Nabil Iqbal
nabiliqbal.bsky.social
Nabil Iqbal
@nabiliqbal.bsky.social
theoretical physics. normally professing at durham u. currently machine learning at amlab at university of amsterdam. www.nabiliqbal.com
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applying for jobs again
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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🤹 Excited to share Erwin: A Tree-based Hierarchical Transformer for Large-scale Physical Systems

joint work with @wellingmax.bsky.social and @jwvdm.bsky.social

preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17019
code: github.com/maxxxzdn/erwin
March 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Want a test to check if you're talking to a human or an AI?

Ask for a list of 50 random numbers between 0 and 9. Don't let it use any code.

If you're talking to a human (e.g. me) the distribution of numbers might look like this:

1/N
February 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
in a first for me, i'll be at neurips this year (!) where we have a paper on ml and duality at the machine learning for physical sciences workshop.

come and say hi if you're there!

ml4physicalsciences.github.io/2024/files/N...
December 5, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Hello all! Intro post: I'm a professor of theoretical physics -- quantum field theory and string theory -- normally based at Durham U. in the UK. For this year I'm on a sabbatical at the Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab working on problems in ML.
November 22, 2024 at 2:54 PM