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After considering everything, it is time to say bye. The account might stay here for a while, but I won't be using it (perhaps in the future, we never know). Cheers.

The #NobelPrize in Physics 2024 for Hopfield & Hinton turns out to be a Nobel Prize for plagiarism. They republished methodologies developed in #Ukraine and #Japan by Ivakhnenko and Amari in the 1960s & 1970s, as well as other techniques, without citing the original inventors. None of the important algorithms for modern AI were created by Hopfield & Hinton. Today I am releasing a detailed tech report on this [NOB]: people.idsia.ch/~juergen/physi… Of course, I had it checked by neural network pioneers and AI experts to make sure it was unassailable. Is it now acceptable for me to direct young Ph.D. students to read old papers and rewrite and resubmit them as if they were their own works? Whatever the intention, this award says that, yes, that is perfectly fine. Some people have lost their titles or jobs due to plagiarism, e.g., Harvard's former president [PLAG7]. But after this Nobel Prize, how can advisors now continue to tell their students that they should avoid plagiarism at all costs? It is well known that plagiarism can be either "unintentional" or "intentional or reckless" [PLAG1-6], and the more innocent of the two may very well be partially the case here. But science has a well-established way of dealing with "multiple discovery" and plagiarism - be it unintentional [PLAG1-6][CONN21] or not [FAKE,FAKE2] - based on facts such as time stamps of publications and patents. The deontology of science requires that unintentional plagiarists correct their publications through errata and then credit the original sources properly in the future. The awardees didn't; instead the awardees kept collecting citations for inventions of other researchers [NOB][DLP]. Doesn't this behaviour turn even unintentional plagiarism [PLAG1-6] into an intentional form [FAKE2]? I am really concerned about the message this sends to all these young students out there. REFERENCES [NOB] J. Schmidhuber (2024). A Nobel Prize for Plagiarism. Technical Report IDSIA-24-24. people.idsia.ch/~juergen/physi… [NOB+] Tweet: the #NobelPrize in Physics 2024 for Hopfield & Hinton rewards plagiarism and incorrect attribution in computer science. It's mostly about Amari's "Hopfield network" and the "Boltzmann Machine." x.com/SchmidhuberAI/… (1/7th as popular as the original announcement by the Nobel Foundation) [DLP] J. Schmidhuber (2023). How 3 Turing awardees republished key methods and ideas whose creators they failed to credit. Technical Report IDSIA-23-23, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, 14 Dec 2023. people.idsia.ch/~juergen/ai-pr… [DLP+] Tweet for [DLP]: x.com/SchmidhuberAI/… [PLAG1] Oxford's guide to types of plagiarism (2021). Quote: "Plagiarism may be intentional or reckless, or unintentional." web.archive.org/web/2021122714… [PLAG2] Jackson State Community College (2022). Unintentional Plagiarism. [PLAG3] R. L. Foster. Avoiding Unintentional Plagiarism. Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing; Hoboken Vol. 12, Iss. 1, 2007. [PLAG4] N. Das. Intentional or unintentional, it is never alright to plagiarize: A note on how Indian universities are advised to handle plagiarism. Perspect Clin Res 9:56-7, 2018. [PLAG5] InfoSci-OnDemand (2023). What is Unintentional Plagiarism? [PLAG6] Copyrighted.com (2022). How to Avoid Accidental and Unintentional Plagiarism (2023). Copy in the Internet Archive. Quote: "May it be accidental or intentional, plagiarism is still plagiarism." [PLAG7] Cornell Review, 2024. Harvard president resigns in plagiarism scandal. 6 January 2024. [FAKE] H. Hopf, A. Krief, G. Mehta, S. A. Matlin. Fake science and the knowledge crisis: ignorance can be fatal. Royal Society Open Science, May 2019. Quote: "Scientists must be willing to speak out when they see false information being presented in social media, traditional print or broadcast press" and "must speak out against false information and fake science in circulation and forcefully contradict public figures who promote it." [FAKE2] L. Stenflo. Intelligent plagiarists are the most dangerous. Nature, vol. 427, p. 777 (Feb 2004). Quote: "What is worse, in my opinion, ..., are cases where scientists rewrite previous findings in different words, purposely hiding the sources of their ideas, and then during subsequent years forcefully claim that they have discovered new phenomena."

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Join us at @EdinburghUni! It's an amazing environment, and our ERC-winning @tetraduzione, @PontiEdoardo, and I are looking for a 2-year postdoc on a project funded by the Edinburgh Laboratory for Integrated Artificial Intelligence, web.inf.ed.ac.uk/eliai! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

@tetraduzione @javaloyML @oisinmacaodha @FrancisMollica @MatthiasHennig6 @ropeharz @saramagliacane @looselycorrect @iatitov @IValeraM extremely glad that my at the time perhaps harsh comments/suggestions now won't become a resentment ;-) congrats!

...a big thanks to #friends and #colleagues who supported me through all the stages of the #ERCStG process, including: @javaloyML @oisinmacaodha @FrancisMollica @MatthiasHennig6 @ropeharz @saramagliacane @looselycorrect @cassiopc @iatitov Nicolas Gillis and @IValeraM !

Today I feel privileged to see my #ERCStG proposal #UNREAL - A Unified Reasoning Layer for Trustworthy #ML being funded by @ERC_Research! I will be working on #probabilistic #reasoning and #programming to #automate #realiable model design & deployment. But first a big...

Proud to have removed the bird app from my phone - still here via laptop. I did the same with facebook, until eventually it went away from laptop too...

We are looking for a postdoc in probabilistic machine learning. If you want to be part of a great team working on basic machine learning methods with applications in bioinformatics, don't hesitate to reach out. homes.cs.aau.dk/~tdn/position.…

@thegautamkamath Good to be optimistic.

@cassiopc I think it's OK in the end. As long as all parties are polite and respectful, everything will be fine. There's some slack in the process for this purpose.

The #ICLR2023 reviewing deadline has passed. My stack: 29 reviews in, 22 outstanding. Only 3 folks contacted me beforehand, which I appreciated. So now I will reach out to the remaining 19 personally. If your reviews aren't done yet, please contact your AC proactively!

Strong innovative research in academia can't be done in an hour between a lecture and a management meeting, even if you have very many in-between hours like that. Yet, that's how available hours seem to be counted. This is a lose-lose situation.

Small, strong, very enjoyable conference focused on situations of high uncertainty, and you can have a proper fresh cider in Oviedo too.

@tetraduzione @FelixHill84 Well well, you sure aren't other reasons piling up too? :) though at this moment, it seems we would need to leave the planet...

@cassiopc @FelixHill84 but I need to leave UK then

morning. So who's prime minister today then?

@tetraduzione @FelixHill84 I would promptly agree in case the UK wants to take Meloni as PM... :)

@FelixHill84 likely Giorgia Meloni, but let's see

@NS_online could you please start a campaign for the use of masks if one has symptoms and yet travels by public transport? Trains are currently big collective coughing and sneezing machines, it may end up badly... perhaps it should be a broader campaign, but it is a good start

@InvisibIeyeball @pmddomingos @GaryMarcus based on this argument, did the Chinese give us covid-19, so we must cancel some Chinese celebrations that exist in our countries? Shall we resent the Chinese people? Really not trying to defend the European approach in America, it was bad, but it seems a strange argument to me

@pmddomingos @GaryMarcus Europeans gave them the smallpox! I’m a consequentialist

October 10: Indigenous People's Day November: American Indian Heritage Month November 25: Native American Heritage Day Maybe it's overkill?

Thank you very much to the organisers of #PGM2022

Beer drinkers at conference, remember to set the PGM2022 as location in your check-ins at Untappd.

Picture: Joke? Serious? I will discover tomorrow, if you aren't here, that's a pity, then you probably won't have the full story... :)