Just got my car booted for leaving it in a parking lot for I am not minding when I say this 1 and a half minutes. 🥲

If I’m ever a professor again, I want to give a graduate seminar, topics to include:

- how not to say stupid shit about fields outside your expertise
- what is your expertise, anyway?
- how not to be an insufferable bore
- your PhD doesn’t make you a better person: coping with that

Other ideas?

Over 30 prominent scientists call for a ban on the creation of a "mirror cell"--a microbe made of molecules that are mirror images of their natural forms. It could cause a mind-boggling global disaster. Here's my story [gift link] 🧪https://nyti.ms/3OUCXp6

New paper in Nature Comp Reviews led by the brilliant @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social & @tiancheng.bsky.social

👉LLMs exhibit group identity biases. Across 77 LLMs, most “we” (ingroup) prompts yielded more positive while “they” (outgroup) returned more negative sentiment

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

If AI development stopped this week we would have 5-10 years of absorbing the impact of current models on education, culture, healthcare, and business.

But this week has also suggested that development is not stopping.

Ok fuck it I know I said I agree but I have a lot of thoughts on this and some of which are disagreeing so let’s dive into this topic on wether Bluesky can actually achieve its goal (all theoretical)

1/?

A guide on what AT protocol is, how it works, and how it applies to Bluesky :) Made as easy to understand as possible.

So to understand AT Protocol, we need to understand that it is simply a decentralized network protocol meant for large scale social media

1/25

Hi NeurIPS!

Explore ~4,500 NeurIPS papers in this interactive visualization:

jalammar.github.io/assets/neuri...
(Click on a point to see the paper on the website)

Uses @cohere.com models and @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social's datamapplot/umap to help make sense of the overwhelming scale of NeurIPS.

📚🧵1/7 It is finally here!! Only one more week until the print release of our textbook “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches” with @mitpress.bsky.social!

What you get, why you should be interested and more, all below in a short 🧵👇

Doing some research into folding proteins (making an omelette)

You're telling me the next generation of medical therapies will be made INSIDE fruit flies? But how? And why?

fleshyfutures.substack.com/p/fruit-flie...

Krugman's best pieces:

• The babysitting co-op
slate.com/business/199...

• On modeling
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...

• Japan liquidity trap
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...

• on zoning
www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/o...
archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blog...

• how I work
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...

You might not like it but this is called peak computing

Timeline cleanse. A distant Mount Rainier reflected just now in Drumheller Fountain, University of Washington, Seattle.

Congratulations to @ec-euclid.bsky.social member Ruby Pearce-Casey - her excellent paper on finding strong gravitational lenses with #MachineLearning has been very nicely covered by this #YouTube video - an unexpected but lovely surprise 🧪🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZKz...