Anil Ananthaswamy

Don't know how other authors feel, but seeing the first physical copy of your book, after years of looking at Word files and PDFs... Seems surreal. It's as if someone else wrote it... Anyway, this advance copy arrived in the mail. One more month to pub date…

A nice article by @anilananth on using AI to explore design spaces, find unexpected solutions, (re)discover symmetries, and propose new relationships featuring @yuqirose @MarioKrenn6240 and myself. Note AI ≠ LLMs in this piece. quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-wi…

Watching @karpathy's zero to hero playlist, reading 'Why Machine Learn' by @anilananth, basically having a good time 😏🫣

2/2 Compared to cryptanalysis, “it’s not that hard to attack ML systems,” said Carlini, at the Simons Institute's workshop on Cryptography 10 Years Later: Obfuscation, Proof Systems, and Secure Computation Boot Camp. Video: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/nicholas…

1/2 Cryptanalysis has a rigor that machine learning lacks. “There would never be a paper accepted in crypto where the attack was ‘run the attack 5 times and it works [once].’ This is true of the world of ML." — @AnthropicAI's Nicholas Carlini at the Simons Institute. Video below.

While AI hasn't yet led to new physics discoveries, the tech is proving powerful in the field, aiding in experiment design and spotting patterns in complex data (@anilananth / Quanta Magazine) quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-wi… techmeme.com/250722/p3#a250…

“If my students had tried to give me this thing, I would have said, ‘No, no, that’s ridiculous'." — @Caltech's Rana Adhikari on an AI's solution for increasing @LIGO's sensitivity, using PyTheus, an AI designed by @MarioKrenn6240's team. The solution turned out to be an inspired…

1/2 "We need help!" @AnthropicAI's Nicholas Carlini called for cryptanalysis experts to join efforts to make ML safe, at the Simons Institute's workshop on Cryptography 10 Years Later: Obfuscation, Proof Systems, and Secure Computation Boot Camp Video: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/nicholas…

📚What are CIOs reading this week? nationalcioreview.com/bookshelf/why-…

2/2 Sahai spoke at the Simons Institute workshop on Cryptography 10 Years Later: Obfuscation, Proof Systems, and Secure Computation Boot Camp, and credited Rahul Ilango. Full video of talk here: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/amit-sah…

1/2 @UCLA's Amit Sahai passed on advice from The Lion King's Pumba on how two words — "Hakuna Matata", or rather, "Indistinguishability Obfuscation" (compiling programs into unintelligible ones while preserving functionality) — solve many problems in cryptography and more.

Exciting news! My new book, AI and ML for Coders in PyTorch has finally arrived! I'm deeply grateful to my friend and mentor @AndrewYNg who has inspired me, not just with his brilliance, but also his kindness and humility. And to @OReillyMedia for believing in me!

There are the strange and lovely intangibles to writing a book. In my case I got to meet Tom Cruise's body double :-) Exactly one year ago, while on my way to Bangalore from Dallas, I had a 8hr layover in London--and an appointment with @MLStreetTalk to record an episode to…

A year ago, WHY MACHINES LEARN was about to be released. I recall being really nervous. Would the book would serve any purpose? It had lots of journalistic storytelling, but it also had equations, plenty of it, and so was neither a pure popular science treatment of ML/AI nor a…

Today is July 14. #OTD in 2017 mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani passed away. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, symplectic geometry. Received the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, 1st woman to win the prize.

Did you know? On December 13, 1973, Isaac Asimov wrote a brief but memorable letter to Carl Sagan, prompted by his reading of Sagan’s newly published book, The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective. In Letter Asimov wrote; “I have just finished The Cosmic…

What's obfuscation in computing? @UCLA's Amit Sahai jokingly began his tutorial with a "gruesomely human" analogy, at the Simons Institute's workshop on Cryptography 10 Years Later: Obfuscation, Proof Systems, and Secure Computation Boot Camp. Video here: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/amit-sah…

Thanks for the wonderful review, @Manuel_do_rio! For anyone wanting to know more about WHY MACHINES LEARN, Manuel does a masterful job of explaining what the book is about...

There have been studies demonstrating "metacognition" in LLMs (the anthropomorphizing notwithstanding). So, it's not surprising that LLMs also show "metacognitive incoherence," and this has consequences for LLM safety. In the paper, "The Bitter Lesson of Misuse Detection," the…