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Few evolutionary psychologists engage with the modern genomic literature. Brendan Zietsch is an exception and he has a new paper out, criticising explanations for heritable variation based on balancing selection. He's pulling no punches.

Excited to be in Vienna at ICML to present my work with Sam Greydanus on scaling _down_ deep learning with MNIST-1D! We show how one can study serious deep learning with n=5000 and d=40. Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=n9pru… Code: github.com/greydanus/mnis… Find me at poster session 1.

ICML 2024 (held in Vienna) registrations vs. registrations *per million inhabitants* by country. The barplot of registrations on the log scale was shown yesterday during the opening. I took a photo, digitized with WebPlotDigitizer, and normalized per capita. #ICML2024 ICML Conference

"The Harris campaign has seen a massive influx of donations, often from people who haven't donated before. This is democracy working as intended, folks!" Super happy to see donations, but "democracy as intended" is more about voting with your vote than your money, honestly.

PSA: If you don't want your X posts used to train Grok, you now have to explicitly opt-out. Go to x.com/settings/grok_… and uncheck the box. If link doesn't work, go to Settings->Privacy and Safety->Grok

The strange state of current publishing. I think some stats on our recent Cellstates paper provide interesting food for thought. The preprint was put on BioRxiv and within 3 months there were ~8500 abstract views and >2000 PDF downloads. We also submitted it to PCB 6-11-2023 1/n

Nobel prize for t-SNE!

Datamapplot 0.4 is out now, and has far more powerful and effective interactive plots. Here is an example of a Data Map of 2.4 million papers on ArXiv, ready to be explored.

🤖🧠NOW OUT IN PNAS🧠🤖 Language models show many surprising behaviors. E.g., they can count 30 items more easily than 29 In Embers of Autoregression, we explain such effects by analyzing what LMs are trained to do pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Major updates since the preprint! 1/n

Sequencing folks. You seem to use UMAP all the time. But everyone is making fun of it. Someone must be willing to defend it?

Warum lügt die CSU? Kurz gesagt: Um von echten Problemen abzulenken, also um euch zu verarschen. Also kuschelt eure Haustiere, widersprecht so einem Mist und lasst uns die Probleme lösen, die euch im Alltag stören und nicht welche, die die Union erfunden hat 🐶😽❤️

The vocabulary of systems neuroscience may appear daunting to many. Here's a short dictionary of common terms. BTW if you use them in your papers and grants you will have greater success

Over the past few months, our Interpretability team has put out a number of smaller research updates. Here’s a thread of some of the things we've been up to:

We updated our ICLR dataset (see github.com/berenslab/iclr…) with blind 2025 submissions to ICLR 2026. Over 10k submissions this year. I like how this embedding (SBERT + tSNE) shows which ML areas are old-school and which ones are currently booming.

Another example of what I Brent Mittelstadt @bmittelstadt.bsky.social Chris Russell termed careless speech. Subtle hallucinations are dangerous & developers are not (yet) liable for them. We argue they should. See paper: Do LLMs have a legal duty to tell the truth? tinyurl.com/435jba5p tinyurl.com/4wpske2s

I am very skeptical of the AI/ML/computational methods to predict protein-protein interactions. Prove me wrong. I present a challenge for anyone who claims they can predict protein-protein interactions. 1/n

This other site is starting to gel. You can find me there.

Narrative on X: 🦋 has no AI/ML and just talks about itself My actual feed on 🦋:

I won't be reading, posting or replying here in the foreseeable future. Find me (and many other science & sci-comm people) on the other site, where skies are still blue! 🦋

PS: If anyone needs additional reasons to leave this place, here is one: Musk endorsed the German right-nationalist AfD — a party that spreads hate against migrants and constantly lies about climate change. Unacceptable!