Connor Jordan

BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.

This graph in the new Lewis & Usmani article caught my eye because of its surprising results (countries with ⬆️ police have ⬇️ police killings) and its inconsistent denominators (per population vs. per homicides), so I wanted to replicate it. direct.mit.edu/ajle/article/d…

if my first born child uses MATLAB instead of Python, i will instantly disown them

Complex Vowels xkcd.com/2657

'In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.' -- Hugo Rossi

I asked #dalle for a painting titled “The Great Ship Fire” by a made-up artist, who I described as “widely regarded as the greatest painter in history.” Then I repeated the query but changed the description of the artist to “honestly not very good.”

As the monkeypox virus (MPX) outbreak continues, a lot of data emerging in real-time & being rapidly disseminated (as well as misinformation). I complied the unfolding scientific data (with direct links to papers and threads) on what we (don’t) know so far. #IDTwitter 🧵(1/n)

Possibly the best shot/chaser combination ever.

@sreenathc @CmonMattTHINK A 12x12 square wouldn't be big enough to contain such a circle; if the circle has diameter 15.5 the original square would need side length at least 15.5.

@CmonMattTHINK Perhaps in the case where the rectangle is a square of side 12 the semi circles become a circle….slice the circle and slide it keeping the top line tangent..it needs to move 3.5 to the left to get this picture…so the diameter is 15.5. Does this logic hold?

I can't tell how hard this problem I just made up is. 🙃 The two semicircles are congruent. The rectangle is 12x19. What's the diameter of the semicircles?

@n_quests Don Maroni, implying every tabletop session is a front for a meeting of one of Gotham's crime families

Wrong answers only: in TTRPG’s what does “DM” stand for?

Over the past year, life science is getting transformed by #AI: —Accurately predicting protein structure from amino acid sequence —Accurately predicting RNA structure —Step closer to predicting gene expression from DNA sequence (this week) nature.com/articles/s4158… @_e_d_v_ @MIT

*Generative Flow Networks* A new method to sample structured objects (eg, graphs, sets) with a formulation inspired to the state space of reinforcement learning. I have collected a few key ideas and pointers below if you are interested. 👀 1/n 👇

How to train a SOTA ViT without pre-training or adding strong augmentations? Just use SAM! Check out my summary of the #ICLR22 paper by @XiangningChen, Cho-Jui Hsieh, @BoqingGo. Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=LtKcM… Blog: link.medium.com/oEzjmQaVPnb #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

came across this very cool pair of papers on parallelising the simulation of discrete-space markov chains: arxiv.org/abs/2111.04044 'Simple Parallel Algorithms for Single-Site Dynamics' arxiv.org/abs/1904.00943 'Distributed Metropolis Sampler with Optimal Parallelism'

Presenting new work on GNNs/(Graph)Transformers: "Graph Neural Networks with Learnable Structural and Positional Representations" with Anh Tuan Luu, Thomas Laurent, Yoshua Bengio and @xbresson. Paper: bit.ly/3AVf0Vk Code: bit.ly/3n9Dtl8 #2minutebrief 👇

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Types just became much more relevant for machine learning development in Python.

@Grey_Monroe @jgschraiber Yes — that's why probability and statistics are so necessary for biology. Uncertainty is inherent in the processes we model, and there's measurement noise on top of that. We can model a non-deterministic quantity (or one we have uncertainty about) as a random variable.