A letter of support for the NIH funding of biomedical research, and the damage wrought by imposing severe caps on indirect costs: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Agz...
A letter of support for the NIH funding of biomedical research, and the damage wrought by imposing severe caps on indirect costs: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Agz...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12063
New guarantees for approximating attention, accelerating SGD, and testing sample quality in near-linear time
To all sleep-deprived researchers: The ICML submission site is open, and the abstract deadline looms on Jan 23. Yes, this Jan 23. Donβt be that person drinking cold coffee at 11:58pm realizing βOops, I forgot the abstract!β
ICML 2025 is calling for Tutorials! Perfect chance to show off that latest breakthrough you canβt stop talking about. If you can teach it without tears or meltdown, you can definitely give a tutorial!
New year, fresh slate! Time to turn those βbrilliant workshop ideaβ resolutions into reality. #ICML2025 is calling for workshop proposalsβletβs make 2025 the year we finally follow through. Submit now! #CallForWorkshops #HappyNewYear
I love this quote from Benjamin Franklin: βEither write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.β @upenn.edu
I am also fascinated by your research on computer vision.
We are so back.
I will be communicating to you about ICML 2025. Stay tuned.
A short recent interview: Induction of Social Contagion faculti.net/induction-of...
I am appalled that the paper does not have more equations
In 2024 work in @pnas.org, @amir-ghasemian.bsky.social and I explore βThe Structure and Function of Antagonistic Ties in Village Social Networks.β
At the population level, the existence of antagonism has important implications for the overall structure and function of human groups. #HNL 1/
following a recommendation from @wattenberg.bsky.social I read "On Proof and Progress in Mathematics" and it is FANTASTIC. I think everyone who is doing some sort of science and/or publishing should read it, think, and adjust to their own discipline.
arxiv.org/pdf/math/940...
Networking?
If you missed the Nobel Lecture by Drs. Hinton & Hopfield, Nobel Foundation has posted the (updated?) video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPIV...
For sure.
The list of accepted workshops for ICLR 2025 is available at openreview.net/group?id=ICL...
@iclr-conf.bsky.social
We received 120 wonderful proposals, with 40 selected as workshops.
If you really want to understand the proof of a theorem, assume that it is wrong until you are convinced otherwise.
Ia there a way to bookmark posts for later reads?
The Bluesky you see!
The kidness should be in your heart and not what you look at.
I did not add myself to the group. It was automatic. However, let me know if you would like to be added or removed π
What happens if you do not follow me on Tweeter either?
Join the cool kids of AI only if you you are cool and not super serious.
From Woody Allen, Annie Hall: It reminds me of that old joke- you know, a guy walks into a psychiatrist's office and says, hey doc, my brother's crazy! He thinks he's a chicken. Then the doc says, why don't you turn him in? Then the guy says, I would but I need the eggs.
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Dude, people are asking the same thing about professors π
Too cool to be true.
ML theory relies on Waterloo, just saying.