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ML researcher #academia #Stats #InvariantFeatures #CognitiveSystems
A nerd, trans researcher, just want to be normal and live in peace, if that is allowed.
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Yup. I was assigned female at birth, but at the age 15 not menstruating, realized I have XX but not female reproductive system. I identify as trans masculine and have been feeling this way since age 7.
Which box do I fit in? LMAO
If they meet me in the street they won't even know I'm different.
Which box do I fit in? LMAO
If they meet me in the street they won't even know I'm different.
And this:
Stop reducing human beings to birthing machine!
Your comment is harmful to millions of people whose harm has been done by the reductive objectification of human beings (women, trans and intersex have been telling you to stop this)
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Stop reducing human beings to birthing machine!
Your comment is harmful to millions of people whose harm has been done by the reductive objectification of human beings (women, trans and intersex have been telling you to stop this)
bsky.app/profile/reig...
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Considering a population of 345 million, this is least 25% of Americans affected by “efficiencies” designed to remove humanity from the process of seeking help.
See Virginia Eubanks’s book, Automating Inequality, about the concept of the “digital poorhouse”:
virginia-eubanks.com/automating-i...
See Virginia Eubanks’s book, Automating Inequality, about the concept of the “digital poorhouse”:
virginia-eubanks.com/automating-i...
November 24, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Considering a population of 345 million, this is least 25% of Americans affected by “efficiencies” designed to remove humanity from the process of seeking help.
See Virginia Eubanks’s book, Automating Inequality, about the concept of the “digital poorhouse”:
virginia-eubanks.com/automating-i...
See Virginia Eubanks’s book, Automating Inequality, about the concept of the “digital poorhouse”:
virginia-eubanks.com/automating-i...
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They might have to do journalism!
November 24, 2024 at 2:47 AM
They might have to do journalism!
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Liberty University Hit With Record Fines for Failing to Handle Complaints of Sexual Assault, Other Crimes
Spurred by a ProPublica investigation, the federal Department of Education found the evangelical school in Virginia had discouraged students from reporting rape and other crimes.
Spurred by a ProPublica investigation, the federal Department of Education found the evangelical school in Virginia had discouraged students from reporting rape and other crimes.
Liberty University Hit With Record Fines for Failing to Handle Complaints of Sexual Assault, Other Crimes
Spurred by a ProPublica investigation, the federal Department of Education found the evangelical school in Virginia had discouraged students from reporting rape and other crimes.
www.propublica.org
March 6, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Liberty University Hit With Record Fines for Failing to Handle Complaints of Sexual Assault, Other Crimes
Spurred by a ProPublica investigation, the federal Department of Education found the evangelical school in Virginia had discouraged students from reporting rape and other crimes.
Spurred by a ProPublica investigation, the federal Department of Education found the evangelical school in Virginia had discouraged students from reporting rape and other crimes.
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I need an emergency reviewer for a paper about machine translation for finance. Please contact me ASAP if you can review today!
Please boost.
(Was I too naive? Deadline was Monday. One of the reviewers promised reviewing by Friday — already very late! … and didn’t 🤦♂️)
#nlp #nlproc #nmt #ARR #ACL
Please boost.
(Was I too naive? Deadline was Monday. One of the reviewers promised reviewing by Friday — already very late! … and didn’t 🤦♂️)
#nlp #nlproc #nmt #ARR #ACL
November 23, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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I'd be super interested in comparisons to the EU and/or UK
I wonder how this compares to EU statistics?
This highlights the importance of protecting privacy rights of all. Often we talk about data protection and privacy in the context of business and commercial risk. But let’s take a step back and remember that privacy is a fundamental human right.
This highlights the importance of protecting privacy rights of all. Often we talk about data protection and privacy in the context of business and commercial risk. But let’s take a step back and remember that privacy is a fundamental human right.
"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI"
www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...
this is a damning report
www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...
this is a damning report
November 23, 2024 at 5:52 PM
I'd be super interested in comparisons to the EU and/or UK
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Kind of a broken record here but proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/...
is totally fascinating in that it postulates two underlying, measurable structures that you can use to assess if RL will be easy or hard in an environment
is totally fascinating in that it postulates two underlying, measurable structures that you can use to assess if RL will be easy or hard in an environment
November 23, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Kind of a broken record here but proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/...
is totally fascinating in that it postulates two underlying, measurable structures that you can use to assess if RL will be easy or hard in an environment
is totally fascinating in that it postulates two underlying, measurable structures that you can use to assess if RL will be easy or hard in an environment
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ACLU is hiring an Algorithmic Justice Fellow to work on cutting edge projects focused on digital rights! Come work with us to interrogate how automated systems are being used in high stakes areas. Please share widely!
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Careers at ACLU
Join our team! We’re looking for committed, passionate people for open roles at the ACLU.
www.aclu.org
November 23, 2024 at 4:28 PM
ACLU is hiring an Algorithmic Justice Fellow to work on cutting edge projects focused on digital rights! Come work with us to interrogate how automated systems are being used in high stakes areas. Please share widely!
www.aclu.org/careers/appl...
www.aclu.org/careers/appl...
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The ✨ML Internship Feed✨ is here!
@serge.belongie.com and I created this feed to compile internship opportunities in AI, ML, CV, NLP, and related areas.
The feed is rule-based. Please help us improve the rules by sharing feedback 🧡
🔗 Link to the feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
@serge.belongie.com and I created this feed to compile internship opportunities in AI, ML, CV, NLP, and related areas.
The feed is rule-based. Please help us improve the rules by sharing feedback 🧡
🔗 Link to the feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 22, 2024 at 9:46 PM
The ✨ML Internship Feed✨ is here!
@serge.belongie.com and I created this feed to compile internship opportunities in AI, ML, CV, NLP, and related areas.
The feed is rule-based. Please help us improve the rules by sharing feedback 🧡
🔗 Link to the feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
@serge.belongie.com and I created this feed to compile internship opportunities in AI, ML, CV, NLP, and related areas.
The feed is rule-based. Please help us improve the rules by sharing feedback 🧡
🔗 Link to the feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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As frontier LLMs get better at taking over your web browser, reports indicate OpenAI is developing its own browser to take on Google and shake its dominance in the industry by combining it with its chatbot.
Even as the DOJ is asking Alphabet to divest Chrome, agentic AI lives on the browser.
Even as the DOJ is asking Alphabet to divest Chrome, agentic AI lives on the browser.
November 23, 2024 at 1:16 PM
As frontier LLMs get better at taking over your web browser, reports indicate OpenAI is developing its own browser to take on Google and shake its dominance in the industry by combining it with its chatbot.
Even as the DOJ is asking Alphabet to divest Chrome, agentic AI lives on the browser.
Even as the DOJ is asking Alphabet to divest Chrome, agentic AI lives on the browser.
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Trump HHS nominee RFK Jr falsely claimed that Ukraine committed genocide against “13,000 - 14,000 ethnic Russians.”
November 22, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Trump HHS nominee RFK Jr falsely claimed that Ukraine committed genocide against “13,000 - 14,000 ethnic Russians.”
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Encouraging for open and distributed ML research outside of big companies (though obviously there are limits to this)
A timely paper exploring ways academics can pretrain larger models than they think, e.g. by trading time against GPU count.
Since the title is misleading, let me also say: US academics do not need $100k for this. They used 2,000 GPU hours in this paper; NSF will give you that. #MLSky
Since the title is misleading, let me also say: US academics do not need $100k for this. They used 2,000 GPU hours in this paper; NSF will give you that. #MLSky
$100K or 100 Days: Trade-offs when Pre-Training with Academic Resources
Pre-training is notoriously compute-intensive and academic researchers are notoriously under-resourced. It is, therefore, commonly assumed that academics can't pre-train models. In this paper, we seek...
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November 23, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Encouraging for open and distributed ML research outside of big companies (though obviously there are limits to this)
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Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7
Hidden state inference requires abstract contextual representations in the ventral hippocampus
The ability to use subjective, latent contextual representations to influence decision-making is crucial for everyday life. The hippocampus is hypothesized to bind together otherwise abstract combinat...
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November 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7
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Our paper "Dreaming of Many Worlds" studied zero-shot generalization in world models for Contextual RL and was later accepted by RLC and EWRL. Here's a thread summarizing the work and putting it in the context in retrospect as ideas for potential future collaborations!
arxiv.org/abs/2403.10967
arxiv.org/abs/2403.10967
Dreaming of Many Worlds: Learning Contextual World Models Aids Zero-Shot Generalization
Zero-shot generalization (ZSG) to unseen dynamics is a major challenge for creating generally capable embodied agents. To address the broader challenge, we start with the simpler setting of contextual...
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November 23, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Our paper "Dreaming of Many Worlds" studied zero-shot generalization in world models for Contextual RL and was later accepted by RLC and EWRL. Here's a thread summarizing the work and putting it in the context in retrospect as ideas for potential future collaborations!
arxiv.org/abs/2403.10967
arxiv.org/abs/2403.10967
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We have multiple roles now open in my Responsible Research Group!
Research Scientist on the HEART team led by IasonGabriel: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
Research Engineer on the SAMBA team led by Kristian Lum: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
Research Scientist on the HEART team led by IasonGabriel: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
Research Engineer on the SAMBA team led by Kristian Lum: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
DeepMind
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November 22, 2024 at 9:59 PM
We have multiple roles now open in my Responsible Research Group!
Research Scientist on the HEART team led by IasonGabriel: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
Research Engineer on the SAMBA team led by Kristian Lum: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
Research Scientist on the HEART team led by IasonGabriel: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
Research Engineer on the SAMBA team led by Kristian Lum: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
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How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...
A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵
A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵
How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
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November 22, 2024 at 4:06 PM
How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...
A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵
A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵
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Adam: Did Kamala mention the trans community once?
NewsMax shill:
NewsMax shill:
November 22, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Adam: Did Kamala mention the trans community once?
NewsMax shill:
NewsMax shill:
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Tired of phone scammers targeting our elderly? Meet dAIsy! An #AI granny created expressly to waste scammers’ time. 😆 GENUIS! 💃🏽
#AI #scammers #techie #cyber
#AI #scammers #techie #cyber
Introducing Daisy, The ‘AI Granny’ Outwitting Scammers
British telecom company O2 adds to its fraud team a human-like chatbot that fools scammers into thinking they’ve found a perfect senior target, then wastes their time.
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November 22, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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This whole thread on Big Tech forcing AI into public life, institutions, and infrastructures - and especially:
but of course, this is not a reason to give up but rather a reason to coordinate, forge allyship amongst ourselves, and pushback, resist and dismantle AI
November 21, 2024 at 1:37 PM
This whole thread on Big Tech forcing AI into public life, institutions, and infrastructures - and especially:
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large institutions/orgs are integrating AI into critical infrastructures, and most importantly, the public has been sold utopia based on lies and any realty check that points out the failures/harms from AI is framed as pessimism, making pushbacks difficult
November 21, 2024 at 4:35 AM
large institutions/orgs are integrating AI into critical infrastructures, and most importantly, the public has been sold utopia based on lies and any realty check that points out the failures/harms from AI is framed as pessimism, making pushbacks difficult
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here's why I think that:
tech/AI companies are pacing through development/deployment (now "swarm of AI agents" likely to be the new craze), governments are incapable of meaningful regulation (or rather they see AI as an economic opportunity),
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tech/AI companies are pacing through development/deployment (now "swarm of AI agents" likely to be the new craze), governments are incapable of meaningful regulation (or rather they see AI as an economic opportunity),
->
November 21, 2024 at 4:32 AM
here's why I think that:
tech/AI companies are pacing through development/deployment (now "swarm of AI agents" likely to be the new craze), governments are incapable of meaningful regulation (or rather they see AI as an economic opportunity),
->
tech/AI companies are pacing through development/deployment (now "swarm of AI agents" likely to be the new craze), governments are incapable of meaningful regulation (or rather they see AI as an economic opportunity),
->
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having spent the past few days in silicon valley in various gatherings with our AI overlords, governments, & scholars at the forefront of everything AI, I seriously wonder if the AI industry has become too big to fail
November 21, 2024 at 4:20 AM
having spent the past few days in silicon valley in various gatherings with our AI overlords, governments, & scholars at the forefront of everything AI, I seriously wonder if the AI industry has become too big to fail
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ICLR should not allow public discussion until after decisions. It allows Oscars-style award/accept campaigns by high-profile allies. Even for great papers, that can’t be part of the review process. The only reason it didn’t happen before is because it was against community norms, which are changing.
November 20, 2024 at 5:20 PM
ICLR should not allow public discussion until after decisions. It allows Oscars-style award/accept campaigns by high-profile allies. Even for great papers, that can’t be part of the review process. The only reason it didn’t happen before is because it was against community norms, which are changing.
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I am convinced that Chinese AI companies move as a group.
Alibaba releases Marco-o1, which is powered by Chain-of-Thought (CoT) fine-tuning, Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), reflection mechanisms, and innovative reasoning strategies -- optimized for complex real-world problem-solving task.
Alibaba releases Marco-o1, which is powered by Chain-of-Thought (CoT) fine-tuning, Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), reflection mechanisms, and innovative reasoning strategies -- optimized for complex real-world problem-solving task.
November 22, 2024 at 5:29 AM
I am convinced that Chinese AI companies move as a group.
Alibaba releases Marco-o1, which is powered by Chain-of-Thought (CoT) fine-tuning, Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), reflection mechanisms, and innovative reasoning strategies -- optimized for complex real-world problem-solving task.
Alibaba releases Marco-o1, which is powered by Chain-of-Thought (CoT) fine-tuning, Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), reflection mechanisms, and innovative reasoning strategies -- optimized for complex real-world problem-solving task.
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Does anyone know of any feeds (or similar) for student internship opportunities in ML/CV/NLP?
November 22, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Does anyone know of any feeds (or similar) for student internship opportunities in ML/CV/NLP?
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Look at the trend that UMass started... www.massachusetts.edu/news/umass-c...
November 21, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Look at the trend that UMass started... www.massachusetts.edu/news/umass-c...