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On Jul 7, 2020
@vnfrombucharest shared
RT @wellingmax: Full professor position at U. Amsterdam in "AI4Science". Please apply! https://t.co/4zE4GiO0O9
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Full/Associate professor in AI and Computational technologies for Science

Full/Associate professor in AI and Computational technologies for Science

In this position you will lead the AI for Science Lab developing machine learning and computational modelling techniques to help understand and address scientific challenges

On Jul 6, 2020
@vnfrombucharest shared
RT @NisheethVishnoi: 1/3 A new first-order algorithm for min-max opt. particularly suited to GANs (@goodfellow_ian et al) The algorithm is guaranteed to converge, competitive in terms of time/memory with gradient descent-ascent and GANs trained using it seem stable Blog: https://t.co/Aq2XQhLLnV https://t.co/Cp2frbpMbm
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On Jul 7, 2020
@WilliamTurton shared
RT @cjcmichel: NEW: The situation in Xinjiang—with the biggest concentration camp system the world has seen since the Holocaust—is rapidly becoming the greatest human rights atrocity of this new decade. So why has the Western left been so quiet about it? https://t.co/M1JqCtRHYv
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The Left’s Deafening Silence on China’s Ethnic Cleansing

The Left’s Deafening Silence on China’s Ethnic Cleansing

Anti-imperialist leftists can’t afford to cede this issue to centrist Democrats and the Trumpist right.

On Jul 7, 2020
@NathanBenaich shared
RT @graphcoreai: Poplar SDK 1.2 is here! Check out all the new features and optimisations in our latest software release 👇⚙️🔎 #PyTorch #Keras #Convolutions #Sparsity #Memory #Parallelism https://t.co/YATRQRIgsc
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NEW G‌‍R‍AP‌‍HC‌O‍RE P‌‍O‍P‌LAR‍ SDK 1.2 R‍ELEASED‍

NEW G‌‍R‍AP‌‍HC‌O‍RE P‌‍O‍P‌LAR‍ SDK 1.2 R‍ELEASED‍

We’ve added a number of significant new features and optimisations to improve performance, accessibility and ease of use with the release of a major new version – Poplar SDK 1.2.

On Jul 8, 2020
@glouppe shared
RT @DavidDuvenaud: We just open-sourced differentiable SDE solvers in PyTorch: https://t.co/v1f08mjgCq Now you can put stochastic differential equations in your deep learning models, and neural nets in your SDEs! Credit to @lxuechen. https://t.co/jgXHxQe67c
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google-research / torchsde

google-research / torchsde

Differentiable SDE solvers with GPU support and efficient sensitivity analysis. - google-research/torchsde

On Jul 5, 2020
@joonian shared
RT @EthereumNetw: Gelato brings IFTTT-like bots to #Ethereum mainnet https://t.co/nOuO3qdIHm
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Gelato brings IFTTT-like bots to Ethereum mainnet

Gelato brings IFTTT-like bots to Ethereum mainnet

Developers can employ bots to help create and monetize dapps, particularly in DeFi.

On Jul 3, 2020
@MIRIBerkeley shared
RT @FLIxrisk: Evan Hubinger from @MIRIBerkeley joins us on this episode of the AIAP to discuss how to ensure alignment between a model being trained and the objective function used to train it, as well as to evaluate three proposals for building safe advanced AI. https://t.co/zcrSz3ycSD
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Evan Hubinger on Inner Alignment, Outer Alignment, and Proposals for Building Safe Advanced AI

Evan Hubinger on Inner Alignment, Outer Alignment, and Proposals for Building Safe Advanced AI

In this episode of the AI Alignment Podcast, Evan Hubinger of MIRI joins us to discuss inner alignment, outer alignment, and three proposals for building safe advanced AI.

On Jul 3, 2020
@math_rachel shared
I'm reminded of this 2018 article from @noUpside on how many of the tactics used by spammers & trolls are also leveraged by real activists https://t.co/t3VUj5PSMM
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How Bots Ruined Clicktivism

How Bots Ruined Clicktivism

As platforms struggle to detect and stop foreign interference in the midterm elections, there’s a thorny complication: Many of the tactics used by spammers and trolls are also leveraged by ...