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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 2h

Discussions on AI have become very polarised nowadays. It’s unfortunate that you were affected by it. I, for my part, like what you seem to be doing and hope we can catch up sometime again in person.

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 12h

The video of Yevgeny Seldin's talk at the Post-Bayes seminar series on "recursive PAC-Bayes" is now online!

youtu.be/We3LZp0EUEM

Yevgeny Seldin (University of Copenhagen) - Recursive PAC Bayes

YouTube video by Post-Bayes seminar

youtu.be

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 9h

I can second that, I watched most of the introductory talks and liked them a lot. It’s a very informative series so far. I’m particularly happy to have finally learned a little bit about PAC Bayes.

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 5d

📣 Call for contributions!

The ELLIS UnConference Workshops are looking for work on ProbML, generative models, LLMs for molecules & materials, AI for earth & climate, LLM safety & more.

🗓️ Deadline: Oct 10, 2025
🔗 Details: https://eurips.cc/ellis/

Free entrance with a #EurIPS ticket 🎟️

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 21h

*don’t know

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 21h

I agree, there are many risks associated with this, such as hypothermia, and I don’t recommend doing it if you aren’t well prepared and know what you’re doing.

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 22h

Turns out swimming at night in 11 degrees cold water is fun. 🤩

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 1d

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA

Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

forum.image.sc

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 2d

Very well done podcast on climate change, risks related to it, and what is currently happening (or not happening) to tackle climate change.

Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 2d

Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory

If the world didn’t win, has it lost?

We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next

Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...

PART 1: Uncharted Territory

open.spotify.com

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 2d

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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Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.bsky.social · 5d

Macron: "Es ist befremdlich, dass ein französischer Präsident nach Deutschland kommt, um zu erklären, dass die Demokratie zu unseren Herausforderungen zählt. Aber so weit sind wir inzwischen gekommen (...). Es geschieht etwas in unseren Ländern, ein Verfall unserer Demokratien.“

Treffend zum 3.10.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 6d

We're finally out of stealth: percepta.ai
We're a research / engineering team working together in industries like health and logistics to ship ML tools that drastically improve productivity. If you're interested in ML and RL work that matters, come join us 😀

Percepta | A General Catalyst Transformation Company

Transforming critical institutions using applied AI. Let's harness the frontier.

percepta.ai

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 6d

I remember that at the JuliaCon in London (many years ago) there were Mathworks employees seeing what the “competition” is doing. Poor them. 🤣

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Seth Axen 🪓 @sethaxen.com · 6d

"I'm sure I don't have to tell you that #JuliaLang is awesome and Matlab is not" #HeardAtJuliaCon #JuliaCon

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 6d

This is a fantastic opportunity to launch your independent research career!

See the link below for details and get in touch via email if you are interested ( 👉 trappmartin.github.io).

Application 🔗: www.digitalfutures.kth.se/call/up-to-t...

Up to ten postdoc fellows in technologies for digital transformation | Digital Futures

The programme aims to provide networking opportunities and career development to enhance the future careers of successful postdoc fellows. Purpose Digital Futures postdoc fellowships aim to support ta...

www.digitalfutures.kth.se

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 6d

Want to work on Trustworthy AI? 🚀

I'm seeking exceptional candidates to apply for the Digital Futures Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with me on Uncertainty Quantification, Bayesian Deep Learning, and Reliability of ML Systems.

The position will be co-advised by Hossein Azizpour or Henrik Boström.

Home

Martin Trapp - Assistant Professor in Machine Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

trappmartin.github.io

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 6d

EurIPS workshop on AmOrTIzED InfErENcE!!!1!

Luigi Acerbi @lacerbi.bsky.social · 7d

Short abstract submission is open (DL Oct 16, 2025 AoE)
Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters.

🌍 Location: Copenhagen (co-located with #EurIPS)
📅 Date: 2 Dec, 2025
🔗 Website: sites.google.com/view/amortiz...
📝Call for abstracts: sites.google.com/view/amortiz...

Amortized ProbML 2025 - Call for Papers

Accepted papers will be presented as posters during the workshop poster session on 2nd December, 2025. Please be aware that this is not the same as the ELLIS UnConference poster session.

sites.google.com

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Luigi Acerbi @lacerbi.bsky.social · 7d

Short abstract submission is open (DL Oct 16, 2025 AoE)
Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters.

🌍 Location: Copenhagen (co-located with #EurIPS)
📅 Date: 2 Dec, 2025
🔗 Website: sites.google.com/view/amortiz...
📝Call for abstracts: sites.google.com/view/amortiz...

Amortized ProbML 2025 - Call for Papers

Accepted papers will be presented as posters during the workshop poster session on 2nd December, 2025. Please be aware that this is not the same as the ELLIS UnConference poster session.

sites.google.com

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 6d

*should

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Cameron @cameron.pfiffer.org · 6d

What are hot topics in the London AI scene? What are people thinking about? Voice? Knowledge graphs? Memory? Applied agents in finance/enterprise?

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 7d

It’s apparently the UK and not the most beautiful climbing area in Germany. 😅 Damn, it looks so similar on the picture.

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 7d

Wait, it’s not. It’s the UK according to Wikipedia. 🤦‍♂️

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Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you, this is gold.

Also, if someone wonders this is most likely the Elbsandsteingebirge, a famous trad climbing area at the border of Germany and the Czech Republic. Some of the most beautiful climbing there.

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 7d

TIL: 🤔

Extreme Ironing is an extreme sport in which people take ironing boards to remote locations and iron items of clothing.

"the latest dangerous sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme...

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Michael Kirchhof (ICML) @mkirchhof.bsky.social · 7d

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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