Alle reden gerade von Affenpocken. Warum? Was ist das eigentlich? Und wie kann man sich schützen? Ein paar Infos:

gweb-research-imagen.appspot.com Google announced Imagen today. Let's generate some of the same prompts with Dall·E 2!

Erste Daten zu BA.4/5 - Genesene und tierexperimentell: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Web APIs in 2007: oops, I downloaded 1mio facebook contacts in an hour, lol Web APIs in 2022: just obtain a token w/ our 10-step workflow..sorry, it's one call per hour..sorry, you cannot retrieve more than five items in one call..contact sales for your tailored solution

This evening I learned about the magic number 0.4323320871 8590286890… Drop everything left of the decimal place. Take the reciprocal of this fractional part. Keep doing that. This makes a sequence of numbers. What do you notice about the integers left of the decimal place?

This is a remarkable, extremely informative piece about the early warning signs of Russia's invasion and the months of preparations and diplomacy among Western allies (and RUS) before the war started, mainly sourced from interviews with top US officials. politico.com/news/magazine/…

As well as asking 'is AI good at X?' I think we should also be asking 'are humans bad at assessing X?' Ideally, the things we'd outsource to AI are those skills that humans are genuinely now worse at. Not those that humans need to be good at but are bad at writing exams for. 3/3

I am very happy to join Harvard as an HDSI Postdoctoral Fellow 🎉

Some things I like about Python, many I despise, but if I had the power to introduce just one breaking change, it would be the option to declare *block scoped* variables. Sooo many bugs that overwrite or use a previously set variable could be avoided. Even JS has this option.

1/4) Several people I admire immensely have signed this, but respectfully, I'm afraid I just don't agree with the claim that "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority". I think this statement is naive and a mistake.

Why the #EUAIAct might be bad for #AI #Research in the #EU and why we should care. A long 🧵 1/15 Disclaimer: *I’m not a legal expert, but I work with #AI models *I’m happy to discuss if you have some insights that I have missed *I am part of #LAION *All opinions are my own

We are happy that Johannes Knittel joins us as an HDSI PostDoc. He got his PhD from Uni Stuttgart, where he focused on the visual analysis of large text collections. He is interested in new #vis-based methods to explain ML models and utilize AI to extract insights from intricate data

🔎 Learn about the 2023 Harvard Data Science Initiative Postdoctoral Fellows in our latest blog post: datascience.harvard.edu/2023/09/14/mee… ✨ Melody Huang, Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science ✨ Johannes Knittel, Harvard SEAS ✨ Keyon Vafa, Harvard SEAS 👏 We look forward to seeing the incredible work you will do this year!

The automatic summary of the automatic panel captioning at #ieeevis23 succinctly outlines the basic stages of every talk

Who are "the elites" we hear so much about? One could say that the elites are people with power or influence. They come in several flavors. 1. They can have intellectual influence because lots of people like their intellectual production. They so,etimes rose through the ranks of

This is funny because it shows that people also do not understand correlations...a correlation *is* a statistical relationship, just not necessarily a causal one (so I ended up being Reviewer 2 of Reviewer 2)

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

📢Our latest preprint shows that learning global neuron shapes can help to automatically proofread connectomes and predict neuron types. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Work done in collaboration with HHMI | Janelia, Srini Turaga & Harvard VCG #connectomics #AI 🧵(1/n)