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Midjourney @midjourneyofficial.bsky.social · 4d

Time for some chaos? 😈😇

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · 4d

How do you reliably prevent the agents from falling into an endless AI slop loop?

youtube.com/shorts/EeNEQ...

ChatGPT saying goodbye to ChatGPT

YouTube video by Theos Stack

youtube.com

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 6d

I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.

Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

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...

ellis.eu

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Luigi Acerbi @lacerbi.bsky.social · 11d

Do you like to train neural networks to solve all your nasty probabilistic inference and sequential design problems?
Do you love letter salads such as NPs, PFNs, NPE, SBI, BED?

Then no place is better than the Amortized ProbML workshop we are organizing at #ELLIS UnConference.

Amortized ProbML:
Unlocking Probabilistic Machine Learning for Real-world Inference & Design (🇩🇰)
ELLIS UnConference Workshop
Copenhagen | 2 December, 2025

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 11d

🎓 The application portal for the #ELLISPhD Program is open today! Info & link: https://bit.ly/45DSe75

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...

ellis.eu

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Michael Kirchhof (ICML) @mkirchhof.bsky.social · 11d

Many treat uncertainty = a number. At Apple, we're rethinking this: LLMs should output strings that reveal all information of their internal distributions. We find that Reasoning, SFT, CoT can't do it - yet. To get there, we introduce the SelfReflect benchmark.

arxiv.org/pdf/2505.20295

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Shubhendu Trivedi @shubhendu.bsky.social · Sep 1

Natural idea. Looks like a nice paper too. arxiv.org/abs/2508.21184

BED-LLM: Intelligent Information Gathering with LLMs and Bayesian Experimental Design

We propose a general-purpose approach for improving the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to intelligently and adaptively gather information from a user or other external source using the framew...

arxiv.org

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · 21d

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · 21d

Why? I’m literally gonna be in Göteborg tomorrow lol

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · 25d

Fingers crossed and best of luck!

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · 27d

dm is the GOAT if you have kids

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · Sep 6

It checks out; these are authentic phd level capabilities.

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Miles Cranmer @milescranmer.bsky.social · Sep 4

PolymathicAI is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers to join our team at Cambridge, to work on building and understanding large-scale foundation models for science. Please share with potential candidates!

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · Sep 4

This is huge; congrats! 🎉

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · Aug 28

@dottxtai.bsky.social

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · Aug 26

I regularly play pirate adventures with my 5yo, with ChatGPT as the storyteller. Mechanics based on D20 and a very simple character sheet for bonuses (strength, courage, intelligence).

- Content driven by the child, not "A or B"
- Generate img for each scene
- generate summary img for each session

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · Aug 26

eww yeah, that’s gross.

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · Aug 19

Code review or paper review?

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NumFOCUS @numfocus.bsky.social · Aug 13

BayesFlow released version 2.0.4, presented numerous findings at the MathPsych/ICCM 2025 conference at Ohio State University, and expanded its contributor list to 25 active members! Congrats to BayesFlow on all these new huge accomplishments!

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · Aug 11

If you’re still there and haven’t done it yet: take a waterbus to the Murano/Burano islands.

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · Aug 9

Modern Family is full of examples for good communication on tough topics

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · Jul 24

I think you‘d agree to disagree @zetaof1.bsky.social

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · Jul 21

I still reminisce the taste of coconut water from a fresh coconut — seeing this photo you posted brought that right back into my memory.

Oh, and these tiny bananas are just on a whole different level as well ✨

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · Jul 21

Yes, I also have many beautiful memories of this beautiful region.

This is me in Kerala in 2013 (as a high school student).

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · Jul 19

@lacerbi.bsky.social that might be you 😅

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