Viktor Senderov

@tomwarren Can it play ET?

the Humane AI Pin will go down as one of the worst reviewed tech products in history. There are some interesting ideas here but the execution is poor. Humane is selling a $700 device that you have to pay $24 per month to beta test 🥲theverge.com/24132139/human…

Well done to CRT students @SophiieMatthews and @kev_ryan_95 on winning prizes for best lightening talk and poster presentation respectively @UniGalwayMaths research day👏👏👏

You can see the ships lights all go out and then eventually some of them come back online shortly before the impact. I wonder if there was some sort of electrical issue on the ship, preventing it from maneuvering?

@ggreenwald In Russia they have laws against "foreign agents." This is eerily reminiscent of that.

It's been obvious from the start that the "attempt to ban TikTok" has little to do with China. China is the scary foreign pretext used, just as invoking Scary Russia has been by liberals, to seize control of the internet across Europe and the US. twitter.com/RepThomasMassi…

it's actually crazy how much better triangle notation is than the standard notation

The #OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of productive people and nonsensually crammed the fine details of the debate between #EffectiveAltruism and #EffectiveAccelerationism into them, a genuinely absurd debate that was allegedly at the center of the drama. 1/

@aylwyn_scally This is actually a problem: not with your group in particular or anything like that but with academic "teams" in general: they are so dysfunctional as teams that the synergy effect is close to zero in many cases

Regarding the egotistical naming of labs, I'll go one further: I still haven't gotten used to the idea of referring to me and the people I advise or mentor as a 'lab' or 'group'. Or 'team' 🤢. I just don't see it as some sort of collective enterprise or institution.

Do I have this right?: “GPT store” @adamdangelo pissed Starts coup @ilyasut convinced Board listens @sama fired @gdb ousted @miramurati CEO Greg quits Employees pissed “We’ll quit” Board scrambles Bye Mira Hello @eshear @satyanadella negotiates Hires Sam Hires Greg Ilya regret Employees threaten Letter drafted 747 sign Shared trauma Bond stronger Netflix series Emmy award AGI achieved

The best way to become a 10x developer is to teach 10 developers to be as good as you. --- not me, but I like the quote

ProbAI goes beyond Nordics! Apply now to the Tropical Probabilistic AI School 2024 in Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷, 29 Jan – 2 Feb. tropical.probabilistic.ai 🌴 #ProbAI #ProbabilisticAI

@LessThanMorgan @CollinRugg In MMA, the most brutal of sports, you stop after somebody is knocked out. Guy was beating up on her, after she was KO'd. This _is_ attempted murder.

JUST IN: The high school teacher who was beaten unconscious by a 270 pound student after she told him to get off of his Nintendo, is reportedly refusing to help the defense lighten the sentence for the teen. Good for her 🔥 The student, Brendan Depa, is facing up to a whopping 30 years in prison. Depa was charged as an adult for a first-degree felony charge of aggravated battery.

I still believe deeply in the need for a radical restructuring of science publishing to create an open and fair system that works well for science, for all scientists everywhere, and the public that supports us, and am proud of the steps we have taken to begin to get us there.

Oh no uu.varbi.com seems to be down! isitup.org/uu.varbi.com #isitup

TreePPL: A Universal Probabilistic Programming Language for Phylogenetics dlvr.it/SxQQf1

We're all locally famous at #tdwg2023

If you believe you are more intelligent than GPT-4, then you are most definitely not.

Attending the LLM session at #ISMBECCB2023 . A lot of people share that they are ChatGPT to write outlines, but then fill in the details themselves. I think this is backwards: write your own bullet points and let LLM do the mundane work of forming syntactically correct sentences

📢 BREAKING: the Biodiversity Knowledge Hub is here! 💜🧡💚 #BiCIKL_H2020 is proud to announce the arrival of this game-changer in scientific research. Read the full story and TEST IT here: 🤜bicikl-project.eu/news/BKH🤛 #biodiversity #FAIRdata

#PhD student: Makes $30k a year. Works on weekends as well. Zero life-work balance. "Do you think I have a chance to become a professor?" Prof: "Yes, of course! Finish this project and we will publish excellent papers. I am sure you will easily find a faculty position." ▫️ 2 years later: Student finishes the project. Professor writes a report. Papers are published. Student: "Do you think my CV is strong enough?" Prof: "Yes, you are the best!" ▫️ Next 4 months: Student submits 50 well-tailored applications for faculty positions. Zero interviews. A lot of broken dreams. ▫️ Key takeaways: 1. Make sure you distinguish encouragement from reality. - By encouraging you, your advisor may unintentionally give you too much hope. Keep a cool head. 2. Always ask other faculties for external opinion on your case. - Your advisor’s opinion is always biased. Look for more input outside your group. 3. Don’t expect fairness during candidate selection. - Hiring process is subjective by definition. It is done by people with very different views on who is the best. You may put tons of efforts into a research statement only to find out later that no one really reads it. 4. The reality is brutal. - Departments can receive 300-500 candidates per opening. Many have excellent CVs and cool ideas. At top- and mid-rank universities, selection criteria can become extremely questionable (like, who exactly was your PhD advisor? Is your recomm. letter 3 pages long? etc). And there is no need to say “You don’t know anything about it. It’s not like this”. I went through this myself. Many times. Along with many colleagues. Do not expect fairness. See luck as a big factor. Apply broadly but have a backdoor ready. #AcademicTwitter