Stew Ackerman @AckermanStew
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Given the urgency of the #climatecrisis there is still too much "normal" going on, including in conversations in our daily lives. To help solve the #climatecrisis we have to be willing to bring it up even when it's awkward/uncomfortable. Don't ignore the elephant in the room.
Given the urgency of the #climatecrisis there is still too much "normal" going on, including in conversations in our daily lives. To help solve the #climatecrisis we have to be willing to bring it up even when it's awkward/uncomfortable. Don't ignore the elephant in the room. https://t.co/l1MlmIigGR
@citizensclimate @Fisher_DanaR Yes, most people don't want to #facetheclimateemergency, so dodge talking about it. The elephant in the room is very real. x.com/rwclimate/stat…
@citizensclimate @Fisher_DanaR Yes, most people don't want to #facetheclimateemergency, so dodge talking about it. The elephant in the room is very real. x.com/rwclimate/stat…
Tumors are complex and adaptive ecosystems. How can we model them, and what are the implications? It's been an amazing opportunity to learn from the great @ara_anderson and @ricard_sole. So many open questions lay ahead for mathematical oncology! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Are tumours like ecosystems? Cancer displays complex, heterogeneous populations that can be mathematically described as interacting species. Check our new paper with @AguadeGuim and @ara_anderson on generalized Lotka-Volterra models for cancer biorxiv.org/content/10.110… @BCNCollab
Health, not economics, should have been the focal point of climate research, reporting and policy, including in @IPCC_CH reports, from the start. Sadly it's still a huge gap, and we will all pay the price.
Excited to finally see our affiliate, Adam Shai, share some of his work publicly: "Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in their Residual Stream" lesswrong.com/posts/gTZ2Sxes… (Check out the pictures of the empirical results! 🔥)
I wish I had been told this at the beginning of my PhD.
I wish I had been told this at the beginning of my PhD.
Build what you need and use what you build. This is a core philosophy of my research. It shifts the focus away from publishing “papers” to what really matters — impact. This thread unpacks why I think this is a successful approach to science. 1/10 Or see: perceiving-systems.blog/en/post/build-…
What do folks actually *gain* from having more NeurIPS papers? I could certainly write more papers - but if correctness alone is the standard, what's the point? Whether in industry or academia, hiring committees are only going to look at my best 1-2 papers. What am I missing?
What do folks actually *gain* from having more NeurIPS papers? I could certainly write more papers - but if correctness alone is the standard, what's the point? Whether in industry or academia, hiring committees are only going to look at my best 1-2 papers. What am I missing?
What a team! Super excited for the world premier of “I Could Never Go Vegan” tonight in London. In cinemas across the UK & Ireland, rest of the world soon. Watch the full trailer here: icouldnevergovegan.co.uk
New research into chemicals in plastics finds 4,200 are “persistent, bioaccumulative, mobile and/or toxic” That “is quite staggering” + hazard data were unavailable for more than 10,000 chemicals “Something needs to happen” nature.com/articles/d4158…
It will be incredibly hard to dismantle the fossil fuel industry, end consumerism, eradicate billionaires, overhaul agriculture, strengthen our communities & transform how we live, work & what we eat. But not impossible. And if we don't do all these things most of us will die.
Did you know the fossil fuel industry has actively funded economic theory? Remember, neoliberalism would be nothing without petroleum. Listen to my full conversation with @amywestervelt tomorrow. Subscribe at PlanetCritical.com
“The only chance humans have of surviving as a species is if they become deeply spiritual beings. This means beginning to wonder on a daily basis about who they are, how they feel, and how they love, and less about what they own, what they build, how much time they’ve got, and…
Has anyone calculated what a sustainable carbon or ecological footprint would actually be at this point in history? In other words, what would a #sustainable and equitable lifestyle be for all 8 billion people?
Great read on how past civilizations #collapse when inequality gets to it's breaking point, and the wealthy elite take all the power. Once the elite have power they begin infighting with each other and governments can no longer deal with crises. phys.org/news/2024-02-h…
if any history books are written in 100 years time: how we dealt with the news that the planet was destabilising
A spatiotemporal stochastic climate model for benchmarking causal discovery methods for #Teleconnections Tibau, Reimers, @EyringV, @runge_jakob et al → doi.org/10.1017/eds.20… #CausalDiscovery #ClimateModels #Teleconnection #ClimateScience #DataScience #ClimateData @DLR_de
As a climate scientist I am at a loss when even the Democrats fall over themselves to race the Republicans in dragging us as quickly as possible into deadly and irreversible global heat
Every now and then liberals just straight up admit they don’t care about climate breakdown. Which is a bigger contributor to sliding into the dismal, hot nightmare of a future we’re sliding into than even dumbass conservative “it’s a hoax” denial
Every now and then liberals just straight up admit they don’t care about climate breakdown. Which is a bigger contributor to sliding into the dismal, hot nightmare of a future we’re sliding into than even dumbass conservative “it’s a hoax” denial
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New papers in Network.. @networkspapers
4K Followers 0 Following Semi-automatically curated list of new publications in Network Science. See website for details, comments or suggestions.
Complexity 72h @Complexity72h
539 Followers 139 Following Workshop bringing together young researchers in complex systems. 72 hours to carry out a project! June, 24-28 2024, in Madrid, Spain #Complexity72h
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13K Followers 6K Following Director, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz & Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior, University of Konstanz. 🏴Given the urgency of the #climatecrisis there is still too much "normal" going on, including in conversations in our daily lives. To help solve the #climatecrisis we have to be willing to bring it up even when it's awkward/uncomfortable. Don't ignore the elephant in the room.
This essay by @PatrickAMazza captures well how crazy it can feel to be aware of the rapidly escalating #climateemergency but then still act "normal" & have daily life go on normally around us. tinyurl.com/358zh7yp
@citizensclimate @Fisher_DanaR Yes, most people don't want to #facetheclimateemergency, so dodge talking about it. The elephant in the room is very real. x.com/rwclimate/stat…
Given the urgency of the #climatecrisis there is still too much "normal" going on, including in conversations in our daily lives. To help solve the #climatecrisis we have to be willing to bring it up even when it's awkward/uncomfortable. Don't ignore the elephant in the room.
LLMs as function approximators, looks like an interesting course
Another class I'm teaching this semester is "Programming w/ LLMs". This sidesteps the whole chatbot / assistant / "an AI" theme and looks at LLMs as function approximators -- where, weirdly, the function needs to be "found" first. (Yes, DSPy will feature heavily.)
Tumors are complex and adaptive ecosystems. How can we model them, and what are the implications? It's been an amazing opportunity to learn from the great @ara_anderson and @ricard_sole. So many open questions lay ahead for mathematical oncology! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Are tumours like ecosystems? Cancer displays complex, heterogeneous populations that can be mathematically described as interacting species. Check our new paper with @AguadeGuim and @ara_anderson on generalized Lotka-Volterra models for cancer biorxiv.org/content/10.110… @BCNCollab
Health, not economics, should have been the focal point of climate research, reporting and policy, including in @IPCC_CH reports, from the start. Sadly it's still a huge gap, and we will all pay the price.
I agree. Our analysis (arxiv.org/abs/2310.00535) on training dynamics of Transformer shows that self-attention really plays an important role in learning the right representation. More specifically, self-attention dynamics encourages tokens with high co-occurrence to learn first,…
not true, especially for language. if you trained a large & deep MLP language model with no self-attention, no matter how much data you'll feed it you'll still be lacking behind a transformer (with much less data). will it get to the same point? i don't think so. your tokens…
Excited to finally see our affiliate, Adam Shai, share some of his work publicly: "Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in their Residual Stream" lesswrong.com/posts/gTZ2Sxes… (Check out the pictures of the empirical results! 🔥)
I wish I had been told this at the beginning of my PhD.
Build what you need and use what you build. This is a core philosophy of my research. It shifts the focus away from publishing “papers” to what really matters — impact. This thread unpacks why I think this is a successful approach to science. 1/10 Or see: perceiving-systems.blog/en/post/build-…
Build what you need and use what you build. This is a core philosophy of my research. It shifts the focus away from publishing “papers” to what really matters — impact. This thread unpacks why I think this is a successful approach to science. 1/10 Or see: perceiving-systems.blog/en/post/build-…
@adad8m Regarding whether the student had the idea, the way to tell is to look at their advisor's papers, and see if the paper is in the same subarea the advisor has been publishing in for a while. If the paper's some distance away from the advisor's other papers, it's the student's.
What do folks actually *gain* from having more NeurIPS papers? I could certainly write more papers - but if correctness alone is the standard, what's the point? Whether in industry or academia, hiring committees are only going to look at my best 1-2 papers. What am I missing?
@nescio13 @danieldennett my favorite passage
New review! Cognition is an emergent property doi.org/10.1016/j.cobe… Electrical fields in the brain can serve as a medium for propagating activity nearly instantaneously. They can organize computations through subspace coding. @MIT_Picower @mitbrainandcog #neuroscience
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The path of complexity: It's been a long journey but the presses are now running to offer a small curated venue for weird papers that could scare disciplinary journals. nature.com/articles/s4426…
Network science shows the power of abstraction, studying the structure of systems across domains. npj Complexity wants to explore the interface of networks and a more traditional notion of structure, space: geometric, cultural, ... Call for papers: nature.com/collections/jb…
@ProfLaurenRoss @WiringTheBrain @raj_raizada @NicoleCRust @YouTube Exactly. This is a standard view in control systems theory: feedback interconnections can implement exchange of matter, energy, and information, in various combinations.
Kids, be careful! If you first multiply the two matrices this will transform your O(N²) code into 0(N³)... It may actually make it at lot slower than your for loop. You're better off not using a diagonal matrix at all and doing a vector elementwise multiplication instead.
After advising many people from the Python generation (I am a retired Matlab/Perl programmer), I’ve come to realize that many of these kids don’t know that to avoid using a for loop you need to learn how to multiple by a diagonal matrix. 😅
What a team! Super excited for the world premier of “I Could Never Go Vegan” tonight in London. In cinemas across the UK & Ireland, rest of the world soon. Watch the full trailer here: icouldnevergovegan.co.uk
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