🏢 Vacancy: Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Research Fellow (4 posts) 📍 Department of Statistics, University of Oxford 📃 Contract: Full time, fixed-term for 3 years 💷 Salary Range: £36,024 – £44,263 ⏲️ Deadline: 12pm UK, 30 Apr 2025 Full details & how to apply 👉 shorturl.at/3l47e

Radcliffe Department of Medicine@rdm.ox.ac.uk · last yr.

The Novo Nordisk – Oxford Fellowship Programme open for applications The programme is focused on research in diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and other cardiometabolic conditions. There are 4 fully funded fellowships (3 years). For more info on how to apply, visit shorturl.at/3l47e

Research internships in AI safety www.lasrlabs.org

LASR Labs

Join a 13-week research programme and write a technical AI safety paper in a small team with supervision from an experienced researcher. Work full time from the LISA offices in London alongside AI Saf...

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Our paper on the best way to add error bars to LLM evals is on arXiv! TL;DR: Avoid the Central Limit Theorem -- there are better, simple Bayesian and frequentist methods you should be using instead. We also provide a super lightweight library: github.com/sambowyer/baye… 🧵👇

Come work with me! We are looking to bring on more top talent to our language modeling workstream at @ai2.bsky.social building the open ecosystem. We are hiring: * Research scientists * Senior research engineers * Post docs (Young investigators) * Pre docs job-boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninst...

The Allen Institute for AI

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I’m teaching a grad course for the first time (a bit terrifying 😅) and I’ve decided to write a short blog post after each lecture, that will highlight a key takeaway from it and reflect on what can be improved. First one ⬇️

📣 Jobs alert We’re hiring postdoc and research engineer to work on UQ for LLMs!! Details ⬇️ #ai #llm #uq

@yeewhye.bsky.social · last yr.

Postdoctoral fellowships and research engineer positions available for an Oxford+Singapore project on uncertainty quantification in LLMs! docs.google.com/document/d/1... Oxford deadline is Feb 26. Pls apply if interested, forward to your contacts, contact me if you have questions 🙏🙏

📣 Jobs alert We’re hiring postdoc and research engineer to work on UQ for LLMs!! Details ⬇️ #ai #llm #uq

@yeewhye.bsky.social · last yr.

Postdoctoral fellowships and research engineer positions available for an Oxford+Singapore project on uncertainty quantification in LLMs! docs.google.com/document/d/1... Oxford deadline is Feb 26. Pls apply if interested, forward to your contacts, contact me if you have questions 🙏🙏

A tiny "embers of autoregression" artifact in simple arithmetic probapproxincorrect.substack.com/p/embers-of-au…

🌟 Research Collaboration Morning 🌟 Our recent Research Collaboration Morning featured talks from Hrushi Loya (SGBE) & @desirivanova.bsky.social (CSML) over tea & coffee, followed by amazing treats from Waste2Taste & Blakes Food. Thanks to Prof Simon Myers and Bev Lane for organising!

📢 My team at Meta (including Yaron Lipman and Ricky Chen) is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to help us build the next generation of flow, transport, and diffusion models! Please apply here and message me: www.metacareers.com/jobs/1459691...

Postdoctoral Researcher, Fundamental AI Research (PhD)

Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.

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We're excited to announce the ICML 2025 call for workshops! The CFP and submission advice can be found at: icml.cc/Conferences/.... The deadline is Feb 10. Submit some creative proposals!

It also makes for a bad equilibrium where publicly disagreeing with a paper (except very mildly and boringly) is infrequent and therefore an extreme signal. So people don't do it even when they feel published papers are wrong or misleading. 3/

Being able to do “academic research” at a tech salary was a zero interest rate phenomenon

Alexander Terenin@avt.im · 2y ago

I have been saying for years: getting into deep learning to chase high-salary AI jobs where you can do what you want is a fool’s errand. There’s a lot of competition, differentiating yourself except by luck or connections is hard, and most companies want direct benefit from the salaries they pay.

For my first post on Bluesky .. I'll start by announcing our 2025 edition of EEML which will be in Sarajevo :) ! I'm really excited about it and hope to see many of you there. Please follow the website (and Bluesky account) for more details which are coming soon ..

EEML@eemlcommunity.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello Bluesky! 🦋 This will be the official account of the Eastern European Machine Learning (EEML) community. Follow us for news regarding our summer schools, workshops, education/community initiatives, and more!

cool now do this bsky.app/profile/labu...

Peter Labuza@labuzamovies.com · 2y ago

here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics

It’s hot takes Friday 😅 probapproxincorrect.substack.com/p/some-thoug...

Some thoughts on the role of Bayesianism in the age of Modern AI

It works because it works.

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Prior specification is one of the hardest tasks in Bayesian modeling. In our new paper, we (Florence Bockting, @stefanradev.bsky.social and me) develop a method for expert prior elicitation using generative neural networks and simulation-based learning. arxiv.org/abs/2411.15826

Expert-elicitation method for non-parametric joint priors using normalizing flows

We propose an expert-elicitation method for learning non-parametric joint prior distributions using normalizing flows. Normalizing flows are a class of generative models that enable exact, single-step...

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I've never, personally, had any direct utility from traditional academic peer review for my scientific work. I've never used that peer review as any kind of signal or credential in judging a paper or deciding whether to read it. Nearly all the papers I read are preprints.

How about we stop writing and submitting papers that should have been a blog/reddit post at best

Vincent Fortuin@vincefort.eurosky.social · 2y ago

The review debate has entered 🦋. Let me re-propose my favorite idea so far: We reduce everything to a single point of entry with rolling review that only checks for scientific correctness (like TMLR). Once a paper is published there, you can apply for it to be presented at an upcoming conference.

I was raving about this paper for 1 month or so, I think everyone working on Reinforcement Learning should read it, and probably people working in other machine learning subfields should read it too

Brandon Rohrer@brandonrohrer.com · 2y ago

Adding my love letter to arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01315 Empirical Design in Reinforcement Learning by Andrew Patterson, Samuel Neumann, Martha White, Adam White JMLR 25 (2024) 1-63 #ReinforcementLearning These aren’t the heroes we deserve, but they are the heroes we need.

For those who don’t feel like they fit into my Grumpy Machine Learners list (which I still need to update based on 100+ requests) I’ve created another starter pack: go.bsky.app/Js7ka12 (Self) nominations welcome.

The beta version of BayesFlow 2.0 is becoming more powerful and stable by the day. If you are curious about Amortized Bayesian Inference, give BayesFlow a try! github.com/bayesflow-or...

Bring stats to LM evals!! open.substack.com/pub/desiriva...

💥 the most exciting new CDT just opened for admissions!! More details will be announced soon, I promise it will be huge!! www.dtc.ox.ac.uk/foai-cdt

Fundamentals of AI Centre for Doctoral Training

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Decent 0-shot performance (conditional on it has been like 100 years since retirement) 😅

StatML is probably the best programme in the UK to do an ML PhD/DPhil!

Department of Statistics@oxfordstatistics.bsky.social · 2y ago

📝Admissions for our STATML are now open! ⏱️Deadline: 8th Jan '25 STATML is an @EPSRC funded CDT in Statistics & Machine Learning. Studentships are fully funded for a 4-year PhD/DPhil research programme. 🔗For more info, please visit: statml.io

Thanks to UK academia, today I was reminded (for the N-th time) what happens when you allocate resources by optimising the wrong objective 🫠

The next UCL centre for Data Science/UCL ELLIS unit event will be on "Computational Statistics and Machine Learning in the Sciences" will take place in-person on the 5th December at the London Mathematical Society. Full details, incl registration: www.ucl.ac.uk/big-data

I've created an initial Grumpy Machine Learners starter park. If you think you're grumpy and you "do machine learning", nominate yourself. If you're on the list, but don't think you are grumpy, then take a look in the mirror. go.bsky.app/6ddpivr