Preferred candidates: - Experience with deep learning models or theoretical machine learning. Not looking for computational biologists for these positions - We are looking exclusively for those who are ready to come to Singapore - Those interested in creating biotech startups are more than welcome

AI in biology must be experimentally verifiable, and that requires wet labs. @astar_gis is hiring pre- and postdocs with proven AI knowledge to build foundation models for RNA therapeutics: mRNA vaccines/drugs, gene editing, ribozymes and in vivo CAR-T. Singapore-based. DM me and please repost.

Has Mark Zuckerberg finally lost it? It started with metaverse obsession that was going on for a couple of years and a couple of billions of dollars. Then came mass hiring, followed by the first out of many mass layoffs. Than he brought Scale.ai guy to lead AI in Meta.

I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the only thing that matters for energy independence is material science and biotech. Any county that is serious about energy independence should invest into these sectors heavily.

Over which important details am I glossing over when I say that the tension between people who don't want to fight inequality (*) and the people who do is mostly about exploit vs. explore and short-term vs. long-term rewards?

American friends, watch m.imdb.com/title/tt3307...

My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024) ⭐ 7.5 | Documentary

5h 24m

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Honestly this works for everything “I want to trap hungry 19c ghosts in jars to help us with historical research” ✅ “Please read our holiday card; we got a hungry ghost to write it this year” ❌

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 12mo ago

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

European "left" when you ask them about Iran

6/ Who should apply? Researchers with a strong computational background and a genuine interest in biology—from foundations to translation.

1/ We’re hiring PIs in AI × Biology The @astar-gis.bsky.social Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) is expanding its AI & Computation domain and recruiting junior & senior PIs.

I sometimes wonder if people in the "dark ages" knew they lived in "dark ages", and if our descendants will think that we live in an "dark age". I feel we live in a strage mixture of progress of technology and looming society collapse due to concentration of power into ...

EU should declare that English is a second official language in all member states. It's not like Balzac, Göthe or Cervantes will turn in their graves if you allow me to ask questions and find answers about how cross-country pension insurance works, and what I need to provide and to whom in English.

*Urgently* looking for emergency reviewers for the ARR October Interpretability track 🙏🙏 ReSkies much appreciated

"Culture"

"To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself". Just a random quote from "Art of war" that I remembered when I heard about FAIR layoffs.

Napisao sam polu-zajedljiv komentar, ali sam ga pobrisao jer bi mogao biti kontroverzan 0.1 osobi na ovom sajtu. Kažu da dobar hejt umire posljednji, ali nisam više siguran. Hejt je krhka i nestabilna emocija, trenutak čekaš i ode. Kao Kairos.

AI doesn't kill jobs, people do.

I wrote a short summary with some context on the blog.

The Actuary's Final Word

Resolving the legacy of Paul Meehl's troubling little book.

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my brother underperformed Q2 so we had to let him go. you know how it is.

Are there any works that explore curriculum learning in an unsupervised setting? Does the notion of Y is easier to learn if you first learn X happen automatically in auto-regressive modelling, or diffusion models or any other generative modelling approach?

I recently read this paper: alexiglad.github.io/blog/2025/ebt/ I like the idea: first learn a verifier (a model that tells you the goodness/compatibility of a prediction given some context), and then optimize predictions with respect to this verifier.

After the bubble bursts will LinkedIn be full of posts: "This changes NOTHING"?

I think people (who use this term) mean "constraining the model by constraining hyperparameters", while "ordinary" (non-inductive?) bias means "constraining the model by constraining parameters", but 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ben Recht@beenwrekt.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Which ideas in computer science don't do better with faster computers? And what is a "human inductive bias?" (I never know what anyone means by "inductive bias." It is a term that defies definition.)

God bless Chris Bishop for being consistent with notation within and across his books.

Unmute adds ears and vocal chords to your favorite text-based language model. A seamless plug-and-play augmentation with easy personalisation through voice conditioning and text instructions. We will open-source shortly.

Kyutai@kyutai-labs.bsky.social · last yr.

Talk to unmute.sh 🔊, the most modular voice AI around. Empower any text LLM with voice, instantly, by wrapping it with our new speech-to-text and text-to-speech. Any personality, any voice. Interruptible, smart turn-taking. We’ll open-source everything within the next few weeks.

Clicking of PDF links opens them directly in Chrome browser on Android, the same behavior as on iOS. Hallelujah, hallelujah!

Many of society’s problems would be solved if we decided to treat greed as a mental illness. Greed is not good: it’s just easy. There are many other things that “clarify and cut through” and it’s easy to sell that greed “captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit”, but it really doesn’t.

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The thoughts that randomly appear when cleaning: why it's called "love triangle" when most of the time it's only "love angle".

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Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2) in Molecular Design

We are looking for exceptional early-career scientists conducting computational research with a proven record of accomplishment. The primary focus of this call is on candidates proposing research on b...

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