Andrea Parker

Woohoo 🥳: reddit.com/r/MachineLearn…

@marmikch Interested! Info retrieval person here; eager to learn from interpretability folks Can't make it today but would like to participate in future sessions

hi people in berkeley/sf, i run a paper reading group on interpretability (and other deep learning topics) at our amazing group house in berkeley. we'd love for more curious people to join us. this wednesday (4/1), we're discussing anthropic's "in-context learning and induction heads" paper which shows how induction heads are responsible for majority of in-context learning in transformers. if you're interested in joining, pls reach out! no interp background required as long as you're just a curious person.

ARC3 benchmark was launched last night at YC; you can participate here: kaggle.com/competitions/a… (Beefier GPUs too!) ARC3 vs. 2, 1: what's the difference? ARC 3 requires (i) anticipating future events (ii) learning to remember, forget (iii) building a world model

@drseanmullen You may want to try re-running the same queries but on a VPN with an EU endpoint, using a fresh G. account that you've not used for Trends queries before. You'll get vastly different results for the same query: left: VPN✅CH endpoint; right:no VPN; US endpoint.

I’m not an alarmist, but how does one not get alarmed by signals like these? Hospitals are filling up. People are being hospitalized and dying from what’s being called an “extraordinary flu.” School closings are becoming commonplace with hundreds of students, staff and administrators calling out. Facebook groups and Reddit threads are lighting up with reports of severe illness. And then there’s the data. Google search trends are revealing something deeply unsettling. Searches for stiff neck—a symptom of encephalitis—are surging, especially in children. We’re seeing encephalitis in children. Then there’s this: “Why can’t I see.” That phrase correlates eerily well with another tragic signal—dead on arrival. These are not isolated signals. They line up with what hospitals are reporting. With what everyday people are experiencing. With what we know about viral impacts on the brain. So the real question is: Is anyone actually paying attention to what this pattern means? Because it sure looks like the pieces are coming together in a way we can’t afford to ignore.

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@vikhyatk Molmo, the VLM / MMLM from the AllenAI team, included analog clock data in its training pile, so it works quite well for these sorts of gauge-reading or dial-reading tasks ⏰: molmo.allenai.org/paper.pdf

Vision language models struggle with tasks that you'd think should be trivial, like reading gauges. Why is this?

@maolesen The 'Active Measures' book by Thomas Rid is worth a read: bookshop.org/p/books/active…

1-9 The resistance to evidence about COVID and Trump has puzzled me until now. KGB agent Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov defected to Canada in 1970 and stated 85% of KGB work was “a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare.”

@BowieFan2024 @BillBeaird @RickABright No, it's only illegal to feed lactating dairy cattle 'poultry litter' in California. Other cows can be fed it. I believe that Utah bans the use of poultry litter (for both dairy and meat cows), but there may be other states that ban its use. Let me know what you find out!

@BillBeaird @RickABright That is illegal in California, so no that is not the explanation

Things are definitely not under control for #H5N1. Not exactly how one would see a virus “burning out”. More cattle, more domestic & wild birds & mammals, more people. If the goal is to brew a pandemic, it’s going well. #StopTheSpread

@santiviquez @rasbt Interested!🖐️

I’m thinking about organizing a study group to go @rasbt's latest book, Build a Large Language Model from Scratch. The idea is to read a chapter beforehand and then meet each week on Zoom to discuss, compare notes, and learn from each other. I think we can cover it in 6 weeks!

@emsi_kil3r @Viirush @rohanpaul_ai You might be interested in GOT-OCR2.0: huggingface.co/spaces/stepfun… Repo is here: github.com/Ucas-HaoranWei…

@Viirush @rohanpaul_ai Yea but I mean open source not SaaS

Brilliant Open sourced tool. Takes an image of a math formula and returns corresponding LaTeX code.

@AltenbergLee Google `n-grams` is my go-to especially when I'm trying to figure out synonyms for search terms in languages that I don't speak, like how `ojo rojo` or `ojos rojo` is commonly used for conjunctivitis in Spanish. books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c…

Scite.ai might be able to assist? scite.ai/search?mode=al… (I excluded the "1970" result as it was a paper about covid behaviors from 2020 - 2022 so it clearly got mis-metadata-ed somehow. If you change that 1975 in the URL to 1970 you can see the "1970" publication regarding covid.) Many of the Google services like Scholar, Patents, etc. disregard advanced search parameters; this person keeps a list of which one still work: ahrefs.com/blog/google-ad…

Google Scholar is messing up. I'm trying to find when the terms ["Post acute sequelae of" "PASC"] were 1st published. Google Scholar gives 37 hits for 2020. But none of the articles actually have this text. Complete waste of time. What happened to Google Scholar text search?

@RickABright @CDPHE @coagriculture1 @CDCFlu Collated each state's infectious disease dept. phone numbers (incl. after-hours / urgent phone numbers) and homepages here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… If anyone has email addresses or other info you'd like me to add to the sheet, feel free to DM me and I will update it

Can anyone remind us where people in CO can contact to get urgent help w/ testing for #H5N1? Asking for a friend (several). Are they required to be symptomatic to get tested? Or close contacts of symptomatic also? @CDPHE @coagriculture1 @CDCFlu

This site looks like it was created many decades ago and it loads rather slowly :) but it still works and it traces water flow, up- and downstream: water.usgs.gov/streamer/ (Was using it a few weeks ago to try to better understand what was going on around Mankato, MN.) In addition to the Streamer web interface there's a Streamer API; details here: usgs.gov/media/images/s… The NLDI (Network Linked Data Index) allows you "allows your application to programmatically 'swim' up and down the river and stream network of the United States, discovering USGS monitoring locations along the way": waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/api_catal…

@SolidEvidence Maybe some useful info here; article is several yrs old, some poultry but large animal too. See tables, also Appendix C shows which ones discharge directly to waterways— “Meat processing plants w permit violations” environmentalintegrity.org/wp-content/upl…

I'm planning to start recruiting wastewater treatment facilities that service large animal processing facilities to get WW to screen, quantitate, and sequence H5 sequences. Just want to keep an eye on whether it moves into other species. Suggestions welcome.

Wonderful walkthrough of the AlphaFold3 model, including explanations of the input preparation and the retrieval mechanics: elanapearl.github.io/blog/2024/the-… I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the OpenFold open-source alternatives too: openfold.io

🚀 Excited to announce TopoBenchmarkX - the first modular Python library in Topological Deep Learning for standardizing benchmarks and accelerating research! github.com/pyt-team/TopoB…

Super; glad you were able to snag a copy of the data! No idea why the dashboard was removed🤷; as of 1 May 2024 that dashboard data - # of admits for respiratory illness, # of beds, etc. - no longer _has to_ be reported, but the "CDC strongly encourages ongoing, voluntary reporting of the data through NHSN": cdc.gov/nhsn/covid19/h…

@__AParker__ @cmhughesmd Thanks so much @__AParker__ ! I downloaded it from data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/covid-… and can now display it. So thank goodness the data is still collected—so why did CA DPH remove the dashboard that displays it to the public?

When you hear anyone in the news say "during the pandemic" or "post-pandemic", this is what they are talking about:

@Nucleocapsoid @SolidEvidence Cherokee County too? This story from 3 June 2024: wattagnet.com/poultry-meat/d… (I searched for `usda aphis county iowa h5n1` and several results mention Cherokee Co.)

I've been using export restrictions to work backward to US county-level H5N1 outbreak information: info.gov.hk/gia/general/20… Sioux County, Iowa is my guess. (Also the USDA's APHIS website should have a repeat of this county-level data somewhere; the USDA APHIS data gets released and then countries announce their import bans)

There sure are a lot of sewersheds in MN and IA with H5 considering they are not states reported to have infected herds. Milk trucked in from SD? 1/ data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker?charts…

I think I found that data by taking the second link that you had shared in this tweet - x.com/AltenbergLee/s… - so this page cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/D… - and then I clicked on the Tableau menu bar at the bottom of any one of the Tableau dashboards on that page. A window will pop up; grab the link shown in the `Link` box. Paste that into your browser and fire up that page. You'll be greeted with the 'homepage' of the CA Open Data project, which lists all 8 of their Tableau dashboards. Then, I clicked on the `COVID-19 Hospitals Dashboard`; there's a popup message on that page that asks 'Looking for COVID-19 Hospital data?' and tells you that that data is now available on the Open Data Portal at data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/covid-… Whew! It's definitely not easy to find! (While the CA state gov is better than many states at starting and maintaining open data initiatives, they could stand to improve (a) discoverability of that open data, (b) how they inform / telegraph to researchers in various fields that said open data even exists. Hope that helps!

@__AParker__ @taipan168 Great find! Thank you. How did you find this CHHS page? The dashboards sure don't guide you to it.