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Suvrat Raju taught an introductory QFT course in ICTS last year. Link to playlist below. 👇

We had a fantastic group at our workshop "Cosmological Correlators in Taiwan".

On a whim I uploaded another lecture. This one explains how all of the major distributions in statistical physics -- Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Bose-Einstein -- arise from simple entropy maximization. youtube.com/watch?v=oVG5IP…

Proud to announce Dobb·E: the next step in home robot system that I was working on for the past 3 years. We have visited 10 homes, learned 100+ tasks, and we are just getting started! And we fully open-sourced it all, hardware, models, and software: dobb-e.com 🧵

thank goodness for this generalisation; was worried for a moment that 4/3 might be a special number. (from youtu.be/iwW3plJhMbc?si…)

Quality over quantity…advice for us as well.

Congrats to the 2023 class of @InstMathStat fellows!!! What a talented set of researchers!! 😁 🎉 👏 However, only **3 out of 27** of the new fellows are women. What is going on??! I talk about this, and more, in my latest "Written by Witten" column: imstat.org/2023/05/09/wri…

An opinion piece by Canadian writer Stephen Marche in the Guardian against AI doomerism. He makes a few points I've made before, such as: 1. "I have heard geniuses – bona fide geniuses – declare that medical schools should no longer teach radiology because it would all be automated soon." 2. "Many of the most important engineers in the field indulge in AI doomerism [...]. But one of the defining features of our time is that the engineers [...] simply have no idea how their inventions interact with the world" 3. "The biggest anxiety – that an artificial general intelligence is about to take over the world – doesn’t even qualify as science fiction. That fear is religious." 4. "AI might well make it slightly easier to generate fake content, but the problem of misinformation has never been generation but dissemination. The political space is already saturated with fraud and it’s hard to see how AI could make it much worse." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Fantastic book on the amazing universe beyond the visible spectrum by @Astronomy_Matt

Summer Student Opportunities @ CERN: careers.cern/summer This programme is now open for applications. Deadline Monday 30th Jan at 12 (noon) CET (Geneva) time.

A Programmer’s Regret: Neglecting Math at University by @awalterschulze in @BttrProgramming betterprogramming.pub/a-programmers-… Thanks to Mohammad Abdul Ahad for sharing.

Received some enlightenment from one of my fellow Physics Olympiad coaches about the difference between heat and work in thermodynamics

BCOLBD: Blockchain Olympiad Bangladesh, 22-24 May, 2022 bcolbd.org

Contractual Faculty Application Summer 2022 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Open Mathematical Olympiad For University Students (OMOUS-2022), iuhd.edu.tm/competition/66

The MNS & CSE Departments are looking to hire technically competent graduates with good people skills as additional Departmental Coordination Officers (DCO). Should be able to write app scripts e.g., for Google Sheets, or are able to learn quickly. bracu.ac.bd/department-coo…

Contractual Faculty Application Spring 2022 docs.google.com/document/d/1eQ…

A new contractual BracU CS faculty job application form is coming soon for Spring 2022. To apply, applicants must have graduated by Summer 2021. Previous applicants are requested to apply again using the new form. Please wait for the link so that you can apply without any delay.

@tim_hosgood You probably lack perspective and that’s why you feel discouraged. Most scientific papers are either useless or not really right. I remember Neil Turok telling me this during my first year interview. I was like, “Huh?” Just be persistent. You’ll get through it.

Call for Applications: 2022-2023 ICTP Postgraduate Diploma Programme, ictp.it/about-ictp/med…