Careful Michael - you don't want to get me started on emacs vs vi

For fuck's sake. It's just happened again.
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WTF! I was adding comments to a student's paper in Acrobat when it suddenly froze. Now the file has completely disappeared - it's not in the folder where I was editing it and it's not even in the recycle bin. @adobe.com

Journal accepts bogus paper requesting removal from mailing list Australian computer scientist Dr Peter Vamplew submitted emphatically titled paper to ‘predatory’ journal and ‘nearly fell off chair’ when it was accepted

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hopefully last year's dropoff in stats was due to his elbow injury 🤞and hopefully that's completely healed 🤞

Never mind at events. I could use this in daily life!

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✍️ Sign the petition calling for a fair return on our gas
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Everyone ran a PB? Are we sure this isn't the athletic track from The Games?

I remember first encountering the concept of Hamming distances while sitting outside at Flinders University doing background reading for my Honours thesis on image compression. Coincidentally a very young Terence Tao was walking past at that very moment!

e-petitions e-petitions

@timayres-minister.bsky.social, @jimchalmers.bsky.social , @jasonclaremp.bsky.social , would you, in this light, consider responding to this petition (which technically requested a response from the Minister by January 28, according to parliamentary rules)?
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

So I can go back to drinking strawberry Nesquik in hot milk without feeling shame?

Aaaah! Overleaf is down! EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!

Artificial Intelligence Safety and Cybersecurity: a Timeline of AI Failures In this work, we present and analyze reported failures of artificially intelligent systems and extrapolate our analysis to future AIs. We suggest that both the frequency and the seriousness of future ...

Roman Yampolskiy made spellchecker a co-author! arxiv.org/abs/1610.07997

jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social) Attached: 1 image reminder that anthropic ran (and is still running) an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funn...

jonny over on masto doing god's work:

> anthropic [is running] an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS.

neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632...

Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning with Prof. Vamplew, ARAAC YouTube video by AI Safety Research Directory

The AI Safety Research Directory just posted an audio interview with me, exploring the relationship between multi-objective reinforcement learning and pluralistic alignment of AI systems www.youtube.com/watch?v=REZf...

So, yesterday we had two consecutive meetings scheduled over the lunch break, with food provided. Which made me wonder if that was the worst possible.

Turns out, yes: it is provably impossible to schedule more meetings in that time slot! This is called the No-Three-Lunch Theorem

The first workshop was my favourite part of Neurips in 2024. I'd encourage people to participate in this.

This is far from the most important aspect of this video, but I've never seen someone with sideburns that exist solely above their eyeline/ears before.

Workday, the product, is a crime.

As in: it should be a criminal offense for any organization, including my university, to pay for this product and require its use.

Oh nothing, just a peer reviewed paper my colleagues found...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
"1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min."

Even AI knows what's wrong here, but @elsevierconnect.bsky.social doesn't.

On the upside, maybe NeurIPS in Sydney might be small enough to be bearable?

There's no need for me to ever write a blog post about my attitude to computers, because Julian Togelius has done it for me.

I remember how stunning it was at the time to hear speech in a computer game, even if it was only a few words. "Stay a while. Stay forever."

Great idea. I've already got two AI-hallucinated papers (titles) with my name on that I can submit :-)

DeepMind's RL team is hiring a research scientist: if you're passionate about RL, come work with us!

And if you know people who might be interested, please share:
job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

Every time I share or send an emoji I feel like there is an older person watching me and silently judging me for using them at all.

We Automated RL Environment Engineering for $10 RL environment simulation eats 50-90% of training wall-clock for specialist RL policies. Coding agents can translate them automatically with no sim-to-sim gap.

open.substack.com/pub/sethkart...

Someone might want to proof-read that image :-)

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of Squaxx dek Thargo suddenly had exactly the same reaction @2000ad.bsky.social

When shaping your research agenda, your objective is to find the weirdest niche possible that still has the potential to change everything.