My wife secretly hand painted a number of wooden hex logos of #rstats packages I’ve created / worked on over the years, I love them so much!! Each is roughly the size of an open hand.

Reminder Superman is not a power fantasy, he's an altruism fantasy. The idea of someone with godlike powers using them solely for good (with an antagonist who is a billionaire, who by definition do the opposite) was dreamt up by Jewish kids in the 30s and its just as if not more relevant now.

Today, feeling close to cosmopolitans or feminists separates voters of the left from right voters who identify with people who are down to earth and hard working. Yet, these identities do have structural roots, just like class identities did. Our short CUP book on cleavage formation is out in OA.

Starter pack for open-source maintainers in the Python ecosystem! Feel free to share and let me know who I'm missing! go.bsky.app/D2Be5mg

Data released yesterday shows US tech sector physical investment continues to skyrocket amidst the AI boom—tech companies' net holdings of property, plant, & equipment have increased more than $110B over the last year, another new record high

I was hoping to finally have the time to focus on a key end-of-year project. But..... www.ft.com/content/4290...

Fascinating article on translation and reference to the 'self'. 'Speakers and writers of Japanese have...a range of choices when referring to the self. Each of the Japanese pronouns is loaded with meaning, suggesting gender, age, rank or relationships between people (among other things).'

the problem is you're not using a proper linter/formatter

A year and a half ago, I started my Substack "Optimally Irrational" to share insights from behavioural and social sciences that are often missing from public conversations. Today it reached 5,000 subscribers! 🙏 👇 www.optimallyirrational.com

10/n For more details, see the full paper "Model-Based Transfer Learning for Contextual Reinforcement Learning": arxiv.org/abs/2408.04498 📄✨ #MIT #ReinforcementLearning #ML #RL #ContextualRL

👼 As an applied RL researcher, this is the most optimistic I have been about RL in years. It feels like seeing the light at the end of the tunnel when RL training starts working reliably. Without a ton of compute or tuning. Very excited for what is to come. Here is what we did👇

In case you're not familiar with Climate Change #AI (@climatechangeai.bsky.social); more people should be: climatechange.ai #ethics #education #tech #ML #environment #sustainability

How can #AIOps integrate #AI and #ML in network operations in an efficient and streamlined way and optimize the reliability and quality of experience? Check out this conversation with Takai Eddine Kennouche, PhD and Per Kangru at VIAVI Solutions senzafili.com/viavi-the-de...

A recent review highlights how machine learning (ML) can revolutionize life cycle assessment (LCA) to prospectively achieve greener chemical technologies. Let’s dive in! #Sustainability #MachineLearning #greenchem #chemsky #datascience 🧬🧪🖥️ doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

CfDs seem like a really important social technology for the transition.... cc @lionhirth.bsky.social

A cautionary tale unfolded last week as Denmark failed to attract bids for offshore wind. What can we learn from this? This is a multi-dimensional problem, but the primary lesson I believe is that Denmark wrongly expected developers to take on market risk. 🧵🔌💡1/9 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Amazing that we think, at the same time, good luck with that, mate, and: that’s by far not enough. www.politico.eu/article/kubi...

After two years, our paper on generative models for structure-based drug design is finally out in @natcomputsci.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

When I say Bluesky is a bizarre and exciting experiment, this is both /not at all/ and /exactly/ what I mean.

DAMASCUS: 1000s of prisoners have been freed from Sednaya prison, now flooding the streets, an monumental moment. For many, the frantic search begins, desperate to know if their loved ones are among the living or the lost. Either way, the "human slaughterhouse" is no more.

I also recommend (to German speakers) the TV debate Scholz-Laschet-Baerbock on foreign and security policy, hosted by the @munsecconf.bsky.social in late 2021. Two ... how can I put this politely, naive and overwhelmed men, and one clear-eyed woman.

"If you don't offer an electric car for less than €20,000 in 2025, I fear you will fail in the market" Robert Habeck to then #Volkswagen boss Herbert Diess in 2019.

Two PhD openings in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam about adolescents and climate friendly behavior: one co-supervised by me, and another one more on computational modeling. Thanks for sharing werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Keynote by @laurenfklein.bsky.social! 🎉 "When Theory Leads: Towards a Humanities-Forward Model of Computational Research" This talk is a response to the idea that humanities people can only contribute to LLMs by improving model output as "AI tutors," "prompt engineers," "consultants." #chr2024

Finally have some time for this now: Monday’s discussion with Friedrich Merz (CDU chancellor candidate) on security and defence policy. Let’s see whether he says anything interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oDH...

Highly recommended: my colleagues at the GESIS Computational Social Science department are searching for a new team lead. Great people, great research, work on research infrastructure and open science. Plus: tenure option ("Entfristung")

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

🔥Meet the #ModelTransfer team: Murat Bakeev has been working on the project as a PhD student since October 2023, doing research on the history of agent-based models and the chalenges for their transfer from computer science and complexity science to macroeconomics. Check out his webpages below👇

you have seriously fucked it morally if people are posting like this ON LINKEDIN after you pass

Netzentgelte Der Strompreis setzt sich aus mehreren Komponenten zusammen: den eigentlichen Energiekosten, Steuern, Umlagen und Netzentgelte. Wofür gibt es Netzentgelte, wie werden sie ermittelt und wo besteht Reformbedarf? Ein Explainer ariadneprojekt.de/news-de/was-...

A lot of thing happening in the past 15 years have resulted in me upping my estimation of the relevance of the topics of classic drama more and more and more. It's all vanity, fear, loss, hopes, intense emotions leading people to do irrational things.

Late (but also early, bc I'm at the airport) to this discussion about why Silicon Valley turned right. I appreciate Henry's discussion of ideologies, but I think a lot of it boils down to a simple thing (with his story): the pettiness of plutocrats 1/ www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-did-si...

Good news: because of this, the price of the ebook version has been lowered to 9.99: www.amazon.co.uk/Normalizatio... I hope this makes it much more accessible than the crazy price of the hardback version. Thanks everyone for reading and have a good day ☀️

Ist uns Journalisten eigentlich schon aufgefallen, dass das BSW in den Umfragen kräftig abgefallen ist, seitdem Wagenknecht NICHT mehr in jede Talkshow und nicht mehr täglich zu breitformatigen Interviews in den großen Medien der Republik eingeladen wird? Da muss kein Zusammenhang sein, kann aber.

Ok, I'll bite - mainly because the idea that accommodating the radical right on immigration is almost bound to work electorally seems to be rather popular among mainstream politicians. Let me try to provide a basic overview of the party competition literature and, in doing so, explain why there are

oh no this makes sense

1/ 🚚🔋Climate protection in road freight transport: the future is battery electric! New @diw.de weekly report in 🇬🇧 on why everything speaks in favor of battery trucks: energy efficiency advantages, market development, charging infrastructure, energy system costs and greenhouse gas emissions.

Man kann es nicht oft genug wiederholen: Die Energiewende braucht sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung. Denn die Transformation ist mindestens ebenso eine gesellschaftliche wie eine technische Herausforderung. Sozialwissenschaften für den Transfer nur nachzuschalten reicht nicht!

The head of Deutsche Bundesbank has called on Berlin to soften its tough spending rules, warning that Europe’s largest economy faced a “complicated” and “weak” outlook. www.ft.com/content/702d...

“A very good podcast on sanctions” — a kind listener

“Das Verbrenneraus soll gekippt werden”… Hab dies nie so richtig verstanden. Natürlich werden ganze Teile der Welt noch lange nach 2035 Verbrennungsmotoren nutzen. Aber ist es deshalb wirklich eine gute Idee, die Zielpfoste zu verschieben die jetzt eine klare Richtung geben?

If you're making posts about #JuliaLang just a heads up that this account will prefer #JuliaLang to #julia to disambiguate it from other uses of the name!

the problem here is the premise: we haven't sacrificed convenience for quality w/ the mp3. the mp3 is a revolutionary tech because there was no audible sacrifice -- very few people can tell the difference between a CD and an 160+ bit rate mp3. thank u for coming to my ted talk.

Is this all the Sci-fi we need? Local climate positive insulation production with local raw materials, people and a machine from alibaba? copano.fr

When I was in high school/undergrad I found these particularly interesting/thought provoking: The Worldly Philosophers The Affluent Society The Ascent of Money The Return of Depression Economics Development as Freedom Dead Aid The Bottom Billion

Good news everyone! A new version of graph-tool is just out! @graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool.skewed.de Graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N #networkscience