Jordan Snyder

This is disgusting

PhD opportunity in the excellent dynamics group at @UPorto on Network Dynamics with Higher-Order Interactions. Become part of @BeyondEdge_MSCA with prospective research secondments with me at @VUMathematics and with @mdiberna in Napoli. Apply by Aug 26 at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/265393

@aliceschwarze 😬 that sounds incredibly frustrating. I hope you find a solution 🫂

Beautiful!

Is teaching like filling a bucket? Or igniting a fire? No, it's like teaching

The power of data-driven spectral submanifold (SSM) reduction: Nonlinear oscillations of an elastic flag in counter flow, together with its reconstructed chaotic attractor within a 4D SSM. Obtained directly from the videos of the experiment. doi.org/10.1017/jfm.20…

@FrankNoeBerlin @LindorffLarsen Enjoy! You came at exactly the right time of year :)

Nothing to see here, just two grumpy professsors in Copenhagen. ⁦@LindorffLarsen⁩

Nerd alert but this infinitely recursive / infinitely zoomable implementation (by @shr_id) of Conway's Game of Life, where each cell is billions of gliders actively simulating a single square, might be the most impressive webpage ever created oimo.io/works/life/

@aliceschwarze Hey, congratulations! It's a big step, best wishes for whatever is to come :)

This is insane

Alan Kay (1987) on science pedagogy: “The sad part of Hadamard’s diagram is that every child is taught math and physics through the [purely symbolic] channel that almost no adult mathematician or physicist uses. They use this channel to communicate, but not to [work].”

Funded PhD position on networks/mathematics of complex systems at Cambridge: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44896/ Exact topic is v. flexible, so long as it's interesting!

My colleagues and I have two NSF-funded postdocs openings. They're at the intersections of computational social science, governance, social networks, and open source software: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06297 careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/… Kindly spread the word.

‼️The MSCA Doctoral Network BeyondTheEdge @BeyondEdge_MSCA is recruiting 10 PhD students. Up-to-date information and deadlines at BeyondTheEdge.network. Spread the word! @DynamicsSIAM @VU_Science @VUMathematics

agreed. i can't remember the last time i was annoyed at someone for asking a "stupid question" in math. literally all of the questions i've ever been asked directly 1-on-1 are great and i love answering them, and i deeply appreciate people's hunger for deep understanding

@jkbren Lovely thread! I've been thinking a lot about time too since my life has changed so much in the last few years. Hope you're well!

One weird thing about time is that it just keeps going and going! Three years ago today I defended my dissertation. Every now and then I revisit this thread I wrote right after, with lots of Feelings about time and memory and their strangeness

Want to come to @Cambridge_Uni for a PhD? Know anyone who does? Spread the word! Apply before Dec 1st for the best chance. Happy to talk if you want to work with me on complex networks/algorithms/inference postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/direct…

This is huge! Go get this book 🏃

@AndrewCritchCA even if AI gets that much smarter/faster than humans, how will it put humans it danger? are you gonna give it a gun?

Reminder: Without internationally enforced speed limits on AI, I think humanity is very unlikely to survive. From AI's perspective in 2-3 years from now, we look more like plants than animals: big slow chunks of biofuel showing weak signs of intelligence when undisturbed for ages (seconds) on end. Here's us from the perspective of a system just 50x faster than us: vimeo.com/83664407 Over the next decade, expect AI with more like a 100x - 1,000,000x speed advantage over us. Why? Neurons fire at ~1000 times/second at most, while computer chips "fire" a million times faster than that. Current AI has not been distilled to run maximally efficiently, but will almost certainly run 100x faster than humans, and 1,000,000x is conceivable given the hardware speed difference. "But plants are still around!", you say. "Maybe AI will keep humans around as nature reserves." Possible, but unlikely if it's not speed-limited. Remember, ~99.9% of all species on Earth have gone extinct: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction When people demand "extraordinary" evidence for the "extraordinary" claim that humanity will perish when faced with intelligent systems 100 to 1,000,000 times faster than us, remember that the "ordinary" thing to happen to a species is extinction, not survival. As many now argue, "I can't predict how a world-class chess AI will checkmate you, but I can predict who will win the game." And for all the conversations we're having about "alignment" and how AI will serve humans as peers or assistants, please try to remember the video above. To future AI, we're not chimps; we're plants.

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Interdisciplinary PhD positions availabe at @roskildeuni ! Six different possible projects spanning mathematical modeling, materials science, molecular biology, and more. Come join us! Link below for more info & to apply 👇