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Does anyone have a good strategy for avoiding consuming any news entirely over the next ~4 years? Other than/in addition quitting Twitter?

Pornhub replacing Coca Cola as the symbol of Western freedoms and way of life.

I just found this diagram in the notepad on my office desk. It looks like my hand writing, but I don't remember making this. It appears to be a 3-dimensional analogical embedding of Cambridge fish restaurants 🤷

Hexameter poetry is rare in English, because it doesn't fit the natural rhythm of language, but there are nice examples: "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks," - HW Longfellow "Gen Z boss and a mini, gen Z boss and a mini" - random startup ceo

✨ Excited to announce Outer-PPO! 🚀 (arxiv.org/abs/2411.00666) Outer-PPO transforms PPO updates by separating estimation from application, allowing us to add momentum and tweak learning rates in the outer loop 🤯 w/ Ferenc Huszár Jakob Foerster Ben Ellis Edan Toledo 🧵👇 1/9

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this looks cool: secular Bayesian seminar series

Quick, somebody make a depressive sarcasm from the wrong side of Berlin wall Starter Pack. I need more 🦋 followers.

Call For Tasks for IOAI 2025: ML olympiad for high schoolers. I know you all have strong opinions on the ML topics future computer scientists should engage with to build mastery. This is a high-impact opportunity to help us by proposing tasks. ioai-official.org/call-for-tasks/

We're delighted to welcome Professor Hannah Fry to Cambridge! Mathematician and award-winning science presenter @fryrsquared will join us as Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics Faculty of Mathematics - University of Cambridge, following an announcement Isaac Newton Institute 👉 cam.ac.uk/research/news/…

Finally this reddit question can be answered with a reference.

Resharing this from the butterfly app jobs.cam.ac.uk

Can language models transcend limitations of training data? We train LMs on a formal grammar, then prompt them OUTSIDE of this grammar. We find that LMs often extrapolate logical rules and apply them OOD. Proof of a useful inductive bias. At NeurIPS: nips.cc/virtual/2024/p…

I'm not sure who still reads X and is active on the butterfly app, but my handle there is now inference.vc I haven't really opened X for quite a while.

Congrats Dobrik Georgiev for defending your thesis.

Can Transformers do better than Bayesian inference in compositional tasks and in-context learning? Our workshop paper at the Delta workshop on Monday ICLR 2026 (also at #AABI), led by Szilvia Ujváry answers in the affirmative. Check it out at openreview.net/forum?id=YGcCR… #ICLR2025

A new post with intuitions behind continuous-time Markov chains, a building block of diffusion language models, like Inception Labs 's Mercury and Gemini Diffusion. Touches on different perspectives on Markov chains, connections to point processes + more. inference.vc/discrete-diffu…