I was here 15 years but everything ends and now is the time. Find me at https://xitter.cf/t.co/EOK7N9Q3dE
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Oh cool. I jused Julia + Flux as an example code for the Docker teaching last year and now it doesn't work because of course Julia is like that.
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I have been a Statistician for 10 years.
Some of the earlier Statisticians invented amazing tools like Random Forest, boosting/bagging, Lasso.
Since then I have seen no real progress. The same old debates are ongoing.
Statisticians with ambitious goals have all moved to AI.
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"@SpringerNature journal has retracted over 200 papers since September"
Our question is, why were these not picked up during the original peer review?
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🚀✨ The Mini Hack is live! 🌌 Use up to 2,000 characters of MATLAB code to create a short movie.
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Saw this "BOLD" prediction on the future of AI from Gianluca Mauro, who has worked in AI for 10 years and also teaches at Harvard.
It is a very interesting take that I also find myself agreeing with.
What are your thoughts? 🤔
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What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too?
And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates.
A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N
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👀 There are now more than 1,000 functions supporting gpuArray on @MATLAB, making it easier than ever to accelerate your #HPC workflows.
⚡ Learn how you can boost performance with minimal code changes. ➡️ nvda.ws/3ZKGA7Z 🙌
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The environmental cost of AI, a good read from @mel_hogan read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
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A display at St. Catherine's College - really cool way of showing the periodic table by displaying the electron wave functions in glass.
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Did you know that our HPC Pool is free to use for University researchers? So if your research needs that extra boost of computing power, get in touch and see how we can help! research-it.manchester.ac.uk…
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this shit is crazy
@selentelechia we were talking abt this the other day, apparently it's widespread
There are crystal structures that simply won't form anymore, even though they did a few decades ago. Real life Ice-9? Could make an incredible sci-fi book.
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Headbutting a lightsaber might be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen
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Isambard 3 is an HPE NVIDIA Grace-Grace Arm CPU system, being installed right now alongside Isambard-AI. With 384 nodes and over 55,000 cores, it will be one of the largest Arm-based Grace systems in the world, after LANL’s Venado system.
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What are some debunked things that a lot of reasonably well-informed people don't know are debunked?
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Ready to demystify the magic behind GenAI? 🌟 Let me break down what LLMs are and how they power up your favourite AI tool in simple, snackable bits! #AIexplained #Simple
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I am incredibly grateful to have received the Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement for the best dissertation in each subject by the Freunde der TU Darmstadt @TUDarmstadt @CS_TUDarmstadt at the 2024 Frühlingsfest ⚜️ Thank you @anirbanakash for your never-ending support 🤗 – at Darmstadt, Germany
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Really enjoyed this 2020 article on how the parameters and constraints of computer hardware have unintended effects on the direction of computer science research, which algorithms get developed and deployed, etc.
arxiv.org/pdf/2009.06489
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Does anyone have any links to critical work on using LLMs to code? Showing how garbage it is but still it's being used or how it plagiarise but users don't know? Or are we/coders actually not even falling for the hype? I hear from outside academia some are using it, sadly. 🫣
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So apparently if someone knows / guesses the name of your S3 bucket - even if it's private (!) - they can just bankrupt you by sending infinite PUT requests and there is nothing you can do about it.
> requests get rejected
> but AWS still counts it as a write operation against your account for which you have to pay at a rate of $0.005 per 1000 requests
This seems insane to me. Especially because a lot of services rely on presigned URLs for uploads / downloads which exposes your bucket name to the client. In this case the author got their bill waved, but AWS support made it clear it's an exception not the rule.
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apparently Google laid off their entire Python Foundations team, WTF!
( @SkyLi0n who is one of the pybind11 maintainers just informed me, asking what ways they can re-fund pybind11)
The team seems to have done substantial work that seems critical for Google internally as well.
There's a hackernews thread if folks want to read more: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
