Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
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TIL each Nobel Prize laureate is allowed to bring a significant other plus 14 guests to the afterparty. However many of them struggle to invite 4. Do I have 14 people to invite? Fumbling in my memory for one minute and I got all 14 that I want to invite.😂 Do you have 14 people to celebrate your victory with?
Clementine Yang retweeted
Newly awarded #NobelPrize laureate Anne Carson published a series of notable works in the 1990s. Among these is ‘The Glass Essay’ in ‘Glass, Irony, and God’ (1995), which demonstrates the potential of the long poem where genre boundaries are seen to blur.
The same decade saw the publication of another work, often heralded as Carson’s greatest, entitled ‘Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse’ (1998).
Throughout her entire authorship, Carson with a light touch explores the possibilities of writing, a process by which the literary sketch has become of particular value to her.
Her collaborations with visual artists and choreographers and with opera and theatre directors demonstrate the freedom with which she relates to literary expectations and rule systems. It is this that lies behind the outstanding importance her work since the 1990s has had for the international art and literature scene.
Clementine Yang retweeted
‘Nox’ is an unforgettable work by this year’s literature laureate Anne Carson.
Published in 2010, it was written in memory of her brother Michael, who was mysteriously absent prior to his death in Denmark in 2000. Palpable here is a deep sense of loss that works its way up from below.
The result is a creation as sculptural as it is literary, an epitaph in the form of a box containing an accordion-fold-out of pictures, letters and other written texts dedicated to her dead brother. There is moreover a third voice that provides temporal depth in the shape of the Roman poet Catullus, with his famous elegy 101 in honour of his own departed brother, who like Michael died on foreign soil. Present also is Carson’s moving translation of the poem.
#NobelPrize
Oh wow!
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
If Anne Carson wins this year’s Nobel Prize, it must be her brilliant creation of hybrid literature. She actively rejects traditional literary boundaries. She treats the physical book as an art object, for example, Nox. She fuses intellectual life with embodied ordinariness of lived experience.
I asked my UCL mates for feedback on the latest version of our ICLR submission and got two completely different, almost contradictory responses.
The one I resonated with said poetically “we should treat papers as what they are: flexible forms of communication, works of art—to inspire thought, and to inspire, full stop.” The other said this comes across as weird and grandiose. It makes me wonder how much I should minimise my personal inputs, and what I’d write if I completely ignored the reviewing constraints!:p also reminds me of my master thesis paper naming history where I had the hellokitty acronym but was being pushed back for not serious for a fusion rl setting
There are three ways to catch my attention: cute naming, cute naming, and cute naming!
They didn’t advertise it but worth a read!
I can relate to this.
I’m lucky to be born in a generation without AI so that I could develop my taste based on the exceptional granularity inside talented human interpreters’ eyes. If you’re sensitive to texture, for example, food, you can easily tell if the raw materials/sauces are good. This applies to videos or any ai generated contents. Even if you can iterate/loop many rounds, they taste different.
I’m picky about sources of information, just as much as I care about food, I can feel their texture the first moment I interact with them, and there’s not so many good teachers that I could learn things fast from their teaching. Throughout my life, I have only met two exceptional maths teachers and Grant is one of them. (Although he calls himself a YouTuber!)
I find my speed of learning slows down dramatically if only interacting with AI. But it’s hard even for me now to identify a good ML teacher. I believe part of the reason is that very few people risk trading fame and money for quality.
I’m often worried about future generations who will have less chance of getting a truly good teacher helping develop their taste. Only if you have tasted the purest you can tell the impurities.
Happy to experiment. To be honest, though, while I find LLMs useful for many things, I've so far never found any tools to be all that helpful in my manim workflows, beyond basic auto-completing.
The main reason is that I have a very granular view of what I want to put on screen, and I often don't want (or even know how) to phrase it in English; instead, the preferred language to express what I want is manim itself, at a line-by-line level of granularity.
For people less fluent with it, though, I can see things like this being a major unlock, which is cool.
Fun fact: 3/4 of the Fields Medalists 2026 speak Chinese😂
For me personally I found myself having different personalities and voices speaking different languages. Chinese gives an extremely soft and sweet feeling. I tried translating between them, but always trapped in the exact mapping of the choices for words for conveying the same scenic feelings.
For example, one of my writers friend bantered with me “微烛之火怎能与日月争辉”. I thought for a long time before I had the translation of “The stars are amazed who is amazed at the stars
The glimmer of candlelight is eclipsed by the glory of the sun and moon
Beside you every light grows dim
Beside you every sun appears dark” I posted it first in March this year but deleted due to the immaturity of my writing.😂
Not only Chinese, certain languages also give feelings that are irreplaceable. I’ve always associated German with the opera lyrics written by Schubert and Wagner. These lyrics give me a feeling of they’re only beautiful if you sing it in their original form. And the feeling you got from German lyrics are far from that of French lyrics.
As we, ML researchers optimise the loss for machine translation or other tasks, not only does information diminish in between, some non-trivial definitions are off, it seems to me.
As Yu Deng put it, “Our understanding of the physical universe on a mathematical level is still extremely small.”
#ICM2026
Who needs to go to the doctors when you have Neurips 2 marks revenger😆😂 I’ve been having low blood pressure for a long time and magically it was cured by the 12 confident long comments on weaknesses from a fellow “human”😂
One of my few earliest friends when I first arrived in the UK is a Korean lady. She lived the perfect life, very lonely, very simple, caring only for the truth of things, always ready to talk, and extraordinarily modest, though her mind was of the greatest. She struck up conversations with me when we were both waiting at the bus stop. She told me she went to Oxford and lived here her entire life. Now she’s retired but still goes to the library everyday. In the end she gave me her number and asked me to message her so that we can meet the same time next day. I told her I was interested in philosophy and the next day she introduced me to a philosophy professor in a pub. I was too young to realise this kind of genuine care and love doesn’t happen often. The first thing I did when I arrived in Seoul was to walk up the N Seoul Tower since she recommended it to me. She likes to take photos and always makes sure I look good in photos. You can tell by the immaculate collar she wears that she has an attitude towards life. I’m so lucky to have met her and many others who shaped my belief system when I was young! They taught me you don’t have to be perfect and the best to be loved.
Made the decision to go ICML last minute. It turned out to be worth it! How time flies! So fortunate to have Hado as my teacher in RL!
