Researcher joke: he used Bregman divergence, so he has no free will
_arohan_ · x · 2026-09-19
An AI-researcher in-joke: after @esiamid tried to demonstrate he had free will, @arohan quipped that he "predictably used Bregman divergence, so I think he has no free will" — a classic piece of ML-community self-deprecating humor about predictability.
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