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📣 Come join us at IBM Research Zurich for a fully funded PhD position on Reliable Multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs), combining...

📣 Come join us at IBM Research Zurich for a fully funded PhD position on Reliable Multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs), combining language, vision, and advanced reasoning!

You'll be located in Zurich🇨🇭 and co-supervised by Katja Hose at TU Vienna 🇦🇹
as part of the cool new MSCA ARMADA Doctoral Network https://armada-dn.eu

Apply here: https://www.zurich.ibm.com/careers/2025_008.html

#PhD #AcademicJob #Research #LLM #AI

Isabella Weber's well-reasoned and authoritative review of Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson's bestseller 'Abundance'...

Isabella Weber's well-reasoned and authoritative review of Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson's bestseller 'Abundance'

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/abundance-review-klein-thompson-progressive-policy

#economy #abundance #liberalism #politics #policy

China exports jump 8% in April despite tariffshttps://www.ft.com/content/fd98d384-fa82-489e-8f50-0ff84214733c#USPol #tariffs #TradeWar...

China exports jump 8% in April despite tariffs
https://www.ft.com/content/fd98d384-fa82-489e-8f50-0ff84214733c

#USPol #tariffs #TradeWar #China

This aged great#USPol #tech #AI #SiliconValley

This aged great

#USPol #tech #AI #SiliconValley

More important & informative than ever: repository of tangible benefits stemming from publicly-funded...

More important & informative than ever: repository of tangible benefits stemming from publicly-funded research

https://publicusaresearchbenefits.com

#science #tech #SciComm #USPolitics #USPol

New Neil Young song just dropped!https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/fascist-tesla-neil-young-debuts-133315293.html

New Neil Young song just dropped!
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/fascist-tesla-neil-young-debuts-133315293.html

"How Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01289-4#science...

"How Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01289-4

#science #research #innovation #tech #USPol #USPolitics

If you ask its (few remaining) fans about Tesla having the highest rate of fatal accidents, their main excuse is that Tesla drivers misuse...

If you ask its (few remaining) fans about Tesla having the highest rate of fatal accidents, their main excuse is that Tesla drivers misuse FSD and misunderstand safety features.
So, they'd rather blame themselves than Tesla 🤷‍♂️

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study

#Tesla #ElonMusk #RoadSafety

Grok 3 was trained on a multibillion 100k H100 cluster, using the energy that powers a small town for a few years, and has access to the...

Grok 3 was trained on a multibillion 100k H100 cluster, using the energy that powers a small town for a few years, and has access to the whole internet and all tweets down to the minute.
But asked about "Signal gate" it hallucinates something about a backdoor in the Signal app...

#Grok #AI #DeepLearning #LLM

A chilling glimpse into the anti-vaccine mindset "Anti-Vaxx Mom Whose Daughter Died From Measles Says Disease 'Wasn't That...

A chilling glimpse into the anti-vaccine mindset

"Anti-Vaxx Mom Whose Daughter Died From Measles Says Disease 'Wasn't That Bad'"

https://www.latintimes.com/anti-vaxx-mom-whose-daughter-died-measles-says-disease-wasnt-that-bad-578871

#antivax #vaccines #disinformation #PublicHealth

Extreme polarization is now also entering the transformer-based architectures discourse 😅"Transformers without Normalization"...

Extreme polarization is now also entering the transformer-based architectures discourse 😅

"Transformers without Normalization" vs Normalizations everywhere, which team are you on?

#AI #ML #DeepLearning #LLM #LLMs #Tech

Warren Buffett goes woke!In his annual letter to investors, Buffett says that to remain profitable industries have to price in the threat of...

Warren Buffett goes woke!

In his annual letter to investors, Buffett says that to remain profitable industries have to price in the threat of climate change

https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/03/16/warren-buffett-chilling-climate-change-warning/

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Interesting #MediaMatters analysis of online media"The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into nonpolitical...

Interesting #MediaMatters analysis of online media

"The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into nonpolitical spaces"

https://www.mediamatters.org/google/right-dominates-online-media-ecosystem-seeping-sports-comedy-and-other-supposedly

#media #information #news #uspol #USPolitics #journalism

Did you know? The National Science Foundation (NSF) has been a key driver of economic growth and technological advancement in the U.S., all...

Did you know? The National Science Foundation (NSF) has been a key driver of economic growth and technological advancement in the U.S., all while operating on a budget that’s just a fraction of the federal subsidies and tax credits received by Elon #Musk's companies

https://www.eenews.net/articles/science-funding-agency-threatened-with-mass-layoffs

#NSF #innovation #science

If you use #protonmail I got... mmmh... news for you 😶

If you use #protonmail I got... mmmh... news for you 😶

A most disappointing thing about X is the lack of imagination of the conspiracy theories it's peddling.Twitter used to come up with...

A most disappointing thing about X is the lack of imagination of the conspiracy theories it's peddling.
Twitter used to come up with elaborate narratives on intertwined plots advancing creative hidden agendas.
Now it's all lazy slop like "they're wearing the same color sweater so the gov did it" 🤷

#X #Twitter #conspiracy #disinformation

If microchip ~= siliconthen #AGI ~= huge pile of sand

If microchip ~= silicon
then #AGI ~= huge pile of sand

I'm not at #NeurIPS2024 :-/ but my fantastic collaborators are and will present our work"Distributional Preference Alignment of...

I'm not at #NeurIPS2024 :-/ but my fantastic collaborators are and will present our work
"Distributional Preference Alignment of LLMs via Optimal Transport" tomorrow Wed 11 Dec 11 a.m.

Check it out!
https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96822

#AI #LLM #MachineLearning #RLHF

Scientists as political advocates"Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack."[but] "Being purely reactive to...

Scientists as political advocates

"Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack."
[but] "Being purely reactive to political attacks (only playing defense) or assuming an artificial air of neutrality and seeking to “stay on the sidelines” are both ethically problematic and practically detrimental."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt7194

#science #SciComm #education #tech #AcademicChatter