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On Aug 16, 2021
[N] Facebook AI Unveils UVO, A New Dataset To Boost The AI Research On Open-World Segmentation (An Important Computer Vision Task) https://t.co/DEu5GXMSVq
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On Aug 16, 2021
RT @math_rachel: 11 Short Videos About AI Ethics https://t.co/U8gSlUxdeG
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11 Short Videos About AI Ethics

11 Short Videos About AI Ethics

Machine Learning Edition: Through 3 key case studies, I cover how people can be harmed by machine learning gone wrong, why we as machine learning practitioners should care, and …

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On Aug 15, 2021
[Project] Efficient and scalable Graph Neural Networks papers https://t.co/zF1mbp8R9D
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On Aug 12, 2021
RT @cwcyau: It's raining ML jobs in Manchester, a number of postdocs available linked to a range of @EPSRC, @The_MRC and @NIHR projects https://t.co/wy0Fc2vEwk https://t.co/VrqI94mLDe
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AI4Health

AI4Health

We have 4-5 two/three-year postdoctoral positions available linked to the following projects: Turing AI Fellowship OPTIMAL MuM-PreDICT Roche RPF Suitable applicants should ...

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On Aug 16, 2021
RT @jmtomczak: After the summer break, the deep generative modeling series is back! 💪 This time about hierarchical latent variables models (hierarchical VAEs). Post 📜: https://t.co/uExDb9sECM Code 💻: https://t.co/v0Jk1NzPE7 https://t.co/LyYEAwkVYE
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Implementing own top-down VAE

Implementing own top-down VAE

In a beautiful blog post (Huszar, 2017), Ferenc Huszar outlines why learning a latent variable model by maximizing the likelihood function is not necessarily useful from the …

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On Aug 17, 2021
RT @glouppe: The call for papers to our Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences workshop #ML4PS2021 #NeurIPS2021 is now out! The deadline is set a month from now, on September 18. https://t.co/bmyiJFHiHt https://t.co/65k4lRjeqn https://t.co/GKpMd7LPYT
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Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences

Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences

Website for the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences (MLPS) workshop at the 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

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On Aug 13, 2021
RT @bernhardsson: Nice overview of how different approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) datastructures work: https://t.co/9MsvIcszKk
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Nearest Neighbor Indexes for Similarity Search

Nearest Neighbor Indexes for Similarity Search

An overview and comparison of similarity search indexes.

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On Aug 16, 2021
RT @tdietterich: This article explains the unease I've always felt in conversations with the Existential Risk crowd. My question to them: What if the person who will save those future beings is alive today but will die from climate change effects? https://t.co/u3z26oQJn3
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The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”

The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”

<p>So-called rationalists have created a disturbing secular religion that looks like it addresses humanity’s deepest problems, but actually justifies pursuing the social preferences of ...