When it comes to text prediction, where does one LM outperform another? If you've ever worked on LM evals, you know this question is a lot more complex than it seems. In our new #acl2025 paper, we developed a method to find fine-grained differences between LMs: 🧵1/9

🪰 A new ‘Eyemap’ developed by a team led by Arthur Zhao & @michaelreiser.bsky.social reveals how visual information detected by the fly’s eye shows up in neurons deep in the brain. Remarkably, the eye’s shape determines how flies see motion.👁️ 🔗 hhmi.news/4kSZjou

TIL when upgrading your Ubuntu OS, sometimes it will just hang and not tell you what's going on. The solution is just to hold down the Enter key until it starts going again: www.kubuntuforums.net/forum/curren...

Excited to be presenting my paper "Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different" tomorrow at ICML, 11 am - 1:30 pm, East Exhibition Hall A-B, E-500. I made a little video overview as part of the ICML process (viewable from Chrome): recorder-v3.slideslive.com#/share?share...

I recently participated in the High-Level Expert Panel on AGI, convened by the Council of Presidents of the UN General Assembly, which has just released its final report on the Governance of the Transition to AGI. Report below ⬇️ uncpga.world/agi-uncpga-r...

cute little label at the bottom of a climb that i thought applies to lots of things, including this "5.9"

Had fun slotting together my new Framework 13 laptop! Look how cute my purple USB port is!

I'd really like someone to get AI to solve package management for me. (I convinced myself to try to learn pixi this week and it has not solved all my problems.)

BirdCLEF25: Audio-based species identification focused on birds, amphibians, mammals, and insects in Colombia. 👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com #FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF [1/4]

Highly recommend the tutorial notebook by @briandepasquale.bsky.social for a good intro to GNNs and also working with Drosophila connectomics data! tinyurl.com/cosyne-gnn-2...

Flies are exceptionally good at fast and efficient visual motion processing. I'm fascinated by the heuristics/hacks evolution has come up with for processing motion in a moving animal. What can computer vision for robotics or on the edge learn from this?

I know there's a 𝒍𝒐𝒕 going on right now, but I couldn’t be prouder to share this long-incubated labor of love: the complete connectome of the male 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 optic lobe 🧠🪰 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to participate in the Graph Neural Networks workshop at Cosyne on Monday March 31 (day 1): IT’S ALL CONNECTED! Graph approaches to geometric complexity in neuroscience sites.google.com/bu.edu/gnnwo... Hope to see you there!

Oh I'm very into open science approaches that deploy Jupyter Notebooks. I really like what @arcadiascience.com is doing with their new publication efforts & team - research.arcadiascience.com/pub/perspect...

This piece is evergreen: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-u...

Please share broadly to your networks so this can reach its intended audience! And we are also looking for volunteers to help instruct/mentor. Details here: cv4ecology.caltech.edu/ai-upskillin...

@cosynemeeting.bsky.social GNN workshop speaker profile 3 is Ashok Litwin-Kumar, of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social! Ashok has been a driving force in connectomics-based modeling.

Excited to be presenting this work at #cosyne2025 this week - as a poster (session 3, no. 3-017) and as part of the “Reimagining RL in the Brain” workshop organised by Alison Comrie and @nathanieldaw.bsky.social. My first in-person cosyne, so looking forward to it!

After hearing about the ongoing hotel workers strike at the #COSYNE2025 hotel, I cancelled my reservation and booked a room at a hotel a short 10 minute walk from the meeting. It was easy and I encourage others to do the same! #solidarity montreal.citynews.ca/2025/01/14/q...

I'm organizing a "Data for Good Rapid Response Team", i.e. a set of people who can be mobilized to work on short data science projects to help various groups and organizations. Sign up here if this is of interest to you, and please share with others with data science skills.

Looking forward to learning all about the newest in graph neural nets at Cosyne next week!

I sat down with Jaida Elcock (@sofishtication.bsky.social), a marine biologist studying basking sharks, and Danny (@ecoevodanny.bsky.social), a coral researcher & HHMI (@hhmi.org) Gilliam Fellow, to talk all things ocean! 🦈🌿🌊 We explored their journeys, research, and more!

Want to procedurally generate large-scale relational reasoning experiments in natural language, to study human psychology 🧠 or eval LLMs 🤖? We have a tool for you! Our latest #ICLR work on long-context/relational reasoning evaluation for LLMs ReCogLab! github.com/google-deepm... Thread ⬇️

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

I'm reading up on code generation evaluation, and I appreciate that the paper about APPS starts with the quote feom Steve Jobs, "Everybody should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think" arxiv.org/pdf/2105.09938 Amen

PSA for people collaborating across countries: daylight savings time started in the US yesterday, but not everywhere else in the world

Why did we organize Stand Up for Science? 🧪☀️⬇️ Read more in our Q&A in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social, out today! Link - www.nature.com/articles/s41... @leslie-bern.bsky.social @emmalovesscience.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social @jpflores.bsky.social @samschuelstein.bsky.social

Calling all @cosynemeeting.bsky.social attendees! @neurokim.bsky.social, Sam Lewallen and I are organizing a 🔥🔥 workshop on graph approaches to neuroscience, including graph neural networks! For info see sites.google.com/bu.edu/gnnwo...

Want to stream our DC event & hear from amazing speakers like Bill Nye, Francis Collins, Atul Gawande, and SO MANY MORE? Join our livestream at www.twitch.tv/standupforsc..., starting at 12 pm! #standupforscience2025

Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w... I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

@virginieuhlmann.bsky.social talked @tlmcambridge.bsky.social online seminar series about: Turning morphology into numbers across microscopy scales and modalities; a perforce ride from imaging to image analysis to model generation to prediction. bio-mat-sketches-mor.blogspot.com/2025/03/virg...

Check out our preprint on the SOTA Surgical Gaussian Surfels. We render surgical scenes at high fidelity in real time using Gaussian Surfels. #AcademicSky #GaussianSplatting arxiv.org/abs/2503.04079

Seattle science colleagues (and friends): I hope you’re ready to see the awesome artistic skills (or lack thereof) on our lab’s posters at the science march tomorrow! Come for the science! Stay for your community!

Washington Square Park, Friday 12-3pm in NYC! Safety tips: standupforscience2025.org/protest-safe...

"When you see important societal actors ... changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism,” said Steven Levitsky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

Will be at #standupforscience2025 in DC tomorrow!! Science is for the common good. It's goal is to understand the universe. We use that understanding to make our lives better -- treat diseases, build tech, preserve the environment, and marvel at the cleverness of evolution and the universe's beauty

What are your favorite papers on tokenizers (for pretraining data processing) and their downstream effects? ↳ (examples in thread)

Quick shoutout to the labs, departments, and scientists cancelling / rescheduling lab meetings, seminars and more to give students and others the chance to defend science for @standupforscience.bsky.social

My new paper "Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different": arxiv.org/abs/2503.02113. Generalization behaviours in deep learning can be intuitively understood through a notion of soft inductive biases, and formally characterized with countable hypothesis bounds! 1/12

For every one of us who can march on Friday, let's @standupforscience.bsky.social. Sadly, we also need to acknowledge that not everyone can (grr...). An international someone reached out asking if there were other ways to advocate. Yes, absolutely! Here are some ideas: www.nicolecrust.com/advocacy

Found on the whiteboard near my office

Weekend long read on how Hard Fork’s Kevin Roose has oversold new AI tools coding without knowing how to code, as a case study in a larger phenomenon of leading journalists hyping AI: open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Amid all the super-duper research advances, I am excited to share my video on a super-duper basic topic: How to sample your signals? Here we discuss sampling, why aliasing occurs, and how to prevent it. It's fascinating to view this through the lens of frequency analysis. youtu.be/fTJjPGaPsq4

Dr. Charles Henry Turner was from Ohio; he earned a BSc and MSc from the University of Cincinnati. He was the first African American to earn a PhD in #entomology, which was at the University of Chicago in 1907. #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

New in Nature: A review of the potential for AI to address the biodiversity crisis, filling knowledge gaps that require complex assessment of media, text, DNA, and more. Featuring author @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social. Read in @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s44... #science

REGISTER: AI Tools for Addressing Conservation and Biodiversity Feat. Nathaniel Roth @calconservation.bsky.social, @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social, Melissa Chapman @ethzurich.bsky.social, Bistra Dilkina @usc.edu, and Kumar Mainali @chesconserv.bsky.social. 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #scipol

Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now. abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/abcnews....

This is terrifying.

Exciting news! MegaSAM code is out🔥 & the updated Shape of Motion results with MegaSAM are really impressive! A year ago I didn't think we could make any progress on these videos: shape-of-motion.github.io/results.html Huge congrats to everyone involved and the community 🎉

I'm in a terrible Zoom meeting, so secretly I'm watching cute kea videos on reddit in the background: www.reddit.com/r/interestin... Here's a kea we ran into on the Kepler track in NZ last year trying to get into my backpack