Tom SF Haines
@tomsfhaines.bsky.social
Machine learning lecturer at UoB; also a founder of 3Dami. https://thaines.com Views my own etc.
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Tom SF Haines
@tomsfhaines.bsky.social
· Nov 17
So my feed isn't entirely empty… my last paper: "The Cross-entropy of Piecewise Linear Probability Density Functions"; more at thaines.com/post/linearx...
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Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh starting Sept 2026?
My group works on topics in vision, machine learning, and AI for climate.
For more information and details on how to get in touch, please check out my website:
homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod
My group works on topics in vision, machine learning, and AI for climate.
For more information and details on how to get in touch, please check out my website:
homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod
October 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh starting Sept 2026?
My group works on topics in vision, machine learning, and AI for climate.
For more information and details on how to get in touch, please check out my website:
homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod
My group works on topics in vision, machine learning, and AI for climate.
For more information and details on how to get in touch, please check out my website:
homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Jane Goodall said she’d like to send off to another planet: Musk, Trump, Putin, Xi & Netanyahu. 🚀
October 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Jane Goodall said she’d like to send off to another planet: Musk, Trump, Putin, Xi & Netanyahu. 🚀
We have a Research Systems Developer job, for someone who likes the challenge of building custom systems to support research within a computer science department: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... Should be a varied role for anyone who likes unusual/weird problems and learning new things!
AP12857 Research Systems Developer - Jobs at Bath
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July 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We have a Research Systems Developer job, for someone who likes the challenge of building custom systems to support research within a computer science department: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... Should be a varied role for anyone who likes unusual/weird problems and learning new things!
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🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
July 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
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June 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.
June 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.
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Are you interested in the governance of emergent tech?
Come & work w/ me @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social
We are looking for 3 Post Docs in
Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp
Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4
Computer Science/AI/ML: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5
Application deadline is June 15, 2025.
Come & work w/ me @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social
We are looking for 3 Post Docs in
Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp
Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4
Computer Science/AI/ML: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5
Application deadline is June 15, 2025.
Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x) in Technology and Regulation
Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x) in Technology and Regulation
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May 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Are you interested in the governance of emergent tech?
Come & work w/ me @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social
We are looking for 3 Post Docs in
Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp
Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4
Computer Science/AI/ML: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5
Application deadline is June 15, 2025.
Come & work w/ me @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social
We are looking for 3 Post Docs in
Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp
Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4
Computer Science/AI/ML: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5
Application deadline is June 15, 2025.
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US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
June 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
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Congratulations Dr Ziubroniewicz. Too bad it wasn’t a machine vision dissertation, so he could deblur the picture. Congratulations to @ozgursimsek.bsky.social the proud doctor mother too! @tomsfhaines.bsky.social was the internal. My first trip back to Bath since Brexit.
May 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Congratulations Dr Ziubroniewicz. Too bad it wasn’t a machine vision dissertation, so he could deblur the picture. Congratulations to @ozgursimsek.bsky.social the proud doctor mother too! @tomsfhaines.bsky.social was the internal. My first trip back to Bath since Brexit.
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Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia
May 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia
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Is In-Context Learning (ICL) in LLMs Memorisation? Emergence? Some Algorithmic Capability? 🤔
📢New work exploring ICL in LLMs: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11004
💡Key Finding:
ICL capabilities are linked to token frequency 🤨
Strap in for the unexpected 🤯
A 🧵👇 #NLProc
📢New work exploring ICL in LLMs: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11004
💡Key Finding:
ICL capabilities are linked to token frequency 🤨
Strap in for the unexpected 🤯
A 🧵👇 #NLProc
May 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Is In-Context Learning (ICL) in LLMs Memorisation? Emergence? Some Algorithmic Capability? 🤔
📢New work exploring ICL in LLMs: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11004
💡Key Finding:
ICL capabilities are linked to token frequency 🤨
Strap in for the unexpected 🤯
A 🧵👇 #NLProc
📢New work exploring ICL in LLMs: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11004
💡Key Finding:
ICL capabilities are linked to token frequency 🤨
Strap in for the unexpected 🤯
A 🧵👇 #NLProc
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Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment.
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
May 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment.
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
We're still looking for new machine learning lecturers (+senior lecturers and one reader) to join us at the University of Bath. Big and growing research group with varied interests in a beautiful city:-) www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
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April 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We're still looking for new machine learning lecturers (+senior lecturers and one reader) to join us at the University of Bath. Big and growing research group with varied interests in a beautiful city:-) www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
April 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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We have lots of lectureships in #AI / #ML @uniofbath.bsky.social. Friendly colleagues, beautiful city and more areas of expertise than I can keep track of. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... (lecturer/senior lecturer) and www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... (reader).
CH12482 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Jobs at Bath
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February 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We have lots of lectureships in #AI / #ML @uniofbath.bsky.social. Friendly colleagues, beautiful city and more areas of expertise than I can keep track of. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... (lecturer/senior lecturer) and www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... (reader).
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I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
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March 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
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Maybe appealing to people trying to get out of the US.
lecturer = asst prof
sr lecturer = assoc prof
reader = assoc prof with better transition probability to full prof than a sr lecturer
lecturer = asst prof
sr lecturer = assoc prof
reader = assoc prof with better transition probability to full prof than a sr lecturer
We have lots of lectureships in #AI / #ML @uniofbath.bsky.social. Friendly colleagues, beautiful city and more areas of expertise than I can keep track of. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... (lecturer/senior lecturer) and www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... (reader).
CH12482 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Jobs at Bath
www.bath.ac.uk
March 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Maybe appealing to people trying to get out of the US.
lecturer = asst prof
sr lecturer = assoc prof
reader = assoc prof with better transition probability to full prof than a sr lecturer
lecturer = asst prof
sr lecturer = assoc prof
reader = assoc prof with better transition probability to full prof than a sr lecturer
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The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.
February 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.
We have lots of lectureships in #AI / #ML @uniofbath.bsky.social. Friendly colleagues, beautiful city and more areas of expertise than I can keep track of. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... (lecturer/senior lecturer) and www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... (reader).
CH12482 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Jobs at Bath
www.bath.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We have lots of lectureships in #AI / #ML @uniofbath.bsky.social. Friendly colleagues, beautiful city and more areas of expertise than I can keep track of. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... (lecturer/senior lecturer) and www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... (reader).
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The great Yale historian, Timothy Snyder, expert on fascism and on Ukraine and Russia
February 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The great Yale historian, Timothy Snyder, expert on fascism and on Ukraine and Russia
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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.