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Chris Crebolder
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Research Computing Support Specialist for #matterlab @thematterlab.bsky.social https://matter.toronto.edu and pinch hitter for the Acceleration Consortium @accelerationc.bsky.social https://acceleration.utoronto.ca at #uoft @uoft.bsky.social
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#JOB OPPORTUNITY: We’re hiring a Research Computing Support Specialist. In this role, you’ll apply your IT expertise to provide technical leadership, programming and software development skills to support the AC’s research in advanced materials discovery!

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March 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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1/3 🧵Quantum conundrum: we want expressive circuits, but current hardware only allows short coherence times, and so more parameters = more problems. Check out our #NeurIPS2024 paper “Quantum Deep Equilibrium Models”.
December 9, 2024 at 8:39 AM
If a proof of concept application does not include a schema for AuthN/AuthZ you are probably proving a different concept than you thought you were
December 12, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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It's frankly a complete joke that computer science graduates are not exposed to secure programming and secure by design as part of the CS curriculum. Drop a current required course and add this. There really isn't anything more important.
December 12, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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PTB (xtb-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pt...) is finally available on all platforms in xtb>=6.7.0 (github.com/grimme-lab/xtb), including conda-forge – give it a try for electron densities at DFT-level with tight-binding speed and very accurate vibrational spectroscopy intensities! ⚡️ #compchem
December 12, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Citizen Lab joined forced with First Dept and found spyware covertly implanted on a phone returned to a Russian programmer accused of sending money to Ukraine after he was released from custody.

Featuring the malware analysis stylings of @cooperq.com.

citizenlab.ca/2024/12/devi...
Something to Remember Us By: Device Confiscated by Russian Authorities Returned with Monokle-Type Spyware Installed - The Citizen Lab
In a joint investigation with The First Department, The Citizen Lab uncovered spyware covertly implanted on the phone of a Russian programmer following his release from Russian custody. The Monokle-li...
citizenlab.ca
December 5, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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I will be at #NeurIPS next week, presenting work on Bayesian Optimization over curried functions at the AI4Mat workshop. We use it to identify general reaction conditions (see below)

If you are around and interested in talking #BayesOpt or #AI4Science, let’s meet
December 6, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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Springer wrapped just dropped. My top artist is "log in via an institution to check access."
December 4, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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Really interesting interactive visualization and demonstration of how Large Language Models (LLMs) work. These form the basis of technologies such as ChatGPT. bbycroft.net/llm 🧪
December 2, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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Inspired by conversations at #SC24, I've started experimenting with using bittorent for loading the #HPC kernel and initrd on large clusters.

Does anyone else have prior art for this that I couldn't find? Papers? Alternatives?

github.com/OpenCHAMI/ar...
GitHub - OpenCHAMI/aria2-initrd: experimental repository for using aria2 to download the kernel/initrd over bittorrent
experimental repository for using aria2 to download the kernel/initrd over bittorrent - OpenCHAMI/aria2-initrd
github.com
November 30, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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You cannot send out $250 cheques to everyone but elderly and disabled people, so for real right now. You look insane. #cdnpoli
November 29, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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Hey, people who ride bicycles in #Toronto! This is happening tonight, Nov. 29, at 6 PM. Meet at the High Park main gate. Route is TBA. Wear warm clothes, clip on your bike lights & bring signs or banners letting motorists know they can thank Doug Ford for the disruption.

#BikeTO #BikeLanes #Bill212
November 29, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Fridays are for closing tabs. And for systems that have been working fine for months or years to suddenly break, resulting in more tabs.
November 29, 2024 at 5:34 PM
First post is a job post: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Come work with us at DCS at #UofT! What HR's posting does not really capture is that the main "project" being administered here is sysadmin for the dept's #AI research group. Run their #slurm cluster, compile software, play with some H100s.
Senior Project Administrator
Senior Project Administrator
jobs.utoronto.ca
November 29, 2024 at 5:17 PM