The famous medieval rat story resurfaces

Matlab over python? 😂

Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

Photo of the NCAA Ski Championship Trophy with pilots in the cockpit of an airplane

Photo of the NCAA Ski Championship Trophy buckled into an airplane seat with headphones on

Look who’s headed home. #GoUtes! 🎿🏆

Tall Structures xkcd.com/3058

Hello! Keep sharing space love

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The cosmic distance ladder with Terence Tao, part 2 YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

Part 2 of the collaboration with Terence Tao on the cosmic distance ladder is now out. It covers how we first learned the distances to planets, stars, and galaxies far, far away.

youtu.be/hFMaT9oRbs4

KM3NeT xkcd.com/3053

AlphaMove xkcd.com/3045

Can I send you a game request?

I swear I'm not making a cooking channel here. But these palak puri came out so well.

Three SCI Faculty Earn Top National Award for Early Career Scientists and Engineers

SCI faculty members Amir Arzani, Kate Isaacs (@kisaacs.bsky.social), and Bei Wang Phillips recently received a prestigious national honor: the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Congrats to these rising stars! 🌟 #PECASE @utah.edu

running vi inside a docker process running the dev build of the social app, ssh'd into a remote box from inside tmux running in alacritty, deleting javascript code as god intended

Chess Zoo xkcd.com/3036

An Earth-Rocking Cosmic Explosion Turns 20 Twenty years ago today a magnetar’s epic tantrum made our planet ring like a bell from tens of thousands of light-years away

20 years ago today, a tiny neutron star reached halfway across the galaxy and slammed our planet with a gamma-ray hammer.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-e...

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I can do this.

ModernBERT is available as a slot-in replacement for any BERT-like model, with both 139M param and 395M param sizes.

It has a 8192 sequence length, is extremely efficient, is uniquely great at analyzing code, and much more. Read this for details:
huggingface.co/blog/modern...

Gukesh!!

😂

Scientists discover NEW DEEPEST spot on Earth: Gukesh's opening prep. #DingGukesh

Today along with my project co-lead @rubenohana.bsky.social and the team at @polymathicai.bsky.social I'm excited to announce the release of the Well, a 15TB collection of 15+ datasets for physical simulation.

Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=00Sx5...
Github: github.com/PolymathicAI...

Generating cat videos is nice, but what if you could tackle real scientific problems with the same methods? 🧪🌌
Introducing The Well: 16 datasets (15TB) for Machine Learning, from astrophysics to fluid dynamics and biology.
🐙: github.com/PolymathicAI...
📜: openreview.net/pdf?id=00Sx5...

Residual connections are such a fascinating idea at their core! They approximate the same mapping that exists without the residual connection, but the residual connection helps training because of the inductive bias.

Playing chess on a first date. Perchance

St George and Zion national park are beautiful!!

SOAP: Improving and Stabilizing Shampoo using Adam There is growing evidence of the effectiveness of Shampoo, a higher-order preconditioning method, over Adam in deep learning optimization tasks. However, Shampoo's drawbacks include additional hyperpa...

I’ve been hearing through the grapevine that the new SOAP optimizer might be SOTA now. Has anyone given it a go and compared it to Adam?

arxiv.org/abs/2409.11321

Wanna add me my friend? :)

Scientific and critical thinking, is both simple to do at any point, but difficult to master and enable as a constant back-of-the-mind process.