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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 2d

What PhD do I need to get and from which institution to fully understand git?

Huw Day @huwwday.bsky.social · 4d

I would love to be able to assess their ability to read and understand AI/ML papers, but I don't know a ChatGPT cheat proof way of doing this and truly test student understanding through a written medium.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Huw Day @huwwday.bsky.social · 4d

I'm looking for advice on LLM proof assessments on content related to neural networks. If I had more time with the students (I teach an intro to the topic across 3 hours, but they are masters level students), I would have them read a paper and replicate it in PyTorch.

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 18d

Some fun news: We're hiring!

Lectureship (analogous to Assistant Prof.) in Statistical Science and AI, in the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol.

Closing date 13 October 2025; link below!

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · Apr 4

Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.

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Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com · 22d

Much of Euclid’s Elements is easily misunderstood. Some proofs seem to have logical gaps. Some constructions seem pointless, others seem needlessly convoluted.

Each of these provides a window into how the ancient Greeks thought about math and the philosophical role that geometry played.

Why ruler and compass? | Guest video by ⁨@bensyversen⁩

YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 27d

How to name your method: a comprehensive flow chart

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 29d

The experiences of reading well-written papers about middling results and poorly-written papers about fascinating results are wildly different, in this (and in other) regard(s).

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 29d

Perhaps a bit orthogonally to the main point here, I have certainly had the experience of reading something out of { duty / necessity / etc. }, and found it remarkable how this context can amplify all sorts of frustrations about the style, even those which could otherwise be quite minor.

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 29d

I skimmed a paper of an author I dislike and it's amazing how a certain style of writing --overly complicated explanations of trivial claims, new jargon that hides how vacuous it all is, an overemphasize on mathematization regardless of whether it actually maps onto the claims made-- just wrecks me.

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Dima Damen @dimadamen.bsky.social · Sep 9

When emailing for PhD positions, it's a smart move to use LLMs to avoid typos and grammatical mistakes ... but check for hallucinations!

"I am particularly drawn to your recent work on multi-view video understanding and your development of datasets .. (e.g., the Something-Something dataset). "

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Dr Ola Michalec @olamichalec.bsky.social · Sep 9

@hypestudies.bsky.social conference starts tomorrow, choo choo! I'm very excited to share our preprint with @cianooo.bsky.social and Joshua Moon: "Can buzzwords create infrastructures? Reflecting on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus approach" . zenodo.org/records/1699...

Can buzzwords create infrastructures? Reflecting on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus approach

Over the past few decades, the increasing pressures on water, energy and food have widened social inequalities and furthered environmental damage. The scholarship on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus (WEF N...

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Quite funny:

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michael veale @michae.lv · Sep 7

UK government report based on internal civil service trial finds Copilot doesn’t increase productivity, and indeed makes Excel take longer and with more errors, and requires Powerpoint users to have ‘corrective action’ applied to their outputs. www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial

: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

www.theregister.com

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Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com · Sep 7

New video about a piece by the modern artist Sol LeWitt, and the group theory behind it.

youtu.be/_BrFKp-U8GI

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Jeff Clark @savvyscientist.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not based at Pittsburgh but want to hear more about stress management during a #PhD? I've got you covered! Earlier this year I gave a similar webinar for @biochemsoc.bsky.social which is available here:

youtu.be/2T6Mgoz04XI?...

P.S. I've not watched it, please don't tell me if it's embarrassing! 🙈

Biochemistry Focus ECR webinar – Stress Management during a PhD

YouTube video by Biochemistry Focus webinar series

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Huw Day @huwwday.bsky.social · Sep 5

Reading @savvyscientist.bsky.social 's blog in the lead up to my PhD viva did a lot for calming my nerves, always recommend listening to what he has to say!

Jeff Clark @savvyscientist.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm excited to be running a webinar tomorrow for the University of Pittsburgh's School of Engineering all around the topic of managing anxiety and stress in academia!

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · Aug 28

In reading research papers, it's somewhat inevitable to occasionally have the wrong mental pronunciation of an author's name. Easily corrected, not a big deal, etc.

What I find funny is that for me, the most common source of making such mistakes is to erroneously assume that the author is French.

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Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com · Aug 28

Guest video 3/5 while I'm on leave is now up! It's by a former SoME winner, covering key ideas in statistical mechanics to create a simple and discrete model mirroring the behavior of a fluid transitioning between a liquid and gaseous state. Enjoy!

youtu.be/itRV2jEtV8Q

Simulating Phase Change | Guest video by Vilas Winstein

YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 22

dear funding agency
please give me money
to prove
what we already know
but with
more decimal places

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · Aug 22

The jobs that are most vulnerable to LLMs aren't the jobs that LLMs can do well; they're the jobs that managers neither respect nor understand and will readily accept permission to replace.

*waves*

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...

In an interesting—and rather telling—wrinkle to the AI boom story, many translators noted that generative AI didn’t usher in any revolutionary improvement to already-existing technologies that have been used to automate translation for years. Long before AI became the toast of Silicon Valley, corporate clients had been pushing lower-paying machine translation post-editing (MTPE) jobs1, or editing the output of AI translation systems, though many translators refused to take them. Others said Google Translate had long been able to essentially what ChatGPT does now.

Yet many describe a dramatic disruption in wages and working conditions over the last two years, coinciding with the rise of OpenAI. Though my sample size is small, these stories fit my thesis that the real AI jobs crisis is that the drumbeat, marketing, and pop culture of "powerful AI” encourages and permits management to replace or degrade jobs they might not otherwise have. More important than the technological change, perhaps, is the change in a social permission structure.

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · Aug 20

Effective captioning:

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · Aug 20

Very sweet annotations:

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Colin Gavaghan @digitalfutures.bsky.social · Aug 20

This was such a rewarding gig!

Altered State @alteredstatetalks.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ep 1 of our epic #defence talk podcast, the whole talk by Gen Tim Radford Prof Ana Garcia & Richard Graham w host @digitalfutures.bsky.social

Do #Alaska & yesterday’s meet in the W House mean anything concrete for Uk defence in the era of #AmericaFirst?

www.alteredstate.org.uk/podcast

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · Aug 19

I want to advertise some relatively recent work which I really like, and have been fortunate to play a small role in.

The paper is titled "A New Proof of Sub-Gaussian Norm Concentration Inequality" (arxiv.org/abs/2503.14347), led by Zishun Liu and Yongxin Chen at Georgia Tech.

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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · Aug 11

The government will tax the middle class out of existence instead of trying to tax the vast wealth of the very rich.

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