Another incredibly informative video about why speed limit doesn't work (but better road design works) by Justine Underhill (I can't understand how she only has 3k followers... 🤯)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6LIYQRglnM
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Professor at Indiana University Bloomington. Develops network, data, and machine learning methods and applies them to (mostly) social problems.
@yy@twitter is NOT my account.
https://yyiki.org/wiki/articles/2024/neovim_zenmode/
Neovim + zen mode + twilight for writing
Check out our paper "Network community detection via neural embeddings" led by @sadamori (w Filippo Radicchi and Santo Fortunato)!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52355-w
We argue that n2v can encode community structure down to the detectability limit due to its connection to spectral embedding.
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Come join us at the Inverse Complexity Lab! @invcomplexity
We’re hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join our group at IT:U, Linz, Austria.
https://skewed.de/lab/call.html
Deadline is 30 Nov 2024.
We are looking for an early-stage or more advanced postdoctoral scholar who is interested in building on our ongoing projects, or developing their own research agenda related to inverse problems in network science, complex systems modeling, and/or connections to machine learning.
This position is not bound to a particular research project, and the successful applicant will enjoy intellectual independence and freedom to choose research topics.
We’re seeking applicants with a background in Physics, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or related fields, and with an interest in interdisciplinary research.
This position is guaranteed for 3 years. The gross salary range is € 66,532 to € 72,000 (indexed for inflation), depending on previous experience.
The employment conditions in Austria include completely free health care (also for family members), social security benefits, 25 days per year of paid vacations, flexible working hours, and possibility of home office.
In addition, IT:U will provide a KlimaTicket—a unified transport pass which gives free access to the entire transportation system in Austria, including trains and local public transport.
IT:U is a brand new public university in Austria, which began operations with its first cohort of professors in 2024, and is devoted to interdisciplinary research. It is co-located with the Johannes Kepler Universität in Linz, at the Science Park campus.
Linz is the third largest city in Austria with a population of 200k, centrally located only 1h15m away from Vienna by train, and short connections to Germany, Italy, and other neighboring countries.
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This paper looks like a nice guide for causal inference with instrumental variables. I haven't read whole thing closely yet, but it seems to go through each assumption and what happens if they are violated (not often exposed & explained well).
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00491241241235900
“Typing” effect of LLM interface increases stereo”typing” via stronger anthropomorphism?
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Nice, our #Geospatial Data Science 🌐 course materials reached 500 stars on Github! ⭐🤩
https://github.com/mszell/geospatialdatascience
We aim to update it yearly with new developments.
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Filipi Silva introduces GPU-powered drag & drop network embedding and visualization tools
#Rep4CS #CCS2024
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Windshield Bias, Car Brain, Motornormativity: Different Names, Same Obscured Public Health Hazard https://findingspress.org/article/122974-windshield-bias-car-brain-motornormativity-different-names-same-obscured-public-health-hazard
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Never forget what they’ve taken from you
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1/ Americans have access to 4.2 million miles of public roads, including an interstate system that was completed in 1992, that can generally carry us anywhere we might like to go. And yet, expensive and disruptive highway construction continues. https://slate.com/business/2024/08/construction-traffic-cars-driving-transportation-highway.html
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Bike Theft Discourages People From Riding Bikes. These Bike Parking “Pods” Can Help. https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/oonee-black-startup-secure-bike-parking-nyc
Cerebras inference can generate 450 tokens per second for Llama3.1 70B model 😵: https://cerebras.ai/blog/introducing-cerebras-inference-ai-at-instant-speed
How can they do the LLM inference so quickly?
They are making a HUGE chip ("wafer-scale engine" - one chip from one wafer) that contains close to 1M (!) cores specialized to perform sparse linear algebra operations.
The shoe size system is maddening, especially for a man with small feet... Toddler, small kids, big kids, men, women, ... The number doesn't contain any information!
How about using freaking cm for both length and width?
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