Peyman Milanfar
@docmilanfar
Distinguished Scientist at Google. Computational Imaging, Machine Learning, and Vision. Tweets = personal opinions. May change or disappear over time.
yes we do
Salt does incredible things to food and we still don't even know how
This follow-up article also surveys recent applications in probabilistic inference, computational statistics, and machine learning arxiv.org/pdf/2105.03481
“You can always spot Americans in foreign countries” Yeah man you blend right in at Yellowstone with your child’s medium Armani Exchange shirt, skin tight capri length jorts, and Pumas
Google DeepMind followed IMO rules to earn gold, unlike OpenAI
"We can confirm that Google DeepMind has reached the much-desired milestone, earning 35 out of a possible 42 points — a gold medal score. Their solutions were astonishing in many respects. IMO graders found them to be clear, precise and most of them easy to follow." IMO…
An advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think has officially achieved gold medal-level performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad. 🥇 It solved 5️⃣ out of 6️⃣ exceptionally difficult problems, involving algebra, combinatorics, geometry and number theory. Here’s how 🧵
thirty 30 years ago my very first journal article get accepted without revision. i remember thinking "this publishing thing isn't that bad" - it’s been downhill ever since.
stealing the spotlight from kids just to hype yourselves is not a good look
🚨 According to a friend, the IMO asked AI companies not to steal the spotlight from kids and to wait a week after the closing ceremony to announce results. OpenAI announced the results BEFORE the closing ceremony. According to a Coordinator on Problem 6, the one problem OpenAI…
you can build something that's impressive, surprising, or even magical, but it won't be widely adopted unless it is useful. lasting adoption only happens when the spectacle becomes a tool
a fresh "baguette tradition” has arguably one of the highest value to price ratios of anything
When your dean finds out you’ve been interviewing elsewhere, and now you have to pretend it’s just a ‘research visit’.
Do Markets Value Fed Independence? An Event Study.