Cheng Soon Ong
@ml4x.bsky.social
Curious.
Researching #MachineLearning for Scientific Discovery. #ml4science #ai4science
I choose #OpenSource and #OpenScience .
Solving problems in #LifeScience #Genomics #RadioAstronomy
Read Mathematics for Machine Learning at https://mml-book.com
Researching #MachineLearning for Scientific Discovery. #ml4science #ai4science
I choose #OpenSource and #OpenScience .
Solving problems in #LifeScience #Genomics #RadioAstronomy
Read Mathematics for Machine Learning at https://mml-book.com
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I write about some interesting developments in the ATmosphere (and the broader universe of decentralised and federated social media). Very intrigued by #Eurosky, especially the idea of shared moderation infrastructure. I will be following (and hopefully writing about!) this with a lot of interest.
🇪🇺 Eurosky is building EU-hosted social media infrastructure on ATProtocol. Priorities: Commons for Content Moderation (CoCoMo), decentralized architecture, and reducing Big Tech dependency.
Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...
Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...
Eurosky dawns: Building Infrastructure for Sovereign Social Media – Open Future
The Eurosky initiative is building European social media infrastructure on the ATProtocol, representing a new step in Europe's digital sovereignty agenda as policymakers seek alternatives to Big Tech ...
openfuture.eu
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I write about some interesting developments in the ATmosphere (and the broader universe of decentralised and federated social media). Very intrigued by #Eurosky, especially the idea of shared moderation infrastructure. I will be following (and hopefully writing about!) this with a lot of interest.
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The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence: In this introductory and highly subjective survey, aimed at a general mathematical audience, I showcase some key theoretical concepts underlying recent advancements in machine learning. arxiv.org/abs/2501.10465
January 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence: In this introductory and highly subjective survey, aimed at a general mathematical audience, I showcase some key theoretical concepts underlying recent advancements in machine learning. arxiv.org/abs/2501.10465
If you like our @deisenroth.bsky.social #mathematics for #machinelearning textbook, and want a hard copy, Cambridge is providing a 30% discount for #NeurIPS2025.
Of course you can buy other books, and also download the PDF from: mml-book.com
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Discount code: 107890
Of course you can buy other books, and also download the PDF from: mml-book.com
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Discount code: 107890
Mathematics for Machine Learning
Companion webpage to the book “Mathematics for Machine Learning”. Copyright 2020 by Marc Peter Deisenroth, A. Aldo Faisal, and Cheng Soon Ong. Published by Cambridge University Press.
mml-book.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
If you like our @deisenroth.bsky.social #mathematics for #machinelearning textbook, and want a hard copy, Cambridge is providing a 30% discount for #NeurIPS2025.
Of course you can buy other books, and also download the PDF from: mml-book.com
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Discount code: 107890
Of course you can buy other books, and also download the PDF from: mml-book.com
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Discount code: 107890
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🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨
It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…
–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more
Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast
www.carbonbrief.org/...
It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…
–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more
Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast
www.carbonbrief.org/...
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨
It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…
–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more
Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast
www.carbonbrief.org/...
It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…
–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more
Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Your 40-year-old gas furnace stops working on the coldest day of the year.
(Narrator: it always happens on the coldest day of the year.)
(Narrator: it always happens on the coldest day of the year.)
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Your 40-year-old gas furnace stops working on the coldest day of the year.
(Narrator: it always happens on the coldest day of the year.)
(Narrator: it always happens on the coldest day of the year.)
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Je pense que vous allez le voir beaucoup passer aujourd'hui. Le dernier @xkcd.com est incroyable 😭
xkcd.com/3172/
xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Je pense que vous allez le voir beaucoup passer aujourd'hui. Le dernier @xkcd.com est incroyable 😭
xkcd.com/3172/
xkcd.com/3172/
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Let’s make it Trans Joy Tuesday again!
For the trans people out there, please share something happy going on with you to offset all the bad stuff.
Whether it’s big or small, trans related or not, please share your joy!
For the trans people out there, please share something happy going on with you to offset all the bad stuff.
Whether it’s big or small, trans related or not, please share your joy!
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Let’s make it Trans Joy Tuesday again!
For the trans people out there, please share something happy going on with you to offset all the bad stuff.
Whether it’s big or small, trans related or not, please share your joy!
For the trans people out there, please share something happy going on with you to offset all the bad stuff.
Whether it’s big or small, trans related or not, please share your joy!
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gender-affirming care saves lives
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I’m pleased to share the Second Key Update to the International AI Safety Report, which outlines how AI developers, researchers, and policymakers are approaching technical risk management for general-purpose AI systems.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I’m pleased to share the Second Key Update to the International AI Safety Report, which outlines how AI developers, researchers, and policymakers are approaching technical risk management for general-purpose AI systems.
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💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Thought-provoking piece from @alankohler.bsky.social including quoting @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
November 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Thought-provoking piece from @alankohler.bsky.social including quoting @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Being Interdisciplinary feels like practicing non-attachment. Different disciplines come in & out of focus in waves, each a whole world. Engaging with philosophy gives access to different ontologies than engaging in neuroscience or AI. This helps us evaluate each field from within & outside itself.
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Being Interdisciplinary feels like practicing non-attachment. Different disciplines come in & out of focus in waves, each a whole world. Engaging with philosophy gives access to different ontologies than engaging in neuroscience or AI. This helps us evaluate each field from within & outside itself.
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This nicely written story with a great reveal in the middle is a good summary of the discussion about costs of publishing. There is no reason for articles to be expensive, other than profit to the publisher.
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This nicely written story with a great reveal in the middle is a good summary of the discussion about costs of publishing. There is no reason for articles to be expensive, other than profit to the publisher.
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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I interviewed 108 ML researchers. They had a lot to say about this!
Title: Lessons learned from machine learning researchers about the terms “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning.”
compstudiesjournal.com/wp-content/u...
Title: Lessons learned from machine learning researchers about the terms “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning.”
compstudiesjournal.com/wp-content/u...
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I interviewed 108 ML researchers. They had a lot to say about this!
Title: Lessons learned from machine learning researchers about the terms “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning.”
compstudiesjournal.com/wp-content/u...
Title: Lessons learned from machine learning researchers about the terms “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning.”
compstudiesjournal.com/wp-content/u...
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My new international family- Honoured to be a recipient of the prestigious Eric and Wendy Schmidt awards for Excellence in Science Communications (@schmidtsciences).
This means so much to me as an early career scientist, thank you.
@ericschmidt @SciCommAwards
#scicomm
This means so much to me as an early career scientist, thank you.
@ericschmidt @SciCommAwards
#scicomm
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
My new international family- Honoured to be a recipient of the prestigious Eric and Wendy Schmidt awards for Excellence in Science Communications (@schmidtsciences).
This means so much to me as an early career scientist, thank you.
@ericschmidt @SciCommAwards
#scicomm
This means so much to me as an early career scientist, thank you.
@ericschmidt @SciCommAwards
#scicomm
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My paper "Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse" is now published in ANZJS. This paper calls attention to the importance of UI/UX principles & approaches to statisiticians and #rstats developers.
Many thanks to reviewers who made this paper better!
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
Many thanks to reviewers who made this paper better!
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
My paper "Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse" is now published in ANZJS. This paper calls attention to the importance of UI/UX principles & approaches to statisiticians and #rstats developers.
Many thanks to reviewers who made this paper better!
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
Many thanks to reviewers who made this paper better!
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
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Rowboat
A lightning fast tool for understanding large datasets
rowboat.net/product/
"Open one million rows of data in one second. Your data stays private in any browser or on your desktop. No code or complex queries are needed to visualize your data"
A lightning fast tool for understanding large datasets
rowboat.net/product/
"Open one million rows of data in one second. Your data stays private in any browser or on your desktop. No code or complex queries are needed to visualize your data"
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Rowboat
A lightning fast tool for understanding large datasets
rowboat.net/product/
"Open one million rows of data in one second. Your data stays private in any browser or on your desktop. No code or complex queries are needed to visualize your data"
A lightning fast tool for understanding large datasets
rowboat.net/product/
"Open one million rows of data in one second. Your data stays private in any browser or on your desktop. No code or complex queries are needed to visualize your data"
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Looking forward to next week as we kickstart the Biometrics conference!
We’ve also got an explicit printout of the Pac-Man rule to make it a welcome and inclusive event 🤗
#BIBC2025
We’ve also got an explicit printout of the Pac-Man rule to make it a welcome and inclusive event 🤗
#BIBC2025
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Looking forward to next week as we kickstart the Biometrics conference!
We’ve also got an explicit printout of the Pac-Man rule to make it a welcome and inclusive event 🤗
#BIBC2025
We’ve also got an explicit printout of the Pac-Man rule to make it a welcome and inclusive event 🤗
#BIBC2025
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Are you a fan of Python, geological data and digital twins? 🐍🪨🌐
Apply to join us in the Earth Surface Process Modelling section at @gfz.bsky.social as a scientific programmer! Deadline is 14th December
Apply to join us in the Earth Surface Process Modelling section at @gfz.bsky.social as a scientific programmer! Deadline is 14th December
Scientific programmer (f_m_x) - Integrating Databases into Digital Twin - GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung
GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung looks for Scientific programmer (f_m_x) - Integrating Databases into Digital Twin in Potsdam - apply now!
www.academics.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Are you a fan of Python, geological data and digital twins? 🐍🪨🌐
Apply to join us in the Earth Surface Process Modelling section at @gfz.bsky.social as a scientific programmer! Deadline is 14th December
Apply to join us in the Earth Surface Process Modelling section at @gfz.bsky.social as a scientific programmer! Deadline is 14th December
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More schools closed in the ACT tomorrow than open. Comms from ACT education are appalling www.act.gov.au/education-an...
ACT public school closures Friday 14 November 2025
www.act.gov.au
November 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
More schools closed in the ACT tomorrow than open. Comms from ACT education are appalling www.act.gov.au/education-an...
I am so pleased to have been invited to participate in a cross disciplinary team that spans technical machine learning experts as well as the breadth of humanities and social sciences. And the best part is that we studied ourselves.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Lessons from the Edges of Interdisciplinarity - Integrating Artificial Intelligence with the Humanities, Social and Economic Sciences
International calls for the involvement of a broader set of disciplinary experts in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) products are growing. By involving a more diverse set of experts,...
www.tandfonline.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I am so pleased to have been invited to participate in a cross disciplinary team that spans technical machine learning experts as well as the breadth of humanities and social sciences. And the best part is that we studied ourselves.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The paper was accepted for publication in Computo 🎉
As this is a relatively young journal, I want to share: Computo is the open access journal of the SFDS (French Statistical Society), promoting open source statistical software. The reviewing process was very smooth and helpful! computo-journal.org
As this is a relatively young journal, I want to share: Computo is the open access journal of the SFDS (French Statistical Society), promoting open source statistical software. The reviewing process was very smooth and helpful! computo-journal.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The paper was accepted for publication in Computo 🎉
As this is a relatively young journal, I want to share: Computo is the open access journal of the SFDS (French Statistical Society), promoting open source statistical software. The reviewing process was very smooth and helpful! computo-journal.org
As this is a relatively young journal, I want to share: Computo is the open access journal of the SFDS (French Statistical Society), promoting open source statistical software. The reviewing process was very smooth and helpful! computo-journal.org
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This Nature retrospective is quite interesting.
To me, the only solution to the credit assignment problem is obvious: stop believing a single person is responsible for every big discovery. It's an artifact of our monkey brain requiring a face for storage, not the reality of how knowledge progresses.
To me, the only solution to the credit assignment problem is obvious: stop believing a single person is responsible for every big discovery. It's an artifact of our monkey brain requiring a face for storage, not the reality of how knowledge progresses.
"stole Rosalind Franklin's work" has become the new orthodoxy. While she was certainly the victim of sexism from Watson, I think her colleague Wilkins was the real villain. Events 1951-53 well covered in Nature in 2023 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This Nature retrospective is quite interesting.
To me, the only solution to the credit assignment problem is obvious: stop believing a single person is responsible for every big discovery. It's an artifact of our monkey brain requiring a face for storage, not the reality of how knowledge progresses.
To me, the only solution to the credit assignment problem is obvious: stop believing a single person is responsible for every big discovery. It's an artifact of our monkey brain requiring a face for storage, not the reality of how knowledge progresses.