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Osvaldo Martin @aloctavodia.bsky.social · 1d

Interested in Bayesian workflow and cross-validation?
Join Aki Vehtari’s group at Aalto University as a PhD student!
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program by Oct 31 → ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

Recent work: users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica...

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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Jorge Loría @loriaj.bsky.social · 2d

"Where are your error bars?"

CNBC @cnbc.com · 3d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 7d

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer.

www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

AI isn't replacing radiologists

Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.

www.understandingai.org

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 26d

Launch day 🚀

We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game!

Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues!

Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈

Chartle - A daily chart game

Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart

chartle.cc

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Jorge Loría @loriaj.bsky.social · Sep 8

- Did I just bump my mug full of coffee on my desk?
Yes
- Did the mug do a really cool motion without spilling a drop?
Of course
- Do I feel my heart bumping like crazy?
Naturally

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Jorge Loría @loriaj.bsky.social · Sep 1

I did see that 84.7% of all statistics in social media are made up on the spot

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · Aug 31

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

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Samuel Kaski @samikaski.bsky.social · Aug 20

- Future PI's, postdocs, PhD students: calls will follow
- Companies, researchers in AI and other fields: we are seeking collaboration partners
- Finland and Europe: multiplicative effects coming from ELLIS

Stay tuned for further calls and research results!

@ellisinstitute.fi @ellis.eu

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Jorge Loría @loriaj.bsky.social · Aug 18

Reminds me of a paper I saw in the last year that the limit of a decision tree can be made into a GP

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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · Aug 12

I'm organizing the CUNY Math Ed/Comm Seminar for its second year ever!

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Hannu Oskala @hannuoskala.fi · Jul 30

HUGE NEWS FROM HELSINKI, FINLAND

Helsinki, a city of 690 000 people, has now had a full year without any traffic fatalities. None. No pedestrian, cyclist, scooter user or car deaths.

This is a huge achievement for a city of our size. 💪🏻

A little background 🧵 1/

yle.fi/a/74-20174831

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death

A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

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grand theft eigenvalue 🔆 @akhilrao.bsky.social · Jul 31

it's only causal if it comes from the do calculus or potential outcomes regions, otherwise it's just sparkling out of sample prediction

Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · Jul 31

Sorry guys, I know you don't like it, but every time you talk to a statistician, you realize how useless traditional stats is at conveying any idea about causal inference.

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Rena Kunisaki 🇨🇦 @segment6.net · Jun 5

Updating software be like:

Closed source: oh god please don't enshittify
Open source: oh god please don't break

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Samuel Kaski @samikaski.bsky.social · Jul 11

Postdocs and Research Fellows: Probabilistic machine learning, Centre for AI Fundamentals, Manchester, UK, DL July 27, 2025

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Funded by UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship, in the Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals.

Research Associate or Research Fellow In Machine Learning (2 Posts Available):Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · Jul 17

According to the pigeonhole principle, we really need to invest in pigeon housing.

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Jorge Loría @loriaj.bsky.social · Jul 12

Departure is now delayed 1 h 20 mins, because of them. I should've booed with the rest

Jorge Loría @loriaj.bsky.social · Jul 12

Someone arrived late to the flight, which delayed the departure, and they got booed

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Jul 11

A short blogpost detailing my experience of censorship at the AI for Good Summit with links to both original and censored versions of slides and links to my talk

aial.ie/blog/2025-ai...

AI for Good [Appearance?]

Reflections on the last minute censorship of my keynote at the AI for Good Summit 2025

aial.ie

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Jorge Loría @loriaj.bsky.social · Jul 7

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · Jul 7

What’s a number (or set of numbers) in your field or hobby that might seem unrelated but anyone else in that group would recognise in an instant?

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Aalto University - Aalto-yliopisto @aalto.fi · Jun 25

Innovation thrives in inclusive environments! The study from @aalto.fi and @univaasa.bsky.social spanned 2003–2017, and more recent data indicates that the trend is accelerating. Seems like a good time to remind the world that inclusivity gives ideas room to flourish. 🏳️‍🌈
www.aalto.fi/en/news/lgbt...

LGBTQ-Friendly Firms More Innovative | Aalto University

Firms with progressive LGBTQ policies produce more patents, have more patent citations, and have higher innovation quality as measured by patent originality, generality, and internationality.

www.aalto.fi

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Jun 20

It's that time of year again! Drowning doesn't look like drowning; familiarize yourself with the instinctive drowning response

Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

slate.com

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · Jun 13

If I were queen of the internet, you’d be able to write LaTeX anywhere, in any editor/textbox/message and it would render in line perfectly

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Jorge Loría @loriaj.bsky.social · Jun 13

Reached that point of coding where I search for an error and the answers I find online are "I asked [some LLM] and it helped" followed with a completely useless block of code 😔

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · Jun 10

I'm training an SVM to classify correct/incorrect proofs of suitably encoded mathematical proofs, such as Fermat's Last Theorem's.

Unsuccessfully so far, the margin is too small

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · Jun 3

#RStats WHAT MAGICKS IS THIS?!?!?! github.com/t-kalinowski...

GitHub - t-kalinowski/quickr: R to Fortran Transpiler

R to Fortran Transpiler. Contribute to t-kalinowski/quickr development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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