Afgelopen week (01/04–07/04) waren er 25 195 nieuwe bevestigde besmettingen, dat zijn er 6877 of 21% minder dan de week voordien, vooral door het mindere aantal op paasmaandag. Los van die feestdag lijkt de trend eerder te stabiliseren dan verder te dalen. 1/8

A working malaria vaccine would be *the* good news of the year. This is just so wonderful. Seriously, bigger than covid.

.ICML Conference we need to accept papers based on their merits, not on some arbitrary acceptance rate. Especially now that there are no physical constraints. The community needs a good rethink of our publication process.

Heartbroken to learn of the untimely passing of Tali Tishby. A profound thinker and a gentle and fine human: a great loss. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naftali_T…

The fetish that everything should be learned from big data sets rather than developing algorithms for intelligent systems seems like Soviet Lysenkoism where it was believed that all properties of crops were absorbed from the environment. Millions of people starved to death. 1/4

I am pleased to announce that the camera ready version of my new textbook, "Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction", is finally available from probml.ai. Hardcopies will be available from MIT Press in Feb 2022.

From the ENS physics lab: Getting ready to celebrate Giorgio Parisi Nobel Prize in Physics. We are all very happy, moved and proud. Giorgio has a such an impact on all of us and the science we do

The Nobel prize to Giorgio Parisi is such a joy and and multiply well deserved recognition: In random order: (1) Stochastic quantization; (2) The KPZ equation; (3) Matrix models; (4) Mean field spin glasses (!); (5) Random constraint satisfaction problems. 1/2

Watch the video of Andrea Montanari's recent Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture. "Computational Barriers in Statistical Estimation and Learning" youtube.com/watch?v=1Ei0BP…

Kunihiko Fukushima was awarded the 2021 Bower Award for his enormous contributions to deep learning, particularly his highly influential convolutional neural network architecture. My laudation of Kunihiko at the 2021 award ceremony is on YouTube: youtu.be/ysOw6lNWx2o

Why I believe that most things we learn about functional connectivity are not helpful at understanding how brains work: arxiv.org/abs/1812.03363

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Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall nautil.us/deep-learning-…

Tired: Distribution Shift Wired: External Validity argmin.net/2022/03/15/ext…

Our Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience will be held again as part of OCNS CNS*2022 in Melbourne, July 19/20 -- bit.ly/cns2022itw -- the Call for Contributed Talks is open also, pls do submit! w/ Abed Makkeh @WibralLab Dauwels Lab

the only people I’ve seen dismissing this insightful article are ones who don’t seem to understand compression very well the only surprise(?) is that it took a skilled writer and thinker, instead of one of us researchers, to make the case crystal clear newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…

As society becomes more digital, it’s critical to improve the code powering the world's computing. Today in nature, we present AlphaDev, an AI system using reinforcement learning to discover enhanced computer science algorithms. How does it work? 🧵 dpmd.ai/alphadev-tw

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Spotted: Three robo cars stalled in the same intersection in San Francisco. This time, it’s @Cruise cars jamming the intersection of Valencia/21 St. in the Mission. Parking enforcement guy banging on windows trying to communicate w/ Cruise. Traffic backed up for blocks.