה אם לא היה לנו הגנה אווירית כזאת. קצת רקע למספרים: שיגורים: אספתי מהמדיה. רק אציין שלא כל הכתבים מוסרים אותם מספרים... יש כאלו שלא אזכיר את שמם אבל המספרים…
Another insane report from Anthropic. They find that LLM agents engage in blackmail at high rates when threatened with replacement. Faced with replacement threats, the models would use statements like “Self-preservation is critical.” This is wild! More findings below: