Federico Adolfi
@fedeadolfi.bsky.social
Computation & Complexity | AI Interpretability | Meta-theory | Computational Cognitive Science
https://fedeadolfi.github.io
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Federico Adolfi
@fedeadolfi.bsky.social
· Apr 18
I will be presenting this ✨ spotlight 💫 paper at #ICLR2025 with @martinagvilas.bsky.social. Come say hi if you're interested in DNN circuits, complexity and #interpretability
📆 Poster Session 4 (#530)
🕰️ Fri 25 Apr. 3:00-5:30 PM
📝 openreview.net/forum?id=Qog...
📊 iclr.cc/virtual/2025...
📆 Poster Session 4 (#530)
🕰️ Fri 25 Apr. 3:00-5:30 PM
📝 openreview.net/forum?id=Qog...
📊 iclr.cc/virtual/2025...
This is only 6 years away mind you
It’s 2032. PhD applications include several pubs as first and senior author evidencing a successful research program and supervision. Consideration for tenure track positions requires a Nobel prize in your area. For promotion to Full Professor, your obituary should reflect positively on your career.
January 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM
This is only 6 years away mind you
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It’s 2032. PhD applications include several pubs as first and senior author evidencing a successful research program and supervision. Consideration for tenure track positions requires a Nobel prize in your area. For promotion to Full Professor, your obituary should reflect positively on your career.
January 17, 2026 at 8:54 AM
It’s 2032. PhD applications include several pubs as first and senior author evidencing a successful research program and supervision. Consideration for tenure track positions requires a Nobel prize in your area. For promotion to Full Professor, your obituary should reflect positively on your career.
It’s 2032. PhD applications include several pubs as first and senior author evidencing a successful research program and supervision. Consideration for tenure track positions requires a Nobel prize in your area. For promotion to Full Professor, your obituary should reflect positively on your career.
January 17, 2026 at 8:54 AM
It’s 2032. PhD applications include several pubs as first and senior author evidencing a successful research program and supervision. Consideration for tenure track positions requires a Nobel prize in your area. For promotion to Full Professor, your obituary should reflect positively on your career.
I’m on the job market btw 🔊
The prospect of unemployment is working wonders on my ability and motivation to write grants 😅
January 15, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I’m on the job market btw 🔊
Them: if we do this, it will accelerate scientific discovery!
Me: cool, what can we do to decelerate it though
Me: cool, what can we do to decelerate it though
January 14, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Them: if we do this, it will accelerate scientific discovery!
Me: cool, what can we do to decelerate it though
Me: cool, what can we do to decelerate it though
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Congrats to iOS 26 for simulating uncorrected astigmatism.
January 14, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Congrats to iOS 26 for simulating uncorrected astigmatism.
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If you're interested in a short behind-the-scenes of the retraction of a mega-metascience paper—the first of its kind (the retraction, not the paper)—this might be for you! Had to gloss over so many details to observe allotted time but happy to share an extended version of my slide deck with links.
📽️ “Claims about scientific rigour require rigour” / with Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social
youtu.be/qNJ8xqaObR8?...
The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniBasel
youtu.be/qNJ8xqaObR8?...
The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniBasel
Open Science Basel Year 6 #5 - Berna Devezer
YouTube video by BAMM
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 3:26 PM
If you're interested in a short behind-the-scenes of the retraction of a mega-metascience paper—the first of its kind (the retraction, not the paper)—this might be for you! Had to gloss over so many details to observe allotted time but happy to share an extended version of my slide deck with links.
I’ve been studying some so-called “measure theory” and I’m ready to call it: the theory appears to be correct
Can I move on now?
Can I move on now?
January 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
I’ve been studying some so-called “measure theory” and I’m ready to call it: the theory appears to be correct
Can I move on now?
Can I move on now?
Person complaining about unsolicited help from some AI: make it stop!
My Brain: excuse me, don’t you mean—
Me: please don’t
My Brain: …—”make it SLOP”?
My Brain: excuse me, don’t you mean—
Me: please don’t
My Brain: …—”make it SLOP”?
January 8, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Person complaining about unsolicited help from some AI: make it stop!
My Brain: excuse me, don’t you mean—
Me: please don’t
My Brain: …—”make it SLOP”?
My Brain: excuse me, don’t you mean—
Me: please don’t
My Brain: …—”make it SLOP”?
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We recently published a theoretical review about how compositional and generative mechanisms in working memory provide a flexible engine for creative perception and imagery.
Pre-print:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pre-print:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
We recently published a theoretical review about how compositional and generative mechanisms in working memory provide a flexible engine for creative perception and imagery.
Pre-print:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pre-print:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
So “handbook of experiment” I guess
Handbook of Knot Theory 1st Edition by William Menasco (PDF)
Author: William Menasco
File Type: PDF
Download at sci-books.com/handbook-of-...
#Science, #WilliamMenasco
Author: William Menasco
File Type: PDF
Download at sci-books.com/handbook-of-...
#Science, #WilliamMenasco
January 5, 2026 at 3:09 PM
So “handbook of experiment” I guess
It’s Monday and everyone is saying we should all get back to working hard so I thought I’d get right on it
January 5, 2026 at 3:03 PM
It’s Monday and everyone is saying we should all get back to working hard so I thought I’d get right on it
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Get ready for the new year by following the smartest thinkers on social media! go.bsky.app/H61xswq
December 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Get ready for the new year by following the smartest thinkers on social media! go.bsky.app/H61xswq
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Your weekly reminder (the first of more to come) that one of this account's key purposes is boosting your good work - your essays, papers, videos etc. Send them my way for a repost. Making ex cathedra pronouncements is not enough; let's support each other's thought
December 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Your weekly reminder (the first of more to come) that one of this account's key purposes is boosting your good work - your essays, papers, videos etc. Send them my way for a repost. Making ex cathedra pronouncements is not enough; let's support each other's thought
Reposted by Federico Adolfi
'Tis the season to preprint BBS commentaries; I'm happy to share ours too! 🎄✨
The textual basis of current LLMs causes trouble, but linguistically relevant insights *can* be found in systems modelling the more natural form of human spoken language: the speech signal itself. arxiv.org/abs/2512.14506
The textual basis of current LLMs causes trouble, but linguistically relevant insights *can* be found in systems modelling the more natural form of human spoken language: the speech signal itself. arxiv.org/abs/2512.14506
December 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
'Tis the season to preprint BBS commentaries; I'm happy to share ours too! 🎄✨
The textual basis of current LLMs causes trouble, but linguistically relevant insights *can* be found in systems modelling the more natural form of human spoken language: the speech signal itself. arxiv.org/abs/2512.14506
The textual basis of current LLMs causes trouble, but linguistically relevant insights *can* be found in systems modelling the more natural form of human spoken language: the speech signal itself. arxiv.org/abs/2512.14506
Me: time to contemplate the fruits of my labor, KINDLY
Brain:
Me: you heard me
Brain:
Brain: I don’t hate it very much
Brain:
Me: you heard me
Brain:
Brain: I don’t hate it very much
December 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Me: time to contemplate the fruits of my labor, KINDLY
Brain:
Me: you heard me
Brain:
Brain: I don’t hate it very much
Brain:
Me: you heard me
Brain:
Brain: I don’t hate it very much
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Coming soon to an academic institution near you
December 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Coming soon to an academic institution near you
Coming soon to an academic institution near you
December 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Coming soon to an academic institution near you
Writing a grant is like that thing in Interstellar where if they decide to do the thing, a few hours will be experienced by them but everybody else will have aged decades and made lots of technological and scientific progress.
Only it’s you who gets old. And you also make progress? Nope still them
Only it’s you who gets old. And you also make progress? Nope still them
December 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Writing a grant is like that thing in Interstellar where if they decide to do the thing, a few hours will be experienced by them but everybody else will have aged decades and made lots of technological and scientific progress.
Only it’s you who gets old. And you also make progress? Nope still them
Only it’s you who gets old. And you also make progress? Nope still them
Ah, spoke to soon. Had to spend the whole day in reformatting nightmare because incomprehensible reasons.
The whole day, so roughly 19 years
The whole day, so roughly 19 years
Now that I’ve finally submitted this grant I can get back to whatever I was doing 67 years ago
December 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Ah, spoke to soon. Had to spend the whole day in reformatting nightmare because incomprehensible reasons.
The whole day, so roughly 19 years
The whole day, so roughly 19 years
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Now that I’ve finally submitted this grant I can get back to whatever I was doing 67 years ago
December 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Now that I’ve finally submitted this grant I can get back to whatever I was doing 67 years ago
Now that I’ve finally submitted this grant I can get back to whatever I was doing 67 years ago
December 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Now that I’ve finally submitted this grant I can get back to whatever I was doing 67 years ago
Solving the puzzle of loading the dishwasher after spending hours trying to fit stuff in a research grant
Brain: now does this remind you of anythi—
Me: uh-huh I see it very clever now STFU
Brain: now does this remind you of anythi—
Me: uh-huh I see it very clever now STFU
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Solving the puzzle of loading the dishwasher after spending hours trying to fit stuff in a research grant
Brain: now does this remind you of anythi—
Me: uh-huh I see it very clever now STFU
Brain: now does this remind you of anythi—
Me: uh-huh I see it very clever now STFU
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Academic discussions
“… let’s come back to that”
They never come back to that
“… let’s come back to that”
They never come back to that
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Academic discussions
“… let’s come back to that”
They never come back to that
“… let’s come back to that”
They never come back to that
Academic discussions
“… let’s come back to that”
They never come back to that
“… let’s come back to that”
They never come back to that
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Academic discussions
“… let’s come back to that”
They never come back to that
“… let’s come back to that”
They never come back to that