If you haven't come across this nice science-related article: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/the-key-to-fighting-pseudoscience-isnt-mockery-its-empathy/
Conda is moving our social media presence from Twitter/X to Mastodon and LinkedIn at the start of 2024. It's past time to move into spaces that are welcoming and more in line with our community values. Going forward, you can find us at
🐘 @conda (https://fosstodon.org/@conda) on Mastodon
🔗 Conda Community (https://linkedin.com/company/condacommunity) on LinkedIn
Announcement: https://conda.org/blog/2023-12-27-social-move
We hope to see you on Mastodon and LinkedIn in 2024!
Wondering if anyone out there is using LLMs are a proposal heuristic in NAS. Would seem fruitful (e.g. after fine-tuning on NeurIPS). Add in reinforcement learning for bonus points. It's not quite recursive self-improvement since re-architecting and retraining the LLM would be a slow, expensive, and human-in-the-loop step.
Old days: ?SYNTAX ERROR?
These days: <scratches head under cap> ya know, I'm not sure we can go any further with this thing, boss.
'Microcanonical Hamiltonian Monte Carlo', by Jakob Robnik, G. Bruno De Luca, Eva Silverstein, Uroš Seljak.
http://jmlr.org/papers/v24/22-1450.html
#microcanonical #langevin #hamiltonian
A survey from Nature found that about half of scientists who used to use Twitter have cut back or quit it entirely & half are using other platforms. It's great to see you here instead! https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0
Fun fact re: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
this is an example. Leagues are one of them directional units. So that denotes distance traveled while under the sea, not depth below the sea that said travel happens at, something that was understood when the book came out, less so now when nobody uses leagues anymore
So basically the question here is, does Old Navy not know what characters are legal in an e-mail address, or do they very well know and specifically ban the + symbol specifically to prevent me from putting +gap in my given email address to monitor how they use it
Dan is such a fantastic writer and puts into words all the thoughts we all have on the topic and crystalizes them into engaging and smart material: https://youtu.be/EiZhdpLXZ8Q
Great piece on Metaverses (not just decentraland).
The ending is the most striking - for the capital M Metaverse to succeed, it needs to be a pyramid scheme and requires buy-in from literally whole humanity, otherwise it's worthless. It's literally built into the concept.
Following Elsevier's decision to raise the article processing charge for NeuroImage to $3,450, all editors (inc. chief editors) from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned, effective immediately.
I am joining this action and have also resigned.
Full announcement: https://imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.pdf
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