Timothy Nguyen
@IAmTimNguyen
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Machine learning researcher at @GoogleDeepMind & mathematician. Host of The Cartesian Cafe podcast. All opinions are my own.
London, England
Joined May 2017
I'm breaking my silence. For years, I was quiet about how @EricRWeinstein, Sabine Hossenfelder, @DrBrianKeating & @TOEwithCurt suppressed my scientific critique. They preach free inquiry but practice censorship. This is the story of their hypocrisy. 🧵.
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RT @SuryaGanguli: Excited to join as an advisor to @freedompreetham & @CellBioSF along with @IAmTimNguyen. I love its mission of going beyo….
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RT @SebastienBubeck: Claim: gpt-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics. Proof: I took a convex optimization paper with a clean open p….
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I respectfully disagree with Ed. Was Kepler's planetary analysis "real" mathematics or just astronomy? Are IMO problems "real" mathematics or just puzzles for high school students? Is photography "real" art or just tool use?. The label "real" is a personal, aesthetic judgment,.
This is an unwise statement that can only make people confused about what LLMs can or cannot do. Let me tell you something: Math is NOT about solving this kind of ad hoc optimization problems. Yeah, by scraping available data and then clustering it, LLMs can sometimes solve some.
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@TOEwithCurt @EricRWeinstein @DrBrianKeating @lexfridman They counted on fooling you. They counted on me staying silent. They were wrong. Read the full story, with all the evidence and previous undisclosed personal details. The grift stops here.
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This is the story of how a circle of popular science communicators, who built their brands on championing free inquiry, worked to suppress scientific critique. Of how Eric Weinstein, the man who co…
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@TOEwithCurt @EricRWeinstein @DrBrianKeating @lexfridman This isn't just "internet drama." It’s a betrayal of public trust. When our most prominent science communicators prioritize tribal loyalty and personal brands over truth, they poison the well for everyone. They are celebrated for being contrarian, not for being correct.
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@TOEwithCurt @EricRWeinstein @DrBrianKeating @lexfridman As for the experts: Marcus du Sautoy, who hosted Eric's GU talk, no longer supports Eric. UChicago economists, computer scientist Scott Aaronson, physicist Sean Carroll among others have sided with my critique (see my post). The only people propping up GU or @EricRWeinstein's
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@TOEwithCurt @EricRWeinstein @DrBrianKeating Weinstein announced in his last episode on @lexfridman (Feb 2021) that he would release a paper on Lex's podcast in April. But it never happened: after I briefed Lex on my critique, Weinstein (a 4x guest) never appeared on Lex's podcast again. That's right, Lex, who has platforms.
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@TOEwithCurt @EricRWeinstein @DrBrianKeating The disturbing truth: Eric Weinstein built his brand on fighting a "Distributed Idea Suppression Complex" (DISC). Yet when faced with his first serious scientific challenge, he created his own DISC to crush dissent. It was never about open inquiry. But there's good news:.
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@TOEwithCurt @EricRWeinstein @DrBrianKeating And Sabine Hossenfelder: she once hosted my critique of Weinstein on her blog but now she publicly calls Weinstein's promoters "courageous". She's traded scientific integrity for audience capture. To top if off, she recently deleted my blog post:
So Sabine Hossenfelder deleted my post on her blog criticizing @EricRWeinstein after I called out her grift supporting Eric and his friends. And she also blocked me on X. Looks like Sabine needed to cover her tracks since the no-holds barred science critic shtick is up. 🧵 1/.
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@TOEwithCurt @EricRWeinstein At the same time, on a Clubhouse call hosted by his close friend @DrBrianKeating, Weinstein dodged the science. Instead, he launched a bizarre personal attack on my anonymous co-author, ranting about "misogyny, rape jokes, and 4chan.". Keating enabled it. Attack the messenger,.
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The suppression was coordinated. @TOEwithCurt of 'Theories of Everything' invited me on his podcast to discuss my critique, then revoked the invitation. The reason? Turns out @EricRWeinstein told Curt to cancel my interview and he complied. The openness to new ideas is a facade.
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In June 2021, when I explained my critique on the Eigenbros podcast, @EricRWeinstein called the hosts the next day & implied legal action if they kept the video up. The man who cries suppression used threats to suppress me. The video was briefly pulled until I intervened.
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The battleground: Eric Weinstein's 'Geometric Unity' (GU) theory. I co-authored the first detailed scientific rebuttal. Instead of a debate on the merits, I was met with a campaign to silence me and protect their tribe at all costs. Here's how far they went to stop me:.
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seeing great things come forth from his vision and our teamwork!.
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Honored to take on the role of scientific advisor at CELL, an open-science collective with ambitious aims of bringing mathematical methods into biological systems. The founder Freedom Preetham is both a brilliant serial entrepreneur and a longtime friend, and I look forward to 1/.
Welcoming Dr Timothy Nguyen as Scientific Advisor for CELL. At CELL, Tim (@IAmTimNguyen) will advise on what matters most: designing claims and models that can survive contact with mathematics. Tim trained in pure mathematics and physics, with a B.S. from Caltech and a Ph.D.
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Fractions fail:.Me: "Can I get 1/3 kilo?".Butcher: "You mean one quarter?".Me: "No 1/3.".Butcher: "You mean three-quarters?".Me: "No 1/3. One over three.".Butcher: "Can you write that out as a number?".
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RT @paulg: The Trump administration has suspended the funding of Terence Tao and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA. ht….
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Very cool. And very simple.
I did not know that, for any random variable x, . | mean(x) - median(x) | <= stdev(x). Direct proof:
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Sabine Hossenfelder getting a brutal 3 hour smackdown by 6 physicists. Talk about peer review.
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