Experienced Data Science Leader | PhD in Machine Learning | 7x Author | Black Belt 🥋 in Time Series | Chief Conformal Prediction Promoter| Mathematician |

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NEW BOOK: Mastering Modern Forecasting — Principles and Practice in Python. 🔥🔥🔥 16 chapters. Every method from classical statistics to foundation models. Working Python code throughout. The definitive practitioner's reference. e throughout. The definitive practitioner's reference. Preorder now:
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Valeriy M., PhD, MBA, CQF retweeted
The most legendary Russian mathematics textbooks, in one definitive bundle. Kiselev's Arithmetic. Kiselev's Algebra, Part I. Rachinsky's 1001 problems. Markov 1900. The classical curriculum that built the Soviet mathematical tradition — now reading exactly as it did a century ago.
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Why are students struggling with mathematics? Here is a better question. What textbooks are they studying from? For more than 125 years, generations of students in Russia, the USSR, and China studied mathematics using Kiselev’s Arithmetic. • 100M copies printed • One of the most influential math textbooks ever written • Famous for combining rigor with extraordinary pedagogical clarity Instead of rushing to formulas, the book builds mathematical thinking step by step. ✅ Clear definitions. ✅ Logical progression. ✅ Carefully designed problems. ✅ The remarkable part? ❌ Despite its global influence, no proper English translation existed for more than a century. ✅I have now translated the legendary Kiselev Arithmetic into English. If you care about real mathematics education, start here: valeman.gumroad.com/l/arithm… If you'd like, I can also give you a **very sharp “Andrew Tate / Elon Musk style” viral opener** that dramatically increases reach on X and often **drives 5–10× more clicks to the book link**.
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Out on Amazon today. 🔥🔥🔥 Kiselev's Problems and Exercises in Elementary Algebra — the first complete English translation. 1273 problems matched section by section to the textbook. Kiselev wrote three things between 1884 and 1892 — Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Geometry. They became the official course of the Russian and Soviet schools for over seventy years and trained the strongest mathematical tradition in the world. The textbooks teach the theory and walk through worked examples. The problem book is the third stage — independent practice. 1273 problems, no calculator, single-variable elementary algebra in the 19th-century tradition. Eight parts: — Relative numbers, signed arithmetic — Polynomials and algebraic fractions — Equations of the first degree — Square and higher roots — Quadratics and the discriminant — Progressions, logarithms, compound interest — Combinatorics, the binomial theorem — Mathematical induction Get it on Amazon (paperback): amazon.com/dp/1919465804 Or on Gumroad (PDF, with Kindle to follow): valeman.gumroad.com/l/kisele… russianmathbooks.com
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CHINA ELIMINATES 12,000 ‘OBSOLETE’ UNIVERSITY DEGREES IN PUSH TO PREPARE FOR THE AI ERA CHINESE UNIVERSITIES SCRAP 12,000 DEGREE PROGRAMS AS AI RESHAPES JOB MARKET DEMANDS
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Partly misleading. China cut ~12,200 degree programs gradually over 4 years (2021–2025), not in a single push. ~10,200 new programs were added simultaneously. Youth unemployment — not just AI — was the primary driver per China's Ministry of Education. scmp.com/economy/china-… en.sedaily.com/international/… chinascope.org/archives/40454
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Can you imagine how stupid the students in their classes have to be for the woke faculty of the University of California to beg the UC Academic Senate to bring the SAT back?
🔥Humanities professors unite w/ STEM faculty, demanding the University of California reinstate the SAT “We call for the UC Academic Senate and the UC Regents to give up the failed experiment of the last 6 years & return to including both the math & the verbal reasoning components of SAT/ACT as part of undergraduate admissions”
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The coming doom of academia will be hilarious
The demographic cliff is here. Syracuse offered students significant discounts to attend but still ended up under-enrolled. The university has already offered buyouts to 175 professors and closed 93 majors. And the pop. of 18-year-olds “will decline for the next 15 years.”
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And if Berkeley starts to admit people who have zero math knowledge there experience will be truly transformational and tend to infinity. On a serious note what’s so wrong with the USA elite STEM. One would have thought after “elite” European turned into pumpkin at least the USA would still hold. Nah. #math
I spoke with someone who contributed to another report, separate from the academic senate report, that advised Napolitano in her SAT decision-making. What he said, paraphrasing: “Jelani, what if the admissions objective is not to admit the students who will perform the best academically, but to admit the students who would benefit the most from a Berkeley degree, say as measured by increase in lifetime earnings.” Of course, if you start producing graduates that are substantially weaker, high-paying employers will notice and cut back on hiring your graduates. Their counter is some idealized/wishful thinking that the university experience is so transformational that it can turn any student into a diamond coming out, even if they didn’t know how to add fractions coming in. Link to the second report: ucop.edu/institutional-resea…
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Just shipped csp-forecaster v0.1.2 — a training-free probabilistic time-series forecaster that outperforms Amazon's DeepNPTS on six standard benchmarks and is blazing fast (~500× on CPU).
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If your stack has a probabilistic forecasting gap, this is the lowest-friction way to fill it. #Forecasting #ConformalPrediction #TimeSeries #ProbabilisticForecasting #MachineLearning #OpenSource
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Berkeley strikes again
Another Berkeley professor told the author: “In my second-year engineering class, a student asked me to explain why 1/2 1/3 = 5/6…. The lecture had to stop while I explained fractions.”
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They didn’t study math
Berkeley math professor: “Today, the more successful a public high school is at preparing its students, the lower its graduates' chances of getting into top UC campuses like Berkeley and San Diego.” Berkeley admitted 45% of applicants from a high school where nearly 94% of “students failed to meet the state standards in mathematics.” It admitted less than 14% of applicants from a school where “nearly 100 percent of its students in AP Calculus BC pass the national exam with a perfect score of 5.”
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Valeriy M., PhD, MBA, CQF retweeted
Found an easy hack how to restore access to Fable
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Your probabilistic forecasting model isn’t worth much unless it can beat simple benchmark. arxiv.org/abs/2606.09473
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Valeriy M., PhD, MBA, CQF retweeted
This doesn’t affect the EU users, as nobody in Europe can afford €200 to use the Pro plan
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Valeriy M., PhD, MBA, CQF retweeted
According to Grok, Andrej Karpathy is an EB-1 extraordinary ability green card recipient, not a US citizen. Thus under these new restrictions he is not permitted to use, or work on, Mythos 5 or Fable 5 as of 5:21pm tonight.
Replying to @AndrewCurran_
From the statement: 'The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘦𝘴. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.'
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