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Dan Roy
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@Google DeepMind. On leave, Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Former Research Director, @VectorInst. Professor, @UofT (Statistics/CS). Views are my own.
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    Just some personal thoughts now that the AI co-mathematician tech report is public... First, I'm so excited to see the co-mathematician team's hard work out for the world to preview. 💪+🦾=🔥 The team has built a system for mathematicians, with mathematicians. The fact it's now
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    Pushmeet Kohli
    Google DeepMind
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    May 8
    The future of Math is mathematicians and AI agents working together. Very pleased to introduce @GoogleDeepMind's AI co-mathematician: a multi-agent system designed to actively collaborate with human experts on open-ended research mathematics. Mathematicians testing the agent
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    Dan Roy
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    Apr 1, 2024
    When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads.
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    Dan Roy
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    Sep 28, 2019
    When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads. 😂
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    Dan Roy
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    Jul 6, 2020
    Dear International Students in the US, Does the US really deserve you?
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    Dan Roy
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    Jul 4, 2020
    Got promoted with tenure at University of Toronto :-) Thankful to my brilliant students, collaborators, and mentors. I can't think of a better place to have landed than Toronto. I took risks without existential fear and struck gold over and over with students in Stats and CS.
  • Hey @karpathy. If you are interested in an change of scene and pace, we’re looking for someone to tutor our kids in Python on Thursdays 3:15-4:15pm.
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    Dan Roy
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    Sep 25, 2024
    Feeling bad for my student who extended Shtarkov’s characterization of minimax rates to the adversarial setting, a problem open since early 2000s, and—due to inexperienced reviewers—it got only a poster based on 8,6,6,4 reviews. Should we pull it and send to IEEE info theory?
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    Dan Roy
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    Oct 8, 2024
    Maybe I am a physicist?
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    Dan Roy
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    Sep 15, 2025
    Too close to home? Junior researcher: I’m publishing papers at NeurIPS, my students are happy, but my chair says I’m “not impactful enough.” I don’t know what that means. Senior researcher: What did you tell them you accomplished last year? Junior: 3 top-tier papers, a new
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    George from 🕹prodmgmt.world
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    Sep 14, 2025
    Junior PM: I'm shipping everything on time, team loves me, but my manager says I'm "not strategic enough." I'm exhausted trying to figure out what that means. Senior PM: What did you tell him you accomplished last quarter? Junior PM: Delivered 5 features, reduced tech debt,
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    Dan Roy
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    Sep 2, 2025
    I've not mentioned it yet on Twitter, but since my department announced it today, I'll do so too. I was promoted to Full Professor 🎉 (effective July 2024, in fact). Those of you who are professors will know how critical mentors and students are to our success, and this is very
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    Dan Roy
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    Jun 17, 2024
    Grad Students: Networking is critical for success in academia. But the real question is WHO to network with. I’ve known grad students who will spend time at conferences drinking artisanal kombucha with grad students from programs with no GPUs. Is that 1/
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    Dan Roy
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    Apr 9, 2025
    This is how you generate unbounded amounts of wealth for you and cronies when you can manipulate the stock market at will.
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    Dan Roy
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    Aug 25, 2021
    It's easy to reject papers. You can manufacture issues and sink them based on amorphous/vague notions such as novelty, impact, clarity, etc. Every paper has minor problems that you can amplify. It takes a lot more courage to argue to accept something.